General Art category: 18772 books

L'exposition organisée par le musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg sur l'art optique et cinétique de 1950 à 1975 s'inscrit dans la suite des manifestations Aux origines de l'abstraction au musée d'Orsay, en 2003-2004, et Sons et lumières au Centre Georges-Pompidou... À...

"You are now my favorite modern writer. Serious genius every time". – Molly "I enjoyed viewing your paintings which are most compelling and provocative" - Ruthie Tucker Executive Director-Curator, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery "Zatar master of the universe" - Rozola “My god what a complex being you are”...

From Jeff Friesen, award-winning photographer and author of United States of LEGO®, comes a hilarious new book of diorama photographs that uses LEGO bricks to spoof the famous work of the mysterious anonymous graffiti artist known as Banksy. Friesen gives new meaning to gritty street art using clean,...

This beautiful, enthralling book represents the rarest of human achievements: a work of great scientific merit that is a magnificent work of art as well. Bernard Siegfried Albinus was the greatest descriptive anatomist of the eighteenth century. Over a period of twenty years, he produced two volumes...

The illustrated book gives historical and cultural background of Asian Art. It introduces the reader to Asian Art major styles, media, statues, buildings and artists.FEATURES:- Fully illustrated- Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms. - Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or...

“Embroidery Most Sumptuously Wrought” takes a look at historical Dutch embroidery, focusing on exquisite examples contemporarily held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Including interesting historical information as well as expert descriptions and analyses, this profusely-illustrated...

This is a classic article on Greek embroidery, especially that found on women's chemises. The chemise is a basic garment worn by peasant women all over the Balkans for many centuries, as late as the twentieth century in some places. The article aims to illustrate and discuss the embroidery of nineteen...

A prolific author of books on wildlife, the great naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton was also an accomplished illustrator. Noting a dearth of general zoological anatomies for artists, he took it upon himself to create one. This volume is the result of his efforts. In it, he provides a definitive artist's-eye...

Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling booktraces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new...

Few Americans are aware that Washington is the country’s largest single patron of art. Every year a group of unelected federal bureaucrats and congressmen spends millions of taxpayer dollars on monuments, sculptures, buildings, plays, and exhibitions, largely without public knowledge or involvement....

An investigation of interactivity, interfaces and their design, and the webs of complex interactions that result. We are surrounded by interactive devices, artifacts, and systems. The general assumption is that interactivity is good—that it is a positive feature associated with being modern,...

The seed of this exhibition was planted over two years ago when Maggie Norden of the London College of Fashion brought to the museum a selection of photographs illustrating her work in progress for the film The Black and White of Colour, which accompanies this exhibition. We could immediately see...

Il volume raccoglie gli atti di Il futuro del Contemporaneo. Conservazione e restauro del Design, primo convegno internazionale in Italia sul tema, organizzato a Napoli dalla Fondazione Plart dal 14 al 15 maggio 2015, nell’ambito del Festival Internazionale di Design. Storici del design, storici...

Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized...