| Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists (Quarry Book) |
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Company: Quarry Books
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ISBN: 1592531768
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 | Mixed media techniques have come to forefront again, with artists in every field combining materials and effects to create journals, altered art, collage pieces, memory art and more. With all the creative experiementation developing at such a fast pace, it is pertinent to know how various techniques and combinations work and whether they are right for your latest project. Alphabetica illuminates new techniques through detailed visuals and rich, explanatory text. From cover to cover, readers absorb the specialties of each contributing artist, such as Judi Riesch's use of vintage photographs, and Lesley Riley's sophisticated fabric transfers, and are able to get an "over the shoulder" glance at how these artists work.
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| A World of Our Own |
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Company: Watson-Guptill Publications
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ISBN: 0823058743
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| This stirring account documents the centuries-long struggle of gifted women who confronted the exclusionary tactics of a male-dominated art establishment but pressed ahead undaunted to gain public acceptance as sought-after professional artists. The author takes readers deep into the restricted world of women artists of the past, showing how diligently they trained themselves, set up studios, and pursued sympathetic patrons. Starting with the flowering of Renaissance painters Sofonisba Anguissola and Properzia de'Rossi, the book reconstructs the changing world of women artists as social attitudes evolved. Seventeenth-century painters Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith Leyster enjoyed success by depicting subjects relevant to women, as did eighteenth-century greats Angelica Kauffmann and Elisabeth Vige-Lebrun with their themes of motherhood. Further breakthroughs came in the nineteenth century as young hopefuls Mary Cassatt and Marie Bashkirtseff strove to be admitted to exhibiting societies and opened art schools to help other women become professionals. Finally, as equality for women advanced through the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, and Cindy Sherman led the way for today's talented women to secure their rightful place in the annals of art.
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| Shag: A-Z (A BLAB! Storybook) |
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Company: Fantagraphics Books
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ISBN: 1560978856
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| 26 original alphabet paintings by the icon of Tiki culture.Shag: A to Z presents, quite simply, 26 original paintings corresponding to the letters of the alphabet. Each painting is accompanied by a short verse extolling the pleasures of a hedonistic lifestyle and the virtues of overindulgence.Shag: A to Z is the creation of Josh Agle, a painter and designer from Southern California who is probably better known by the name he signs on his paintings, "Shag." Shag has spent the last decade creating a body of work based on his idiomatic aesthetic preferences, a world of mid 20th century modern architecture and design, populated by hedonists, supplicants, and indifferent women. The paintings themselves celebrate consumerism and consumption on vividly colored, sharply rendered panels; the characters drink, smoke and eat in lavish, stylish surroundings. Since 1996 his work has been displayed in galleries and museums in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia.Shag: A to Z is the latest BLAB! Storybook, a series showcasing sequential artists from Monte Beauchamp's annual BLAB! anthology. Each volume is presented in a faux-children's book format, though aimed squarely at adults and young adults.
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| Top Cow's Best Of Michael Turner |
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Company: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics
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ISBN: 1582405441
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| Top Cow's Best of Michael Turner showcases some of this artistic superstar's early works, establishing Top Cow's flagship characters and his own stellar career! Includes nine full issues, including Witchblade, Tomb Raider and more, plus rare promotional works trading cards images, posters, pinups, variant cover images and more!
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| David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-pons, Pamela Z.: Three Artists, Three Projects, Dakar Biennale: Diaspora, Memory, Place |
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Company: Prestel USA
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ISBN: 3791339133
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| A fascinating presentation and an in-depth analysis of the three of the most exciting African diaspora artists of our time.Originally conceived for Dak art the biennial of contemporary African art the three site-specific projects profiled in this book strive to communicate notions of racial stereotyping, memory, language, and a shared past. David Hammons work, Sheep Raffle, critiques and challenges the art world as he records the process of marketing and executing a public relations project. In Threads of Memory, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons weaves together tales of displacement into constructions that form a narrative projected on multiple screens. Sound artist Pamela Z. s contribution combines solo voice, processing, samples and video projections. A series of essays by leading scholars, artists and critics examine these groundbreaking pieces through the framework of Diaspora art and affirm their importance in the fields of conceptual art and new media.Published in cooperation with Prince Claus Fund Library, The Hague.
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| Vignelli From A to Z |
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Company: Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd.
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ISBN: 1864701765
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| This superbly presented volume is a treasure trove of the thoughts of internationally acclaimed designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli. For the past ten years, Massimo Vignelli has taught a summer course at the School of Design and Architecture at Harvard on subjects that were initially alphabetised for convenience, but now form the basis of this unprecedented and highly entertaining publication. Beginning with the intriguing 'A for Ambiguity', it continues through the alphabet, describing their approach to subjects as diverse as book design, discipline, furniture, garment design, interior design and lighting, newspapers, packaging and typography; each subject is discussed in detail and accompanied by numerous illustrations that complement the text. It offers a rare insight into the minds of two exceptional modernist designers.
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| Tax Deductions A to Z for Writers, Artists, and Performers (Tax Deductions A to Z series) |
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Company: Boxed Books, Inc.
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ISBN: 193367217X
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| Supplanting confusing technical jargon with practical and easy-to-follow listings, these specialized guidebooks provide expert research in a user-friendly, alphabetical format in order to maximize deductions on tax returns. These portable pocket guides give career professionals—from military personnel and teachers to priests and writers—a single source for finding relevant, money-saving tax deductions. A handy journal to record deductible transactions such as automobile usage, meals, entertainment, and travel expenses is also included in each guide.
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| Mose T A to Z:The Folk Art of Mose Tolliver |
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Company: Saturno
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ISBN: 0975384201
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| MOSE T A TO Z: THE FOLK ART OF MOSE TOLLIVER creates an intimate portrait of the life of a unique African-American who overcame his disabilities through his art making. In the winter of 1982, the American art world was jolted by a controversial exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The morning after the opening reception, art editors questioned in newspapers across the country, Is this art? This groundbreaking exhibition, Black Folk Art in America: 1930-1980, brought together for the first time the work of America¹s greatest living folk art masters. The exhibition¹s organizer, Robert Bishop, even went so far as to declare that the work of one artist in particular was of equal value; to Picasso¹s, suggesting that;you can hang him beside a Picasso and you have the same creativity and deep personal vision; That artist is the subject of a new book by Montgomery native Anton Haardt, entitled Mose T. from A to Z: The Folk Art of Mose Tolliver. This full-color, 100-page volume is the first to be devoted entirely to the life and work of the last surviving artist from the Corcoran exhibition. In it Ms. Haardt relates the story of Mose Tolliver¹s turn to painting after a crippling accident left him unable to work. She charts the evolution of his career, from the days when he hung his paintings in a tree in his front yard in Montgomery, Alabama, selling them for a dollar each, through his rise to renown in the folk art world and far beyond. Additional essay contributions from scholars Lee Kogan and Regenia Perry situate Tolliver¹s work within the history of American folk art and discuss the stylistic originality of this visionary American artist. The author Anton Haardt says; I first purchased a Mose T titled Tico Bird ; in 1969 and have never stopped. The strength his work is his lack of self-consciousness as to what his art is or should be. It is his sheer impulse to create, and therein lies its power. When I first saw Mose?s paintings hanging in trees many years ago, I took an unexpected delight in his muddy pink;Sprupe Ladies; and misshapen self-portraits. In one way the paintings seemed ugly, and in another way I was charmed by their raw beauty. Since then the allure of folk art for me has never waned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In terms of the art history of our country, I would say in comparing Tolliver's work to Picasso - Mose's art is of equal value - you can hang beside a Picasso and you have the same kind of creativity and deep personal vision Robert Bishop, Director of the American Folk Art Museum ---------------------------------------------------------------- Locomotives behind artists are as necessary as the art itself, and thanks to Anton Haardt, many of our regional artists have been able to live and even flourish from their craft. Nall - Artist, Writer, Director of Nall Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill and Hillary Clinton gave Ted and I a Mose Tolliver painting as a wedding present. I smile every time I pass it no matter what else my day has brought me. That's art. Mary Steenburgen, Academy Award Winning Actress ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I must thank Anton Haardt for sharing Mose's story with us. It¶s anexcellent story and excellent journal of an amazing artist who will see fame in his own lifetime after a disaster that caused him to pick up apaintbrush- and share his inner thoughts with us. Tyrone V. Banks, Author of Under the Melting Pot
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| Claude Monet (Rizzoli Art Series) |
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Company: Rizzoli International Publications
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ISBN: 0847817857
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| Claude Monet (1840-1926), one of the founders of French Impressionism, is one of the most popular painters in the history of art. In his paintings, he repeatedly focused his gaze upon the shifting phenomena of water, light, and mist. In a dramatically new interpretation of the artist's work, noted Monet scholar Steven Z. Levine, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, uses the myth of Narcissus to interpret Monet's painting of reflection in water as the mirror of the artist's encounter with himself.
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| A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts (Facts on File Library of American History) |
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Company: Facts on File
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ISBN: 0816043973
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