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Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
Grayson Perry · Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art"Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Playing to the Gallery... |
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Hand Lettering Step by Step: Techniques & Projects to Express Yourself Creatively
Kathy Glynn · Get Creative 6
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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A successful calligrapher and artist teaches you the skills of lettering beautifully - and gives projects to show them off! In today's digital age, people crave something personal and handmade - so hand lettering and calligraphy are becoming more popular than ever. If you're eager... |
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The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster
Chris Adams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
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In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record "Purple Haze"... |
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Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
Carolyn Burke · Knopf
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art.New York, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz,... |
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Drawing Perspective: How to See It and How to Apply It
Matthew T Brehm · Barron's
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Here's a hands-on guide to perspective that's for anyone who wants to draw or paint--in any genre or medium. It's partly about learning how to draw a set of straight lines that meet at a point, but it's not filled with lots of dull, dry theory (although it does explain how it all works)... |
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Polaroid: The Complete Guide to Experimental Instant Photography
Rhiannon Adam · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A complete, intuitive, step-by-step guide to experimental instant photography techniques and the manipulation of Polaroid prints and camerasThe cult of Polaroid photography has ignited the imaginations of photographers across all generations. The immense popularity of recent digital applications... |
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Modern Calligraphy Workshop: The Creative Art of Pen, Brush and Chalk Lettering
Imogen Owen · Quadrille Publishing
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to create beautiful, hand-lettered stationery, art, and other decorations with Modern Calligraphy, a sophisticated, interactive book full of exquisite sample alphabets, fun exercises, and simple step-by-step projects. From modern calligraphy in ink to hand lettering in chalk on blackboard... |
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Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined
Ron Miller · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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How have actual spaceships influenced the design of fictional ones like the Millenium Falcon and the Starship Enterprise? Did a fiction series in Collier's magazine really inspire us to create real-life space stations like Mir and the ISS? How have our depictions of space travel developed... |
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The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint
Jamie Camplin · Getty Publications
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist,... |
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Through Darkness to Light
Jeanine Michna-Bales · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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They left in the middle of the night - often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search... |
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide
Christina Nielsen · Yale University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and its magnificent collection are enlivened through fresh insights and new photography in this updated guide This updated guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum charts new pathways through the beloved institution's superb collection. Gardner,... |
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