General Art category: 18772 books
Beyond Photoshop
Advanced techniques using Illustrator, Poser, Painter, and more
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In his best-selling book Creative Photoshop, award-winning artist Derek Lea has already shown the digital art world how to create stunning, sophisticated works of art using Photoshop. Now, he goes one step further in this all-new book to demonstrate his unique methods for using Photoshop in conjunction...
Mobile Digital Art
Using the iPad and iPhone as Creative Tools
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Learn how to create beautiful artwork on your iPad or iPhone. Over 65 expert artists from around the world will show you how they created their original art, from inspiration and conceptualization, to the creation of the final image. Using step-by-step examples and easy-to-follow tutorials, you'll...
Art History as Cultural History
Warburg's Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the Nachleben...
by Isabella Alston
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The French poster, born of a basic utilitarian purpose, has developed with age into an admired and collected art form. Vintage posters command high prices at auction and curators specialize in their restoration. The earliest art-worthy posters appeared on the streets of Paris designed by French-born...
by Eliane Strosberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Today, art and science are often defined in opposition to each other: one involves the creation of individual aesthetic objects, and the other the discovery of general laws of nature. Throughout human history, however, the boundaries have been less clearly drawn: knowledge and artifacts have often issued...
The Future of Art in a Digital Age
From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This book develops the thesis that the transition from premodernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. Semiotic and morphological analysis of art and visual culture demonstrate the contemporary confluence...
Artistic Judgement
A Framework for Philosophical Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Artistic Judgement sketches a framework for an account of art suitable to philosophical aesthetics. It stresses differences between artworks and other things; and locates the understanding of artworks both in a narrative of the history of art and in the institutional practices of the art world. Hence...
Robots and Art
Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
The first compendium on robotic art of its kind, this book explores the integration of robots into human society and our attitudes, fears and hopes in a world shared with autonomous machines. It raises questions about the benefits, risks and ethics of the transformative changes to society that are...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Build a Successful Art Career!
2014 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration or graphic design. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate...
Art from Uranus
Fine Art Dumbed Down for the General Population
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Explore the wonderful lowbrow, pop surrealist world of Rob Coxon in Art From Uranus. Bizarre, colourful paintings that explore such contemporary artistic themes as aliens, cryptozoological creatures, dinosaurs, country and western music, and much more! No tasteful nudes or sleepy landscapes here. Mr...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
All the Tools You Need to Build a Successful Art Career!
2013 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for any artist who wants to establish or expand a career in fine art, illustration or graphic design. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop...
by Jerome A. Barhydt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
In issuing this second treatise on Crayon Portraiture, Liquid Water Colors and French Crystals, for the use of photographers and amateur artists, I do so with the hope and assurance that all the requirements in the way of instruction for making crayon portraits on photographic enlargements and for...
Envisioning Howard Finster
The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The Reverend Howard Finster (1916–2001) was called the "backwoods William Blake" and the "Andy Warhol of the South," and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and...
A History of Art for Beginners and Students
Painting—Sculpture —Architecture with Complete “Quoted Indexes” and “Numerous Illustrations”
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
ARCHITECTURE seems to me to be the most wonderful of all the arts. We may not love it as much as others, when we are young perhaps we cannot do so, because it is so great and so grand; but at any time of life one can see that in Architecture some of the most marvellous achievements of men are displayed....