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20th Century Ceramics by Edmund De Waal
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art S.
Ceramics have kept pace with - or even led - new movements in art, from Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the Bauhaus and Futurism, through Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Performance, to Land Art and Installation Art. From orientalism and colour theory to modernism, postmodernism and the profuse diversity of appr ...Show more
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
A superlative introduction to the diversity of Aboriginal art, this concise survey introduces the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret rea ...Show more
Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana
Category: Art | Series: World of Art S.
This revised edition of Caruana's comprehensive survey contains new illustrations and updated information covering developments in the field of Aboriginal art, which thrives in a variety of contexts - sacred and secular - and in wide range of media.
Abstract Art by Anna Moszynska
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Since the early years of the twentieth century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. This revised edition traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context.Well-respec ...Show more
Abstract Expressionism by David Anfam
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art
Abstract Expressionism is the most important art movement since the Second World War. Although it is often considered a revolution in painting alone for the images created by such leading figures as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko remain altogether extraordinary its ra ...Show more
American Architecture - A Critical History by David P. Handlin
Category: Architecture | Series: World of Art Ser.
America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New? David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently cont ...Show more
Art Deco by Alastair Duncan
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art S.
This volume traces the history of the art deco movement and examines its influence on design. Examples are given of art deco furniture, textiles, ironwork, lighting, silver, glass, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, posters, books, jewellery, and architecture.
Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art S.
The story of art nouveau, from its inception in the 1890s to the modern resurgence of interest. It introduces the main personalities, such as Galle, Lalique and Tiffany, and relates their aims and accomplishments to the background from which the movement emerged.
Art Since 1960 by Professor Michael Archer (New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd)
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: World of Art
This intelligently argued overview is invaluable for the way in which it reveals and makes coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques, and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. Extensively revised and expanded since it was first published, Michael Arche ...Show more
Art and Climate Change by Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
An overview of ecologicallyconscious contemporary artthat responds to today'senvironmental crisis, fromspecies extinction toclimate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threatened, creative pr ...Show more
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece by Thomas H. Carpenter
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
The ancient Greeks recorded their mythology on vase paintings, engraved gems, and bronze and stone sculptures, offering depictions that often predate any references to the myths in literature or recount alternative, unfamiliar versions of these tales. In some cases, visual art provides our only evidence ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from ...Show more