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A history of the "Old water-colour" society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours: Volume 1, Volume 2 by John Lewis Roget (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1891). The ideals of painting by J. Comyns Carr (New York, Macmillan, 1917). An Art history focusing on the ideals that inspired European artists throughout the ages.
Cover of the first edition, 1950. The Story of Art, by E. H. Gombrich, is a survey of the history of art from ancient times to the modern era. [1]First published in 1950 by Phaidon, the book is widely regarded both as a seminal work of criticism and as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts.
Art history . . . is a malleable discipline, but understanding developments in art depends on it—or at the very least is enhanced by it. 11 Essential Art History Books for Fine Arts Students ...
Gardner's Art through the Ages is an American textbook on the history of art, with the 2004 edition by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya. The 2001 edition was awarded both a McGuffey award for longevity [1] and the "Texty" Award for current editions [2] by the Text and Academic Authors Association.
His books have been translated into over 20 languages, have sold over one million copies, and been awarded literary prizes in the UK, Holland and Italy. His knowledge of connoisseurship came to the fore in his 2015 edited edition of the correspondence between Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark , published by Yale University Press , which was ...
The dictionary is still available in a standard hardcover edition, though the leather-bound version appears to be out of print. Various smaller specialized redactions have been published, such as The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, (Editor, Gordon Campbell, OUP 2006, ISBN 0195189485), The Grove Dictionary of Materials and Techniques in Art (OUP 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-531391-8), From David ...
World of Art (formerly known as The World of Art Library) is a long established series of pocket-sized art books from the British publisher Thames & Hudson, comprising over 300 titles as of 2021. [3] The books are typically around 200 pages, but heavily illustrated.
Art and Illusion; Art by Women in Florence; Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties; Art Deco of the 20s and 30s; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (book) Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci; Arts of Mankind; The Automatic Message