Comedian and art historian Verity Babbs journeys through 50 of the most important art movements throughout history, answering ten key questions for each movement in just one sentence at a time.

New Surrealism introduces an overview of the history of Surrealism and then shows how the themes explored by the early Surrealists are still present in contemporary drawing and composition.

Alongside a survey of contemporary Surrealism, the book also features a special section devoted to the working methods of fourteen artists from today, taking you into their studios to see how they create their artwork.

The Surrealist movement may be over a hundred years old, but it is still relevant to th...

From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country’s...

Is it best to screen the error for the sake of preserving the art? Or should the art be sacrificed for the sake of truthfulness? Again and again in history a dominant church has utilised art to maintain its sway over men. Reformers (early Christians, Mohammedans, Puritans, and others) have perceived that art bound people to the old faith, and they were angry with art.

These works, in chronological order,are " My Confession ". A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology, which has never been translated....

Ben je geïnteresseerd in kunst door de eeuwen heen en wil je graag meer weten over de verschillende stromingen en stijlen en hun hoogtepunten? Met behulp van de nieuwste editie van Kunstgeschiedenis voor Dummies maak je kennis met de belangrijkste kunstperioden, de evolutie van de kunst en het werk van vele bekend en minder bekende genieën. Je leest bijvoorbeeld over Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso en Botticelli en waarom we nog steeds gefascineerd zijn door hun werk. Ontdek de plaatsen waa...

File catalog, consisting of two volumes, in cassette.

Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, former (chief) curator of Teylers Museum and head of the department of prints and drawings at the Louvre, spent more than twenty years researching this collection of approximately 900 drawings at Teylers Museum. Some drawings have been re-attributed, including two drawings that have now been definitively attributed to Bernini.

Dit boek is het resultaat van een boeiende combinatie van ‘klassiek’ iconografisch onderzoek en technisch onderzoek. Dat laatste is opmerkelijk: techniek speelt al ruim honderd jaar een belangrijke rol in stilistisch onderzoek, maar behoort nog niet tot de gebruikelijke instrumenten van de iconograaf. Deze uitgave laat echter zien dat technisch onderzoek en met name infraroodreflectografie wel degelijk aanwijzingen kan opleveren die van belang zijn voor iconografische analyse. Fotografisc...