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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Art Spirit represents the best of the collected words, teachings, and letters of inspired artist and teacher Robert Henri. Filled with valuable technical advice as well as wisdom about the place of art and the artist in American society, this classic work continues t be a must-read for all aspiring artists and lovers of art.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden...
Author
Language
English
Description
The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Independent curator and writer Zaria Ware celebrates the evolution and lives of black and brown figures in Western art, from the earliest models to a small group of black artists who took the paintbrush into their own hands, and all of the rich, beautiful culturl legacies in between.
Author
Publisher
David & Charles
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paper florist Eileen Lim shares her secrets to crafting flowers and insects from crepe paper, with step-by-step photos and full-size templates. Learn to make paper roses, peonies, dahlias, daffodils, tulips and more, as well as how to combine flowers into bouquets. Alongside the flowers are tutorials for paper butterflies, beetles and bees"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists--from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
A free-spirited artist teams up with a no-nonsense detective to capture a thief who has stolen a priceless Michelangelo painting. Manchester, England, 1857. Rosanna Hawkins is one of Manchester's finest artists, even though no one knows her name. She reproduces "parlor versions" of classic masterpieces with near-perfect precision, which her employer then sells to the emerging upper-middle class families of Manchester.When the largest art exhibition...
Publisher
Zion Natural History Association
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of historic and contemporary art of Zion National Park with essays discussing the importance of art in the establishment of the park and how the park has been interpreted in art during its 100 years of existence.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the greatest gallery on Earth. Put yourself in the picture with this incredible visual guide displaying the best artistic works of all time. You're the very special guest with unlimited access to the world's most important art through the ages, from ancient cave paintings to modern-day street art. On your journey through time, you'll see a wealth of valuable art, including Egyptian tomb paintings, Roman frescoes, Byzantine mosaics, and...
Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Art, Observation, and the Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cultures of the past. Bringing together art historians and anthropologists, it presents a selection of detailed case studies of various bodies of work produced by non-Western and Western artists from different world regions and from different time periods (from Native American artworks to Italian Renaissance...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The first part of the book will be a brief discussion of materials; the bulk of the book will consist of lessons, beginning with simple insects (such as a ladybug) and progressing to more complicated forms, such as butterflies. Each lesson will start with basic shapes and then add detail and color. There will be a total of 15 lessons. A final section will highlight artwork created by six of Zebith's students, with brief discussions of the technical...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers-the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival.0Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions....
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Farah Nayeri addresses the difficult questions plaguing the art world, from the bad habits of Old Masters, to the current grappling with identity politics. For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon--kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or politically deviant in art. Today, censorship can also happen from the bottom-up, thanks to calls to action from organizers and social media campaigns....
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using the most common embroidery stitches, Cat Mania Embroidery places your feline friends in wacky situations of the kind they'd probably get themselves into, given half the chance. Wide-eyed "Who--me?" cats; dancing, frolicking cats; cats in the air and in the water(!); and cats full of attitude who'll try just about anything once. Whatever the setting or situation, they have never been more adorable!
Author
Publisher
Gamut Verlag
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jens Knappe runs a photo agency where he has been using systems with self-learning algorithms, with Artificial Intelligence, for over a decade. And so he was one of the earliest testers of the new text-to-image system DALL E 2. From the very first images the system spat out, it was clear that this was an epochal mile-stone. 'Genesis', a subjectively colored creation story based on human myths, was the guideline for the test program: the present book...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Art historian Suzanne Blier surveys over 150,000 years of African art, set against the changing history of the continent, customs and religions, postcolonial debates and the challenges of the present. Core themes in African visual and cultural expression are examined in detail, including trade, empire expansion, gender, the body and representations of power, across meaningful chapters spanning ancient art, the Middle Ages, Early Modern, the colonial...
Author
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Learn the secrets to drawing realistic dogs and puppies through step-by-step projects, focusing on techniques specific to drawing canines, from creating a variety of fur types and features to achieving accurate proportions.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh, and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched as he gets closer to the truth.
20) J.W. Waterhouse
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The brilliance of John W.Waterhouse's technique, and the haunting beauty of his wistful female models, has ensured his lasting popularity. During his lifetime Waterhouse was acclaimed as one of England's finest artists, and his paintings of Ophelia, the Lady of Shalott and Pandora remain archetypal Victorian images. Anthony Hobson, a practising painter and teacher, gives an artist's appreciation of this master of Romantic Classicism.
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