Gifts for Art Lovers

Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford History of Art) by Robin Osborne

Archaic and Classical Greek Art is a revolutionary more...0 points

Archaic and Classical Greek Art is a revolutionary introduction to the images and sculptures of Ancient Greece from the Geometric period to the early Hellenistic. By carefully examining the context in which sculptures and paintings were produced, author Robin Osborne shows how artists responded to the challenges they faced in the formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state, producing the rich diversity of forms apparent in Greek art. Artistic developments of the period combined the in...0 points

Art and Experience in Classical Greece by Jerome Jordan Pollitt

An account of the development of Greek art in the more...0 points

An account of the development of Greek art in the Classical period (about 480-320 BC) which places particular emphasis on the meaning and content of Greek sculpture, architecture and painting. Professor Pollitt reminds us that the visual arts in Greece, as elsewhere, were primarily vehicles of expression. He does not ignore formal development but always relates this to social and cultural history, which it reflected and from which it grew. While his subject is art, he refers frequently to the li...0 points

Art of Classical Guitar Playing (Art of Series) by Charles Duncan

Not a method in the traditional sense, this book e more...0 points

Not a method in the traditional sense, this book explains what happens in the finest classical guitar playing and what in turn the student can do to mold his or her playing to that ideal.0 points

Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece o Cyprus o Etruria o Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) by Carlos A. Picon, Sean Hemingway, Christopher Lightfoot, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker

Nearly 500 outstanding objects from the collection more...0 points

Nearly 500 outstanding objects from the collection of the Department of Greek and Roman Art in the Metropolitan Museum are assembled in this generously illustrated publication, published to coincide with the opening of the Museum's new galleries of Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman art, and comprehensive Study Center.The volume includes a detailed history of the collection by Carlos A. Picón and seven chapters that reflect the scope of the collection: the Neolithic and the Aegean Bronze Age,...0 points

Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece by Judith M. Barringer

What do Greek myths mean and how was meaning creat more...0 points

What do Greek myths mean and how was meaning created for the ancient viewer? In Art, Myth and Ritual in Classical Greece, Judith Barringer considers the use of myth on monuments at several key sites - Olympia, Athens, Delphi, Bassai, and Trysa - showing that myth was neither randomly selected nor purely decorative. The mythic scenes on these monuments had meaning, the interpretation of which depends on context. Barringer explains how the same myth can possess different meanings and how, in a mon...0 points

The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text by Jocelyn Penny Small

Considering the relationship between artists and t more...0 points

Considering the relationship between artists and texts throughout classical antiquity, this study systematically applies new and objective criteria to judge the fidelity between picture and text. It becomes clear that artists illustrate stories, not texts, and Jocelyn Penny Small argues that artistic transmissions follow the model of oral, not textual, transmission where the variant rules and there is no original. Pictures on vases, she demonstrates, should not be used to reconstruct lost litera...0 points

Classical Mythology in Literature, Art, and Music (Focus Texts: For Classical Language Study) by Philip Mayerson

A standard illustrated work that covers the gods a more...0 points

A standard illustrated work that covers the gods and heroes of the Classical world, with special emphasis on the influence Classical mythology has had on literature, art and music in the unfolding of western civilization.0 points

Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

This popular anthology of twentieth-century art th more...0 points

This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art-theoretical texts. Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s. Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures. The editors provide contextual introducti...0 points

Theories of Modern Art A Source Book by Artists and Critics (California Studies in the History of Art) by Herschel B. Chipp

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Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Cynthia Freeland

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, more...0 points

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cuttin...0 points