Find Your Daily Peace and Relax Your Mind With TheLatestKate’s Art Therapy Activities#1 Best Seller in Depression, Anxieties & Phobias A gently supportive and encouraging coloring book by Kate Allan, creator of TheLatestKate and author of You Can Do All Things, perfect for those dealing with anxiety or depression. Ideal for use with colored pencils; markers and paints not recommended. Soothing art therapy from an empathetic source. In You Deserve Nice Things, Kate draws strengths from her own...
A comprehensive look at the inner workings of the twelve zodiac signs - their respective idiosyncrasies and relationships to one another - by noted astrologer Katharine Merlin. Katharine Merlin has been writing the monthly horoscope column for Town&Country for over twenty years, one of the magazine's most popular columns. This book differs from others on this topic in that it is full of real-life people, experiences, and events. Merlin draws upon decades of personal experience to bring each sign...
Do your heart and soul need encouragement, refreshment, and inspiration? Anne Neilson’s Angels is an exquisite, artful 40-day devotional inviting you to experience joy and comfort through an original angel painting, a thoughtful reflection, Bible verse, and prayer. Experience hope and comfort through Neilson's incredible, ethereal angel paintings combined with her poetic voice reflecting on poignant topics such as love, abundance, release, identity, and purpose. This stunning, conversation-star...
Find Clarity and Connection in this Calming Coloring BookImagine calling it a day and calming the emotional storm with this anti-anxiety coloring book. Filled with encouraging messages and cute animal friends, these cute coloring pages are a perfect addition to your relaxing self care routine.Reconnect with your inner self. When was the last time you felt creative, confident or connected? You’re too cute for that! Develop these skills and find anxiety relief in this calming coloring book. This K...
An authoritative study of Gego, whose distinctive modernist practice sits at the intersection of architecture, design, and the visual arts This important book is the first extended study of the life and work of German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912–94), known as Gego. In locating the artist’s contribution to postwar art and her important place in the global conversations around modernity, Mónica Amor explores her intermedial practice as a model of cultural complexity at the...
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement (Gender in History)
by Zoe Thomas
This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long-standing assumption that the Arts and Crafts simply revolved around celebrated male designers like William Morris, it instead offers a new social and cultural account of the movement, which simultaneously reveals the breadth of the imprint of women art workers upon the making of modern society. Thomas provi...
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
by Andrea Pearson
Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author Andrea Pearson identifies and explores pictorial constructions of masculinity and femininity in regard to the expectations, experiences, and practices of devotion. Specifically, she demonstrates that two...
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s’ artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta’s diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history of performance art, installation, and earth works,...
This monograph on Susanna Bauer presents the artist's work to an international audience for the first time in book form. The essential ingredients of Bauer's artistic production are the ephemeral natural elements that she encounters during walks and hikes in the South-West of the UK where she lives and works. They are leaves, stones, twigs... elements that become the heart of more elaborate creations rendered with crochet - sometimes used conventionally as a decoration, other times as a sculptur...
These extraordinary works by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships, frantic and prone bodies, carefully illuminate the tensions between the past and the present. Taking inspiration from Delacroix’s shipwreck paintings, as well as one of the most feted paintings in the world; Géricault’s, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818–19. In her introduction to the book, Whitworth curator Dr Samantha Lackey writes, 'These extraordinary works by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships, frantic and prone bodies, carefully illuminat...
The publication of 'Vision and Difference' marked a milestone in the development of modern art history. Its introduction of a feminist perspective into this largely male-oriented discipline made shockwaves that are still felt forcefully today. Drawing upon feminist cultural theory previously little applied to the visual arts, Griselda Pollock offers concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucial...
Women in Dada (The MIT Press)
Finally, a look at the role of women in the shaping of the high-spirited-but hardly feminist-Dada monement.For all of its iconoclasm, the Dada spirit was not without repression, and the Dada movement was not without misogynist tendencies. Indeed, the word Dada evokes the idea of the male-both as father and as domineering authority. Thus female colleagues were to be seen not heard, nurturers not usurpers, pleasant not disruptive.This book is the first to make the case that women's changing role i...
Pretty Boujie & Ratchet Coloring (Black Coloring Books for Women)
by Sarai Tennessee and Lady Ace Gmd
Wedding and event florist and founder of the Chapel Designers floral community, Holly is a creative visionary and a highly recognized and sought-after floral designer whose work has been published in countless prestigious publications and top industry blogs. Learn about Holly's floral journey, the inspiring story of Hope Flower Farm, and the values of hospitality, creativity, and community that embody her life in flowers.
Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos. Written by Loos' third wife, the photographer Claire Beck (1904-1942), these often humorous, short episodes reveal Loos' temperament and philosophy during the last years of his life (1928-1933). His irreverent personality and attitudes about post-Imperial Viennese society, the role of the craftsman, and the organic beauty of raw materials are brought to li...