Art category: 43213 books
Drawing Basics and Video Game Art
Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"This book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming.”
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by Kyung An, Jessica Cerasi
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A smart and playful introduction to the often-mystifying world of contemporary art
What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? What is it for? And why is it so expensive?
From museums and the art market to biennales and the next big thing, Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art?...
Toulouse-Lautrec, l'âme de Montmartre
Du Moulin Rouge à l’art publicitaire
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Décryptez l'art de Toulouse-Lautrec en moins d'une heure !Désigné par ses contemporains comme l'« âme de Montmartre », où il réside, Toulouse-Lautrec célèbre le plaisir dans une œuvre qui se veut chronique du Paris nocturne. Une œuvre colorée où résonnent les pas de danse de la Goulue,...
Mail Me Art
Going Postal with the World's Best Illustrators and Designers
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Art on a Journey
It started with an idea Darren Di Lieto had: Challenge illustrators and designers to create works of art on packages, envelopes and postcards - then actually send them to him through the mail. The response was overwhelming, and Di Lieto posted photos of each piece of art on...
Art Models 10
Photos for Figure Drawing, Painting, and Sculpting
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The best way to improve in figure art is to practice, which requires quality reference material that inspires you. That's what the Art Models series is all about. With nearly 200 photos of nude art models—both female and male—Art Models 10 will inspire students and professionals alike to practice...
Thinking About Art
A Thematic Guide to Art History
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Thinking about Art explores some of the greatest works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history.
The book ranges across time and topics, from the Parthenon to the present day and from patronage...
Art Market Research
A Guide to Methods and Sources, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research skills are reviewed, and advanced methods are explored in a chapter devoted...
Dark Side of the Boom
The Excesses Of The Art Market In The 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book scrutinizes the excesses and extravagances that the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary art market brought in its wake. The buying of art as an investment, temptations to forgery and fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and pressure to produce more and more art all form part of this...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.
Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered...
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the great galleries of Europe including the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican, as well as visiting the Parthenon,...
Forged
Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality....
Democratic Art
The New Deal's Influence on American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million—roughly $461 million today—to supporting tens of thousands of needy...
Soft is Fast
Simone Forti in the 1960s and After
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.
Simone Forti's art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City's advanced visual art,...
Art History for Filmmakers
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is another way of looking at film, and that is through its relationship with the visual arts – mainly painting,...