Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Suspended Animation	Robert Mills	When Marsellus in the film Pulp Fiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages …	OL13660253W
Art	Marilyn Stokstad	xvii, 622 p. : 28 cm	OL15981130W
The Middle Ages	Fred S. Kleiner,Helen Gardner	Book B of [Gardner's Art Through the Ages][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3002703W/Art_Through_the_Ages	OL17551781W
Ancient, Medieval, and Non-European Art	Helen Gardner	Volume I of [Gardner's Art Through the Ages](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3002703W/Gardner's_Art_Through_the_Ages)	OL18151172W
The art and architecture of the ancient Orient	Henri Frankfort	Part one: Mesopotamia. Part two: The peripheral regions: Asia minor and the Hittites, The Levant in the second millenium B.C., Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, The art of ancient Persia.	OL18527890W
Hieronymus Bosch	Jos Koldeweij,Paul Vandenbroeck	"The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) capture the imagination like those of no other artist in history. His fantastical scenes of grotesque creatures, devils, and monsters have prompted a …	OL19790777W
Broad strokes	Bridget Quinn	"This book chronicles the lives and art of 15 often overlooked female artists from the Renaissance to the modern day"--	OL20050017W
New Deal art in Virginia	Anita Price Davis	"This book is the only record of federally-funded art projects in Virginia during the Great Depression. It provides an historical overview of each city or town that is home to the artwork, informatio…	OL2018198W
ReVisioning	James Romaine,Linda Stratford	ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art examines the application of art historical methods to the history of Christianity and art. As methods of art history have be…	OL20973713W
Realisation	Julian Spalding	JULIAN SPALDING'S books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize) and The Best Art You've Never Seen. He was formerly Director of Ar…	OL20982856W
A history of art	Laura Perdew	"This title examines Western art's original European roots, the ways and styles in which it has expanded and changed, and how it has grown into such an integral part of Western culture."--Publisher's…	OL24954333W
Art Book	DK Publishing	352 pages : 24 cm	OL26576541W
Celtic art	George Bain	The construction principles of Celtic art were re-discovered in the middle of the 20th century by George Bain. Until his writing, the intricate knots, interlacings, and spirals used in illuminating T…	OL3415668W
Claves de las vanguardias artísticas en el siglo XX	Lourdes Cirlot	Traces, through text and color plates, the origins, philosophies, developments, and artists of the modern movements in painting, sculpture, and architecture during the twentieth century.	OL4780760W
Henri Rousseau	Ernest Lloyd Raboff	A brief biography of this French artist accompanies color reproductions and analyses of fifteen of his paintings.	OL4970548W
The art and architecture of Islam 650-1250	Richard Ettinghausen	"This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, fl…	OL5161204W
Papunya School book of country and history	Papunya School.	A history of the Anangu people of central Australia, describing their efforts to retain their culture while living at the government settlement of Papunya, their experiences with white settlers and m…	OL5992041W
The Lens Within the Heart	Timon Screech	"It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that the country was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular, the western world. However, this study of 18th …	OL64247W
The story of art	E. H. Gombrich	The Story of Art, by E. H. Gombrich, is a survey of the history of art from ancient times to the modern era. First published in 1950 by Phaidon, the book is widely regarded both as a seminal work of …	OL686193W
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites	Elizabeth Prettejohn	"In 1848, seven young, inexperienced English artists banded together to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Together they created a novel style that bewildered its first audiences and retains the po…	OL7998304W