Conceptual category: 130 books

Cover of The Sun, The Idea & Story Without Words
by Frans Masereel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012

Rich in symbolism, these compelling graphic novels feature more than 200 starkly beautiful woodcut illustrations. The passionate, dynamic narratives include The Sun, a somber exploration of one man's struggle with destiny; The Idea, a depiction of the triumph of an artistic concept over attempts at its...
Cover of Digital Painting with KRITA 2.9

Digital Painting with KRITA 2.9

Learn All of the Tools to Create Your Next Masterpiece

by Scott L Petrovic
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015

Krita is a free painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry. It has been in development for over 10 years and has had an explosion in growth recently. It offers many common and innovative features to help the amateur and professional alike. Discover...
Cover of Neuroartes, un laboratorio de ideas
by Luc Delannoy
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 8, 2016

Este libro ofrece una introducción a Neuroartes; son notas (filosóficas, neurocientíficas, sociológicas, artísticas) presentadas como ensayos que pueden parecer, a veces, audaces, comprometedores e incluso subversivos. No obstante, simplemente se quiere atravesar las fronteras de las diferentes...
Cover of The Electric State
by Simon Stålenhag
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American...
Cover of What Is Art?
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

Tolstoy shares his views about the imprecision of general opinions on art, the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists. The difficulty of meaning in art, and especially what is good, useful art, art for the sake of which we might condone such sacrifices as are being offered at its shrine. So, what is art?
Cover of Artificial Hells

Artificial Hells

Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

by Claire Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous,...
Cover of Ludovic Chemarin©

Ludovic Chemarin©

1998-2005 / 2011-2014...

by Damien Beguet, P. Nicolas Ledoux, Raphaële Jeune
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2015

En 2011, les artistes Damien Beguet et P.Nicolas Ledoux achètent contractuellement l’œuvre et le nom de l’artiste Ludovic Chemarin, après que celui-ci a décidé en 2005 de mettre fin à sa carrière. Ils en poursuivent depuis l'exploitation sous le nom de Ludovic Chemarin© qui expose en France...
Cover of The Best American Infographics 2016
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

“When it comes to infographics…the best work in this field grabs those eyes, keeps them glued, and the grip is sensual—and often immediate. A good graphic says ‘See what I see!’ and either you do or you don’t. The best ones…pull you right in, and won’t let you go.”  —From the...
Cover of Way of Art
by Stephen Zeifman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Stephen Zeifman, artist and teacher of studio art and art history, and the founder of Mill Road Studio, discusses his unique approach to art. He talks about being an artist, and about the importance of having a focus driven not by commerce but rather by the challenges of engaging in a creative practice.  The...
Cover of Capital

Capital

New York, Capital of the 20th Century

by Kenneth Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page homage to New York City Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper...
Cover of Portable Altamont
by Brian Joseph Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

When We Arrested James Spader It was the saddest thing I’d seen. How he kept thinking he was a cat and he wouldn’t get out of that filthy litter box. And then, in the back of the cruiser, meowing for his cat brothers to save him. Deliciously wicked satires about local and...
Cover of Texico Days
by J. Paul Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

We stand as Texicans, together all along.  Without measure, our love for our God.
Cover of The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Doré
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair...
Cover of 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
by Salvador Dali
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013

For many, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) represents the Surrealist painter par excellence, one whose work explored his own dream life, hallucinations, and fetishes in the process of objectifying the irrational elements of the unconscious. In this rare and important volume, the painter expresses (in...
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