Thursday, July 13, 2006

Altered Book Collage


  • ISBN13: 9781402740428
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Give a favorite book new life as a beautiful collage. Just take the old volume, pull out or color photocopy the pages, cut them up, and arrange the pieces in a fresh design. That’s an altered book collage, and it’s a great way for paper crafters and scrapbookers to create a personalized objet d’art. Get in on the fun with this guide to putting together that very first altered book, and beyond. The entire enjoyable process receives attention, from choosing a th... More >>

Altered Book Collage

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Responding to Art w/ Core Concepts in Art v.2



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This text is designed to excite and interest students who have minimal knowledge of art and limited confidence in responding to it. To this end, the book starts at the students' introductory level and sets out to stimulate their active participation. Responding to Art integrates art and design forms that students are already familiar with and have some interest in, including CD covers, magazine advertisements, fashion styles, websites, crafts, product design, and fo... More >>

Responding to Art w/ Core Concepts in Art v.2

Monday, July 10, 2006

Garage Sale America


  • ISBN13: 9780061151651
  • Condition: USED - Like New
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There's something neighborly about being invited into someone's yard or home and encouraged to look through their stuff. Then allowed to buy it--or not. In this witty, informative book, Bruce Littlefield takes you on a voyeuristic adventure into homes and lives across America to discover everything we love to buy, sell, and collect--one garage sale at a time. Renting a truck and toting a sack full of a thousand crisp one-dollar bills, Littlefield hunts ... More >>

Garage Sale America

Saturday, July 8, 2006

Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists


  • ISBN13: 9781592531769
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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. Fro... More >>

Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists

Thursday, July 6, 2006

Bent, Bound And Stitched: Collage, Cards And Jewelry With A Twist


  • ISBN13: 9781600610608
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Just as they were with "Collage Lost and Found", readers will be inspired just by flipping through the pages of this beautifully designed book. In addition to good-looking projects, there are techniques - many of them.Techniques include bending and shaping wire into letter and number embellishments, using a sewing wheel and acrylic paint to add texture to papers, making hinges from a portion of a rubber stamp, adding texture to cards with basic sewing, combining dif... More >>

Bent, Bound And Stitched: Collage, Cards And Jewelry With A Twist

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Compendium of Celtic Crafts


  • ISBN13: 9781844483556
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Drawing on the timeless appeal of Celtic art and design, this complete reference shows how Celtic themes can be applied to a range of contemporary crafts. Beginning with Celtic illumination, the guide carefully leads crafters through the intricacies of Celtic design, with thoughtful instruction for constructing and decorating a selection of knotwork, spiral, key, and zoomorphic patterns. After covering the basic principles of Celtic lettering and decoration, this ... More >>

Compendium of Celtic Crafts

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave


  • ISBN13: 9780393058567
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The compelling story of a slave, owned by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.He is known today, as he was then, only as Dave. His pots and storage jars were everyday items, but because of their beauty and massive size, and because Dave signed and inscribed many with poems, they now fetch six figures at auction. We know of no other slave artist who dared to put his name on his work, a dange... More >>

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Views



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The first two volumes chronicling the unique art and design of Roger Dean met with huge critical and popular success. Views (1975) went straight to number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list and went on to sell over a million copies. Magnetic Storm (1984) sold over 650,000 copies. These new editions, reworked to accompany the publication of the third book in the trilogy, Dragon's Dream, showcase the instantly recognizable work of Roger Dean. Views showcases t... More >>

Views

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Fiesta: Warman's Companion



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The dinnerware that "turns your table into a celebration" is giving its collectors more than a few reasons to enjoy the party. "Fiesta" is a vibrant and authoritative guide collectors can turn to for quick pricing and identification assistance wherever they are. This guide to the bright and abundantly fun: shows collectors more than 500 detailed colour photos including many rare pieces, which aid in making accurate identification; covers history of the company that ... More >>

Fiesta: Warman's Companion

Friday, June 16, 2006

Edward Lear, The Parrots: The Complete Plates



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Edward Lear s illustrated book of parrots



Edward Lear
may be best known for his nonsense verse, but in his early years he excelled as an illustrator of birds and reptiles. This set of 42 hand-colored lithographs, originally entitled Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, was the finest achievement of his relatively brief career as a natural history draftsman, before failing eyesight led him to concentrate on his writing.... More >>

Edward Lear, The Parrots: The Complete Plates

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Start Your Engines: Surface Vehicle Sketches & Renderings from the Drawthrough Collection


  • ISBN13: 9781933492131
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Start Your Engines compiles works from Scott Robertson's vast archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings, and features the following chapters: Cars, Bicycles, Snowcraft Mechanimals and selected work from the conceptual design of vehicles for the video games Field Commander and Spy Hunter 2. The Cars chapter comprises about half of this book and features original designs both futuristic and retrospective.... More >>

Start Your Engines: Surface Vehicle Sketches & Renderings from the Drawthrough Collection

Monday, June 12, 2006

Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing



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Popularized in the 1960s by Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, screen printing remains a favorite of artists due to its remarkable versatility and relatively low cost. In Pulled, best-selling author Mike Perry (Hand Job, Over and Over) collects the work of more than forty of today's most talented designers who are, in their own way, pushing the boundaries of this dynamic medium.... More >>

Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing

Saturday, June 10, 2006

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry



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One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) is the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its magisterial patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private devotion and now housed in The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum, counted among the duke’s large collection of prized possessions. The luminous scenes depic... More >>

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

Monday, June 5, 2006

Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes



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In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing chess. But from 1946 to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio on West 14th Street in New York City. There he produced his final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d'eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage, composed of a battered wood door through which one views a prone, nude female, holding aloft an antique gas lamp against a landscape of t... More >>

Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes

Sunday, June 4, 2006

The Artist's Handbook



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This is a complete reference manual of art equipment, materials, procedures and techniques. Through step-by-step sequences many modern processes and a wide range of traditional skills covering every aspect of painting, drawing, printmaking and the related visual arts are described.... More >>

The Artist's Handbook

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry - Notebooks, Periodic Drawings and Related Work



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The author deals with one powerful motif in Escher's work - the puzzlelike interlocking of birds, fish and other natural forms in continuous patterns. His methods are examined through a meticulous analysis of his notebooks and an an epilogue reveals new information about Escher's inspiration.... More >>

M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry - Notebooks, Periodic Drawings and Related Work

Monday, May 29, 2006

In This Garden: Exploration in Mixed-Media Visual Narrative


  • ISBN13: 9781592535163
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This book acts as a showcase for a collaborative art project sponsored by artists Angela Cartwright and Sarah Fishburn. The project explores the theme of "gardens" as a metaphor for peace, beauty, tranquility, reflection, and creativity, while at the same offering readers an inspiring collage workbook that explores the techniques, methods, and the insights of the participating artists. The book includes inspiring garden-related quotes that artists can use in their ... More >>

In This Garden: Exploration in Mixed-Media Visual Narrative

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow



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Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), set in an alternative-universe version of World War II, has been called a modern Finnegan’s Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers’ experience of the book. A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith here... More >>

Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface



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Starting with the fundamentals, Hopper explores in great detail the following surface techniques: plastic and liquid clay, glazing, pigment processes and firing processes.... More >>

Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface

Friday, May 26, 2006

Hybrid Prints



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This book reveals the secrets of hybrid and combination techniques. Combined techniques are often used by printmakers as tricky ways of achieving particular results, and then not fully acknowledged or detailed in the information that accompanies the print when it is exhibited. Combination printmaking has a long history, but the explosion of media now available to printmakers has opened up many new possibilities. Learning the techniques associated with creating ... More >>

Hybrid Prints

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Mixed-Media Work and Collections of 35 Artists


  • ISBN13: 9781592536269
  • Condition: New
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This large format, full-color, inspirational book, now in paperback, is about how artists use their collections to make artwork. The gallery-style format allows readers to see what artists collect, and the resulting spectacular artwork they make from it. The book features the collections and the artwork of forty major mixed-media artists. The artwork includes journals, assemblages, altered books, as well as jewelry pieces, and detailed descriptions of the materials ... More >>

Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Mixed-Media Work and Collections of 35 Artists

Friday, May 19, 2006

Paintings of Pablo Picasso formatted for Kindle



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This is a collection of thirty seven paintings by Pablo Picasso specially formatted for the Kindle, with titles and dates.

Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.

His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune throughout his life, making h... More >>

Paintings of Pablo Picasso formatted for Kindle

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Plexi Class: Cutting-Edge Projects In Plastic



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Mixed-media artists and DIY crafters will be excited about all the endless possibilities of working with a variety of plastic materials such as acrylic sheeting (otherwise known as Plexiglas), clear vinyl and even shrink plastic. In Sexy Plexi, readers will be amazed at the versatility of these various plastics, the ease of use and forgiveness plastic possesses, and how plastics can mimic glass in numerous applications. The author guides readers through 25 step-by-s... More >>

Plexi Class: Cutting-Edge Projects In Plastic

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Mrs. Delany and Her Circle



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At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700-1788), embarked upon a series of nearly a thousand botanical collages, or “paper mosaics,” which would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life.  These delicate hand-cut floral designs, made by a method of Mrs. Delany’s own invention, vie with the finest botanical works of her time.   More than two centuries later her extraordinary work continues to inspire.  Although be... More >>

Mrs. Delany and Her Circle

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Steampunk Emporium: Creating Fantastical Jewelry, Devices and Oddments from Assorted Cogs, Gears and Curios



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The steampunk genre takes Victorian charm and steam-powered machinery parts and combines that with modern day elements and technology. In Steampunk Emporium, you are introduced to the rich charm and harrowing adventures of the steampunk world. Follow along with author Jema "Miss Emilly Ladybird" Hewitt as she guides you through several beginning-level jewelry techniques (basic wire wraps, using basic findings and so on) as well as some basic work with polymer clay, ... More >>

Steampunk Emporium: Creating Fantastical Jewelry, Devices and Oddments from Assorted Cogs, Gears and Curios

Friday, May 12, 2006

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms


  • ISBN13: 9780892362172
  • Condition: New
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What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable format. With numerous illustrations, many of them in color, this volume w... More >>

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms

Saturday, May 6, 2006

Collage Lost and Found: Creating Unique Projects With Vintage Ephemera



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Now there’s a hip way for crafters to bring family history into their daily lives. Collage Lost and Found combines basic collage techniques and found objects to create edgy and unusual crafts with not only style, but a story to tell, as well. Highlights include: -20 step-by-step projects with easy, fashionable designs for greeting cards, magnets, necklaces, journals, and more -Sassy, and alluring artwork that reflects the author's old-world Sicilian upbringi... More >>

Collage Lost and Found: Creating Unique Projects With Vintage Ephemera

Thursday, May 4, 2006

Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork


  • ISBN13: 9780823099511
  • Condition: New
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Collage can be more, much more, than just cutting and pasting. It can be a wonderful art form and a means of self-expression. Collage Journeys presents a series of innovative workshop assignments, each designed to relate the technique and format of a collage to its subject. Gathering materials, generating ideas, painting with paper, working in layers, using text, keeping a visual journal—project by project, new collage skills are explored. Stunning finished pieces... More >>

Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

The Art of Calligraphy: A Practical Guide to the Skills and Techniques



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Whether you want to personalize stationery or enhance other special gifts and objects, The Art of Calligraphy helps you choose equipment, from brushes, pens, pencils, papers, to inks, and then shows exactly how to produce every letter of the alphabet in a number of different scripts.... More >>

The Art of Calligraphy: A Practical Guide to the Skills and Techniques

Friday, April 28, 2006

Handmade Tiles



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Step-by-step advice and instruction, together with finished samples of some of the best handmade tiles from around the world, are combined in this practical introduction to a popular craft.... More >>

Handmade Tiles

Left-handed Calligraphy



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From an award-winning calligrapher and well-known arts educator and author: a generously illustrated text offering full coverage of the art of calligraphy from the left-handed writer's point of view, presenting every facet of the subject, from correct hand, pen and nib positions to composition and page layout.
... More >>

Left-handed Calligraphy

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e: Sex, Blood & the Supernatural


  • ISBN13: 9781840683011
  • Condition: New
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UKIYO-E images from the floating world were the most popular art-form of 19th century Japan. Like modern-day manga, these prints could be mass-produced and were admired by people from all sectors of society; and as in manga, the art of ukiyo-e included significant sub-genres dealing in violence. erotica and horror. With unflinching images of weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts, DREAM SPECTRES is a powerful collection of the extremes of ukiyo-e, f... More >>

Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e: Sex, Blood & the Supernatural

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Breyer Animal Collector's Guide: Identification and Values



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This second edition will prove popular, with a gallery of over 500 colour photos, dates, value ranges, and other vital information about virtually every Breyer animal made to date, including special run models. It also gives the collector information on the hobby, the company, molds, and showing horses in contests.... More >>

Breyer Animal Collector's Guide: Identification and Values

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Easy Mosaics for Your Home and Garden


  • ISBN13: 9781581801293
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
  • Notes:

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Crafters, artists, gardeners, home decorators and parents looking for easy and attractive projects are sure to love this collection of 20 stylish and sophisticated mosaic designs that are surprisingly easy to make. From stepping stones and planters to wall plaques and sundials, readers will find all the guidance they need to jump right in and begin creating. There's no glass to cut, and no messy grouting. Readers simply mix, pour and embed. From unusual garden cri... More >>

Easy Mosaics for Your Home and Garden

Getting Close



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A group of young people get closer and closer, experiencing some mind-blowing explorations in sexuality and relationships. Beautifully hot and intense and also very heartfelt writing as the best-selling Gambedotti does not fail to provide.... More >>

Getting Close

Monday, April 24, 2006

Altered Books Workshop: 18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression



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Transform old books into one-of-a-kind pieces of art with Altered Books Workshop! In this book, readers receive detailed instructions for the newest craft trend - altered books - which combines bookmaking, collage, journaling, rubber stamping, papercrafting, stitching, embellishing and much more. Readers will discover how to construct each page of the book, using paint, decoupage, ribbon fibers, photos, charms, rubber stamps or anything that captures their imaginati... More >>

Altered Books Workshop: 18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression

The Illuminated Haggadah



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Reflecting its Talmudic ancestry, this illuminated Haggadah contains Jewish stories and traditions, and is also a prayerbook made for use. It tells the story of release from persecution and slavery into freedom and a new life. It is as relevant today as when it was written, over 2000 years ago. The Exodux of the Children of Israel from Egypt is a pivotal event in the Bible, celebrated today in books, plays and films. Each year, during the festival of Passover, Jewis... More >>

The Illuminated Haggadah

Sunday, April 23, 2006

The Old House Journal Compendium



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When Clem Labine and his family abandoned Manhattan for an old brownstone in Brooklyn, Labine decided to launch a newsletter about the restoration and maintenance of antique houses. From these humble beginnings, The Old-House Journal grew until it had many thousands of subscribers in all fifty states. Since its first publication in 1980, The Old-House Journal Compendium has been the go-to guide for anyone looking to buy, restore, or maintain an old house. This new... More >>

The Old House Journal Compendium

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Royal Doulton Figurines : A Charlton Standard Catalogue



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Now current to 2003 the "bible" of Royal Doulton Figurines is now in its 8th edition. Four new eight-page colour sections are interdisbursed throughout the catalogue. Over 3500 figures are listed, illustrated and priced in three major currencies. Further reading, backstamps, and where to buy are just a few of the topics covered in the introduction.... More >>

Royal Doulton Figurines : A Charlton Standard Catalogue

Friday, April 21, 2006

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage



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Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects—these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage seen and explained in this marvelous book. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale, these images flouted the serious conventions of photography in the 1860s and 1870s. Often made by women for albums, they reveal the educated minds and accomplished hands of their makers, taking ... More >>

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

Gordon Matta-Clark


  • ISBN13: 9780714845876
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After studying architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark developed more interest in buildings about to be destroyed than in the ones about to be built, as most architects would. He first forced his way into abandoned apartment buildings in the Bronx , and using a chain saw, would act as an architecture pirate, cutting pieces of walls and floors, only to leave behind the remains of what once was architecture. From pieces of walls his work shifted, in 1974, to t... More >>

Gordon Matta-Clark

Thursday, April 20, 2006

The Art of Polymer Clay: Designs and Techniques for Making Jewelry, Pottery, and Decorative Artwork



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The only book on polymer clay not limited to a single application, this step-by-step resource includes well-illustrated project instructions for earrings, bead bracelets, napkin rings, candlesticks, animal figurines, and even a birdhouse. 200 color illustrations.Amazon.com Review
Available in a tremendous array of colors and easily cured by baking in a home oven, polymer clay is a unique medium for creating a variety of beautiful items. In The Art of P... More >>

The Art of Polymer Clay: Designs and Techniques for Making Jewelry, Pottery, and Decorative Artwork

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500



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From around 1250 to the close of the fifteenth century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably in French vernacular history manuscripts. This volume celebrates the vivid historical imagery produced during these years by bringing together some of the finest masterpieces of illumination created in the Middle Ages. It is the first major publication to focus on exploring the ways in which text and illumination worked ... More >>

Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

Monday, April 17, 2006

The Disasters of War


  • ISBN13: 9780486218724
  • Condition: New
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Visual indictment of war's horrors, modeled after Spanish insurrection (1808), the resultant Peninsular War and following famine. Miseries of war graphically demonstrated in 83 prints; includes veiled attacks on various people, the Church and the State. Captions reprinted with English translations.
... More >>

The Disasters of War

Paper Clay



Product Description
Paper clay is an exciting development in the ceramics field. It is easy to use, extremely strong in the unfired state, easy to repair at nearly every stage of the forming process, and the final glazed and fired result can be indistinguishable from that using conventional clay. Yet the result is much lighter than normal. This feature is particularly useful for wall installations and delicate sculptural forms. All in all, paper clay is a flexible technique that provid... More >>

Paper Clay

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook



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A rich and comprehensive sourcebook, Pottery Analysis draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery—archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. Prudence M. Rice uses pottery as a starting point for insights into people and culture and examines in detail the methods for studying these fired clay vessels that have been used worldwide from prehistoric times to the present. Pottery Analysis is a classic in its field as well as... More >>

Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook

Thursday, April 13, 2006

1000 Journals Project


  • ISBN13: 9780811858564
  • Condition: New
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Voyeuristic. Inspirational. Entertaining. One thousand blank journals are currently circulating throughout the world, beckoning contributors who find the journals by chance on trains, in caf s, and anonymously left on doorsteps. Artist Someguy shares more than 250 of the best entries: a collage of African countries repositioned into a new continent; the musings of a teen trapped in a drug- ravaged community; a student's humorous personal ad for his ideal girlfriend ... More >>

1000 Journals Project

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II


  • ISBN13: 9780892364725
  • Condition: New
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The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a brilliant demonstration of two arts--calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor, Ferdinand I, commissioned master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic scripts.

Years later, at Rudolf's behest, mi... More >>

Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II

Conceptual Art



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Reveals the revolution that took place when a whole generation of artists experimented with the idea of art as an idea. Shows how artists such as Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt and Marcel Broodthaers challenged traditional notions of the art object through unprecedented use of language, actions, processes and forms derived from mass media.... More >>

Conceptual Art

Monday, April 10, 2006

Canvas Remix: Techniques For Creating Mixed-Media Accessories


  • ISBN13: 9781600610752
  • Condition: New
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Strong colour, bold lines and funky ideas combine to introduce the reader to forty-five techniques and twenty-five projects using paint, collage and canvas.After a brief introduction to working with canvas (including stretching canvas, working with raw, unstretched canvas, working with a variety of paint, and several applications - blending colour, glazing, spattering, distressing), the reader will take their painted canvas to the next level with hand-carved stamps,... More >>

Canvas Remix: Techniques For Creating Mixed-Media Accessories