See also:  [Art Periods]
                  [Art Movements]
                  [(art) concepts]
                  [Art History (index)]
                  [TIME LINE]  (time-space conveyor)

On this page:  {The GIANTS}
               {And "the rest"}
               {Fav's}  (list of references)

Art Textbooks


The GIANTS



  Helen Gardner 

  Sir Lawrence Gowing, editor

  H. W. Janson

Marilyn Stokstad

   http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/help/stokstad.html



And "the rest"



Fav's

List of References:  {Dempsey}
                     {Leighton}
                     {Ferrer & Pinchon}
                     {Smaugula}


Howard Smaugula, "Currents: Contemporary directions in the Visual 
Arts",2nd Ed, 1989, ISBN 0-13-195595-0]

This is a "must read" for any modern artist. Howard takes us on
a whirl-wind tour of art "snap-shot-ed" in 1989. His book confronts
us with both the public and personal issues of art as it is created,
as it is executed, as it seen. For any artist, this is a book that
seriously discusses the "how-ness" and the "what-ness" of art. (We
are *all* still looking for answers to the "why-ness" of art. And
of cours the why-ness of the why itself.  Enjoy!  -- Pizo. 05.01.06
(hope-ing that there is a new edition as well! Well done, Mr. Smaugula!)


Jean-Louis Ferrer & Yann Le Pinchon, "Art of the 20th Century: A year
by year chronicle of painting, architecture, and sculpture",  1998,
ISBN 248.27721.0. Printed in Italy.

This (almost without a doubt) should be *the* bible for any modern
artist. It is done up in the "newspaper" chronicle style, and is a 
joy to read -- if some-what tiresome to use as a reference book.
Each article captures the "now-ness" each event. From the World's
Faire on the Champ-de-Mars (1900) -- which "surely" the 37-year old
Toulouse-Lautrec would have visited. To the final essays on "Such
a Pretty Civilisation" & "Accident & Rebellion". I consider it to
be the "first book" for the new century -- much in the same way
as "The Dictionary of Art" is the first reference work for the
new millenium.  Viva la France!  Viva Mr's. Ferrer & le Pinchon!!!
(now where are my notes on Mark Tobey??? rummages around in coat
pockets, and upon finding a un-opened, if slightly crushed granola
bar, has a short snack, while thinking about "the intrusion of
the geometric into the organic" and humming (v. off key) the 
Marsalaise to himself.  Peace to all, Pizo).


"Art in the Modern Era -- A Guide to Styles, Schools & Movements",
by Amy Dempsey. ISBN 0.8109.4172.4 (London, 2002).

Not since the Dictionary of Art and "Art Spoke"/"Art Speak" has there
been such a wondrous book! In addition to the usual blurb (names,
suspects, places, things, objects, nouns, verbs, and adjective here
and there), Maestro Dempsey guides us to key collections and books. 
She has treuly given us a "dictionary" for the 21st century!"



Re-Ordering the Universe

  Patricia Leighten, "Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and
                         Anarchism, 1897-1914", Pp.14-15,
  ISBN 0.691.04059.1 (1989, Princeton).