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The Painted Art Journal
24 Projects for Creating Your Visual Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Take a mixed-media journey to the very heart of your creativity!
The Painted Art Journal opens doors to your most personal and authentic art yet. Tell your story as only you can, through a series of guided projects that culminate in a beautiful, autobiographical art journal worthy of passing...
by Mr David Bramston
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Basics Product Design: Visual Conversations introduces design students to the art of communication in product design. David Bramston explains the process of translation from rough concept to fully-realised production. It emphasizes the importance of simplicity in creating effective sketches; examines...
How Art Works
A Psychological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these questions come from philosophy. Examples include: · What makes something art? · Can anything be art? · Do we experience...
Looking at Art Philosophically
Aesthetic Concepts Fundamental to Being an Artist
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The purpose of this book is to present to the reader a series of philosophical ideas that assist in understanding ones position in the world of art and some thinking on art and creativity intended to awaken the aesthetic aspects of making art. There is no intention to review historical philosophical...
Made to Play!
Handmade Toys and Crafts for Growing Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Delight young children and encourage play through unique handmade toys. From sewn and stuffed musical instruments to interlocking paper building blocks and wooden animal figurines, the projects in this book are meant to encourage open-ended play. Organized by kid-loving subjects, the toys here follow...
by Ainhoa Montañez, R. Brand Aubery
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Consigue estos dos fantásticos ebooks a un precio excepcional.301 Chistes Cortos y Muy BuenosAinhoa MontañezUna recopilación de chistes cortos y muy buenos. Una muestra:¿Qué le dice un muerto a otro?¿Quieres gusanitos?–¿Y cómo está tu novio?–Ya...
The Architecture of Art History
A Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now?
Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture – sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a...
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in...
Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition
Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant that Islamic and Western art being perceived as inherently...
Framing Russian Art
From Early Icons to Malevich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The notion of the frame in art can refer not only to a material frame bordering an image, but also to a conceptual frame. Both meanings are essential to how the work is perceived. In Framing Russian Art, art historian Oleg Tarasov investigates the role of the frame in its literal function of demarcating...
by J. Walter Fewkes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on the dolls of the Tusayan Indians, a tribe of native Americans who originated from the area that is now Tusayan, Arizona. With a wealth of historical information and many beautiful full colour illustrations, this volume will be of considerable utility...
Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed, and Fine Art
Making Contact with the Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self makes a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of art by focusing attention on the relationship...
Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself
52 Creative Adventures to Find Your Voice Through Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Art Lab for Kids, Express Yourself is a fun collection of art activities that encourage children to create freely, using their own thoughts and experiences as a guide.
One of the most important gifts we can give children is to nurture their creativity and allow them to express themselves...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Inscriptions convey meaning not just by their contents but also by other means, such as choice of script, location, scale, spatial organisation, letterform, legibility and clarity. The essays in this book consider these visual qualities of inscriptions, ranging across the Mediterranean and the Near...