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Body art. Paint on your hands
Paint on your hands
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Hands are next after a face to tell you about a person, therefore the image created on such a "canvas" is not just at picture. It is the Life depicted with the help of paints. It has been noticed that there is something magic in the body art, which is not a surprise, taking into account...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the...
Collage Couture
Techniques for Creating Fashionable Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Play dress-up with your art!
Collage has never been so fashionable! In Collage Couture you'll learn how to sketch fashion figures, create stylish dresses from patterned paper and apply a variety of textured backgrounds to your collage pieces. With styles ranging from cute to elegant and sweet...
The Recording Machine
Art and Fact during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968. Author Joshua Shannon reveals an oddly stringent realism...
A Capsule Aesthetic
Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists—Pipilotti...
by Edward Fry, Francesco Bonami, Alexandra Munroe
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five...
Art From Intuition
Overcoming your Fears and Obstacles to Making Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Practical self-help for artists who want to free their creativity. Art from Intuition offers artists everywhere a unique system for freeing their own creative intuition, the sixth sense that directs an artist’s drive and work. By letting go of the self-criticism, doubt, and insecurity that discourage...
Emotion and Art
Mastering the Challenges of the Artist's Path
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this highly original work, John Ruskan explores the intricacies of feeling-oriented art. He presents radical insights about the nature of the art process that explain exactly what it is that artists do, how they can do it better, and how to make art an essential route to enlightenment through revealing...
Art Starts with a Line
A creative and interactive guide to the art of line drawing
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Line drawing utilizes both fine and bold lines to create sophisticated artwork that can stand alone or be incorporated into patterns, logos, stationery, branding, journals, scrapbooks, and more. Art Starts with a Line is approachable for artists of any skill level, no prior drawing experience needed!...
by J.D. Lewis-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just...
Engaging Art
The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society – from museum attendance to music downloading. Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton scholars Robert Wuthnow and Paul DiMaggio; Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox...
Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs
513 Original Designs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The sleek, exciting geometric motifs seen everywhere in today's decorative arts reflect the continuing Art Deco revival. Textiles, wallpaper, upholstery, and graphics abound with the dynamic, distinctive patterns associated with this influential and popular style.Now artists, designers, and craftspeople...
Theater of Cruelty
Art, Film, and the Shadows of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, “by what makes the human species behave atrociously.” In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World...
by Gregory Minissale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
While recent studies in neuroscience and psychology have shed light on our sensory and perceptual experiences of art, they have yet to explain how contemporary art downplays perceptual responses and, instead, encourages conceptual thought. The Psychology of Contemporary Art brings together the most...