Friday, May 29, 2009

Imperial Munitorum Manual


  • ISBN13: 9781844165025
  • Condition: New
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A Warhammer 40,000 background book that resembles an artefact of the 41st millennium in tone. In the style of a military weapons catalogue, it features over sixty sketches of equipment and kit utilised by the Imperial Guard as well as details about the organisation that provides it, the Deparmento Munitorum.... More >>

Imperial Munitorum Manual

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Adventures in Mixed Media: Collage, Stitch, Fuse, and Journal Your Way to a More Creative Life



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Mixed media in all its forms—not just traditional two-dimensional, paper-based collage but three-dimensional pieces that include fiber, fabric, a variety of embellishments, found objects, and even repurposed and recycled materials—offers artists an opportunity to move freely across the boundaries of art, craft, painting, quilting, and collage. In Adventures in Mixed Media, Jane Davies shows you how to use this art form to enrich your creative expression.
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Adventures in Mixed Media: Collage, Stitch, Fuse, and Journal Your Way to a More Creative Life

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Tiles Gone Wild: New Directions In Mixed Media Mosaics



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Chrissie Grace, successful author of Wild Tiles, returns to push mosaics to a new creative level in twenty projects using a number of various unexpected materials. Tiles Gone Wild illustrates, with easy-to-follow instructions and photographs, how to expand on basic techniques and push creative boundaries to combine traditional, commercial tile with handmade clay tiles, crushed glass, stained glass and mixed-media elements. Readers will learn to work on a variety of ... More >>

Tiles Gone Wild: New Directions In Mixed Media Mosaics

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Handbuilt Ceramics: Pinching * Coiling * Extruding * Molding * Slip Casting * Slab Work



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Written for the general reader with an interest in ceramics, Handbuilt Ceramics is a big, colorful, and complete how-to manual for shaping clay without a potter’s wheel. Features 8 projects, complete with materials lists, clear step-by-step instructions, and detailed “how-to” color photos.
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Handbuilt Ceramics: Pinching * Coiling * Extruding * Molding * Slip Casting * Slab Work

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Remediation: Understanding New Media


  • ISBN13: 9780262522793
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Winner, 2001 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics sponsored by the Media Ecology Association (MEA). and Winner, 2001 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology, sponsored by the Media Ecology Assoication (MEA).

Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphi... More >>

Remediation: Understanding New Media

Monday, May 18, 2009

Expressionism



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A specifically German artistic revolution In six chapters - The Brücke Group of Artists, Northern German Expressionism, The Blaue Reiter, Rhenish Expressionism, The City and Expressionism in Vienna - this publication deals with a specifically German artistic revolution, a phenomenon that has quite accurately been described as "the most significant German contribution to 20th century European art". Beside a number of famous names - Beckmann, Heckel, Kandinsky... More >>

Expressionism

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Cloisonne: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties



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The technique of applying brilliant enamel ornament to metalwork, known as cloisonné, reached its peak in China from the fourteenth century on. This sumptuously illustrated survey, which accompanies an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center, situates these remarkable pieces in their context with a survey of the historical, political and sociological milieu in China during the period. Research recently undertaken in China and published here for the first time has re... More >>

Cloisonne: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties

Friday, May 15, 2009

Art and Illusion



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An attempt to explain rationally the shifting styles of art, from antiquity to the present, employing modern concepts of visual perception, information theory, and learning.... More >>

Art and Illusion

Altered Curiosities: Assemblage Techniques and Projects


  • ISBN13: 9781581809725
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Two very important things make this book stand out from the crowd of other collage, mixed-media and assemblage titles: the projects (full of oddities and the unexpected) and the techniques - several of which have never been published before. A common element of Jane Wynn's style is to find an object, break it and put it together again (sometimes more than once), and she loves using anthropomorphic associations to tell stories in her projects.Step-by-step, readers wi... More >>

Altered Curiosities: Assemblage Techniques and Projects

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

How to Profit from the Art Print Market - 2nd Edition



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Visual artists will discover new art career opportunities here. The 2nd edition of How to Profit from the Art Print Market has been completely rewritten. It includes four additional chapters with new content and innovative ways to sell fine art reproductions and digital fine art giclee prints. Its content is geared to generate print sales for artists and fine art photographers.

Readers will find:
Rock solid guidance designed to help visua... More >>

How to Profit from the Art Print Market - 2nd Edition

The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking At Pictures


  • ISBN13: 9780895266385
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When one enters this beautiful book from the cluttered streets of everyday life, one is fed by the artist's eye, the poet's voice, and the insight of the mystics. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh... More >>

The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking At Pictures

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Beginner's Guide to Enamelling


  • ISBN13: 9781903975619
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Dorothy Cockrell encourages readers to enjoy the delights of this exciting and gratifying craft. Offering easy step-by-step photographs and instructions, she guides the reader through all the different techniques, illustrating how beautiful and unusual effects can be achieved once the basic principles have been learnt. She discusses how to prepare the metal, choosing and mixing colours and firing methods. More advanced techniques are also included: stencilling, draw... More >>

Beginner's Guide to Enamelling

Monday, May 11, 2009

Garden Mosaics: 19 Beautiful Mosaic Projects For Your Garden


  • ISBN13: 9780312562045
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Mosaic is an art form that decorates everything from cathedral walls to subway stations. Its long history is still visible in many of the great mosaics that have endured to today. This makes it an ideal technique to use outdoors. Now you can add interest to your outdoor spaces by creating stunningly beautiful mosaics that will survive any kind of weather. Using their combined experience as artists and teachers, the authors show how even a novice can master basic mos... More >>

Garden Mosaics: 19 Beautiful Mosaic Projects For Your Garden

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Mosaics: Inspiration and Original Projects for Interiors and Exteriors


  • ISBN13: 9781561585687
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The art of mosaic has been around for centuries. This book brings the process into the present, as two accomplished designers invite readers to explore dramatic color combinations using a variety of materials. This is a rich collection of creative projects for both interiors and exteriors. It includes detailed instructions for working with broken crockery and tiles, and preparing items such as window frames and mirrors. The book offers stunning yet practical ideas -... More >>

Mosaics: Inspiration and Original Projects for Interiors and Exteriors

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Une Semaine De Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage


  • ISBN13: 9780486232522
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Masterpiece created out of periodical illustrations explores worlds of terror and surprise. Some consider this Ernst's greatest work.... More >>

Une Semaine De Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage

Friday, May 8, 2009

Collage Couture: Techniques for Creating Fashionable Art



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You'll love playing dress-up with your art as you learn how to sketch fashion figures, create collaged dresses from patterned papers and construct cute and sophisticated gifts all with Collage Couture. The techniques in this book are simple enough for beginners, yet the theme of the pieces - featuring pretty figures in fashionable poses - offer something new to the mixed-media artist as well. In addition to instruction for combining simple materials- scrapbook and h... More >>

Collage Couture: Techniques for Creating Fashionable Art

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Chinese Calligraphy Made Easy: A Structured Course in Creating Beautiful Brush Lettering



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Rebecca Yue's unique approach to calligraphy comes from years of teaching this ancient art. Most teachers prefer to demonstrate all of the basic brushstrokes before teaching you how to form words. In Rebecca's experience, however, students soon become bored with this method and fail to progress. Whilst teaching new brushstrokes, Chinese Calligraphy Made Easy allows the reader to practise them, and brushstrokes learnt previously, by writing Chinese words. From this, ... More >>

Chinese Calligraphy Made Easy: A Structured Course in Creating Beautiful Brush Lettering

Lehner's Encyclopedia Of US Marks On Pottery, Porcelain Clay


  • ISBN13: 9780891453659
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
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Lehners Encyclopedia of U.S. Marks on Pottery holds over 1,900 companies with over 8,000 marks, logos, and symbols divided equally among the old folk potters, studio potters, dinnerware manufacturers, distributors, and decorators fill this massive hardbound encyclopedia. No values. 8.5 X 11. 1998 values.... More >>

Lehner's Encyclopedia Of US Marks On Pottery, Porcelain Clay

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Collage and Altered Art


  • ISBN13: 9780470447192
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Collage and altered art pull together elements from a wide variety of crafts to create one-of-a-kind pieces that truly reflect your individual style. This photo-intensive guide walks you through all the latest techniques, from aging paper and photos to working with image transfers, rubber stamps, fabrics, and more. Plus, you'll learn how to source inexpensive materials—as well as found objects around your home—to make everything from handmade journals and artist... More >>

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Collage and Altered Art

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Polymer Clay and Mixed Media-- Together at Last: Incorporating Craft Materials and Found Objects in Clay Figures


  • ISBN13: 9781589234338
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Mixed media brings lots of new possibilities to polymer clay crafting.   Polymer Clay and Mixed Media—Together at Last is about making polymer clay figures—jewelry pieces, focal beads, décor items, knick-knacks—and incorporating beads, fibers, fabrics, glass, stones, etc. to create special effects. Embellishing polymer clay with mixed media adds a sophistication and richness without making the projects complicated or inaccessible to the average craft... More >>

Polymer Clay and Mixed Media-- Together at Last: Incorporating Craft Materials and Found Objects in Clay Figures

Monday, May 4, 2009

Collage Playground: A Fresh Approach to Creating Mixed-Media Art



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It’s time for your creativity to come out and play!Remember the carefree spirit you had as a child? It’s time to recapture that sense of wonder and excitement in your art with Collage Playground! Come play with author Kimberly Santiago as she introduces you to 10 simple techniques and 25 projects that take the “work” out of collage and bring back in the fun. As your imagination is reignited, you will:• Discover textural ways to create with papers, fabrics,... More >>

Collage Playground: A Fresh Approach to Creating Mixed-Media Art

Sunday, May 3, 2009

The Marvelous Museum: Orphans, Curiosities & Treasures: A Mark Dion Project



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What is the role of the museum in contemporary society? Using the Oakland Museum of California as a case study, artist Mark Dion examines how museum practices have shifted over time, what these changes mean for objects in museum collections, and what we can learn about our culture from what's included and what's abandoned. Enclosed in a clamshell case and featuring fourteen specimen cards, this deluxe volume brings the reader into Dion's process and reveals how the ... More >>

The Marvelous Museum: Orphans, Curiosities & Treasures: A Mark Dion Project

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Change



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Art has been used in the service of social and political movements, for good and evil, from ancient times to the present day, and this unique book explores the history, cultural diversity, and artistic legacy of art works that have had far greater impact than political and social rhetoric and have served as key catalysts for change.Colin Moore presents the art in themes such as political state control, opposition, revolution, politics, and social influence such ... More >>

Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Change

Collectors Encyclopedia of California Pottery


  • ISBN13: 9781574320374
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
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First released in 1991, this pottery book has been greatly expanded, with hundreds of new color photographs and new information about the beautiful work of the potters of California. Over 30 different artists and companies are represented - company histories, interesting background information, as well as marks and signatures complement the gorgeous photographs found in each section. All items featured are given collector values reflecting today's secondary market.... More >>

Collectors Encyclopedia of California Pottery

Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 - 1900


  • ISBN13: 9784805310557
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Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900, Japanese Woodblock Prints provides a detailed survey of all the major artists, along with the images on which their fame rests.

Unlike previous examinations of this art form, Japanese Woo... More >>

Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 - 1900

Friday, May 1, 2009

Vilmorin: The Vegetable Garden



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The scientific and artistic excellence of the Album Vilmorin

The French company Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie arose in the 18th century from the collaboration of Philippe Victoire de Vilmorin—a grain and plant merchant and connoisseur—and his father-in-law, Pierre Andrieux, Botanist to the King. The Vilmorins, though only producers and merchants on the Paris market, contributed enormously to the botanical and agronomic knowledge of their time. T... More >>

Vilmorin: The Vegetable Garden