An accessible and irreverent introduction to the art and art world of today, written by two curators at the heart of the contemporary art scene.

Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields--physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology--this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more.

People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss's engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with Japanese ceramics.

Discover the remarkable NASA spacecraft that have captured our imaginations for decades.

Der Katalog Monuments and Myths thematisiert erstmals die Überschneidungen zwischen den Laufbahnen der beiden führenden Bildhauer des US-amerikanischen Gilded Age: Augustus Saint-Gaudens und Daniel Chester French. Mit einer Fülle neuer Überlegungen und beeindruckenden Fotografien untersucht der Band die Rolle der bekanntesten und prägendsten öffentlichen Skulpturen der USA im Licht des komplexen Diskurses über nationale Identität.

Erwin Osen hat als charismatischer Künstlerfreund Egon Schieles die Schlüsseljahre des Wiener Frühexpressionismus mitgeprägt. Seine facettenreiche Beziehung zu Schiele erreichte eine Intensität, die das radikale Schaffen Egon Schieles beflügelt hat. Hauptwerke der österreichischen Kunst waren die Folge. Erwin Osen geriet in Vergessenheit und kann heute neu entdeckt werden.Der Impulsgeber und Begleiter Egon Schieles wird als charismatischer Universalkünstler greifbar. Erwin Osen (1891-...

Discover the scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color that transformed the history of art. This overview of Impressionism explores the artists, subjects, and techniques that first brought the easel out of the studio and shifted artistic attention from history, religion, or portraiture to the evanescent ebb and flow of modernity.

The book is composed of nine chapters, accompanied by practical exercises and images that will turn the reader into a learner and a flamenco enthusiastic, providing the theoretical basis and practical elements for an understanding that combines reason and emotion.

Flamenco is the synthesis of a process of gestation that began in the first third of the 19th century and that continues to increase its entire range of artistic variables, whether in guitar playing, dancing, singing or percussion, ...