Jackson Pollock, the son of a farmer of Scots-Irish origin, was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He first came to public notice at the age of 30 when, under the auspices of Peggy Guggenheim, he exhibited 14 paintings of such power and originality that they created an immediate sensation in art circles worldwide. Within a few years Pollock was recognized as a major artist, whose work seemed to embody the energy and emotional intensity of America itself. In 1956 he died in a car crash. This biograph...
Street Art Anthology: From Graffiti to Contextualised Art
by Magda Danysz
What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features, its codes, and its language? How has its production, which was originally exclusively centered in the urban space, invaded galleries, bringing with it real popularity for some artists? These are some of the questions that Magda Danysz, a gallery owner and recognized expert on street art, answers with an easily comprehensible and entertaining style in this unique, richly...
Discover how to create great comic strips and make a career out of doing it.Packed with superb illustrations by industry professionals, this comprehensive book takes you step by step through the entire process - from initial idea to final printed page.Develop dynamic characters: discover where to find inspiration; how to simplify the figure; how to render movement, body language, and facial expressionsUnderstand comic book storytelling conventions and find out how to pace your story, lay out the...
Funcion poetica de la imagen en el album ilustrado infantil
by Luna Baldallo Gonzalez
"The Frieze New York" catalogue is an indispensable publication for anyone interested in contemporary art, and features critical texts and biographical notes on over 170 emerging and established artists written by acclaimed art critics and curators. These artist profiles are accompanied by multiple colour reproductions on the artists work. The catalogue also provides a wealth of additional information, including an international gallery index, and listing of over 1000 artists. This publication m...
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...
Guerilla Performance and Multimedia is written by artists and for artists. It is designed for the benefit of artists engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including live art, installation, digital art and hybrids of theatre and visual art. Although there is no 'how to' in performance, no clearly defined 'industry' as such around the art form, this book stares unflinchingly into the headlights of the oncoming question: how do you make a living as an artist? This book offer...
This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French art Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Leger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and Helion and the vital art world in which they thrived. The ten interlocking essays in this important book include radical new evaluations of Derain, Leger, and Dufy, and penetrating studies of the final works of Picasso and Braque. Paris Without End, Jed Perl's first book, is now celebrating its twenty-fifth...
A History of the World in 100 Objects 6 Copy Counter Display
by Neil MacGregor
The Life of the Buddha
by Alexey Kirichenko, Cristophe Munier-Gaillard, and Minbu Aung Kyaing
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 Infographic History of the World
by Valentina D'Efilippo and James Ball
`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.
The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920
The second volume in a highly acclaimed series. Comments added to many illustrations which provide information about the artist, his style, his strengths and weaknessess.
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...
American Corporate Identity
Metropolitan Museum Journal
" 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...