Изобразительное искусство, фотография
2694 кн.
An encyclopaedia of street culture for those who love Banksy or Irvine Welsh and want to know about the cutting-edge talents, past and present, who have shaped urban cool.This eye-catching insider's guide includes old-school graffiti legends, avant-garde street artists, film-makers, DJ's, designers, writers and poets who have influenced urban culture. From the ground-breaking New York artists of the 1980s to the unique work of modern-day Iranians – this book shows how street culture has...
| Автор | King ADZ |
What if you could press a button and have a machine build you any product you wanted? What if we all had the means to modify our physical environment, to tweak and subvert objects produced for us by designers and manufacturers? A new generation of hardware hackers is making steady progress toward making these hypotheses reality, building vibrant communities in the process. And designers are experimenting with open-source creation and customization, trying to come to terms with the...
| Автор | Avinash Rajagopal |
Renowned designer, author, critic, co-chair of SVA’s MFA program in design and National Design Award recipient Steven Heller reaches into the most contemplative recesses of his mind to offer an entertaining new collection of ruminations on the nature and future of design. In Design Cult—the first of a series of three titles published exclusively as e-books through the DesignFile consortium—Heller expounds on such disparate topics as Milton Glaser, Japanese masks,...
| Автор | Steven Heller |
This book is about celebrating so many beautiful cultures, customs, languages, and landscapes. As if over the years, all nations have collectively decided to display their flags as a way to mark their victory. Thus flags have been symbolically used to announce the victory of coexistence over war and defeat of obstacles and hardships. This collection of flags confirms that all countries have been succeeding. In this book, I have simply been attempting to capture these amazing displays of honor...
| Автор | Ali Langroodi |
A young girl named Hazel has experienced a great tragedy. Losing her parent was one thing but........a murder?! Who is this person? Why would they do such a thing? Although not given the full support, she is determined to find he/she. Little does she know the obstacles coming her way. And the big reveal..........
| Автор | Wania Kashif |
Marie Browning pushes the envelope of Zentangle into the living dimension of color. Using easy to follow steps, Marie illustrates over 40 new tangles. More than simply coloring regions of a tangle design, this book offers lessons which enable even the novice artist to use a Tombow Dual Brush pen to color delightful Zentangle animals, plants and flowers.
| Автор | Marie Browning |
Fergus was a small cottage lad who had lived his whole life in the Hidden Gully. Unfortunately for Fergus, his most close family member passed. With this, unknown phenomena began to take place. Winds, images, and the hearing of silent words. With such events, these prompted Fergus to explore deeper, where he will discover something legendary. As all was evolving, Fergus was fortunate enough to discover many new lands and a few good folks, but what was of importance, was how he harmonized the...
| Автор | Rene Darker |
He was the smartest lawyer in New York at the mid 20th century. He was the senior partner in the largest law firm. He was well intended and betrothed into a power family. He was destined to fail! She was a simple girl! If girls or women are ever simple? She was very shy and withdrawn. She lived in a small cottage with her quirky but highly intelligent inventor father. Her mother had died at a young age…or so she was informed. What began as an innocent requirement by a law firm for a...
| Автор | Welby Thomas Cox, Jr. |
This Argumentative Essay study guide is created by Pamphlet Master for students everywhere. This tool has a comprehensive variety of college and graduate school topics/subjects which can give you what it takes to achieve success not only in school but beyond. Included in the pamphlet are: – What is Argumentative Essay? – Formal vs. Informal Arguments – Sample Argumentative Essay – Deductive arguments – Standard argument types – Inductive arguments – Defeasible arguments -Argument by analogy...
| Автор | Pamphlet Master |
Repair is a design constraint and an outcome of product design. It’s also a practical activity performed—or not—on designed objects. Similar skills and understanding are required to design and fix things well, but these shared capacities are applied to very different practical ends. Both agents, the designer and the repairer, seek to solve similar problems, but from opposing starting points, with different goals and limitations. Holistic, empathic thinking is key from...
| Автор | Derrick Mead |
• Leila Lindholm is a popular European TV chef• New edition of her critically acclaimed baking cookbook• Follow-up to author’s successful book A Piece of Cake • Will appeal to both experienced home bakers and complete beginners• 150 recipes and over 200 beautiful color photographs
| Автор | Leila Lindholm |
Fox Chapel is the publisher with the largest number of woodburning titles. Pyrography books have sold steadily over the last decade, and we have recently seen a resurgence of interest from chains like Michaels. This is the perfect starter book for your accounts.
| Автор | Lora S. Irish |
Scrupulously researched book by noted authority traces the development of European clothing styles from prehistory to the Norman Conquest in A.D. 1066. Over 160 illustrations, including 17 full-color plates, display draped robes of classical Greece, the jewel-encrusted apparel of a 10th-century Byzantine emperor, garments of peasants, as well as footwear, hairstyles, headdresses, and jewelry.
| Автор | Herbert Norris |
From prehistory to the mid-20th century, this informative book describes and illustrates the development of Western dress. The text — enhanced by nearly 500 illustrations — appears in outline form, permitting easy cross-referencing of material. Details of distinctive features for each era include footwear, headgear, accessories, and typical colors and materials. 491 black-and-white illustrations.
| Автор | Carolyn G. Bradley |
As any historian or casual observer of urban transformation might tell you, walls are not everlasting. The following collection examines different ways monuments and notions of monumentality in art and architecture exist in relation to this reality. From Esther Yi's chronicle of the uncertain fate of a section of the Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery, to Michael Z. Wise's essay on the Casa Malaparte in Capri, the articles collected in this month's LARB Digital Edition...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
MARGARET PRESTON is Australia's most original painter. Essentially a pioneer, she strikes out new paths, and her fervour for experiment has led her into diverse forms of art. As she has mastered each new method she discards it and moves on to something fresh. Her latest conquest is the Monotype, and this book reveals her achievement in this field. As a practical craftsman, she found intense pleasure in working out a rare method of making Monotypes that can only be compared with that used by...
| Автор | Margaret Preston |
For almost five hundred years, the Mona Lisa smile has mystified viewers and intrigued historians. Completed in 1515, the Mona Lisa has hidden the lady’s secret well. Now, after years devoted to research and analysis of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, W. N. Varvel has decoded the Mona Lisa and reveals the message within her smile, a secret too dangerous for the artist to acknowledge during his life but one which he hoped future generations would understand and embrace. The coming of the “New...
| Автор | W. N. Varvel |
She lived a very nice life indeed. Well-to-do parents, good schooling, university… but becoming a princess was an entirely different matter. The media, the pressure, the attention – she never expected anything like this. All she did was fall in love with her best friend. He just happened to be the heir to the throne… A Special Edition to commemorate the Royal engagement and wedding. From the English writer of Flying Friar, Rich Johnston and Welsh artist for Doctor Who, Mike Collins.
| Автор | Rich Johnston |
Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An important book for art and design theorists, and other thoughtful creators.
| Автор | Leonard Koren |
E6 is a high-octane thriller set in present day Scandinavia. Criminality is rife, with gangs fighting to claim territory. Kajsa is a member of an elite police highway pursuit unit. Haunted by a traumatic past, and wrestling with her other darker self, Kajsa will be forced into taking the law into her own hands.
| Автор | Patrick Halliday |
1962: the Cold War is at its peak as the Cuban Missile Crisis threatens to launch the world into a nuclear holocaust. The timing couldn’t be worse for Russia’s latest secret weapon to go rogue. Genetically created Vampires. Twisted mutated victims left over from Nazi experimentation – designed to infiltrate missile sites and cause havoc. Their destination… Cuba. With the world on the brink – the clock is ticking.
| Автор | Andy Briggs |
What’s the difference between being possessed by Satan and hallucinating that you’re possessed by Satan? To an 11-year old boy who’s heard all about The Exorcist, nothing at all. Go to Hell and back with Steve Kissing in this autobiographical graphic novel that proves that real life is wilder than fiction.
| Автор | Steve Kissing, Charles Santino |
A woman by the name of Veronica Ramirez has been hearing voices she is told that she will carry the son of Satan. She has been delving into the occult and has been possessed and is trying to figure it all out. People around the world are looking into the biblical prophecy of the end times the Book of Revelations in the Bible and people are worried that the end is near. Strange events and unusual paranormal activity goes on whilst this all takes place. Later Veronica Ramirez gives birth and...
| Автор | Marion Julius |
Сборник содержит вокализы, каждый из которых имеет название, указывающее на его жанровою и эмоциональную природу. Темповые и динамические указания сведены к минимуму для более творческого подхода исполнителя при работе над вокализами. Предназначено для певцов разных уровней подготовки.
| Автор | А. В. Филиппов |