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

• ISBN13: 9780898864892
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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:

• ISBN13: 9780262134934
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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

The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion

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Finding definitions for fashion is easier than ever. The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion,
3rd Edition defines more than 15,000 fashion terms, including apparel, accessories, and
their components; historical and textile terms that relate to contemporary fashion; and
the language of the fashion business. Its organization of 51 broad categories, such as
activewear, blouses and tops, clothing, construction details, footwear, headwear, jewelry,
laces, neck... More >>

The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry

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Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person—their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In Leanne Shapton’s marvelously inventive and invented auction catalog, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (who aren’t real people, but might as well be... More >>

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry

Watch It Made in the U.S.A.: A Visitor's Guide to the Best Factory Tours and Company Museums

• ISBN13: 9781598800005
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Have you ever wondered how toothpaste gets into the tube? How stripes get on a candy cane? More than just a travel guide, Watch It Made in the U.S.A. helps you experience firsthand the products, companies, technology, and workers that fuel our economy, from Ben and Jerry's to Harley-Davidson. Whether you're curious about potato chips or computer chips, cars or crayons, you can count on authors and factory-tour experts Karen Axelrod and Bruce Brumberg to help you ... More >>

Watch It Made in the U.S.A.: A Visitor's Guide to the Best Factory Tours and Company Museums

Color

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 The sixth edition of Color is an invaluable introduction to the art and the science of color and its uses. It provides a solid and thorough foundation in the aesthetic and practical basics of this all-pervasive subject, with many quotations from artists past and present on the subtleties of their techniques. The material on new technologies has been reorganized abd updated so that pigment mixtures are now explored before light mixtures.... More >>

Color

Illustrating Children's Picture Books: Tutorials, Case Studies, Know-How, Inspiration

• ISBN13: 9781582976204
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This fully illustrated book provides you with a review of the world?s most innovative and talented children?s illustrators, as well as practical instructions on specific techniques and design solutions.... More >>

Illustrating Children's Picture Books: Tutorials, Case Studies, Know-How, Inspiration

The Arts and the Creation of Mind

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Learning in and through the arts can develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. Offering a rich array of examples, he describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and shows how these refine forms of thinking that are valuable in dealing with our daily life
“Not since John Dewey has an American author written about art, education, and the creation of mind with such power and sensitivity.”—Michael... More >>

The Arts and the Creation of Mind

Design Research: Methods and Perspectives

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The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow designers "to claim and direct the power of their profession." Often neglected in the various curricula of design schools, the new models of design research described in this book help designers to investigate people, form, and process in ways that can make their work more potent and more delightful. "At the very least," Peter Lunenfeld writes in the preface, "design research saves us from reinventing th... More >>

Design Research: Methods and Perspectives