City Sketching Reimagined
Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere. Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers. With easily digested bite-size entries, it introduces many types of art materials, their uses and a number of insights and exercises to build confidence in a range of approaches to drawing. For the more experienced sketcher, the artists discuss the processes behind drawing and strategies to inject more creativity and open-mindedness about how to take a drawing forward. With great charm, the book gives a window onto the experiences of Jeanette, who has travelled to many cities worldwide in search of inspiring city subjects and a half-decent cocktail. Full of tips and ideas about working on location and back in the studio, this book is filled with the scribbles, sketches and preparatory drawings that feed into the larger works for which she is known. As a whole, the book is a multipurpose tool which can be used to unlock the potential of drawing both technically and philosophically so that the reader can be the architect of their own drawing experience rather than the recipient of someone else's. After thirty years of drawing, many of them teaching, the authors still feel an excitement when picking up a pencil or some charcoal. This book gives every reader the chance to share that excitement and bring urban living to life.
At The Risk of Being Seen - The Art of Max Zolo
At the Risk of Being Seen - The Art of Max Zolo invites you into a bold and intimate conversation between artist and reader, blending more than 40 original artworks with prose and poetry in a rare collaboration between mother and son.Through image and word, Zolo challenges societal norms and offers deeply personal insights-filtered through the lens of an empath and a creative artist living with cerebral palsy and neurodivergence. His work transforms vulnerability into strength, urging us to embrace what is true: imperfection.Each piece tells its own story-together forming a moving tribute to our shared humanity and the boundless power of imagination. With fearless honesty, Max Zolo explores themes of self-identity, the bond between mother and child, family, the resilience and fragility of life, the urgency of Black lives, and the art of survival.Each story, best savored one at a time, becomes a study in generosity and eloquence as the images, words, and emotions settle in. Do not rush your appreciation of this book. Take the journey at your own pace. As a partner in the experience, give yourself the time and grace your own reflections deserve.Having risked-and been seen-Max Zolo sees us. We are all here for each other. Wabi-sabi. Takiwatanga. Ubuntu.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock the Making of the Classic Film
An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, featuring rare and previously unseen production art and new and exclusive interviews. Over 40 years ago, in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Admiral Kirk and his crew embarked on a perilous mission to retrieve Spock's body and reunite his soul with his physical form, defying Starfleet orders and facing off against Klingon enemies to save their friend. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - The Making of the Classic Film delves into the untold stories behind the making of one of the most pivotal films in the Star Trek saga. From the pressures of continuing the iconic story after The Wrath of Khan to Leonard Nimoy stepping into the director's chair, this book explores the creative challenges, technical innovations, and behind-the-scenes drama that shaped the film. Featuring interviews with cast, crew, and production staff, it uncovers the intricate world-building, the special effects that brought Klingon battles and Genesis Planet to life, and the emotional weight of Spock's resurrection. Featuring a foreword from Robin Curtis, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - The Making of the Classic Film is a must-read for Trek fans and film enthusiasts alike, celebrating the legacy of a film that solidified the franchise's place in pop culture history.
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research: Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies explores the diversity of fans and how they form and express their identity within fandom. Main themes in this book include otherness, fans with disabilities, fans within the LGBTQIA+ community, and how fandom can enrich the life of a fan.This book asks readers how a fan develops and performs their identity, and proposes a screenwriting practice methodology. Otherness in this scenario includes people who have disabilities, are within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, and are neurodiverse. Screenwriting methodology also allows concepts such as disability, sexuality, and otherness to be humanised through characterisation and world building as seen in screenwriting practice.Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research: Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies examines world building, characterisation and story arcs that explore the development of fan identity and how otherness through fandom is expressed. It draws on the lived experience of the author as a disabled LGBTQIA+ aca-fan to add a layer of authenticity to the research. By offering a unique perspective on fandom and identity and how screenwriting methodology is a viable approach to researching these concepts it looks to spread understanding of a neglected point of view and enhance future works.Readers that would be interested in this book are scholars and students of fandom theory, screenwriting practice, and those interested in the development and expression of identity as a fan.
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The Forms of Silence [ street photography ]
The Forms of Silence: Street Photography began many years ago with a simple but life-changing piece of advice from three dear friends-Tim, Shaba, and Paul-all experienced artists, publishers, and photographers. They saw something in me I hadn't yet recognized: that I had "the eye" for photography. Their encouragement led me to pick up a small camera and wander the streets, capturing fragments of life and experimenting with the way light and shadow converse. This journey, now approaching a decade, has been sustained by the unwavering support of those closest to me-my parents, siblings, my wife, my children, and friends like Johannes and Dave of the CEC family, who have walked beside me through every stage. Their belief in me, through seasons of uncertainty and wonder alike, has been a quiet but constant anchor.As a sociologist and theologian, my professional life is rooted in listening to the struggles and hopes of marginalized communities-work that often brings me to the edges of human vulnerability and resilience. Amid this intensity, I found myself longing for silence. Street and urban photography became that silence: a way to stand still, to breathe, and to find beauty in the overlooked corners of the everyday. I have always been drawn to the quiet transformations of the city - the way rain turns streets into living paintings, or how fallen leaves scatter like the soft kisses of Mother Nature upon the earth. These are the gestures that remind me there is poetry hidden everywhere, waiting patiently to be noticed.I don't see this book-or my work-as a masterpiece, for there are true masters of photography from whom I still have much to learn. Rather, I see it as a trace of my search-a personal record of listening for stillness in a world that rarely stops shouting.Sam Lee
American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection
Featuring touchstones of modernist art and showcasing many never-before-published works by American icons.American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection recontextualizes touchstones of American art and showcases never-before-published works by Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alma Thomas, among others. For the first time, Charles Butt--CEO of the H-E-B supermarket chain--shares his passion for modernist art in an exhibition that will travel across Texas from 2025 through 2027 and in this accompanying catalogue. The more than eighty paintings and watercolors from the first eighty years of the twentieth century reveal an influential Texan's personal vision of the creativity of modern American art. The collection includes both intimate figural scenes and dynamic landscape paintings, and illuminates various approaches to representing and interpreting this country's land and seas. With color plates and essays by curator Shirley Reece-Hughes and art historian Erika Doss, as well as an interview with Butt by the Carter's director, Andrew J. Walker, American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection offers a rare glimpse of an unparalleled collection of American imagination.
Animalia
A collection of classic animal illustrations by renowned artists and naturalists. Celebrate the wonder of wildlife with hidden gems from the Royal Collection. Animalia includes eighty detailed and lifelike illustrations of animal life from around the world. Discover the work of some of the greatest artists and naturalists in history, including John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, John Gould, and Maria Sibylla Merian. Originally created as essential studies of the natural world, these vivid and graphic works of art are presented here alongside a concise expert introduction. This book is the perfect gift for anyone inspired by the beauty of nature.
Botanicals
A collection of gorgeous plant illustrations by famous artists and botanists. Admire the beauty of botany with this book of exquisite illustrations from the Royal Collection. A source of inspiration for those with a love of plant life, illustration, and design, Botanicals includes more than eighty meticulous and scientifically accurate drawings by renowned artists and botanists, including Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Mark Catesby. Originally created as essential studies of the natural world, these vivid and graphic works of art are presented here alongside a concise expert introduction. This book is the perfect gift for plant lovers.
Le Cyclop: A Monumental Folly by Tinguely, Saint Phalle, and Their Artist Friends
A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean TinguelyCreated by sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925-91) in collaboration with Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) and their artist friends Bernhard Luginb羹hl, Larry Rivers, Jes繳s Rafael Soto and Daniel Spoerri, among others, Le Cyclop is a monumental sculptural work that dominates the forest of Milly-la-For礙t outside Paris. Elaborated upon for three decades, the collective project generated a total environment. Its exterior presents an immense head bedecked in sparkling mirrors, built almost entirely from found and industrial materials. Its interior houses a surprising universe punctuated with sound sculptures, a small automatic theater, machinery with scrap metal gears as well as homages to Duchamp, Klein and Schwitters.This definitive publication tells in detail the story of Le Cyclop, gathering new essays by an array of international art historians and scholars, an extensive chronology as well as remarkable archival materials.
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Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society [Archaeological and Antiquarian Papers, Ed. by G.R. Mackarness and W.F. Francis]
Toward Joy
Offering a new approach seen through a variety of frameworks, this groundbreaking publication reframes the narrative of American Art through the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. How might American art be experienced at this moment? Disrupting traditional presentations and offering a new approach seen through a variety of different historical and cultural lenses, this groundbreaking new publication reframes the narrative of American Art from 4,000 BC to the contemporary moment. Drawn from the world-renowned holdings of the Brooklyn Museum, this beautifully illustrated book is organized in a series of frameworks including content from the museum's Black Feminist Roundtable, presenting concepts such as "Rest as Resistance," "Black and White Show," and "To Give Flowers". Iconic favorite images will be grouped alongside never-before-seen-works, highlight the unique transdisciplinary conversations that can occur between objects. The approach used seeks to prioritize dialogue and engagement that shifts the focus to create an accessible and inclusive, interdisciplinary story of American Art.
Yolŋu Power
Offers a comprehensive insight into a group of world-recognized and celebrated artistsThe art of Yirrkala is inextricably intertwined with its cultural, political, and social history. For almost one hundred years, artists from this small community in north-east Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory have shared art as a means of cultural diplomacy--as a respectful assertion of power in its diverse forms, from sovereignty to influence, authority, and control, to energy, strength, and pride.Published in association with a major survey at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Yolŋu Power features over two hundred works from the 1940s to the present day. It considers the significant moments in Yirrkala's history when artists have consciously altered their practice, developed new styles, or embraced new mediums. It also contextualizes the work of individual artists within the broader school of artists from Yirrkala and surrounding Miwatj Country. An essay by the exhibition's curator, Cara Pinchbeck, provides an overview of the various innovative art practices in Yirrkala, examining the influence of inheritance, family connections, and acts of diplomacy and activism. Djambawa Mariwili and Kade McDonald discuss the nuances of speaking for Country (land, sea, and sky), and Will Stubbs writes on the power embodied in Yolŋu art. The plates are interspersed with voices from Yirrkala, past and present, offering a range of perspectives on the visual culture of this important art center.Exhibition Dates: June 21-October 6, 2025 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Graffiti Alphabet Sticker Book
Spell out anything...and stick it anywhere you like with these sticky graffiti letters. With hundreds of stickers -- in forty graffiti lettering styles -- The Graffiti Alphabet Sticker Book makes it easy to spell out anything...and stick it anywhere you like! Personalize your junk journal, laptop, skateboard or phone, or simply stick your name on stuff! There are endless uses for these sticky street art letters. With complete alphabets in a variety of graffiti styles - including wildstyle, blockbuster, bubble, throw-up, and stencil - you're free to create any message you want. And for added effect you'll even find paint drips, splats and plenty of sticky extras...from skulls to spray cans and Smilies. Skittledog Sticker Books are loved by junk journallers, collage artists and scrapbookers for their fun and imaginative range. Make sure to check out: The Ransom Note Sticker Book Ye Olde Ransom Note Sticker Book. The Curious Collectables Sticker Book. All the Feels: A Sticker Book of Faces and Emotions.
Saints and Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain
An exploration of how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and featuring over sixty breathtaking paintings, sculptures, and engravings. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was part of the Spanish Empire from 1521 to 1821, covering modern-day Mexico, Central America, and the US Southwest. In the late sixteenth century, Rome's attempts to manage sanctity as an official process had a profound impact throughout Spain and the Spanish viceroyalties. Saintly devotions traveled to Mexico and circulated within the vast territory as images or print, then to be transformed by New Spain's own communities. Published in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Art and drawing on collections from Mexico and the United States, this book examines the role of images in the construction of the holy. The relationship between sanctity and the pictorial is a long, revered tradition that continues in the work of New Mexico's santero artists today.
The Dana Estes Collection Of Bronzes In The Peabody Museum Of Harvard University
Ready to Paint Postcards: Woodlands
Learn to paint pocket-sized woodland watercolor scenes in 15 half-hour lessons with best-selling author and trusted watercolor teacher Geoff Kersey. Fast, fun results, with full-size templates! Within this inspiring, practical book are full instructions for 15 small but perfectly-formed landscape paintings themed around trees and woodlands. The 30-minute paintings are all worked at postcard size - ideal for a 6 x 4in watercolor pad - and simple outline drawings are provided for those who are less confident at drawing. Highly varied, the projects range from snow scenes to bluebell woods, and show you how to use classic watercolor techniques with minimal materials to produce beautiful postcards to keep, send or show off.The beginner-friendly projects are packed with hints and tips and structured step by step, making it easy to follow the instructions and achieve your own fantastic results!Each of the 15 projects takes just 30 minutes, so are quick and easy to paint in an evening or in a spare afternoon.No drawing is necessary - full-sized line drawings for each postcard artwork are provided at the back of the book.This book uses material previously published as Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Trees and Woodlands (9781782215264).
