This book looks at what it means to work in a creative studio. The volume takes a broad view of the concept of studio, defining it as any creative space that exists in the real or digital world – so this could be your studio at the university, a space or table you have at home, or a digital environment such as Miro where you work alone or with others. This book guides you in setting up a stud…
A través de una serie de casos más o menos anómalos, el reconocido historiador italiano Carlo Ginzburg reflexiona sobre las imágenes en el arte y su largo diálogo con las palabras: De Vasari a Aby Warburg; de Federico Zeri a Anthony Grafton; de Francis Galton a Freud y Wittgenstein. En estos nueve ensayos de una erudición encantadora, Ginzburg no solo descifra textos leyéndolos entre lí…
In 1969, during a Boston snowstorm, a crate containing Pablo Picasso's Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer vanished from Logan Airport. It should have gone to a Milwaukee gallery-but instead ended up in the closet of Bill Rummel, a young forklift operator. What followed was a stranger-than-fiction chain of events: FBI agents on the hunt, whispers of Whitey Bulger's mob, and a daring "reverse h…
Atmospheric Landscapes with Oils and Cold Wax is an inspiring and practical guide for artists eager to explore the rich textures, luminous layers and intuitive mark-making that define this versatile medium. By layering, scraping and working with transparent and opaque colours, it shows you how to create your own compelling landscapes that evoke mystery and atmosphere and resonate with energy an…
The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur. These include birth and marriage certificates, family trees, bookplates, awards, and house blessings. Leading fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung adapts the craft to modern tastes and needs in this practical how-to book, with information on tools, step-by-step instructions, ideas for design, …
Take the guesswork out of color mixing! With just 25 common paint colors, you can make 2,400 different hues, and they are all illustrated in this comprehensive guide. That’s 2,400 hues for each medium—oils, acrylics, and watercolors—with each hue visually represented for your easy reference. Better yet, each color mix uses only two paint colors, so matching results are easy …
One of the most popular drawing guides ever published, The Art of Drawing has been an informative and thorough guide to several generations of aspiring artists. For fifty years, Willy Pogány has given the main principles of drawing in a simple, constructive way. By following the sequences laid out in the lessons, students quickly master the art of drawing. As further aid, Pogány …
The story of the most important art show in U.S. history. Held at Manhattan’s 69th Regiment Armory in 1913, the show brought modernism to America in an unprecedented display of 1300 works by artists including Picasso, Matisse, and Duchamp, A quarter of a million Americans visited the show; most couldn’t make sense of what they were seeing. Newspaper critics questioned the artists&rs…
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English version included Un luogo magico, una guida molto dettagliata, scena per scena, della Cappella degli Scrovegni. Oltre a spiegare ai lettori il ciclo degli affreschi di Giotto, Chiara Frugoni ne presenta un'interpretazione nuova, con protagonista il committente Enrico Scrovegni, per nulla pentito delle ricchezze accumulate e dell'ombra del peccato d'usura (che aveva portato il padre Ri…