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Japanese Design
Art, Aesthetics & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
**Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015**
This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary .
The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional...
by David Cottington
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde',...
by Gottfried Richter, Konrad Oberhuber
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This survey of western art from ancient Egypt to Picasso looks at visual art in a completely new and imaginative way. Gottfried Richters lively and penetrating observations will inspire and enthuse the novice, while breathing new life into the thinking of art critics and historians. Richter concerns...
Art of Suppression
Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis’ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have...
Visualizing Research
A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Visualizing Research guides postgraduate students in art and design through the development and implementation of a research project, using the metaphor of a 'journey of exploration'. For use with a formal programme of study, from masters to doctoral level, the book derives from the creative relationship...
Orientalism's Interlocutors
Painting, Architecture, Photography
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist...
Spirit of Wood
The Art of Malay Woodcarving
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
With dozens of beautiful photographs and extensive text, this Malaysian art book is a testament to the skill and spirituality of Malaysia's traditional woodcarvers.
Wood has always played a significant role in the Malay world, including the Malay Peninsula, as a means of shelter, livelihood,...
The Art of iPhone Photography
Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The Art of iPhone Photography explores how 45 of today's best iPhonegraphers from around the world conceived, composed, and created some of their finest and best-known pieces-all in their own words. Through an understanding of the artists' visions, creative decisions, and techniques, beginning through...
Art Starts with a Line
A creative and interactive guide to the art of line drawing
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Line drawing utilizes both fine and bold lines to create sophisticated artwork that can stand alone or be incorporated into patterns, logos, stationery, branding, journals, scrapbooks, and more. Art Starts with a Line is approachable for artists of any skill level, no prior drawing experience needed!...
Strokes of Genius 3
Fresh Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
"Drawing is the connection between eye, heart and hand."
--Linda Wesner
Drawing is a fundamental skill for artists in any medium, a wonderfully direct means of expression and the driving inspiration behind this provoking collection. Strokes of Genius 3 celebrates drawing as an art...
What's Next?
Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
By paying tribute to matter, materiality, and materialization, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural, and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
This book focuses on Art and Design Education Research. Gathering 72 papers illustrated with diagrams and tables, they provide state-of-the-art information on infrastructure and sustainable issues in Art and Design, focusing on Design Industrial Applications, Visual Communication and New Media, Art...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This book features 66 papers from the 2nd International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research, i-CADER 2015. It illustrates the wide range of opinions and interpretations, mediums and technologies, policies and methodologies in this field.
The papers, which have been reviewed by 380...
Art Museums of Latin America
Structuring Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have...