Fine Arts

About the Book Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evidentfrom the short but incisive essays that make up this important volume.Sartre examines the work of a wide range of artists here, includingrecognized masters such a...

Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artefacts that make up art history...

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today, and the identity of who is controlling its fut...

Typography, the art of designing printed words, was once the domain of an elite few artists but has become an area with which millions of people engage daily. The widespread usage of digital devices from laptops to tablets and smart phones which a...

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and its history. Th...

For a long time, women artists, particularly in India, did not have it easy. So, what contributes to a woman artist's success? Is it grit, determination or passion? Sunflowers: Incredible Journeys of Epic Women Artists from India unveils unfilt...

This work is a broad inter-disciplinary approach to present day conditions in Bombay. Chapters on nineteenth century Bombay and the famine migrants, the emergence of educational institutions and the Gujarati influence on Bombay's intellectual life...

Lines from an Artistic Life explores the drawings of eminent Indian artist K M Adimoolam, well-known in India and internationally for his meticulous pen-and-ink drawings on subjects ranging from realistic portraits of Mahatma Gandhi to idealized p...

This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably Indiaa (TM)s most iconic contemporary artist today, whose life and work are intimately entangled with the career of independent India as a democrat...

“I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse.”—Anselm Kief...

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of wo...

A large bulk of Indian miniature paintings comes from Rajasthan. These miniatures are endowed with warm colours, primitive vigour, directness of expression and all that corresponds to the unique land of Rajasthan. They encompass its fun and festiv...

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins...

Developed by English handwriting masters in the 18th century, copperplate calligraphy is admired for its fluidity and beauty. It is the most popular style for social correspondence, invitations, and other communications requiring an elegant hand. ...

The book is a simple commemoration of the work of master potter Ira Chaudhuri over seven decades – primarily through more than 150 images of her works, juxtaposed with quotes from the artist. It includes a valuable essay by Ira Chaudhuri which, be...

Self-expression is a fundamental human drive. The need for self-expression can occur through many means both creative and mundane. The Expressive Instinct explains how the complexity of human experiences and the need to express them manifests more...