Graphic Art category: 1709 books
Shaping the American Interior
Structures, Contexts and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the field of interiors in the United States in the period from 1870 until 1960. Its interdisciplinary approach encompasses a broad range of people, contexts, and practices,...
Experimental Fashion
Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award
Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style....
Painter 11 Creativity
Digital Artist's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Jeremy Sutton is one of the world's premier Painter artists (www.JeremySutton.com and www.PaintboxJ.com), and in this brand new edition of his best-selling Painter Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, he shows you the methods and techniques he's developed over the years to perfect his art and earn...
Radical Decadence
Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about women's power, consumption and pleasure are...
Sloppy Craft
Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts brings together leading international artists and critics to explore the possibilities and limitations of the idea of 'sloppy craft' – craft that is messy or unfinished looking in its execution or appearance, or both. The contributors address 'sloppiness'...
Kimono Design
An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes, and the many motifs that have been woven, dyed,...
The End of Fashion
Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and designers are increasingly treated as 'artists', as fashion moves towards art and enters the gallery, museum,...
Textile Collage
using collage techniques in textile art
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Textile artist and surface designer Mandy Pattullo marries fabric with collage techniques to produce beautiful pieces of art. In Textile Collage she shows a fresh way to use scraps and oddments of fabrics to create something unique and personal, while also being economical – perfect for those who...
by Debbie Millman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Debbie Millman's illustrated essays and visual poems are part philosophy, part art, part deeply personal memoir exposing the universal triumphs and tribulations of being human. Her hand-lettered typography - sometimes tender, sometimes gritty, always breathtaking in its visceral candor - makes Self...
by W. R. Tymms, M. D. Wyatt
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
More than 350 decorative designs in this impressive collection, including 256 letters, display the glories of extant medieval manuscripts. Rare letters and borders that once enhanced medieval bibles and other rare manuscripts are ornamented with exquisite florals, curvilinear motifs interwoven with religious figures, and other exquisite embellishments.
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools Volumes 1 & 2
Television Becoming Unglued
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Emerging technologies enable a wide variety of creative expression, from music and video to innovations in visual art. These aesthetics, when properly explored, can enable enhanced communication between all kinds of people and cultures. The Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies...
Contemporary Appliqué
Cutting edge design and techniques in textile art
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Appliqué is a classic embroidery technique that has recently been experiencing a revival. Appearing in the most cutting-edge contemporary textile work, it can be interpreted in many different ways - layering, patching, applying, overlaying - and offers endless creative possibilities. Each technical...
Stories of Storeys
Art, Architecture and the City
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
A renowned architect and artist on how public architecture in our cities has lost contact with the lives of the common people.
Behind the seemingly ordinary life of a practising architect lies a whole host of non-professional impulses that give shape to buildings.Stories of Storeys: Art, Architecture...