The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

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For centuries, China's Forbidden City has captured the world's imagination. With parts open to the public since 1925, nearly 8 million tourists flock there annually. Yet the elegant, intimate Qianlong Garden—itself a “mini-Forbidden City” inside the Forbidden City—has remained sequestered from view. Dating from the 18th century, the Qianlong Garden was built as a retirement retreat for its namesake emperor, a visionary patron of the arts who designed hi... More >>

The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

2010 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market

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"Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market" is the best reference guide for emerging artists who want to establish a successful career in fine art, illustration, cartooning or graphic design. Readers will find complete, up-to-date contact and submission information for more than 1,500 art markets such as greeting card companies, magazine and book publishers, galleries, art fairs, ad agencies and more. Informative interviews with successful artists and art buyers offer ad... More >>

2010 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market

Willem De Kooning: Paintings 1960-1980

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Willem de Kooning is celebrated in the United States as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century and a leading Abstract Expressionist. In Europe, however, the artist has yet to be fully recognized, particularly with regards to his work of the 1960s and 1970s, when he retreated from urban life to live and work on Long Island. This segment of de Kooning's oeuvre bears the imprint of a fundamental experience of the landscape, for it was in these Long Isl... More >>

Willem De Kooning: Paintings 1960-1980

Dance Me to the End of Love

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The perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and other lovers as well, this evocative, lyrical tribute to love and its healing, restorative powers, is complemented by 21 diverse works by Henri Matisse, including oils, line drawings, paper cut-outs, book illustrations, and linocuts.Amazon.com Review
The Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, known primarily for his mournful tunes of love misplaced, has produced a surprising message of hopeful passion in th... More >>

Dance Me to the End of Love

The Daily Book of Art: 365 readings that teach, inspire & entertain

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In today's fast-paced world, creative people are as eager as ever to pursue their artistic passions, but many of them simply don't have enough time. Catering to this modern dilemma, we've concocted the perfect remedy for over-burdened artists. The Daily Book of Art includes a year's worth of brief daily readings and lessons about the visual arts that entertain as they inform. Ten exciting categories of discussion rotate throughout the course of a year, giving reader... More >>

The Daily Book of Art: 365 readings that teach, inspire & entertain

The New Creative Artist

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This updated version of "The New Creative Artist" breathes life into a popular North Light Classic, helping artists reach greater levels of creativity, inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Perfect for fans of the original - and anyone who wants to be more creative - this book includes: a fresh, eye-catching design that showcases 50 percent new material; new instruction to address the creative challenges of today's artist; more than 60 fun, fabulous activities for a... More >>

The New Creative Artist

Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Volume 2: Under-the-Counter Culture

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The best features, articles, and interviews from the highly sought-after art magazine Hi-Fructose. Hi-Fructose is an amalgamation of emerging, and established artists, with a spotlight on awe-inspiring spectacles and developing counter cultures from around the world. This thick hardcover book expands the best original material from (the long sold-out) issues 5-9 of the magazine. Packed with intelligent interviews and exposés on leading pop surrealists, street ar... More >>

Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Volume 2: Under-the-Counter Culture

Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann

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Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann brings together the man, the schools, the painting, the ideas, and the teaching. Jed Perl of The New Republic calls this book "enormously important... nothing less than the missing chapter in the history of the period," for Hofmann's decade of painting in Paris prior to World War I, combined with his observations of the masters of all cultures, enabled him to explain Cubism to the avant-garde and catalyzed the later Abs... More >>

Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann

Unexpected: 30 Years of Patagonia Catalog Photography

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Unique for a business enterprise, Patagonia’s catalog devotes fully half its space to nonselling editorial content – to environmental and sport essays and above all to extraordinary photographs of wild places and active pursuits for which the company makes its clothes. Since 1980, Patagonia has invited customers and wilderness photographers to submit their best, most unexpected shots of life outdoors – of alpine climbing, bouldering in the desert, skiing ... More >>

Unexpected: 30 Years of Patagonia Catalog Photography

100 Contemporary Artists

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TASCHEN 25 Special edition!



A comprehensive compendium of contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century



This special two-volume edition compiles the 100 most exciting artists from the seminal TASCHEN title Art at the Turn of the Millenium as well as the renowned Art Now series, condensing them to a comprehensive compendium of contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century. Our selection features a wide variety of w... More >>

100 Contemporary Artists

The Mission of Art

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The Mission of Art is an inspirational text for artists and anyone who has glimpsed the spiritual power of art. Alex Grey traces the evolution of human consciousness through art history, seeking the threads of art's abiding mission. He reflects on the development of his own work, including provocative performances and the profoundly affecting psychedelic experiences which lead to his unique visionary art. He explores the role of an artist's intention and conscience... More >>

The Mission of Art

Famous Jewelry Collectors

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For many centuries precious jewels were only collected by kings and queens, emperors, popes and maharajahs. But in the last 100 years or so, movie goddesses, opera singers, industrialists, real-estate investors and rock stars have joined those with the means to deck themselves in glittering bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Posthumous auctions have revealed the grand jewelry collections of recent times. The famous sale of 1987 uncovered the full extent of the dazzl... More >>

Famous Jewelry Collectors

Arts and Culture, Combined Volume

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For one-/two-semester courses in Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies. Volumes I and II contain literature selections at the end of each chapter. The Combined Volume does not contain literature selections. This text is richly illustrated, beautifully designed and engaging. It offers an exploration of Western and World civilization's cultural heritage. Students move chronologically through major periods and styles to gain insight into the achievements and ... More >>

Arts and Culture, Combined Volume

Irving Penn: Small Trades

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Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine.  In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work The Small Trades began.  Created in 1950 and 1951 in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consists of portraits of skilled tradespeople dressed in their work clothes ... More >>

Irving Penn: Small Trades

The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts

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For any introductory course in Humanities or Interdisciplinary Arts Appreciation. This text presents an overview of the arts in the Western tradition; in the contexts of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them. It is an historical introduction to the humanities yielding a basic familiarity with major styles and their implications as well as a sense of the historical development of individual arts media.... More >>

The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts

The Interior Designers Guide to Pricing Estimating and Budgeting

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Provided here are practical guidelines on how to value the cost of designing commercial or residential interiors. From the designer's creative input to the pricing of decorating products and procedures, this guide allows interior designers to establish prices and budgets that satisfy their clients and make their business profitable. Interviews with experienced interior designers, case studies, and sidebars of projects highlight professional pitfalls and how to maste... More >>

The Interior Designers Guide to Pricing Estimating and Budgeting

The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay

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Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements, in his lyrical intellectual style he has embarked on an investigation of the phenomenon of cataloging and collecting. This book, featuring lavish reproductions of artworks from the Louvre and other world-famous collections, is a philosophical and artistic sequel t... More >>

The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century

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On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century explores the radical evolution of drawing that took place during the last century and through to the present day, as numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of the medium to a critical examination. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing, and from reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed the line across the plane and into real space, expa... More >>

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time - Second Edition

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One of the foremost chroniclers of pre–World War II American urbanism, painter and printmaker Edward Hopper depicted hauntingly isolated figures in diners, railroad cars, and rented rooms at the beginning of the twentieth century. A lifelong New Yorker, Hopper took the loneliness of big city life as one of his most persistent themes, and his often dark and remarkably realistic works have come to symbolize the melancholy of modern life.   This new and sumptuo... More >>

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time - Second Edition

Guide to Getting Arts Grants

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Get that arts grant and be more independent! In this book, artists and arts groups will find all they need to know to support themselves through grants and special projects. This expert guide, written by an insider who has been on both the grant-making and the grant-writing side of the arts, shows readers how to assess their personal strengths and set goals to pursue their dreams. Hands-on examples and how-to exercises are provided for every situation: from creating... More >>

Guide to Getting Arts Grants

Monet : 1840-1926

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The Monet exhibition taking place in fall 2010 at the Grand Palais in Paris has caused an international sensation. In a rapturous review on the front page of The New York Times, Michael Kimmelman says that it gives us a sublime painter whose achievement places him in the company of artists who reveal the world with new vision. This catalogue offers a permanent record of this magnificent art exhibition. 

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Monet : 1840-1926

Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion

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Italian couturier Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is revered by contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of colour and materials. Capucci refers to his creations as 'studies in form', and draws inspiration from a multitude of sources, including art, architecture and nature. This beautifully illustrated book, the companion to the first exhibition of Capucci's work in the United States, examines his career from the 1950s to the prese... More >>

Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion

Art with Anything: 52 Weeks of Fun Using Everyday Stuff

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With fifty-two weeks of fantastic art projects using ordinary materials,Art with Anythingprovides a year of creativity, imagination, and fun! This new book uses best-selling author MaryAnn F. Kohl’s mantra “It’s the process, not the product” to explore making art every day from everyday materials.Organized alphabetically by material, each of the fifty-two weeks features five days of activities, increasing in complexity with each day: Day 1 is basic, Days 2 a... More >>

Art with Anything: 52 Weeks of Fun Using Everyday Stuff

Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers

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Understanding Color is a comprehensive, and user-friendly text on color for design students and professionals. The material is sequenced to provide an understanding of how color is seen before introducing a color vocabulary, which is followed by theory and exercises in color effects, control and harmony.... More >>

Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers

Inside the Business of Illustration

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This guide to the ins and outs of today's dynamic illustration business tells budding illustrators everything that their teacher didn't know or their art director didn't tell them. Using an entertaining, running narrative format to look at key concerns every illustrator must face today, this book covers finding one's unique style and establishing a balance between art and commerce; tackling issues of authorship and promotion; and more. In-depth perspectives are offe... More >>

Inside the Business of Illustration

Art Direction Explained, At Last!

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This book is a highly informative, highly entertaining introduction to what art direction is and what art directors do. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the subject, it covers the role of art director in numerous environments, including magazines and newspapers, advertising, corporate identity, museums, and publishing. It also provides an insight into what makes a successful art director, what an art director actually does all day, what makes things ... More >>

Art Direction Explained, At Last!

The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

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In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries—civilians and soldiers alike—saw past questions of life and death to realize that victory wasn’t the only thing at stake. So was the priceless cultural heritage of thousands of years.

In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists—to ensure th... More >>

The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art

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How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business ... More >>

Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art

Art History's History

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Written in jargon-free, reader-friendly language, this is one of the first volumes to make art historical theory accessible to those at the introductory level. A review of contemporary theory of art history provides readers with lucid prose and concrete examples. Discussion of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century theories that are important to art history offers readers a review of historically important issues in philosophy. Illustrations of ... More >>

Art History's History

Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt

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In 2002, Gee’s Bend burst into international prominence through the success of Tinwood’s Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and book, which revealed an important and previously invisible art tradition from the African American South. Critics and popular audiences alike marveled at these quilts that combined the best of contemporary design with a deeply rooted ethnic heritage and compelling human stories about the women. Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt i... More >>

Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt

From Ordinary To Extraordinary: Art & Design Problem Solving

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These dynamic teaching ideas and projects will stimulate interest in a range of media—and motivate students to find highly individual solutions to visual problems. Place everyday objects in new, eye-opening contexts; increase skills; challenge young artists to reflect on their place in the world; and encourage teamwork.
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From Ordinary To Extraordinary: Art & Design Problem Solving

Theory of Colours

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In this classic of speculative science, the author of Faust provides a unique perspective on the nature of color. Although not scientifically accurate in light of current knowledge, it offers an invaluable exploration of color, art, aesthetics, and philosophy, marked by inimitable prose and stimulating ideas.
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Theory of Colours

The Artist's Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions

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Public art commissions--how to find them, how to get them * First-hand advice from experienced public artists * Written by an artist for artists * Includes expert information on public art law Public-art commissions are challenging and rewarding and this timely guide shows beginning and working visual artists exactly how to start and build a career in the world of public art. Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand inte... More >>

The Artist's Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions

Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and made him a legend. Photos.... More >>

Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 23 November - 14 December 1974

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In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot. He believed it was the only way his close friend, film historian Lotte Eisner, would survive a horrible sickness that had overtaken her. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense sincerity. This diary is dotted with a pastiche of rants about the extreme cold and utter loneline... More >>

Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 23 November - 14 December 1974

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach

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Provides exhibit designers and label writers with a step-by-step guidebook for planning, writing and producing exhibit labels.... More >>

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach

Art Past, Art Present

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In this innovative survey of art around the world, we learn that art communicates across time and history, highlighting the diversity and communality of human experience.  Beautifully designed in two or four page spreads, each chapter of this book is devoted to one major period of art history and covers both western and non-western art, dynamically connecting art from disparate parts of the globe  ... More >>

Art Past, Art Present

British Textiles: 1700 to the Present

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"Exquisite . . . superb series."--Crafts

"Contains artifacts of such blazing beauty, such powerful perfection that they need no elaboration."--Country Life

This superbly illustrated book draws on highlights from the V&A's fabulous collection of woven, printed, and embroidered textiles and their designs. Based on the V&A's British Textiles series, with a new introduction, this comprehensive compendium brings together a visual history of British fabrics ... More >>

British Textiles: 1700 to the Present

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Cartooning but Were Afraid to Draw

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Written by a master cartoonist with a combination of wit (which every cartoonist needs) and invaluable advice, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cartooning But Were Afraid to Draw is the ultimate cartooning book. It serves as a complete course for beginners as well as a great tool for the most advanced cartoonist. Author Christopher Hart covers everything a cartoonist needs to know to tell a joke visually, from the effective use of layout, light, and shading ... More >>

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Cartooning but Were Afraid to Draw

The Business of Being an Artist

• ISBN13: 9781581156737
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Fine artists are taught many things about the craft of art in the various art schools and university art programs, but rarely do they learn much if anything about how to make a career of their talents. The Business of Being an Artist contains information on how artists may develop a presence in the art world that leads to sales. The book contains information on how artists can learn to sell their work directly to the public with an understanding of the p... More >>

The Business of Being an Artist

Hella Jongerius: Misfit

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The only up-to-date monograph on the work of Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius. Written by three experts on product design; Louise Shouwenberg, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn. Includes over 300 photographs of Hella Jongerius' work, each selected by the designer. A specially commissioned Collector's Edition volume with a unique Jongerius vase is also available (ISBN 978 0 7148 5992 7).... More >>

Hella Jongerius: Misfit

Learn How to Tattoo in 12 Easy Steps

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Important Warning: I cannot emphasize enough the importance of following a reputable and skilled artist who can work along with you when you begin to tattoo. This guide is meant as an enhancement to, not as a replacement of an in-shop apprenticeship. This guide is meant to give directions, tips and advice, and simply how to approach tattooing.... More >>

Learn How to Tattoo in 12 Easy Steps

Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition

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First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just his su... More >>

Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition

A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon 2nd Edition

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THE DON\'T DIE OUT THERE DECK

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A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon 2nd Edition

Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004

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In August of 2007, Denmark's renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presented Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004, the first major retrospective devoted to Avedon's work since his death in 2004. (With stops in Milan, Paris, Berlin and, Amsterdam, the highly-anticipated exhibition concludes in at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art in October of 2009.) This beautifully produced catalogue, designed by the renowned Danish graphic designer Michael Jensen, features d... More >>

Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004

Art School:

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Winner, Trade Typographic Category, 2010 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.

The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing professionalization, the pervasive power of the art market, and fundamental shifts in art-making itself in our post-Duchampian era—combined with a revolution in information technology, raise fundamental q... More >>

Art School:

Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

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''Studio Thinking [is] a vision not only of learning in the arts but what could be learning most anywhere.'' -- From the Foreword by David N. Perkins, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Senior Co-Director of Harvard Project Zero

''Hetland and her colleagues reveal dozens of practical measures that could be adopted by any arts program, inside or outside of the school.This is a bold new step in arts education.'' -- David R. Olson,... More >>

Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Creating Textures in Watercolor: A Guide to Painting 83 Textures from Grass to Glass to Tree Bark to Fur

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Offers step-by-step instructions on how to depict fruits, vegetables, hair, fur, glass, metal, fabric, flowers, rock, wood, and rust in watercolor paintings.... More >>

Creating Textures in Watercolor: A Guide to Painting 83 Textures from Grass to Glass to Tree Bark to Fur

Chinese Art and Culture

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This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide range of media settings for art—from elite to popular. An emphasis on the dynamic processes that effect the history of Chinese art: social, economic, political competition, urbanization, markets and tastes, and que... More >>

Chinese Art and Culture

Child Size Masterpieces for Steps 1, 2, 3: Matching, Pairing and Sorting - Level 2 Intermediate

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This beautifully printed volume is the second in the 8 book series, Child-size Masterpieces for Art Appreciation, by Aline Wolf. This volume contains 36 postcard-size art reproductions to be cut out and used for the first 3 steps of the program: matching identical paintings, pairing two paintings by the same artist and grouping four paintings by the same artist. The exercises are a bit more challenging than the Easy volume. Carefully chosen to appeal to young childr... More >>

Child Size Masterpieces for Steps 1, 2, 3: Matching, Pairing and Sorting - Level 2 Intermediate