Visual Art: Subject Headings

History of Modern Art

A compelling retelling of the story of the art and artists of the last 150 years, this text covers modernism's mid 19th century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends.

Q709.04 ARN

Oversize

Overs!ze features the best of installation art on a grand scale all around the world. The designers, sculptors and installation artists featured in these pages discuss considerations such as weather, wind flow, method of installation, time constraints, budgets, transportation of the piece to the site, materials used and their durability and the process of site selection. The finished projects interact in symbiotic or contrasting methods with their surroundings in carefully controlled ways to create new spatial meanings.

Q709.04074 OVE

Monochrome

The monochrome-a single color of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas-remains one of the most contentious modernist artistic inventions. But while the manufacture of these "pictures of nothing" was ostensibly straightforward, their subsequent theorization has been anything but.  Discussing works by artists such as Kim Beom, Martin Creed, Tom Friedman, Bruno Jakob, Sherrie Levine, Karin Sander and Sara Sizer, this book shows that debate and conflict around the monochrome is very much alive in contemporary visual culture.

700.411 CRA & Eformat

Drawing. the Bottom Line

Presents the works of fifty-three artists from around the globe, all working within the medium of drawing and exploiting its versatile nature in a wide variety of ways. From brief sketches to fully realized and complex constructions, drawing provides the preliminary foundation for all of these works, whether they are simply functional process materials or products of careful consideration.  

Q 741.092 DRA

The Work of Art

In The Work of Art, Anthea Callen analyzes the self-portraits, portraits of fellow artists, photographs, prints, and studio images of prominent nineteenth-century French Impressionist painters, exploring the emergence of modern artistic identity and its relation to the idea of creative work. Landscape painting in general, she argues, and the "plein air” oil sketch in particular were the key drivers of change in artistic practice in the nineteenth century--leading to the Impressionist revolution. 

758.10944 CAL

Jean Michel Basquiat

This is a survey of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), a key member of a group of New York artists who used the powerful images of graffiti to create a new expressive language. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1992-93, the book contains illustrations reproducing paintings, drawings, collages, silkscreens, and constructions, many previously unpublished.

Q759.13 BAS.M

The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting

A landscape painting guide for oil painters that breaks landscapes down into component elements from nature, and showcases tools and techniques used by classic and modern oil painters for bringing these scenes to life.     

751.45436 BRO

Colour Design [e-version]

Colour Design: Theories and Applications, Second Edition, provides information on a broad spectrum of colour subjects written by seasoned industry professionals and academics. It is a multidisciplinary book that addresses the use of colour across a range of industries, with a particular focus on textile colouration.