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Design Language
Author: Tim McCreight
ISBN-10: 0961598468
ISBN-13: 9780961598464
Published: 1997-01
Publisher: Brynmorgen Pr
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Book Description:
Design Language brings fresh insight to students and practicing designers by examining the words they use. This compact volume presents 100 keywords with background etymology and commentary. Whether the word is as familiar as edge or perhaps new to you like synesthesia, you’ll find yourself moving easily from one entry to the next, intrigued by the rich layers of meaning you discover. Design Language understands that a book can’t teach design. Instead, it helps people learn design, by using vocabulary to explore style, form, and composition.
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Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting (Art Models series)
Author: Maureen Johnson
ISBN-10: 0976457342
ISBN-13: 9780976457343
Published: 2005-12-02
Publisher: Live Model Books
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Book Description:
Step into the studio with eleven professional art models in over a hundred beautifully photographed full color poses. -Hone your skills -Practice new techniques -Try new materials -Find inspiration -Study a variety of models in fine detail. More than a full color book of poses- Art Models provides a solution to artists' search for nude models. Use it to practice with new materials and techniques, help plan compositions, and study body features. Also great as an idea book for artists and models. Over one hundred poses from classics to contemporary demonstrated by a variety of models (detailed previews at the publisher's web site livemodelbooks). For example, Bennett interprets classic poses such as "The Dying Gaul" but also presents new and fun poses like Super Surfer and Swimmer. Susan's classic features work wonderfully for poses such as "Venus" and Degas' dancers. And Jen's youthful style and personality shine in her chapter of 20th century and newer poses. Plus eight other wonderful models give you a variety of ages and body types. "Images of the human form that come as close as possible to what you would see, if you were observing the models directly with your own eyes." Butch Krieger Companion Disk sold separately or with ISBN# 0976457350.
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The HarperCollins dictionary of art terms and techniques (HarperCollins dictionaries)
Author: Ralph Mayer
ISBN-10: 0062715186
ISBN-13: 9780062715180
Published: 1991
Publisher: HarperPerennial
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Book Description:
The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, 2nd edition, contains over 3,200 clear definitions of terns encountered in thestudy and practice of the visual arts and in their literature. It covers all forms of easel and mural paintings, drawing, sculpture, the graphic arts, photography, ceramics, and mosaic. There are entries on schools, styles, and periods, but the chief emphasis of the book is on the materials and methods of the artist. Materials are defined in terms of compositions, source, use, and characteristic properties; processes and techniques are defined in terms of their practical application and results. Tools and equipment are concisely described and illustrated with copious line drawings.
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The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide
Author: Monona Rossol
ISBN-10: 0927629100
ISBN-13: 9780927629102
Published: 1991-02-28
Publisher: North Light Books
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Book Description:
This classic art reference shows artists how to handle materials safely while practicing their craft.Dozens of at-a-glance tables and charts present vital information about art materials, ingredients, technical hazards, proper protective equipment, and safe work practices simply and accurately. This brand-new third edition is now completely revised and expanded to detail lifesaving new safety and ventilation equipment, present urgent new discoveries on toxins and pollutants found in arts and crafts materials, and explain the controversies surrounding new government regulations. A virtual lifesaver for all art and craft workers.
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Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture
Author: Victoria Hammond
ISBN-10: 1568985495
ISBN-13: 9781568985497
Published: 2005-10-06
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Book Description:
There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make Visions of Heaven one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we've ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, and Russia, among other countries, and photographing churches, palaces, mosques, and synagogues from the second to the early twentieth century, Stephenson's work amounts to a veritable typology of the cupola. His images present complex geometrical structures, rich stucco decorations, and elaborate paintings as they have never been seen before. Brilliantly calibrated exposures reveal details and colors that would otherwise remain hidden in these dimly lit spaces. Visions of Heaven shows more than 120 images, including the Roman Pantheon, the Byzantine churches of Turkey, the great domes of the Renaissance, the decorative cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo ages, and a nineteenth-century synagogue in Hungary.
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Glass Notes, a reference for the glass artist
Author: Henry Halem
ISBN-10: 1885663064
ISBN-13: 9781885663061
Published: 2006-11-20
Publisher: Franklin Mills Pr
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Book Description:
Glass Notes includes up to date illustrated information on building glass furnaces, annealing ovens, glory holes and other equipment. Other information includes how to cast and fuse glass, how to batch glass and proper annealing. Experts have written detailed information on pate de verre, fuming, proper insulation of ovens and heat recuperation, building to code, calculating air changes. An up-to-date section on suppliers of material and equipment is included. Glass Notes is fully indexed for easy referencing.
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The Sierra Club Guide to Painting in Nature (Sierra Club Books Publication)
Author: Cathy Johnson
ISBN-10: 0871569345
ISBN-13: 9780871569349
Published: 2000-03-28
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
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Book Description:
Plein-air painting is the art of painting out-of-doors, on site, and completing the work at one sitting. In this lively guide, acclaimed artist, author, and instructor Cathy Johnson provides a friendly introduction to all facets of plein-air painting—from selecting and using basic materials (including pencils, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, brushes, and papers) to weathering outdoor conditions and dealing with the challenges of capturing ever-changing light. Richly illustrated with studies, sketches, and paintings by the author and others, this book will inspire and guide beginners and accomplished artists alike in this time-honored pastime.
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The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, Fifth Edition
Author: Frank Hamer
ISBN-10: 0812238109
ISBN-13: 9780812238105
Published: 2004-05-26
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Book Description:
Now available in its fifth edition, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques presents a comprehensive survey of all aspects of making ceramics for craft potters and ceramic artists. With its sound, practical explanations of ceramic processes, this indispensable reference book has gained a reputation as "the potter's bible." Professional potters, beginners, students, and collectors will find authoritative information clearly and logically presented.Frank and Janet Hamer explain the sources and character of materials, the behavior of clays and glaze minerals during forming and firing processes, forming methods, and glaze construction. In addition to brief outlines and detailed articles with cross references to illustrations, color photographs illustrate glaze effects and surfaces featured in the work of inventive, contemporary potters. The varied techniques of Raku, maiolica, crystalline glazes, salt and soda, stoneware, and porcelain are also presented in a new color section.This new edition has been updated to include auto-reduction, crystalline glazes, insulation, stains, and specialized firing and fuming techniques. With upwards of 800 illustrations to clarify everything in the ceramic world, in its fifth edition The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques will continue to serve as the authority on all things ceramic.
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Watching Words Move
Author: Ivan Chermayeff
ISBN-10: 0811852148
ISBN-13: 9780811852142
Published: 2006-05-11
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Book Description:
Words have the power to move. In 1962 a modest design studio created its own riff on that statement in the form of a small booklet of typographic brilliance, and changed forever how designers thought about the graphic potential of words. Decades later, the impact of watching words move is still felt. Never before had the idea been so lucidly and playfully expressed that type itself could speak, that word-forms carried their own implied visual meanings; that the placement of letters on the page could suggest motion, narrative, emotionjust about anything. Now widely available for the first time, this reproduction of the original includes thoughts by influential designers George Lois, April Greiman, Kit Hinrichs, Michael Carabetta, and Steven Heller on the lasting impact of this lively type primer, and presents its still-fresh innovation to new generations of designers.
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Diccionario de términos de arte y elementos de Arqueología, Heráldica y Numismática
Author: Guillermo Fatas
ISBN-10: 8420636576
ISBN-13: 9788420636573
Published: 1988
Publisher: Alianza Editorial Sa
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