World of Art
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American Art Since 1945
$26.95 Add to cartDavid Joselit traces and analyzes the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world. Social and cultural transf… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Joselit, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0500203687
- Language: English
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Color in Art
$24.95 Add to cartThe complex phenomenon of color has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. However, the people who work most clos
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Gage, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297339
- Language: English
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Ballet and Modern Dance
$21.95 Read moreDance’s extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vivi
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Au, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 050020411X
- Language: English
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The Body in Contemporary Art
$29.95 Add to cartThe Body in Contemporary Art presents a global survey of art made since 2000 that takes the body as its focus. Examining such areas as nature and technology, identity politics, and the grotesque, wri
- Series: World of Art
- Author: O’Reilly, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0500205043
- Language: English
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
$29.95 Add to cartThe standard reference since its first publication in 1979, Performance Art continues its authoritative chronicling of one of the most important art forms to emerge in modern times. Art historian and
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Goldberg, Roselee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0500204683
- Language: English
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New Deal Art
$24.95 Add to cartWhat role should the arts play in a democracy? At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal turned crisis into opportunity. Through unprecedented federal funding f
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Murphy, John P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0500205027
- Language: English
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Aboriginal Art
$26.95 Add to cartThis concise survey showcases the incredible, diverse work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists. Building on traditions that stretch back at least 50,000 years, these artists have long worked in a
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Caruana, Wally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0500204659
- Language: English
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Expressionism
$24.95 Add to cartExpressionist artists believed in art’s ability to communicate emotion, irrespective of any representational or narrative content. In this comprehensive introduction to one of the most radical artisti
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Rhodes, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0500297754
- Language: English
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Illustration: A Concise History
$29.95 Add to cartIllustration: A Concise History is a dynamic visual journey through the landscape of illustration that maps the evolution of the discipline from the industrial revolution to the postdigital age and s
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Hall, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 050029772X
- Language: English
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Viking Art
$24.95 Read moreThe Viking Age in Europe lasted from the time of the first major Viking expeditions in 800 CE to the widespread adoption of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later. During that time, Viking a
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Graham-Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0500204640
- Language: English
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Velázquez
$24.95 Read moreDiego Velázquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of Western painting and baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was… [more below]
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Verdi, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0500204748
- Language: English
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DalÃ
$21.95 Read moreIn this revised and updated edition of art historian Dawn Ades’s seminal study of Salvador DalÃ, based on interviews with the artist, Ades examines what accounts for DalÃ’s popularity, exploring suc
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Ades, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500204764
- Language: English
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Islamic Art and Architecture
$24.95 Read moreIncluding over a thousand years of history and stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Islamic Art and Architecture is an unparalleled narrative of the arts of Islamic civiliza
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Hillenbrand, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0500204551
- Language: English
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Outsider Art
$24.95 Read moreOutsider art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, prisoners, and others beyond
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Rhodes, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0500204861
- Language: English
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Women in Design
$24.95 Read moreWomen designers have created some of the most important objects in history. By revealing the untold stories of female design pioneers, this wide-ranging introduction celebrates their crucial role in t
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Massey, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0500204829
- Language: English
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The Art of Ukraine
$24.95 Add to cartThis new volume in the World of Art series provides an overview of Ukrainian art, artists, and art movements from the dawn of modernism and the 1900s to the Soviet period, to post-Soviet times and the
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Lozhkina, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0500297789
- Language: English
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Romanticism and Art (Revised)
$28.95 Add to cartIn the age of revolutions, at the end of the eighteenth century, the mental and spiritual life of North America and Europe began to undergo a historic and irreversible change. The ideas of spontaneity
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Vaughan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0500202753
- Language: English
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Art and Architecture in Mexico
$26.95 Add to cartThis new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Oles, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0500204063
- Language: English
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History of Film
$25.95 Add to cartIn this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the key … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Parkinson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500204101
- Language: English
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Art and Climate Change
$24.95 Read moreArt 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 production for its own sake is not eno
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Fowkes, Maja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 0500204756
- Language: English
