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Art and Climate Change by Maja and Reuben Fowkes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art | 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 in California by Jenni Sorkin
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Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
This introduction to the art of California focuses on the distinctive role the state played in the history of American art, from early twentieth-century photography and Chicanx mural painting to the fiber art movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling network of geopolitical influences--including waves ...Show more
Artists' Film - World of Art by David Curtis; Steve McQueen (Foreword by)
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Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
International in scope and accessibly written by a renowned authority on the subject, Artists' Film is an introductory guide to the exciting and expanding field of artists' film and an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists' ever-evolving fascination with filmmaking from the early ...Show more
Black Art - A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell
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Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
The African diaspora - a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism - has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae, to the paintings of the pioneering African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and video creations of contemporary hip-hop artists ...Show more
Dali World of Art by Dawn Ades
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Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
The third edition of this classic study, a thorough introduction to one of the most popular and recognizable artists of the 20th century. Salvador Dalí was, and remains, among the most universally recognizable artists of the twentieth century. What accounts for this popularity? His excellence as an arti ...Show more
Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century: A Concise History by Richard Hollis
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Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
The story of graphic design is one of the most exciting and important developments in twentieth-century visual culture. From its roots in the expansion of printing, graphic design has evolved from a means of identification, information, and promotion to a profession and art in its own right. This author ...Show more
Hogarth by David Bindman
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Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Hogarth was one of the great 18th-century painters, a marvellous colourist and innovator at all levels of artistic expression. Art historian David Bindman surveys the works of this artist whose wry humour and sharp wit were reflected in his prolific paintings and prints including The Rake's Progress and ...Show more
Modern Architecture: A Critical History by Kenneth Frampton
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Category: Architecture and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
Kenneth Frampton's highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of global ...Show more
Photomontage - World of Art by Dawn Ades
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Category: No Category | Series: World of Art Ser.
Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, and commercial art and helped visualize the "brave new world" of the future through surreal and fantastic images. Photomontage has been embraced by artists from the late nineteenth ...Show more
The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton
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Category: Photography | Series: World of Art Ser.
In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art introduces ...Show more
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