Your tour guide will show you how different artists can look at one thing - like a horse - and have totally different visions. These different visions create ART. And this is a book that canters through the whole of art history, explaining the puzzling and imaginative thing we call 'art'. With reproductions of over thirty iconic pieces of artwork - from Pablo Picasso to Edouard Manet, Rene Magritte, Susan Rothenberg, Jackson Pollock, and many more. This is an exhibition you won't want to miss! Based on a newly-discovered manuscript and sketches from Dr. Seuss, and brought to life by acclaimed illustrator Andrew Joyner, this is a thoroughly Seussian exploration of 'art'. With cameo appearances from beloved Dr. Seuss characters, such as the Cat in the Hat, this playful picture book is totally unique. Ideal for home or classroom use, this book will inspire Seuss fans, artists, and horse lovers - of all ages.

Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.

Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Vincent Van Gogh, rhyming text tells a story from the artwork.

Six pre-cut stencils (iris, rose, daisy, lily, tulip and daffodil) help youngsters develop motor skills while introducing them to six floral beauties.

Reflecting contemporary theory and research in early art education, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to new ways of thinking about the place of art, play, and aesthetics in the lives and education of young children. Enlivened by narratives and illustrations, 16 authors offer perspectives on the lived experience of being a child and discovering the excitement of making meaning and form in the process of art, play, and aesthetic inquiry.

Children can discover how to draw lots of different dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in this colourful book with simple step-by-step instructions and lots of space to draw in. From Tyrannosaurus rex to Triceratops, hatching dinosaur eggs and prehistoric scenes, they will soon be drawing fabulous pictures of all their favourite dinosaurs.

Get outdoors and unlock your creative side with these fantastic art projects for summer. Follow the step-by-step photographs to make garden bunting, a fairy ring, a flower print picture and lots more. Plus, find out all about summer with the seasonal fact panels. Perfect for kids aged 5 and up, The Outdoor Art Room is designed to get children out into the fresh air and interacting with nature. A range of simple arts and crafts projects as well as fun activities help them discover new things about their environment and the seasons at the same time as being active and having fun. Care is taken to ensure that these projects do not create any adverse environmental impact.

Imaginative, skillfully rendered depictions of stylized birds, fish, serpents, mythological creatures and other fabulous fauna, illustrated in the appealing, sinuous Celtic style. 43 highly colorable vignettes for artists, craftspeople and coloring book enthusiasts.

Learn how to draw adorable manga- and anime-style illustrations, including popular chibi onesies and adorable kawaii critters, with step-by-step instructions.

Open your sketch book and begin to doodle and create in your favorite anime styles with this step-by-step drawing instructional handbook for kawaii (cute) and chibi (small) people, animals, mystical creatures, food, and more.

Just starting with illustrating? Drawing Chibi is the perfect guide for beginners and budding artists alike. Start with simple illustrations like an usagi (bunny), same (shark), and aisukurimu (ice cream) before moving on to fun, multi-step illustrations like the yosei (fairy), ninja, and (uber-popular) animal onesies.

Each instructional series shows how to lay out the illustration, correctly size each element, then carefully draw each feature. Workbook-style pages adjoining each illustration provide a space for readers to try their hand at practicing each drawing multiple times.

Ist Gott in den Genen zu finden?

Ist Religion gottlichen Ursprungs oder doch ein naturliches, also biologisches Phanomen? Und wenn Religion in unserer Biologie angelegt ist, wie und warum ist sie entstanden? Wie sehen ihre Anfange aus, die ja sehr einfach gewesen sein mussen Religion im Einzellerstadium sozusagen Wie entwickelte sie sich dann weiter, und lassen sich in dieser Entwicklung, wie bei der biologischen Evolution, Gesetzmassigkeiten feststellen? Anders ausgedruckt: Gibt es eine Biologie der Religionen beziehungsweise eine Biologie der Religionsentstehung?

Dieses Buch unternimmt erstmalig den Versuch einer umfassenden Antwort auf diese Fragen. Die Autoren Experten aus Biologie, Palaontologie, Psychologie, Religionswissenschaft und Theologie entwerfen auf der Basis facherubergreifender wissenschaftlicher Befunde ein Modell der Religionsentstehung, das das Aufkommen religioser Verhaltensweisen schlussig aus dem naturlichen Verhaltensrepertoire des Menschen erklart. So wird die menschheitsgeschichtliche Entwicklung von Religiositat plausibel und nachvollziehbar. Wer wissen will, wie Religion entstanden ist, wird in diesem breiten und sachkundigen Uberblick die Antwort finden.

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Die Gotter fielen nicht vom Himmel die biologischen Grundlagen der Religionsentstehung

Religion ist ein universal verbreitetes Phanomen, und uberall auf der Welt pragen religiose Uberzeugungen politisches und gesellschaftliches Handeln. Viele Menschen wollen verstehen, warum Religion trotz aller rationalen Kritik fortbesteht, und fragen deshalb auch nach ihren Anfangen und ihrer Entwicklung in der Menschheitsgeschichte.

"Gotter Gene Genesis" ist der ehrgeizige Versuch dreier interdisziplinar arbeitender Autoren, den Ursprung von Religion schlussig und nachvollziehbar zu erklaren. Ihr Buch verfolgt insofern einen originellen Ansatz, als es den aktuellen kognitionswissenschaftlichen und evolutionar-psychologischen Entwurfen zur Erklarung der Religionsentstehung eine ganz bewusst verhaltensorientierte Perspektive entgegensetzt: Religioses Verhalten wird konsequent verhaltenswissenschaftlich ethologisch, biologisch, psychologisch erklart. Entscheidende Faktoren fur die fruhe Entwicklung von Religiositat sind Territorialverhalten und Gefahrenabwehr, innerartliche Aggression und Ritualisierung, Angstbewaltigung und Konfliktlosung sowie die kulturelle Evolution als Fortsetzung der biologischen Evolution. Mit der konsequenten Herausarbeitung der biologischen Grundlagen bietet das Buch einen Uberblick zur Religionsentstehung, der sehr viel bodenstandiger und oft auch im Wortsinne anschaulicher ist als manch andere, spekulative Entstehungsszenarien. Die Lekture des Buches vermittelt dem Leser fundierte Kenntnisse uber die Erscheinungsformen und Geschichte religiosen Verhaltens und liefert so einen wichtigen Beitrag fur die heute oft so emotional gefuhrte Debatte zu Glaubensfragen. "

This title looks at the life and works of Edouard Manet, including an examination of paintings such as Music in the Tuileries Gardens, Monet in his Floating Studio, Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass), A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, Gare Saint-Lazare, Portrait of Emile Zola and The Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil. It looks at the techniques and colour palette that Manet used in these works, encouraging readers to look more closely at the interesting elements of each painting. It also includes a timeline of his life, information on museums and galleries where his work is currently displayed and a chance for readers to use what they have learned to make their own painting in the style of Edouard Manet.

This title looks at the life and works of Mary Cassatt, including an examination of paintings such as The Child's Bath, Young Woman Sewing in a Garden, The Letter, The Omnibus, At the Opera, Family Group Reading and The Boat Party. It looks at the techniques and colour palette that Cassatt used in these works, encouraging readers to look more closely at the interesting elements of each painting. It also includes a timeline of her life, information on museums and galleries where her work is currently displayed and a chance for readers to use what they have learned to make their own painting in the style of Mary Cassatt.

Anyone can doodle--and this book proves it! Your intrepid doodling guide Kamo is the author of many bestselling drawing guides, and in this one she shows you how to create simple doodles anywhere using just a ballpoint pen. You'll learn to use Kamo's motto: "Once you know the basics, you can draw anything!" This book provides hundreds of examples showing you how to create doodles that are lively and entertaining in three easy steps. Unlike fine-art or manga drawings, there are no rules and no fancy techniques. All that's needed is a free hand and a free spirit! This book makes an ideal gift for doodlers of all ages, beginners and amateurs alike. It shows you how to doodle anywhere--at home, in the office and on the go--on loose scraps of paper or in a notebook. Learn to use your decorative doodles to dress up and enliven things you use everyday--from letters, gift cards and invitations to journals, appointment books, household labels, business cards and scrapbooks. Doodles are useful and fun--and their applications are endless!

Enriching Arts Education through Aesthetics examines the use of aesthetic theory as the foundation to design and implement arts activities suitable for integration in school curricula in pre-school and primary school education. This book suggests teaching practices based on the connection between aesthetics and arts education and shows that this kind of integration promotes enriched learning experiences. The book explores how the core ideas of four main aesthetic approaches - the representationalist, the expressionist, the formalist, and the postmodernist - translate into respective ways of designing and implementing experiential aesthetics-based activities. Containing relevant examples of interventions used in classes, it analyzes the ways in which the combination of different aesthetic approaches can support varied, multifaceted, multimodal and balanced teaching situations in school. This innovative book will appeal to academics, researchers, professionals and students in the fields of arts education, early childhood and primary education and curriculum studies.

With I Can Draw: Cats & Kittens, young artists can use basic shapes and easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects to draw 15 of their favorite felines.

A sleeping cat, a playing kitten, and a scaredy cat are just some of the cats included in this book. With 15 fun drawing projects, I Can Draw: Cats & Kittens is a collection of some of kids’ most loved cats. All of the drawings are created with simple shapes that are easy for young artists to make, and the cute illustrations are appealing and approachable to young ones.

The book begins with an introduction to drawing materials and instructions on how to use the book, and then it jumps right into the drawing projects. For a cute kitten:

• Kids start with a square, add a line, a curved line, and some more straight and curved lines. They are encouraged to keep following along with each step.
• As they make their way through the multiple steps, all the new pencil marks to make are shown in a different color so it’s easy to know what to draw next.
• Once they near the end of the project, these young artists will start to see a drawing of a baby kitten appear on their paper, and all they need to do now is add some color.

This title is aimed at age 12 years and upwards. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of horses with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach. Ames shows readers how to capture the beauty and grace of a variety of horses, including Clydesdales, Arabians, Shetland Ponies, Lippizaners, Pintos and many more. Ames demonstrates how to illustrate horses galloping, trotting, cantering, kicking and jumping, bringing these pictures to life. Ames' instruction allows seasoned artists tor refine their technique and guides amateurs to develop their own artistic abilities. Even the youngest artists can make these beautiful animals look great. It's easy to draw horses when it's done the "Draw 50" way.

Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Ames' "Draw 50" series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method. His clear instructions help budding artists explore their interests in a fun, familiar way. With over three million copies in print, the "Draw 50" series has successfully shown children how to create everything from a robin to a spaceship, Tyrannosaurus Rex to skyscrapers and UFOs to racing cars.

This book shows how a circle, divided like a pie, can be used to make pictures of all kinds. Using just 4 simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a variety of patterns, animals, people, and more! This book is packed with cool things that kids-and not a few adults-really want to draw. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full entertainment.

Das Buch entwickelt ein praxisorientiertes Kursmodell fur die Vermittlung des Italienischen als Fachsprache von Kunstgeschichte und Archaologie zum Anfangerniveau an deutschen Hochschulen. Die Autorin erarbeitet dies mithilfe einer Unterrichtsforschung in einer vergleichenden Fallstudie mit Mehr-Methoden-Design. Die Umsetzung von Methoden der Interkomprehension und der CLIL-Didaktik bildet einen Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung, die das Zielpublikum beschreibt, Unterrichtsablaufe und Lernerprofile rekonstruiert sowie Lehrgewinn diagnostiziert. Das untersuchte Kursmodell ist anpassungsfahig, wie es auch die entwickelten und erprobten Lehr-Lernmaterialien im Anhang zeigen, welche sich fur seine Umsetzung anbieten.

Hands-on modelling is key skill for children, leading to the development of their mind and intelligence through a rich complexity of sense experiences. Arthur and Elizabeth Auer make a plea to parents and teachers alike to 'let children work with their hands'. This comprehensive, heavily illustrated book demonstrates a multitude of modelling projects for different ages using different materials including clay, beeswax, plasticine, dough, sand and snow.