art

This book describes the park where children can play and meet new friends. Watching animals and looking at growing plants help children learn about nature. Picnics in the park are fun. Sometimes there are art classes and music in the park. This book also explains the importance of keeping the park clean so it remains a healthy, fun place to be.

Explores the notion of "craftivism," where people will make handmade crafts and artwork with the goal of changing a community, raising awareness for a social cause, or simply brightening another person's day.

Presents a humorous look at many of the riddles in art history.

Traces the origins, growth, and development of art from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, discussing its various forms and expressions, and explains how to understand and enjoy modern paintings, sculpture and architecture.

Presents an overview of the history of art, from prehistory to the twentieth century, covering the social, religious, and intellectual context of each period and culture, including the Western tradition, as well as the art the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Provides an account of the place of photography in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art history, looking at how the medium was used in the painting, sculpture, and creative processes of some of the world's most famous artisis; and includes reproductions of representative works, as well as photographs by great masters and lesser-known photographers.

Examines Pablo Picasso's political commitments, his motivations to join the French Communist Party, and his contributions as an active member of the Party.

A pop-up book of artwork by internationally acclaimed artist Kv?ta Pacovsk?.

Presents a collection of full-color and black-and-white illustrated reproductions of modern art and traces the evolution of avant-garde painting and sculpture through the twentieth-century movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism.

Explores the role of art and human expression at the dawn of the twenty-first century, tracing the history of art in order to form a new assessment of its meanings in the human story.