Art:

Art Theory For Beginners

Written by Richard Osborne and Dan Sturgis
Illustrated by Natalie Turner

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $14.99

From Paleolithic cave-painting to postmodernism, Art Theory For Beginners is a concise and entertaining survey of the major historical and current debates on art. Painters, theorists and philosophers are all included to show how the idea of art has developed over the last 5,000 years.
Art is a visual representation of... Read more >

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression

Written by Gary Faigin

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $24.95

Artists love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organized, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust, and surprise. Each... Read more >

Facial Expressions Babies to Teens
A Visual Reference for Artists
Written by Mark Simon

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $21.95

Babies are so unpredictable. You put them down in one place, you never know if they’ll be there when you come back. And don’t even get us started on kids and teens. Artists have it particularly rough with volatile young people, because their facial expressions are just as fleeting. Happy one... Read more >

The Artist-Gallery Partnership
A Practical Guide to Consigning Art
Written by Tad Crawford and Susan Mellon

Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $19.95

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The Quotable Artist

Written by Peggy Hadden

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $16.95

More than 1,000 memorable quotes from artists


Journey through the wit and wisdom of generations of visual artists, photographers, writers, and architects—and discover what makes creative people extraordinary. This compilation of more than 1,000 great quotations, from famous to obscure, celebrates what artists throughout time have said about fame, color, finding inspiration... Read more >

The Nude Female Figure
A Visual Reference for the Artist
Written by Mark Edward Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $29.95

More than two hundred full-color photos of women in motion and at rest


Standing. Seated. Reclining. Kneeling. Bending. Crouching. Running. World-renowned photographer
Mark Edward Smith has captured women of every age and form in every type of movement, then gathered his striking, unusual images into The Nude Female Figure. An indispensable reference for
artists... Read more >

Dada and Surrealism For Beginners

Written by Elsa Bethanis and Peter Bethanis
Illustrated by Joe Lee

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95

What kind of artists put a moustache on the Mona Lisa? Enter a urinal in an art competition? Declare their own independent republic? Hijack a ship? Dadas!
And what happens to such a movement? With Dada, many of the artists declared their own "Pope" and continued their journey (with no destination) into... Read more >

The Power of Limits
Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture
Written by Gyorgy Doczi

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $24.95

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... Read more >

Artists Communities
A Directory of Residencies that Offer time and Space for Creativity
Written by The Alliance Of Artists' Communities
Introduction by Robert Macneil

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $24.95

Introduction by Robert MacNeil



The bible of creative residency programs returns, with fresh information and new features for artists of all disciplines. More than 300 programs worldwide are described, with 95 leading communities featured in two-page spreads with photographs. The user-friendly layout allows for quick scans of facility descriptions, deadlines, fees, selection... Read more >

The Artist's Quest of Inspiration

Written by Peggy Hadden

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2004
Price: $19.95

Updated to inspire a new generation of visual artists in their quest for creative growth, this book shows artists how they can experience a new awakening of creativity and add fresh meaning to their work by using simple techniques found in this inspirational guide. A working artist who has coped successfully... Read more >

How to Grow as an Artist

Written by Daniel Grant

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $21.95

In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their abilities with others as well as create... Read more >