The focus of this text is on a select number of paintings and sculptures by European artists of the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassic and Romantic periods, generally dated from the early fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The purpose is to provide the beginning student with a better understanding and deeper appreciation of major works of art, designated in this text as masterpieces.

How To Look At A Masterpiece

Arts & Photography

Quirarte, Jacinto

History & Criticism

McGraw-Hill/Primis Custom Publishing

Mexican American Artists (The John Fielding and Lois Lasater Maher Series, No. 2)

Univ of Texas Pr

Mexican American Artists

University of Texas Press

Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas 
Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six remaining Texas missions—San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad. Using church records and other historical accounts, as well as old photographs, drawings, and paintings, Quirarte describes the mission churches and related buildings, their decorated surfaces, and the (now missing) altarpieces, whose iconography he extensively analyzes. He sets his material within the context of the mission era in Texas and the Southwest, so that the book also serves as a general introduction to the Spanish missionary program and to Indian life in Texas.

The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)

The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century. Works by many of the leading names in American art are illustrated in this book, which also contains 13 essays by scholars, critics and curators to offer an understanding of American art for both the general reader and the student of art history. Beginning at the turn of the century and closing with a look at Postmodernism and the visual culture of today, the essays investigate various aspects of American Modernism. Along the way they focus on major American movements, schools and artists of the century. The book also contains a complete catalogue of the SBC Collection.

American Images: The Sbc Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art

Clarke, John R.

FAHLMAN, BETSY

Beardsley, John

Ashton, Dore

SANDLER, Irving

BAIGELL, MATTHEW

Agee, William C.

Larsen, Susan C.

Plagens, Peter

King-Hammond, Leslie

Sbc Communications

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

César A. Martínez has long been recognized as one of the most important figures of the Chicano art movement in Texas and the United States. Deeply rooted in his native South Texas and its Mexican American culture, Martínez's work also reflects a broad knowledge of the history of art in both Europe and the Americas. This book, which serves as the catalog for a retrospective at San Antonio's McNay Art Museum, surveys twenty-five years of the artist's work, from his first widely exhibited works of the mid-1970s through the present. All of the artist's principal thematic groups are included: his distinctive and brilliantly colorful barrio portraits, his highly textural South Texas landscapes, and his varied mestizo series. Media represented are paintings and constructions, watercolors, drawings, monotypes, woodcuts, and lithographs. The catalog includes an essay by Dr. Carey Rote and an interview with the artist by Dr. Jacinto Quirarte, plus a chronology, an exhibitions history, and a bibliography.

César A. Martínez: A Retrospective

Rote, Carey Clements

Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum

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