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The Art of LEGO Design

Creative Ways to Build Amazing Models

by Jordan Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

The most impressive LEGO models often take careful planning (and lots of pieces), but with some inspiration, a little imagination, and a number of tried-and-true techniques, you too can turn bricks into a masterpiece.In The Art of LEGO® Design, author Jordan Schwartz explores LEGO as an artistic...
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Art That Moves

The Work of Len Lye

by Roger Horrocks
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

A companion to the author's bestselling biography of Len Lye, this compelling volume shifts the focus from Lye's life to his art practice and innovative aesthetic theories about "the art of motion," which continue to be relevant today. Going beyond a general introduction to Lye and his artistic...
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by Marco Hompes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, grade: 8,5 , University of Amsterdam (Cultural Analysis), course: Art as an Institute and its Critique, language: English, abstract: 1.Introduction The avant-garde intends the abolition of autonomous art by which it means that art...
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by Raya Yotova
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019

Like many of the great Chinese artists, Lu Ji also copied paintings by ancient masters from the Tang and Sun, who had the opportunity to study in the Emperor's collection. He studied the art of imaging birds of his contemporaries, Bian Jinghao, and Lin Liang. The Flowers and Birds pictures created...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019

"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria...
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by Bruno Munari
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as ‘the new Leonardo’....
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by Elissa Dudzic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013

Art Auctions For Beginners: Secrets To Getting Quality Fine Art For Discount Prices This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Art Auctions: Grotesque Art Chapter 2: Art Auctions: Early American Art Chapter 3: Art Auctions For Drawings Chapter 4: Art Auctions For Sculptures...
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Graphic Design Rants and Raves

Bon Mots on Persuasion, Entertainment, Education, Culture, and Practice

by Steven Heller
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

Design is everywhere. Graphic design enters into everything. This is the scope of designer Steven Heller’s latest essay anthology that covers the spectrum of graphic design and related art and culture. Looking at design as practice, language, culture, and power, each of the forty-plus essays is...
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A Theory of Craft

Function and Aesthetic Expression

by Howard Risatti
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes...
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Pioneers of Modern Design

From William Morris to Walter Gropius

by Nikolaus Pevsner
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1991

One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing...
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Irene Rice Pereira

Her Paintings and Philosophy

by Karen A. Bearor
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010

Artist Irene Rice Pereira was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" imagery. Yet her artistic philosophy and innovative imagery...
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The Art of Rube Goldberg

(A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius

by Jennifer George
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then again, Rube Goldberg was no ordinary noun. He was a cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, and in a 72-year career he wrote and illustrated nearly 50,000 cartoons. Goldberg (1883–1970) was the most famous...
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by Karina Nikolova
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846 – 1898) was a Russian painter. He was born in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to a son of an officer in the Russian Army. Yaroshenko chose a military career, studying at the Poltava Cadet Academy and later the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery...
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Phobia

An Art Deco Graphic Masterpiece

by John Vassos
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

A leader in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration, John Vassos undertook his most personal and ambitious work in this 1931 volume. Its twenty-four gripping images represent visceral depictions of common fears—the dread of heights, open and enclosed spaces, the dark,...
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