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Splendidly Fantastic - Architecture and Power Games in China (Paperback): Julia Lovell Splendidly Fantastic - Architecture and Power Games in China (Paperback)
Julia Lovell
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Edge City - Driving the Periphery of Sao Paolo (Paperback): Justin McGuirk Edge City - Driving the Periphery of Sao Paolo (Paperback)
Justin McGuirk
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Belyayevo Forever - Preserving the Generic (Paperback): Kuba Snopek Belyayevo Forever - Preserving the Generic (Paperback)
Kuba Snopek
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Drawing in 3D (Paperback): Mark Kistler Drawing in 3D (Paperback)
Mark Kistler
R625 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R80 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hey, kids!

If you liked learning the basics of three-dimensional drawing from Mark Kistler in his books Draw Squad and Imagination Station, you'll love his new book, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler. Featuring a fun, action-filled tale about a family of lovable characters struggling through a series of breathtaking discoveries and hilarious adventures, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler is all you need -- along with a sharpened pencil, a ready imagination, and Mark Kistler's Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook -- to draw cool creatures and awesome objects such as:

  • Atomic Androids, Big Bug-Eyed Birds, and Colossal Castles
  • Daring Driving Dogs, Early Egyptian Sphinx, and Kissing Kangaroos
  • Magnificent Macaroni, Peaceful Pelicans, and Zapping Zombies

...as well as your own favorite fantasies and imagined adventures!

The Latinx Poetry Project (Paperback): Alegria Publishing The Latinx Poetry Project (Paperback)
Alegria Publishing
R374 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R69 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Souvenir Guide The Burrell Collection (Paperback): Glasgow Life Museums Souvenir Guide The Burrell Collection (Paperback)
Glasgow Life Museums
R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Global architecture for eighteenth-century Beijing - Building Qing Enlightenments (Paperback): Pedro Luengo Global architecture for eighteenth-century Beijing - Building Qing Enlightenments (Paperback)
Pedro Luengo
R2,548 Discovery Miles 25 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book reinterprets architecture in Beijing during the reigns of the Kangxi (1661-1722), Yongzheng (1723-1735) and Qianlong (1736-1795) emperors in the eighteenth century. More specifically, it views the building processes of the four churches and the Western palaces in the Yuanming Yuan garden as an example of cultural dialogue in the context of the Enlightenment. The study is based firstly on archival sources from different institutions from around the globe, using Big Data to manage them. Secondly, it places increased emphasis on architectural remains, preserved both in international collections as well as at archaeological sites. To take advantage of these remains, some were recorded using close-range photogrammetry. Digital sunlight analyses of the buildings' interiors were also carried out. From these emerging technologies, as well as written sources, it becomes possible first to reinterpret Beijing as an imperial capital where religious tolerance and cosmopolitanism were increasing, and second to re-evaluate the entire Yuanming Yuan Garden complex as a miniature version of Beijing. This approach makes for easier subsequent comparisons with other imperial capitals of the time, such as London, Paris and Istanbul. As such, this study reveals a largely neglected chapter in the global history of architecture, while simultaneously offering a crucial re-examination of the existing architectural remains.

Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born - How Buffy Staked Our Hearts (Hardcover): Evan Ross Katz Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born - How Buffy Staked Our Hearts (Hardcover)
Evan Ross Katz
R681 R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Save R106 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later. Katz-with the help of the show's cast, creators, and crew-reveals that although Buffy contributed to important conversations about gender, sexuality, and feminism, it was not free of internal strife, controversy, and shortcomings. Men-both on screen and off-would taint the show's reputation as a feminist masterpiece, and changing networks, amongst other factors, would drastically alter the show's tone. Katz addresses these issues and more, including interviews with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth Green, Marc Blucas, Nicholas Brendon, Danny Strong, Tom Lenk, Bianca Lawson, Julie Benz, Clare Kramer, K. Todd Freeman, Sharon Ferguson; and writers Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson, and Drew Z. Greenberg; as well as conversations with Buffy fanatics and friends of the cast including Stacey Abrams, Cynthia Erivo, Lee Pace, Claire Saffitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Selma Blair. Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born engages with the very notion of fandom, and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see the world but how we exist within it.

Introducing European Tapestries (Paperback): Rebecca Quinton Introducing European Tapestries (Paperback)
Rebecca Quinton
R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Historic Crimes of Long Island - Misdeeds from the 1600s to the 1950s (Paperback): Kerriann Flanagan Brosky Historic Crimes of Long Island - Misdeeds from the 1600s to the 1950s (Paperback)
Kerriann Flanagan Brosky; Foreword by Joan Harrison
R618 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R108 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Interior Landscapes - A Visual Atlas (Hardcover): Stefano Corbo Interior Landscapes - A Visual Atlas (Hardcover)
Stefano Corbo
R1,113 R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Save R250 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contemporary architecture is often characterised by the total interpenetration of interior and exterior configurations: the differentiation between these two dialectical poles has become indistinguishable, boundaries blurry and the result of any design process is a hybrid product, based on the superposition of different and heterogeneous layers. The impossibility of separating interior and exterior permits a general reorganisation of some topics internal to the territory of architecture, and also expresses the necessity of a systemic analysis of the most recent episodes. If at first glance this interest for a new kind of dialectics may appear as the most evident epiphenomenon of a wider and recent tendency, under careful examination one can observe that the tension between interior and exterior has always been present in architecture, differently articulated over the centuries, and expressed through several means of representation. Starting from the 18th century, Interior Landscapes will describe the nature of such a relation, in order to unveil those invariant forms, principles or concepts that crossed the History of Architecture, laid hidden underneath the events flowing, and periodically re-emerged to shape contemporary episodes. Separation, inversion, interpenetration, dissolution - all of these categories periodically characterise the interior-exterior dialectics. By borrowing different interpretative elements - drawings, photographs, illustrations - Interior Landscapes is configured as a visual atlas, aimed to demonstrate how, through the contamination of interior and exterior, always-new architectural insights emerge.

The Other Side - A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World (Hardcover): Jennifer Higgie The Other Side - A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World (Hardcover)
Jennifer Higgie
R677 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R124 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - and earlier - also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has for too long been sorely neglected. In THE OTHER SIDE, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women, from the twelfth-century mystic, composer and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, whose paintings swirl like a cosmic Jackson Pollock; the early twentieth-century Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint, who painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose recent exhibition at New York's Guggenheim broke all attendance records; the 'Desert Transcendentalist', Agnes Pelton, who painted her visions beneath the vast skies of California; the Swiss healer, Emma Kunz, who used geometric drawings to treat her patients; and the British surrealist and occultist, Ithell Colquhoun, whose estate of more than 5,000 works recently entered the Tate gallery collection. While the individual work of these artists is unique, the women loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions. Weaving in and out of these myriad lives, sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists, THE OTHER SIDE is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography and art history.

Drawing on the Artist Within - An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers (Paperback, 1st Fireside... Drawing on the Artist Within - An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers (Paperback, 1st Fireside ed)
Betty Edwards
R590 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R90 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

AH-HA! I SEE IT NOW!

Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on -- the Ah-Ha! of creativity.

Creativity. It is the force that drives problem-solving, informs effective decision-making and opens new frontiers for ambition and intelligence. Those who succeed have learned to harness their creative power by keeping that light bulb turned on.

Now, Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the million-copy best-seller that proved all people can draw well just as they can read well, has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How does Betty Edwards do this? Through the power of drawing -- power you can harness to see problems in new ways.

Through simple step-by-step exercises that require no special artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual, perceptual brainpower to bear on creative problem-solving.

You will learn how the creative process progresses from stage to stage and how to move your own problem-solving through these key steps:

* First insight
* Saturation
* Incubation
* Illumination (the Ah-Ha!)
* Verification

Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book is written for people with no previous experience in art.

Minor Feelings - An Asian American Reckoning (Paperback): Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings - An Asian American Reckoning (Paperback)
Cathy Park Hong
R452 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R115 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Toronto Theatres and the Golden Age of the Silver Screen (Paperback): Doug Taylor Toronto Theatres and the Golden Age of the Silver Screen (Paperback)
Doug Taylor
R563 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Movie houses first started popping up around Toronto in the 1910s and '20s, in an era without television and before radio had permeated every household. Dozens of these grand structures were built and soon became an important part of the cultural and architectural fabric of the city. A century later the surviving, defunct, and reinvented movie houses of Toronto's past are filled with captivating stories. Explore fifty historic Toronto movie houses and theaters, and discover their roles as repositories of memories for a city that continues to grow its cinema legacy. Features stunning historic photography.

A House Through Time (Paperback): David Olusoga, Melanie Backe-Hansen A House Through Time (Paperback)
David Olusoga, Melanie Backe-Hansen
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes' Choice Magazine In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to the secrets contained within the four walls of their homes and in doing so finding a direct link to earlier generations. And it is ordinary homes, not grand public buildings or the mansions of the rich, that have all the best stories. As with the television series, A House Through Time offers readers not only the tools to explore the histories of their own homes, but also a vividly readable history of the British city, the forces of industry, disease, mass transportation, crime and class. The rises and falls, the shifts in the fortunes of neighbourhoods and whole cities are here, tracing the often surprising journey one single house can take from an elegant dwelling in a fashionable district to a tenement for society's rejects. Packed with remarkable human stories, David Olusoga and Melanie Backe-Hansen give us a phenomenal insight into living history, a history we can see every day on the streets where we live. And it reminds us that it is at home that we are truly ourselves. It is there that the honest face of life can be seen. At home, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, we live out our inner lives and family lives.

Loose Leaf for Living with Art (Loose-leaf, 12th ed.): Mark Getlein Loose Leaf for Living with Art (Loose-leaf, 12th ed.)
Mark Getlein
R5,398 Discovery Miles 53 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Artifice (Paperback): Lavinia Singer Artifice (Paperback)
Lavinia Singer
R361 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R68 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt (Paperback): Jennifer Hale Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt (Paperback)
Jennifer Hale
R526 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Once the center of agricultural prosperity in Alabama, the rich soil of the Black Belt still features beautiful homes that stand as a testimony to the region's proud heritage. Join author Jennifer Hale as she explores the history of seventeen of the finest plantation homes in Alabama's Black Belt. This book chronicles the original owners and slaves of the homes and traces their descendants, who have continued to call these plantations home throughout the past two centuries. Discover why the families of an Indian chief and a chief justice feuded for over a century about the land on which Belvoir stands. Follow Gaineswood's progress as it grew from a humble log cabin into an opulent mansion. Learn how the original builder and subsequent owners of the Kirkwood Mansion are linked by a legacy of exceptional and dedicated preservation. "Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt" recounts the elegant past and hopeful future of a well-loved region of the South.

Gaudi (Hardcover): Maria Antonietta Crippa Gaudi (Hardcover)
Maria Antonietta Crippa; Edited by Peter Goessel 1
R477 R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Save R83 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the towering Sagrada Familia to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batllo and the enchanting landscape of Park Guell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) gained the epithet "God's architect." With fluid forms and mathematical precision, his work extols the wonder of natural creation: columns soar like tree trunks, window frames curve like flowering branches, and ceramic tiling shimmers like scaly, reptilian skin. With this outstanding attention to natural detail, his inspirations from both neo-Gothic and Orientalist aesthetics, and a lifelong commitment to Catalan identity, Gaudi created a unique brand of the Modernista movement which transformed, and defines, Barcelona's cityscape. With seven of Gaudi's projects listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this book introduces the architect's extraordinary vision and unique legacy, exploring the influences and the details which allow his buildings to impress, inspire, and amaze, one century after their construction. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)

Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media (Paperback): Amanda Beech, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Matthew Poole Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media (Paperback)
Amanda Beech, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Matthew Poole
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bright Stars - Great Artists Who Died Too Young (Hardcover): Kate Bryan Bright Stars - Great Artists Who Died Too Young (Hardcover)
Kate Bryan; Illustrated by Anna Higgie
R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Bryan's writing pops and zings like a Basquiat painting' - NOEL FIELDING In Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too young, celebrating their inspirational stories and extraordinary talent. Some of the world's greatest and most-loved artists died under the age of forty. But how did they turn relatively short careers into such long legacies? What drove them to create, against all the odds? And how can we use these stories to re-evaluate artists lost to the shadows, or whose legacies are not yet secured? Most artists have decades to hone their craft, win over the critics and forge their reputation, but that's not the case for the artists in this book. Art heavyweights Vincent van Gogh and Jean-Michel Basquiat have been mythologised, with their early deaths playing a key role in their posthumous fame. Others, such as Aubrey Beardsley and Noah Davis, were driven to create, knowing their time was limited. For some, premature death, compounded by gender and racial injustice, meant being left out of the history books - as was the case with Amrita Sher-Gil, Charlotte Salomon and Pauline Boty, now championed by Kate Bryan in this important re-appraisal. And, as Caravaggio and Vermeer's stories show us, it can take centuries for forgotten artists to be given the recognition they truly deserve. With each artist comes a unique and often surprising story about how lives full of talent and tragedy were turned into brilliant legacies that still influence and inspire us today. This is a celebration of talent so great it shines on. Beautifully illustrated with portraits of the artists, as well as reproductions of some of their most famous works, this important and timely work makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the lives of some of the most talented artists throughout history. **************** 'Bryan's writing pops and zings like a Basquiat painting - and reminds us why truly great artists are immortal.' -NOEL FIELDING 'Bright Stars is a compelling reflection on the concept of legacy. Bryan's wide ranging assessment of artists we lost too soon proves that longevity in art is rewarded to the stars that burn the brightest, however fleeting their lives and careers.' - MARIA BALSHAW, DIRECTOR OF TATE 'Kate Bryan marshalls a wealth of fascinating detail about artists's lives cut sadly short ... and in sprightly prose brings their work vividly to life.' - JOAN BAKEWELL **************** The Artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Caravaggio, Dash Snow, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Francesca Woodman, Ana Mendieta, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Raphael, Yves Klein, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Egon Schiele, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Amrita Sher-Gil, Johannes Vermeer, Robert Smithson, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, Noah Davis, Eva Hesse, Charlotte Salomon, Umberto Boccioni, Gerda Taro, Joanna Mary Boyce, Pauline Boty, Helen Chadwick, Khadija Saye, Bartholomew Beal.

The Rescue Artist - A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (Paperback, Annotated edition): Edward... The Rescue Artist - A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Edward Dolnick
R404 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective.The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever.

Mistress of the Elgin Marbles (Paperback): Susan Nagel Mistress of the Elgin Marbles (Paperback)
Susan Nagel
R542 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R94 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, struck a seemingly impossible deal with Napoleon, and arranged the removal of famous marbles from the Parthenon. But all of her accomplishments would be overshadowed, however, by her scandalous divorce. Drawing from Mary's own letters, scholar Susan Nagel tells Mary's enthralling, inspiring, and suspenseful story in vibrant detail.

Communion Ecclesiology - Vision and Versions (Paperback): Dennis M. Doyle Communion Ecclesiology - Vision and Versions (Paperback)
Dennis M. Doyle
R764 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R136 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Doyle constructs communion ecclesiology as a broad and inclusive category that makes room for a range of legitimate approaches. He examines the approaches of Johann Adam Mohler, Charles Journet, Henri de Lubac, Yves Congar, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Elizabeth Johnson, Joseph Ratzinger and many others.

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