Art

Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms. The book assembles papers by scholars that illuminate the variety of material that survives in scientific as well as literary manuscripts. Because of the contexts in which the paintings appear, a major theoretical concern is, precisely, the relationship of painting to text.

Cheech Marin showcases his monumental collection of Chicano art that depict Hispanic culture, religion and politics with brilliant color and emotion. Essays by leading scholars that describe the origins of Chicano art.

Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives.

The Highwaymen introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair awaiting them in citrus groves and packing houses of 1950s Florida. Working with inexpensive materials, the Highwaymen produced an astonishing number of landscapes that depict a romanticized Florida--a faraway place of wind-swept palm trees, billowing cumulus clouds, wetlands, lakes, rivers, ocean, and setting sun. Gary Monroe tells the story behind the Highwaymen and offers a critical look at the paintings and the movement's development.

Study of contemporary painting's relationship with history and historical material. Uses examples of traditional and conceptual painting and practice to draw together historical and contemporary practice.

Features 110 works by many of the most eminent painters in the history of Indian art. These paintings, dating from 1100 to 1900, were selected according to identifiable artists, and they refute the long-held view of anonymous authorship in Indian art. Stressing the combined tools of connoisseurship and inscriptional evidence, the research reflected in this book has identified individual artists and their oeuvres through the analysis of style.

"Presents complex aesthetic principles in clear readable form."

In this in-depth volume, you'll follow master potter Richard Zakin through step-by-step procedures for buying and formulating clays, choosing and applying glazes, and forming and firing clay bodies.

A clearly written description of the analytical procedures employed on ceramic samples obtained at Moundville and the new chronology discovered. Moundville, located on the Black Warrior River in west-central Alabama, is one of the best known and most intensively studied archaeological sites in North America.

This volume emphasizes the complex interactions between ceramic containers and people in past and present contexts. The contributors to this volume probe the relationship between humans and ceramics. Here they offer new discoveries obtained through traditional lines of inquiry, demonstrate methodological breakthroughs, and expose innovative new areas for research.

Despite many years work on the technology of pottery production it is perhaps surprising that the origins of the potter's wheel in Egypt have yet to be determined. This present project seeks to rectify this situation by determining when the potter's wheel was introduced into Egypt, establishing in what contexts wheel thrown pottery occurs, and considering the reasons why the Egyptians introduced the wheel when a well-established hand making pottery industry already existed.