Coloring Books for Grown Ups (Coloring Books for Adults)
by Kaye Dennan
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists Andre Eugene and Celeur in the late 1990s, the...
This book features an evocative collection of images that reveal the power and importance of art in human nature. Amidst the dumps and slums of urban Kenya, street children and artisans search for a way to survive, to reclaim and promote their own existence. "The Art of Recycling in Kenya" presents readers with an evocative collection of photographs taken in the markets and villages of Kenya, where initiatives promoting self-sustenance through the exploitation of recyclable materials have been s...
Tuttle Dictionary of Antiques and Collectibles Terms
by Don Bingham and Joan Bingham
0010110 Duality Of Humanity ☯ 1101001 Singularity Of ai
by Light Guru and Napoleon P Torkom
For generations, hundreds of Mississippi women have stitched quilts, creating a rich body of folk art and enlivening the centuries-old tradition of quilting. The Mississippi Quilt Association embarked on a six-year project to document this significant craft heritage. Throughout the state, association members gathered heirloom quilts from families and from major collections. Of more than 1700 quilts examined, 140 were chosen for full-color photographs to represent the very best from the state. Co...
Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds
by Leslie Umberger and Erika Doss
This title features the work of 22 vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary wildely but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, like Simon Rodia's Watts Tower in California, to sites lost over the years.
Botanicas is an exploration in text and photographs of spiritual shops found in Latino neighborhoods throughout the United States. Readers discover these marvelous spaces and their alternative spiritualities that help patrons cope with the grind and challenges of city life. Botanicas provide access to an array of invisible powers and sell the ingredients to construct symbolic solutions to their patrons' problems. The stores are bright and baroque, and the powers they invoke come from religious t...
In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinating range of forms - from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from human-like appearances to creatures with animal and insect semblances. This book maps the diverse identities of goddesses through metaphors of grace, rage and knowledge, and offers an in-depth insight into femininity, sexual politics, ritual worships, religion, ecology and gender. Grace manifests as motherly sublimity, warring protectors, and varying pe...
One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape. He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils, and used them to build the Palais ideal. Cheval's palace is one of many works of architectural fantasy in this book, the result of over 20 years' research by celebrated architectural photographer Deidi von Schaewen. Like Cheval, the creators of these extraordinary worlds simply started...