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Everything you need to know to become a better artist
Oil-Painting Workshop is for anyone who wants to find out how to paint with oils or improve their skills.
Starting with materials and basic techniques such as colour blending, it includes warm up exercises...
Editeur :
Dorling Kindersley
Parution :
2008-03-03
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For those who have always wanted to draw but don't know where to start, create artworks of your own with maximum success and minimal frustration. Essential techniques are demonstrated in 12 step-by-step projects while the overview feature keeps you on track showing the...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2008-02-01
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For much of history, the rules of war decreed that "to the victor go the spoils." The winners in warfare routinely seized for themselves the artistic and cultural treasures of the defeated; plunder constituted a marker of triumph. By the twentieth century, international...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-12-31
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In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-26
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Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), the Handbook synthesizes existing research literature, helps define the past, and contributes to shaping the substantive and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-09-04
Collection :
Springer International Handbooks of Education
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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...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2007-08-01
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With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume to appear in three decades, Ann Lee Morgan offers an informative,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-07-18
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Cave art is a subject of perennial interest among archaeologists. Until recently it was assumed that it was largely restricted to southern France and northern Iberia, although in recent years new discoveries have demonstrated that it originally had a much wider...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-03-29
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The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy. As with the earlier volumes in the series, the present chronicles purport to give a survey of significant trends in cont- porary philosophy.The need for such surveys has, I believe, increased...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-03-16
Collection :
Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey
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In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-02-12
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In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-01-12
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Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-01-01
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This book traces the development of a personal research programme over a period of many years. The starting point for the programme was a realisation that research in design seemed to have no clear goal of what it was trying to achieve. A key insight for me was to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-06-29
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Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. In the midst of Christian Europe, artists began to decorate luxury goods with scandalous stories from classical mythology, and rulers to identify...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-04-27
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In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-02-23
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In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorization of art as an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-16
Collection :
Renewing Philosophy
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From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lamp, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that is full of fascinating questions. What...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-07-28
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John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-06-23
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John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-06-23
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What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones that are all too...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-05-05
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