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| Design Language
| Design Language brings fresh insight to students and practicing designers by examining the words they use. This compact volume presents 100 keywords with background etymology and commentary. Whether the word is as familiar as edge or perhaps new to you like synesthesia, you’ll find yourself moving easily from one entry to the next, intrigued by the rich layers of meaning you discover. Design Language understands that a book can’t teach design. Instead, it helps people learn design, by using ...More
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| Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting (Art Models series)
| Step into the studio with eleven professional art models in over a hundred beautifully photographed full color poses. -Hone your skills -Practice new techniques -Try new materials -Find inspiration -Study a variety of models in fine detail. More than a full color book of poses- Art Models provides a solution to artists' search for nude models. Use it to practice with new materials and techniques, help plan compositions, and study body features. Also great as an idea book for artists and models. ...More
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| Glass Notes, a reference for the glass artist
| Glass Notes includes up to date illustrated information on building glass furnaces, annealing ovens, glory holes and other equipment. Other information includes how to cast and fuse glass, how to batch glass and proper annealing. Experts have written detailed information on pate de verre, fuming, proper insulation of ovens and heat recuperation, building to code, calculating air changes. An up-to-date section on suppliers of material and equipment is included. Glass Notes is fully indexed for ea...More
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| The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide
| This classic art reference shows artists how to handle materials safely while practicing their craft.Dozens of at-a-glance tables and charts present vital information about art materials, ingredients, technical hazards, proper protective equipment, and safe work practices simply and accurately. This brand-new third edition is now completely revised and expanded to detail lifesaving new safety and ventilation equipment, present urgent new discoveries on toxins and pollutants foun...More
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| The HarperCollins dictionary of art terms and techniques (HarperCollins dictionaries)
| The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, 2nd edition, contains over 3,200 clear definitions of terns encountered in thestudy and practice of the visual arts and in their literature. It covers all forms of easel and mural paintings, drawing, sculpture, the graphic arts, photography, ceramics, and mosaic. There are entries on schools, styles, and periods, but the chief emphasis of the book is on the materials and methods of the artist. Materials are defined in terms of comp...More
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| The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, Fifth Edition
| Now available in its fifth edition, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques presents a comprehensive survey of all aspects of making ceramics for craft potters and ceramic artists. With its sound, practical explanations of ceramic processes, this indispensable reference book has gained a reputation as "the potter's bible." Professional potters, beginners, students, and collectors will find authoritative information clearly and logically presented.Frank and Janet Hamer explain ...More
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| Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture
| There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make Visions of Heaven one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we've ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, German...More
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| Drawing America's Wildlife: An Artist's Portfolio of North American Animals
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| Watching Words Move
| Words have the power to move. In 1962 a modest design studio created its own riff on that statement in the form of a small booklet of typographic brilliance, and changed forever how designers thought about the graphic potential of words. Decades later, the impact of watching words move is still felt. Never before had the idea been so lucidly and playfully expressed that type itself could speak, that word-forms carried their own implied visual meanings; that the placement of letters on the page c...More
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| The Sierra Club Guide to Painting in Nature (Sierra Club Books Publication)
| Plein-air painting is the art of painting out-of-doors, on site, and completing the work at one sitting. In this lively guide, acclaimed artist, author, and instructor Cathy Johnson provides a friendly introduction to all facets of plein-air painting—from selecting and using basic materials (including pencils, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, brushes, and papers) to weathering outdoor conditions and dealing with the challenges of capturing ever-changing light. Richly illustrated with studies, s...More
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| 1000 Symbols: What Shapes Mean in Art & Myth
| Symbols are an international language, but that language is far from universal. Different symbols mean radically different things in different contexts - a cross, a crane, or a swastika each have a distinct meaning for a Buddhist, an art historian, or a student of the occult.1000 Symbols offers a comprehensive directory of symbols in clear, detailed artworks, each accompanied by a definition of the symbol's history and its cross-cultural meanings.Beginning with an alphabetical, ...More
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| Safavid Art and Architecture
| The era of Safavid rule (1501-1722) was a time of dynamic religious and political development in Iran, when all the arts attained new heights of brilliance and opulence and architecture flourished with the growth of cities. This volume publishes 19 papers given at a conference at The British Museum in 1998. Representing the most recent work of the foremost scholars in the field, they deal with aspects of Safavid painting and the conservation of works on paper, architecture, archaeology, metalwor...More
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| Diccionario de términos de arte y elementos de Arqueología, Heráldica y Numismática
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| Illustrated Dictionary of Art Terms: A Handbook for the Artist and Art Lover
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| Provenance Research in Book History
| Reprint of the first edition with a new introductory section containing additional references to update the original text. This handbook offers a compendium of information on the ways of recognizing and identifying marks of ownership, and on placing that knowledge in a wider context. Topics covered include inscriptions, mottoes, bookplates, book labels, and book stamps, armorials, sales catalogues, catalogues and lists of private libraries, provenance indices, heraldry, and paleography. Co-pu...More
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| Art Research Methods and Resources: A Guide to Finding Art Information
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| Pronunciation Dictionary of Artists' Names
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| Guide to Tolkien's World: A Bestiary
| Guide to Tolkien's World is a scholarly, definitive, and enchantingly beautiful reference to all the living creatures -- both flora and fauna -- that inhabit J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and Undying Lands. It is complete with descriptive text, both black and white and color illustrations, maps, a chronology, and a special index referring readers back to Tolkien's original works. All 129 races identified are clearly explained in terms of their physical appearance, language, behavior, and culture...More
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| New York Contemporary Art Galleries : The Complete Annual Guide
| New York Contemporary Art Galleries: The Complete Annual Guide is the only comprehensive sourcebook of its kind. MORE THAN 840 DETAILED LISTINGS: Commercial galleries, private dealers, non-profit alternative venues, and museums are featured with comprehensive information including contact names, address, telephone, fax, email, websites, hours, artists shown, description of styles and media, focus / mission, artist selection process, how / when artists should approach them, and more... There wa...More
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| Anselm Kiefer: Merkaba
| According to the Kabbala, the Merkaba and Hechaloth literature deals specifically with the ascent to the seven heavenly palaces or temples, which represent the seven attainments of divine spirituality. Kiefer's spiritual architecture of the heavenly palaces bring the seas and land, heavens and earth back together. His poetry of images unites NASA's cosmological ordering of the stars with the mystical ordering of the ascent.
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