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This text introduces the technology of digital imaging and illustrates the choices that must be made when images are digitized. The text explains the creation of digital image databases, how to integrate them with other imformation sources and how to interchange visual information among a variety of computerized systems. The book recommends strategies to ensure that future technology developments will not foreclose the options for upgrading databases. It is directed to curators, librarians, coll...

The Life of the Buddha - Burmese Murals from the Late 16th to the Late 18th Centuries is the first book to combine expertise in Burmese epigraphy, manuscript palaeography, literary production, historiography, monastic history and Buddhist architecture with a close study of the visual vocabulary, iconography and stylistic features of murals. Resulting from a collaboration that began in 2009, this is also the first attempt to move from the examination of a few selected monuments with better preser...

`The book is a delight' The Economist The History of the World, but not as you know it. A new type of history is here - all 13.8 billion years of it, exploded into a visually jaw-dropping feast of facts, trends and timelines that tell you everything you'd ever want to know about the history of the world. From the primordial soup to the technological revolution of the 21st century, interesting stuff has been going on; and ever since prehistori...

Claire Waite Brown provides all the key techniques such as mixing, blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching, and feathering in over 100 visual sequences. There is advice on composing your painting, using colour, adding highlights and shadows and creating textured effects. The step-by-step demonstrations range from landscapes and flowers to portraits and still life. You'll find plenty to inspire you with this captivating medium with beautiful examples in full-colour photography.

This book aims to provide a wealth of visual imagery for ideas and inspiration. This collection of amazing images has been gathered over the last 10 years, showing details of surface textures of everything from rust and wood to lichen and old sails, and has been divided up into themes to make it more accessible. The author has captured fascinating aspects of both natural and man-made things otherwise overlooked, showing the reader their hidden qualities. Elements of skips, old paint, driftwood a...

" Metropolitan Museum Journal" represents a richly illustrated study of well-known works in the Museum's collections, including pieces not on permanent display, selections from important exhibitions that have visited the Museum, and related works in other collections. Volume 33 features an article rethinking early Cycladic sculpture, a reconstruction of an Egyptian relief of the Amarna Period, a catalogue of Egyptian duck flasks, a technical study of objects from Moche Peru, an investigation of...

"The soul never thinks without an image," claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself.As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologis...

Graphis Annual Reports 2014-2016 For Platinum Award winners, see the cover. Gold winners include Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios, emerystudio, Brand Union, Costello Communications, Design Ranch, Gensler, Gottschalk+Ash Int’l, h george design, inc., Nesandy + Schwartz, and Squires & Company, among many others. Thousands of Annual Report designs are available in our online archive. This year, Graphis awarded nearly 300 winners. Platinum and Gold winners each receive full-page presentations of their w...

The Art Directory Germany, Austria, Switzerland offers extensive and up-to-date information concerning art. The user can find in the 25th edition more than 33,000 addresses with names, dates and facts. Addresses from the following areas are included: Museums and public galleries Art associations Art and antiques trade, numismatics Galleries Auctioneers Restorers Art publishers Art magazines Antiquarian bookshops and art bookshops Artists Besides addresses, telephone and fax numbers, eMail...

Arts and Crafts Design in America includes 2 50 monuments, musuems and major collections in the United St ates. It lists sites open to the public and enclaves of arts and crafts buildings that can be viewed from the street. '