Art category: 43213 books
Doodle Art and Lettering with Joanne Sharpe
Inspiration and Techniques for Personal Expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Discover the Joy of Doodle Arts and Lettering and Create Your Own Exuberant Art!
Energize your soul and soothe your spirit with the fun and colorful doodle and lettering techniques inside Doodle Arts and Lettering With Joanne Sharpe. Using her popular, playful style, Joanne is back with lessons,...
The Fine Art of Crochet
Innovative Works from Twenty Contemporary Artists
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Fiber artists around the world have embraced crochet as an inventive medium like never before. Expanding on the creative possibilities and using sculpture, immense site-specific installations, performance, and mixed-media objects, they have used crochet techniques to explore feminine craft and heritage,...
Folk Art in Maine
Uncommon Treasures 1750-1925
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Folk art proves that producing utilitarian objects can provide an opportunity for self-expression. From decoys to sea chests, folk art is not only rooted in the useful but in the realities of living. Some folk art makes daily chores more fun, while others, such as mourning art, help people face life's...
by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical...
Extra/Ordinary
Craft and Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount...
by Dory Kanter
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2003
Inspire your creative spirit - everyday!
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, Art Escapes provides the ideas and encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short on time. Professional artist and instructor Dory Kanter shows...
Art Revolution
Alternative Approaches for Fine Artists and Illustrators
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
With an unprecedented array of media and digital tools at their disposal, today's artists are faced with unlimited possibilities for creative experimentation. Never before has there been such innovation in the way art can be conceptualized, produced and presented.
Art Revolution is on the cutting-edge,...
Body art. Paint on your hands
Paint on your hands
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Hands are next after a face to tell you about a person, therefore the image created on such a "canvas" is not just at picture. It is the Life depicted with the help of paints. It has been noticed that there is something magic in the body art, which is not a surprise, taking into account...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the...
A Capsule Aesthetic
Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti...
by J.D. Lewis-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just...
Engaging Art
The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society – from museum attendance to music downloading. Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton scholars Robert Wuthnow and Paul DiMaggio; Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox...
Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs
513 Original Designs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The sleek, exciting geometric motifs seen everywhere in today's decorative arts reflect the continuing Art Deco revival. Textiles, wallpaper, upholstery, and graphics abound with the dynamic, distinctive patterns associated with this influential and popular style.Now artists, designers, and craftspeople...
Theater of Cruelty
Art, Film, and the Shadows of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, “by what makes the human species behave atrociously.” In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World...