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"I've purchased and read just about every book on typographywritten over the last twenty-five years. Ilene Strizver's TypeRules! is one of the best. It's a book that will prove itsvalue time and again."—Allan Haley, Director of Words and Letters,...
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Wiley
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2009-03-09
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What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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When John Constable fell in love with Maria Bicknell, granddaughter of a Suffolk country neighbour, he little knew how long it would take to make her his wife. The impediment to their marriage was simple: 'that necessary article cash'. He was a painter without...
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Penguin
Parution :
2009-02-25
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The colour forecasting process is a major driving force in the fashion and textile industries but is complex, highly intuitive and little understood. This textbook for students of fashion and design discusses the development of the various driving forces of fashion,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-12
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A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Blackwell Companions to Art History
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Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts. A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Blackwell Anthologies in Art History
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The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked.The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and as explicit subject matter. Moving on from the use of iconic musical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-01-02
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This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from inventories and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-27
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If you can dream it, you can design it.Whether your goal is to design your own marketing materials, launch a visually compelling blog, or just have some fun creating your own CD covers, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Graphic Design is your one-stop reference. Presented...
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Dk
Parution :
2008-10-07
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We live in a world drowning in objects. But what do they tell us about ourselves?In The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic charts our relationship - both innocent and knowing - with all things designed. From the opulent excesses of the catwalk, or the technical brilliance...
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Penguin
Parution :
2008-10-02
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How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso...
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Penguin
Parution :
2008-09-25
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Cosmetic surgery, once the preserve of the jet-setting rich, is now something more people than ever are prepared to consider, and the industry is worth almost £700 million in the UK alone. But what is involved, what are the risks and how much does it cost?This...
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Orion
Parution :
2008-09-18
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Have you ever dreamed of having your own red carpet moment? Or wondered how to emulate the effortlessly chic style of the most photographed trendsetters? Or wished you could master the art of all things glamorous? In Style A to Zoe, Hollywood's hottest celebrity...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2008-09-04
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Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-08-14
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One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this...
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Penguin
Parution :
2008-08-07
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Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-04
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It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and transformative arts movements of the past two decades. American Book...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2008-07-31
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'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.'
Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-17
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'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.'
Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-17
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Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Interventions in Art History
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