General Art category: 18772 books
Team Cul de Sac
Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
When Richard Thompson, creator of the cartoon strip Cul de Sac, learned that he had Parkinson’s disease, the entire cartoon community was moved. From other cartoonists to fans, the urge to “do something” was overwhelming. Enter Chris Sparks, friend of and webmaster for Richard, who came...
by Abbott Arnott
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
John George Brown (1831 – 1913) was a British citizen and an American painter born in Durham, England on November 11, 1831. His parents apprenticed him to the career of glass worker at the age of fourteen in an attempt to dissuade him from pursuing painting. He studied nights at the School of Design...
Modernism versus Traditionalism
Art in Paris, 1888-1889
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris 1888-1889 considers questions surrounding artistic developments at the end of the nineteenth century in Paris. Students will debate principles of artistic design in the context of the revolutionary changes that began shaking the French art world in 1888-1889....
Interpreting Visual Art
A Survey of Cognitive Research About Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by perceptual mechanisms to identify objects and depth in pictures. The brain incorporates many factors...
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption...
A Whakapapa of Tradition
One Hundred Years of Ngato Porou Carving, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across the ancient world. Covering the period 500 BCE to 800 CE and drawing on sources ranging from extant garments...
by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Reedición de la obra completa de Moore y Campbell, revisada y complementada con comentarios de Alan Moore. Se trata de una revisitación del mito de Jack el Destripador, a su vez que una disección despiadada de la sociedad victoriana.
Esta famosa novela gráfica ha sido galardonada con los...
Art Studio: Horses & Ponies
More than 50 projects and techniques for drawing and painting horses and ponies in pencil, acrylic, watercolor, and more!
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Art Studio: Horses & Ponies makes the art of drawing and painting this evergreen art subject accessible and easy for everyone.
Including more than 50 step-by-step projects of a wide range of horses and ponies, beginning artists will learn the basics of working with graphite and colored...
The Practical Upholsterer Giving Clear Directions for Skillfully Performing all Kinds of Upholsteres' Work
Leather, Silk, Plush, Reps, Cottons, Velvets, and Carpetings also for Stuffing, Embossing, Welting, and Covering all Kinds of Mattresses
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a complete guide to upholstery, with information on leather, silk, plush, reps, cottons, velvets, carpetings, stuffing, embossing, welting, and covering all kinds of household furniture. Including interesting historical information and simple, beginner-friendly directions,...
Art Workshop for Children
How to Foster Original Thinking with more than 25 Process Art Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials.
As...
The Beautiful Brain
The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
At the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain presents Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s contributions to neuroscience through his groundbreaking artistic brain imagery.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) was the father of modern neuroscience and an exceptional artist. He devoted...
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 24)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications...
Philosophy, Art, and Religion
Understanding Faith and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
At a time when religion and science are thought to be at loggerheads, art is widely hailed as religion's natural spiritual ally. Philosophy, Art, and Religion investigates the extent to which this is true. It charts the way in which modern conceptions of 'Art' often marginalize the sacred arts, construing...