Digital Painting for the Complete Beginner
Written by Carlyn Beccia
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $24.99
Master the tools and techniques of this exciting, contemporary medium
How can you create stunning artwork that combines the traditions of conventional media with the marvelous opportunities of digital painting programs?
With
Digital Painting for the Complete Beginner, learn the techniques of digital painting to unleash the endless possibilities for this unique medium...
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Aisthesis
Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art
Written by Jacques Ranciere
Translated by Zakir Paul
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $29.95
Composed in a series of scenes,
Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in...
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Walls Notebook
Written by Sherwood Forlee
Format: Non-traditional book, 160 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
These textured urban walls provide an interesting backdrop for notes, musings, drawings, doodles, and more. Indulge your inner graffiti artist - without the risk of jail time!
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Creating Characters with Personality
Written by Tom Bancroft
Introduction by Glen Keane
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob SquarePants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken.
Designing Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context within a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize...
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Artificial Hells
Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Written by Claire Bishop
Format: Trade Paperback, 390 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $29.95
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians...
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Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $21.99
The third title in a bestselling series,
Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy is a complete drawing book for the beginning artist. Based on a series of lessons that begin with the five basic shapes (circle, oval, square, cylinder, and rectangle) combined with the five basic components of drawing (line, mass, perspective...
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Bad Boy
My Life On and Off the Canvas
Written by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
In
Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial...
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