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"Patterning is fun, easy and relaxing - and it is a great way to
add interest and texture to any design." Joanne Fink presents
creative monogram and pattern techniques in Zenspirations, offering
intriguing ideas for filling boarders, edges and spaces with
creative flourishes. The many decorative boarders, frames, shapes,
and alphabet will appeal to a spectrum of tastes and styles. Use
Joanne's techniques to create details, depth and beauty reminiscent
of classical architecture, medieval block printing and manuscript
calligraphy. Her passion for beautiful patterns is contaigious.
Joanne makes it easy to turn simple lines into attractive designs
while her doodled shapes inspire readers to embellish more and just
have fun with the process.
Through 349 images, celebrate America in all her glory. Whether
it's a piece to hang on a wall, to be worn, or for marketing
propaganda, see how sixty-four artists have represented the
American flag and other patriotic symbols in their work. The
American flag is an iconic image that inspires many, but it has
also become a complex and controversial symbol since Congress first
adopted it on June 14, 1777. These artists share not only their
work but also the inspiration behind the pieces. Whether it's
paying homage to a lost generation, remembering 9/11, or simply
celebrating American pride, the various cultural and political
viewpoints that define the country today are expressed through a
variety of art forms-from watercolor paintings to crazy quilts,
from oils to matchboxes, and from mixed media to digital. Let these
images inspire you.
This much acclaimed book, newly available in paperback, is the
definitive retrospective of the most popular serious artist in the
world today. Covering all media over almost fifty years, and
presented thematically to show the evolution and diversity of
Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and
photography, it also features quotes from the artist himself that
illuminate the passionate thinking behind his work. Its huge
international success confirms and reinforces Hockney's position as
the world's most popular living artist.
Wolfgang Beltracchi is a phenomenon of the international art world.
His name is inextricably entwined with one of the greatest
upheavals in the global art market. Emulating numerous world-famous
artists, he developed and painted new paintings, continued their
narrations and biography, and concluded them with a forged
signature. His wife Helene Beltracchi then smuggled them onto the
art market. Many experts were deceived by Beltracchi's stupendous
skill and auctioneers cast many doubts aside in the interests of
insatiable market demand, selling the paintings as authentic works
by the purported artists. Reading the artistic handwriting of a
painting requires an exceptional willingness and ability to be able
to empathise and identify with the artist, until you "can feel what
the other feels" (Wolfgang Beltracchi). Through extensive
discussions with the painter and his wife, the psychoanalyst
Jeannette Fischer explored this capability that is so pronounced
for Beltracchi. In her new book, she places this in relation to the
disappearance of Beltracchi's own signature. As with her previous
highly successful book about the performance artist Marina
Abramovic, Jeannette Fischer has created an exceptionally
insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality.
For the first time, iconic fetish photographer G. Elliott Simpson
is showing his works in a monograph. This book features
cutting-edge fetish photography showcasing rubber and latex,
aesthetically appealing and skillfully made. The Toronto-based
photographer manages to approach the topic in a tasteful way,
allowing viewers from the outside to explore an unknown world of
lust and desire.
Address book companion to the exciting and luxurious Flame Tree
Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine
art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then
foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the
back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic
side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling
gift. This example features Hokusai's The Great Wave. The most
notable period in Hokusai's artistic life was the latter part of
his career, beginning in 1830 when he was 70 years old. He began
the series of landscapes he is most famous for: 'Thirty-six Views
of Mount Fuji', which included The Great Wave, off Kanagawa,
probably his most iconic image.
Painting flowers has a long and rich tradition in China, having
evolved out of the classic bird-and-flower style to become its own
distinct genre of painting. Tracing its history and evolution
through centuries of artistic endeavor this amazingly researched
book leaves no stone unturned. With chapters following the sequence
of the four seasons, it brings to life the historical relevance of
the most popular flowers by season as well as the most famous
painters and their representative works, providing context and
perspective on the development of this unique style. The book
concludes with 80 exquisite flower paintings, masterworks of time
and place selected as among the most beautiful and culturally
important paintings of ancient China.
Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others
in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and
an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives
from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the
'universal science' of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens
and deconstructive methodology to critique art. In this study,
Steve Dixon examines how a range of artists' works reveal the ideas
of Existentialist philosophers including Kierkegaard, Camus, de
Beauvoir, and Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal
recurrence, the absurd, and being-for-others. Simultaneously, these
artworks are shown to engage in complex explorations of concepts
proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Shannon, and Bateson
on information theory and 'noise', feedback loops, circularity,
adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence. Dixon's
groundbreaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledge
from these two fields can throw new light on pressing issues within
contemporary arts and culture, including authenticity, angst and
alienation, homeostasis, radical politics, and the human as system.
Humans have long believed themselves to be the superior species: we
consume other animals for food, experiment on them and slaughter
them for sport. But as well as the ethical issues surrounding our
treatment of other animals, our attitudes are responsible for
massive species loss and extinctions, the extensive destruction of
habitats and a growing threat of zoonotic pandemics. Drawing on
philosophy and theology, art and history, Between Light and Storm
is a penetrating account of our fraught relationship with animals.
It is also a timely and necessary plea for a more humane approach
to those with whom we share a planet.
A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to Edward Bawden's
representations of England. Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was a
printmaker, painter, illustrator and designer. He studied and later
taught at the Royal College of art, served as a war artist in WW2
and worked extensively as a commercial artist for companies
including London Transport, Fortnum and Mason, Shell-Mex, the Folio
Society and Chatto and Windus. Aside from the years he spent in
France, the Middle East and North Africa while serving as a war
artist, and later visits to Canada and Ireland, Bawden rarely
travelled far from home, but found inspiration in the fields and
farms of his native Essex, at the seaside, and in classic London
scenes: Kew Gardens, the Royal Parks, the Tower of London and St
Paul's Cathedral, and the iron-and-glass monuments to Victorian
engineering such as Liverpool Street station and the markets in
Spitalfields and Smithfield. This book celebrates England as
represented by Bawden in 85 works held in the V&A's collection,
including prints, posters, drawings, paintings, murals and
advertising material. The illustrations include such early pieces
as his poster Map of the British Empire for an exhibition in 1924;
his mural English Garden Delights, designed for the Orient Line
Navigation Company in 1946; illustrations for books including Good
Food, The Gardener's Diary and Life in an English Village;
advertising work for London Transport, Shell and Fortnum &
Mason; the poster Lifeguards, created to mark the coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II in 1953; and a varied selection of linocuts and
watercolours. As this book demonstrates, it was England, with its
quiet landscapes, its pleasures and pastimes, its history and
ceremonies, its traditions and recreations, that was the source of
Bawden's finest and most engaging work.
The techniques of metal colouring, bronzing and patination are
assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork and
design. Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested
the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive
work on the subject currently available, an essential reference and
sourcebook for practitioners and all those involvoved in sculpture,
architecture, designs and the decorative arts. It brings together
hundreds of recipes and treatments previously scattered in a
variety of old books and technical papers, and provides the
artist-craftsman with a very wide range of coloured finishes.
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Van Gogh's Irises, painted during his last year of life while
residing at Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence,
France. Painting soothed his soul and this one shows the influence
of his collection of Japanese wood block/ukiyo-e prints. Our Mini
Notebooks are full colour hardcover pocket sized books featuring
bright accents on the edges of the paper. The paper is lightly
printed with a dot-grid, perfect for note taking, list making and
doodling. 120 pages dot-grid paper sky-blue edge paper pad portable
size 127 x 89mm. hardcover lay-flat binding smooth matte finish
cover art We choose the best images from well-known classic and
contemporary fine artists, plus talented emerging illustrators and
designers from around the globe. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had
an artistic career lasting only ten years. However, in those years
he left behind an astounding legacy of painting that has endured to
this day. He was a mad genius and he poured that passion into the
trembling energy of his paintings. His canvases are celebrations of
humanity & earth, colour & texture.
With this high-quality sketchbook, experienced and aspiring manga
artists can take what they've learned about drawing manga and
create their own manga graphic novels. The opening pages of this
sketchbook include information on filling the panels, creating
drama with angles, using speech balloons, and creating special
effects. After that, the book is divided into six sections, each
with a cover template and blank, black-framed panels that allow
artists to create different manga stories from start to finish. The
possibilities are endless!
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is the one artist whose name we associate
in particular with Viennese Jugendstil and the "Golden Age". As a
sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the
Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionable ladies and as
an illustrator of unashamed eroticism, Klimt was both the enfant
terrible and the darling of Viennese society, who created icons of
art history with works like The Kiss and his portraits of Adele
Bloch-Bauer.
The bold, distinctive style of Paula Rego's paintings has acquired
for her not only an ever-increasing critical reputation but also an
unusually large and enthusiastic following. Her be-ribboned
little-girl heroines and fairy-tale characters seem firmly rooted
in childhood, yet the innocence of this art is darkened by the
underlying themes of power, domination and rebellion, sexuality and
gender, that run through her work. Here Rego has turned to the
nursery rhyme as a source for her imagery. It is a genre that
perfectly complements her art; full of double meanings, rhymes are
written from a child's perspective but are open to adult
interpretation. Twenty-six well-known nursery rhymes are
accompanied by a series of etchings which she has executed
spontaneously as a child might, drawing directly on the plate
without preparatory planning. Following the traditions of earlier
artists such as Beatrix Potter, she treats the fantastic
realistically, dressing animals in human costume and using
dream-like dislocations of scale. These are wonderfully comic and
rich illustrations with a hint of the sinister, that turn classic
nursery rhymes into colourful stories about folly and delusion,
cruelty, convention and sex.
How can we pack so much big booty into such a tiny and inexpensive
package? Sorry, but it's a trade secret we can't divulge, except to
say that shoehorns and spandex were involved. The original Big Butt
Book featured a great cross section of delectable rears from the
1950s to the present day. Here, since life is such an ironic deal,
we decided to pare the original content down to just the biggest
and the best, in-your-face phatties to which the great Sir
Mix-a-Lot alluded when penning, "My anaconda don't want none,
unless you've got buns, hun." Then we added in about 30 new photos,
just to be generous. Now in these 150 plus photos you'll see the
big and the bountiful, then the bigger and more bountiful, in black
and white and in color. The models may be largely anonymous, but
their curves are legendary, and now that they're collected in a
discrete little package affordable by all in these financially
trying times, why hold back? Your badonkadonk is calling.
A book of 25 floral sketches printed on lovely watercolor paper
invites artistic experimentation with only a brush and paint. Each
page is double-sided, offering the opportunity to paint the same
page in different ways. The author shares painting tips for each
sketch and advice for discovering the artist within. Also included
is a painting tutorial and handy color wheel. Each book is small
enough to carry anywhere and simple to use. Creativity is an
escape, and this book offers a delightful way to make art
regardless of skill level.
The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives,
faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis The First
World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the
political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of
men and women, it brought the end of innocence-and the end of
faith. Yet for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, the Great War
deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the
Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of
that conflict to ignite their Christian imagination. Had there been
no Great War, there would have been noHobbit, no Lord of the Rings,
no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S.
Lewis. Unlike a generation of young writers who lost faith in the
God of the Bible, Tolkien and Lewis produced epic stories infused
with the themes of guilt and grace, sorrow and consolation. Giving
an unabashedly Christian vision of hope in a world tortured by
doubt and disillusionment, the two writers created works that
changed the course of literature and shaped the faith of millions.
This is the first book to explore their work in light of the
spiritual crisis sparked by the conflict.
John Ruskin assembled 1470 diverse works of art for use in the
Drawing School he founded at Oxford in 1871. They included drawings
by himself and other artists, prints and photographs. This book
focuses on highlights of works produced by Ruskin himself. Drawings
by John Ruskin are uniquely interesting. Unlike those of a
professional artist they were not made in preparation for finished
paintings or as works in their own right. Every one - and they
number several thousand, depending on what can be considered a
separate drawing - is a record of something seen, initially as a
memorandum of that observation but with the potential to illustrate
his writings or for educational purposes, notably to form part of
the teaching collection of the Drawing School he established after
election as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. In
addition, because of the range of interests of arguably the only
true polymath of his time, every drawing touches on some
interesting aspect of art and architecture, landscape and travel,
botany and natural history, often connected with his writings and
lectures. Ruskin's life is one of the best documented of any in the
19th century, through letters, diaries and the many
autobiographical revelations in his published writings: this allows
the opportunity to give almost any drawing a level of context
impossible for any other artist. When there is so much background
information, a single drawing reveals much about its creator, and
becomes a window into the great sprawling edifice of his life and
work.
The spiritually inspired pictures of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) have
their roots in the desert of California, a place where the artist
settled in 1932 and where she lived until her death. She wrote of
her highly symbolic paintings that her pictures were "like little
windows", which opened up a view into the interior, her "message of
light to the world". In the 1920s Agnes Pelton started to explore
abstract painting, because this offered her the possibility of
translating esoteric topics into pictures as well as interpreting
earth and light in a spiritual way. Like her fellow-artist Georgia
O'Keeffe, Pelton deliberately turned her back on the art scene of
the East Coast. She was celebrated for her abstract compositions:
"... it is simply an oasis of beauty for the eye", was how American
Art News eulogised her work. After her death Pelton's work
disappeared from the public focus for a long time; today her
important artistic contribution to American modernism is
acknowledged once more.
The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and
galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound
shift in aesthetic perception that occurred during the Renaissance
and Reformation. In this book, William A. Dyrness examines
intellectual developments in late Medieval Europe, which turned
attention away from a narrow range liturgical art and practices and
towards a celebration of God's presence in creation and in history.
Though threatened by the human tendency to self-assertion, he shows
how a new focus on God's creative and recreative action in the
world gave time and history a new seriousness, and engendered a
broad spectrum of aesthetic potential. Focusing in particular on
the writings of Luther and Calvin, Dyrness demonstrates how the
reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the
role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric
poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
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