Dumile Feni Retrospective

A comprehensive account of the life and work of Dumile FeniThis lavishly illustrated, full-colour book is the most comprehensive collection of Dumile Feni's work to date and a tribute to the retrospective exhibition run by the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2005, which toured South Africa and stems ...

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Over the centuries, European debate about the nature and status of images of God and sacred figures has often upset the established order and shaken societies to their core. Out of this debate, an identifiable doctrine has emerged of the image in general and of the divine image in particular. Th...

Visualising China in Southern Africa

China and Africa have long shared a history of allegiance and contact points through global political forces from the time of colonialism and the Cold War. With China’s rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shif...

Archives of Times Past

This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.

Restless Infections

Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing diverse forms of expression such as site-specific ...

Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams

A millennia of art history condensed into 20 accessible chapters

Portrait in Red

The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond.While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting. The subject: a girl wearing a bright-red h...

Eland's People

A companion to People of Eland that allows an overview of Drakensberg rock artOnly 1000 copies of People of the Eland were printed in 1976. It was neither reissued nor reprinted. It has become one of the rarest and most expensive of all books on the African past. One of the things that most distu...

The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling

Gold Medal, 2016 Foreword INDIES Book AwardsThe best-selling, ultimate guide to nature drawing and journaling!A potent combination of art, science, and boundless enthusiasm, this art instruction book from John Muir Laws (author of The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds) is a how-to guide for becoming a ...

Dunga Manzi

A full color book featuring Tsonga and Shangaan art and culture Dunga Manzi / Stirring Waters features Tsonga and Shangaan art, culture and heritage, and accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. It tracks the history of these cultural groups through essays and a...

Visual Century Volume Four: 1990-2007

In the final installment of the Visual Century Collection, the impact of the end of the apartheid and the emergence of globalization upon South African artists is discussed.Visual Century: South African Art is a four-volume publication that reappraises South African visual art of the 20th century...

Visual Century Volume One: 1907-1948

In the opening installment of the Visual Century Collection, the division of South African culture is shown through the polarization of art forms within South Africa.Visual Century: South African Art is a four-volume publication that reappraises South African visual art of the 20th century from a...

San Antonio 1718

More than 100 portraits, landscapes, religious paintings, and devotional and secular objects that put San Antonio's founding in context

DIY Watercolor Jungle

Learn to paint tropical watercolor flowers and foliage in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolor painting for beginners. Marie Boudon’s beautifully presented creative course will get you started in this expressive and fun medium. Find out about the essential m...

Arts & Numbers

The creative class—artists, actors, writers, musicians, freelancers, dancers, performers, and the like—are known for applying their passion for creative expression to everything they do. Perhaps the one thing that most fills this group with apprehension is the rigid world of numbers. This leads t...

Biblioteca Angelica MS. 1551

This volume consists of three sets of watercolor drawings, each depicting non-Europea peoples or places in Asia and the Americas. The volume belonged to the famous collector and antiquarian Camillo Massino (1620-1677), and was part of a large donation to the library by his descendants in the 19th...

The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance

Renaissance Italy is often characterized as a place of unusual tolerance and privilege toward Jews. Unlike England, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, the princely courts of early modern Italy, particularly Urbino, Mantua, and Ferrara, offered economic and social prosperity to Jews. When anti-...

Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Over 400 illustrations.

Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace. A Supplement to Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale

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Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific

This is a print on demand publication. Thse papers are from two symposia at the APS, and the Univ. of PA Museum. Contents: “Intro.,” by Ward Goodenough; “The Pre-Austronesian Settlement of Island Melanesia: Implications for Lapita Archaeology,” by Jim Allen; “Austronesian Culture History: The Win...

Artists in the Life of Charleston

Charleston’s greatest contribution to American painting was timely patronage of men of ability. Contents: Historical intro.; Art and artists from the 16th to the mid-18th cent.; Jeremiah Theus, Alexander Gordon, and the mid-18th cent.; Prosperous Pre-Revolutionary years; The Revolutionary years; ...

Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court

More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, av...

Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles

A catalogue of Chinese belt toggles in the Bieber collection.

Preliminary Consideration of Aboriginal Australian Decorative Art

Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle

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Translation of Vitruvius and Copies of Late Antique Drawings in Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibalone

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Early Modern Visual Culture

An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity ...

Optical Corrections in the Sculpture of Donatello

There is considerable evidence for Donatello’s use of optical corrections that scholars have largely ignored. It may come in some degree from an unwillingness to accept the idea that such visual effects, developed only in the 16th century & not common until the Baroque, were even possible in ...

Drawings of Stefano da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy

In this comprehensive catalogue of the work of the 15th-century painter and draftsman, Stefano da Verona (1375-ca. 1438), Karet reviews past scholarship and corrects old misunderstandings that produced an inconsistent, heterogeneous and misinformed corpus. Her attributions are based on stylistic ...

The Arts in Renewal

Five brilliant essays on the renewal in the arts at a time when civilization was on the threshold of sweeping change. The authors discuss not merely a change in the forms or the subject matter of the arts but a spiritual phenomenon. Each emphasizes the artist's responsibility both to the individu...

The Structure of Artistic Revolutions

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck

This is a comprehensive overview of Parmigianino’s enigmatic painting of The Madonna of the Long Neck. It treats the subject in terms of iconography, semiotics, studio practice, and art theory. The painting is not merely an example of mannerist extravagance, but that the Virgin in her extraordin...

Sculpture of Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon and Their Workshop

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Painted Pottery of the Near East in the Second Millennium B.C. and its Chronological Background

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Sculpture

Philip Rawson, a distinguished academic and author, practiced as a sculptor all of his life. Sculpture, his final book, completes the trilogy begun with his classic works, Drawing and Ceramics. As in those earlier volumes, Rawson provides a clear, factual description of the underlying principles ...

Sculpture of Taras

This is a print on demand Publication. Includes maps, and charts and tables.

Michelangelo's Medici Chapel

There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo’s complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist’s original conception. Here, Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in...

In the Kitchen of Art

Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson; a painting on his desk as with a Last Supper in Florence’s Basilica of Santa Croce. In the Kitchen of Art selects the art conservator and dealer’s mo...

The Nature of Things Fragile

In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confron...

The Critical Temper

On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America’s foremost review of culture and the arts.  With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Ste...

New Creative Community

An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. Through personal stories, rousing accounts, detailed observation and histories, Arlene Goldbard...

Modern Theories of Art 1

This is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture, underwent a radical transformation, as a result ...

Conversations with Diego Rivera

A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Rivera’s iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time. These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the f...

Ecoart in Action

Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projectsHow do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green agenda? How can we refocus education to emphasi...

Modern Theories of Art 2

In this volume, the third in his classic series of texts surveying the history of art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of art, from Impressionism to Abstract Art. Barasch details the immense social changes in the creation, presentation, and rec...

Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition

Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grass-roots social change. Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in the revised second edition of th...

Divining Chaos

A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism.Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unparalleled transparency into the moments in Rahmani's life that shaped her as an artist and activist....

Maestrapeace

Twenty-nineteen marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Maestrapeace, the monumental and fabulously detailed mural that adorns two sides of the Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Weaving in myriad female figures, historical and sacred, this public art work highlights women’s ...