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Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference.Each Pose gives you 24 or more photos—one every 15 degrees as the model turns through a full circle. Choose your preferred view for 2D art, like painting, or see the whole figure for 3D art, like sculpture. Zoom...

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous,...

A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art "Art when really understood is the province of every human being." So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher Robert Henri....

“Paul does an impressive job of compressing the activity of a huge field, in which there are no obvious heroes and no single aesthetic line.” —Publishers Weekly Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today. Not only have traditional forms of art such...

Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation...

Décryptez l’art de William Hogarth en moins d’une heure !Considéré comme le père de l'art anglais, celui que ses contemporains surnomment le Shakespeare de la peinture lutte avec ferveur, toute sa vie, pour protéger les artistes locaux et donner à son pays un art national détaché de l'emprise...

Décryptez l'art d'Amedeo Modigliani en moins d'une heure !Figure éminente de la bohème parisienne au tournant du XXe siècle, Amedeo Modigliani reste cependant en marge des avant-gardes de l'époque. Il élabore, dans une quête stylistique sans fin, des portraits épurés où se mêlent mélancolie...

This anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists is designed for students and teachers in American art history and American studies programs. It contains twenty selections from academic journals on American...

On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue...

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas. Confronting the...

Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center...

An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary art How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring...

During the Renaissance, new ideas progressed alongside new ways of communicating them, and nowhere is this more visible than in the art of this period. In The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art, François Quiviger explores the ways in which the senses began to take on a new significance in the...

An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods. “Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann...