Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons is intended to provide an overview of the animation industry and its historical development. The animation industry has been in existence as long (some would argue longer) than cinema, yet it has had less exposure in terms of the discourse of moving-image history. This book introduces animation by considering the various definitions that have been…
Conosciamo molti più sentimenti che colori. Per questo motivo ogni colore può avere significati diversi, spesso contraddittori, e può suscitare diverse emozioni. Lo stesso rosso può risultare inopportuno o nobile. Lo stesso verde può sembrare velenoso o tranquillizzante. Un giallo, radioso o pungente... Nessun colore è privo di significato.Questo libro esplora la relazione che i colori ha…
Take a journey across the United States as you paint stunning scenes and subjects from some of America’s most iconic places in glorious watercolor. Paint the National Parks: A Watercolor Journey showcases 20 of the most popular national parks from throughout the United States. Each project shows step by step how to paint an iconic scene that captures the essence of one of the parks: from…
The first book to explore the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba during the nations years as a democracy Providing the first comprehensive history of modern Cuban art during the 1940s, this book contextualizes the artistic practices, values, and contributions of the first and second generations of avant-garde artists on the island within the framework of the nations only democratic period. B…
The ultimate guide to creating gorgeous mixed-media art with gel plates! Gel plate printing is an approachable new way of making creative mono prints without a press. Using the flexible printing plates, artists can use paints, inks, stencils, and different textures to create mixed-media prints. Now, noted artist and instructor Jessica Russo Scherr shares her groundbreaking secrets for bringin…
The ultimate guide to creating gorgeous mixed-media art with gel plates! Gel plate printing is an approachable new way of making creative mono prints without a press. Using the flexible printing plates, artists can use paints, inks, stencils, and different textures to create mixed-media prints. Now, noted artist and instructor Jessica Russo Scherr shares her groundbreaking secrets for bringin…
A beautifully illustrated history of one of the most important cultural categories in Japan The Japanese term meibutsu refers to things of the highest cultural value, evolving over time to encompass both craft and fine art, high and low culture, and manufactured and natural items. Material goods designated as meibutsu range from precious art objects to regional products like bamboo baskets and…
In The Human in Bits, Kris Cohen examines black abstractionist painting to demonstrate how race and computation are intimately entangled with the personal computer's graphic user interface. He shows how the personal computer and the graphical field of its screen meant to transform the human by transforming what environments humans were to labor in. It also provided the means for whiteness to ti…
La giornata di studi "Etruschi del Novecento. Approfondimenti. La ricezione dell'arte etrusca nel Novecento", curata da Lucia Mannini, Anna Mazzanti, Giulio Paolucci e Alessandra Tiddia, rappresenta la terza tappa della proficua collaborazione tra la Fondazione Luigi Rovati di Milano e il Mart di Rovereto, dopo le due tappe della mostra "Etruschi del Novecento", aperta a dicembre 2024 al Mart e…
In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on Aimé Césaire's rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Caliban becomes the sole author of his own story, dissolving his fixed position as colonized in relation to Prospero as colonizer. James shows how visual …