General Art category: 18772 books
The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration
An artist's guide to drawing and illustrating realistic flora, fauna, and botanical scenes from nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Draw and paint beautiful, vibrant, and realistic birds and botanicals with The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration. Take a sketch and transform it into fine art!
The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration is a guide for contemporary artists aspiring to master shape, color, and texture...
Dreaming From the Journal Page
Transforming the Sketchbook to Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Transform your sketchbook to art!
The artist's journal is a great place to start a library of personal marks, doodles and ideas. The reader is introduced to basics such as choosing a journal and then immediately guided into techniques such as color mixing, drawing and a variety of surface designs....
by Susie Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The perfect compact reference guide for all would-be art buffs. Art historian Susie Hodge takes you on a whistle-stop international tour of all the major artistic cultures, movements, phases, developments, artists and themes, from Prehistoric art to Hyperrealism. Contents also include Greek classicism,...
Creating Abstract Art
Ideas and Inspirations for Passionate Art-Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Celebrate your own nonconformist place in the world of art.
Going far beyond standard notions of developing an abstract "style" or particular "look," Creating Abstract Art unleashes the numerous possibilities that abound in your creative subconscious. Familiar obstacles...
Contemporary Art and Memory
Images of Recollection and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. 'Contemporary Art and Memory' is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject...
by Falk Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations.
After considering established theories of beauty, for example,...
Doodle Art and Lettering with Joanne Sharpe
Inspiration and Techniques for Personal Expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Discover the Joy of Doodle Arts and Lettering and Create Your Own Exuberant Art!
Energize your soul and soothe your spirit with the fun and colorful doodle and lettering techniques inside Doodle Arts and Lettering With Joanne Sharpe. Using her popular, playful style, Joanne is back with lessons,...
The Fine Art of Crochet
Innovative Works from Twenty Contemporary Artists
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Fiber artists around the world have embraced crochet as an inventive medium like never before. Expanding on the creative possibilities and using sculpture, immense site-specific installations, performance, and mixed-media objects, they have used crochet techniques to explore feminine craft and heritage,...
General Ecology
The New Ecological Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognized that there are ecologies of mind, information, sensation,...
Folk Art in Maine
Uncommon Treasures 1750-1925
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Folk art proves that producing utilitarian objects can provide an opportunity for self-expression. From decoys to sea chests, folk art is not only rooted in the useful but in the realities of living. Some folk art makes daily chores more fun, while others, such as mourning art, help people face life's...
by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical...
Art Journey Portraits and Figures
The Best of Contemporary Drawing in Graphite, Pastel and Colored Pencil
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Truth. Beauty. Experience. Emotion.
The artists included in Art Journey: Portraits and Figures say they have discovered all of these things and more through their work. Sometimes it's in the eyes. Or perhaps it's the hint of an expression that seems to beckon one closer, begging to share a...
Life in Bronze
Lawrence M. Ludtke, Sculptor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M. Ludtke (1929–2007) of Houston imbued his creations with a sense of movement and realism through his attention to detail, anatomy, and proportion.
As a skilled athlete who played professional baseball...
Computers and Art
Computers and Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a practicing artist and a researcher....