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by Alexandra Croom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
There is plenty of information about military dress in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire, but the evidence for civilian dress has not been comprehensively looked at since the 1930s. In this richly illustrated survey, Alexandra Croom describes the range and style of clothing worn throughout...
Rattling Spears
A History of Indigenous Australian Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors,...
Art at the Speed of Life
motivation + inspiration for making mixed-media art every day
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Offering terrific mixed-media art projects, as well as great tips for getting organized and inspired, Art at the Speed of Life is a treasure chest of ideas for the artist whose fiery enthusiasm for creating art goes up in smoke after that frantic pace of a long day. Author and mixed-media artist Pam...
Inspirational Quotes Illustrated
Art and Words to Motivate
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
"Toss in a stone and begin your own ripple of influence." --Joy Cooper
Featuring more than 100 artists and 130 quotes, Lesley Riley has created the ultimate book of "quotespiration."
With quotes from artists, authors, philosophers and cultural icons, there are words...
Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache
An artist's guide to painting with gouache on the go!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Take a fresh look at an up-and-coming art medium with Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache!
Gouache paint has a long history, but it’s often associated with watercolor and multimedia art. Until now, that is! Trendy artists with large social-media followings are reinvigorating gouache, making this...
Mirror Affect
Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
For decades, contemporary artworks with reflective properties have stimulated public forms of spectatorship. According to Cristina Albu, these artworks, which can include elements such as mirrors, live video feedback, or sensors, draw attention to affective interdependence and mechanisms of social control. In...
Imaging the City
Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers, and media specialists to investigate how we perceive the city, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we might better design it. Steve Hawley, Edward M. Clift, and Kevin O’Brien provocatively open up the field of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Given that institutions of higher education have a predisposition to compartmentalize and delineate areas of study, creative technology may seem oxymoronic. On the contrary, the very basis of western thought is found in the idea of transcendent knowledge. The marriage of opposing disciplines therefore...
Shows of Force
Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1992
It has long been considered a mark of naïveté to ask of a work of art: What does it say? But as Timothy W. Luke demonstrates in Shows of Force, artwork is capable of saying plenty, and much of the message resides in the way it is exhibited. By critically examining the exhibition of art in contemporary...
Lettering
For Students and Craftspeople
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Both a history and a how-to book, this landmark work by a great British calligrapher is required reading for every serious student of the art. Graily Hewitt introduces the general principles and the importance of the pen in the history of writing, tracing the development of minuscules and majuscules...
by Janis Lander
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book is a study of contemporary spirituality as it is practiced in the world today, characterized by its secular and inclusive nature, and applied to art and art education. It identifies the issues facing a formal introduction of contemporary spiritual concepts into a secular and multicultural...
by Amanda Boetzkes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Since its inception in the 1960s, the earth art movement has sought to make visible the elusive presence of nature. Though most often associated with monumental land-based sculptures, earth art encompasses a wide range of media, from sculpture, body art performances, and installations to photographic...
Fashion's Double
Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether in painting, photography, cinema or online fashion film, conveying identity and status, eliciting fascination...
Rethinking Australia’s Art History
The Challenge of Aboriginal Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the...