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...
Painted Altar Frontals of Norway 1250-1350
by Unn Plahter, E.Morgan N. Hohler, and A. Wickstrom
Die Darstellung der septem artes liberales und ihre Umsetzung am Campanile in Florenz
by Gina Kacher
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...
Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ALS Begrunder Der Ikonologie
by Rebecca Elisabeth Meyer
Arts and Crafts Design in America
by James C. Massey and Shirley Maxwell
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. '
Which institutions are on the cutting edge? Which gallery scene is the most vital? Which site-specific artworks should not be missed? Which biennials are scheduled for the coming years? Contemporary Europe is a concise, up-to-date and insightful presentation of European museums, art institutions, galleries, art fairs, biennials and public artworks.
Those who love art are guaranteed to further expand their knowledge of this form of expression when using this comprehensive 3-panel (6-page)guide, which examines in detail each type of artafrom printmaking to photographyathat currently exists. Key definitions, historical periods and lists of well-known art pieces are included for easy access.
One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature—designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of har...
A Magic World
'Pietra dura' is a method of inlaying multicoloured semi-precious stones to create patterns, flowers, landscapes, portraits and scenes. This art form was developed in the Florentine granducal factory of the Medici court in the late 16th century. With the end of princely patronage (19th century), private workshops engaged in the renewal of the mosaic to appease the taste of their international clientele. The most popular subjects were sentimental domestic scenes, glimpses of rural life inspired b...
Age and Arts Participation with a Focus on the Baby Boom Cohort (Research Division Report, #34)
by Richard A. Peterson
Painting and Understanding Abstract Art is a practical book on how to paint abstracts but it also explains how to approach and understand abstract art. It moves the teaching of art from a doing level of painting a certain subject in a particular medium to a thinking level of 'what am I doing when I paint?' and 'what am I trying to say in this painting?' Using practical exercises with explanatory text, John Lowry develops the thinking and doing processes together and leads the reader to a great...