Collecting the Future
Over 125 years of groundbreaking and perpetually relevant modern Italian artEstablished in Turin in 1898, the Fondazione De Fornaris holds thousands of works key to the history of modern Italian art. Collecting the Future spans various epochs to discuss artists including Pellizza da Volpedo, Alberto Burri, Giorgio Morandi and Pino Pascali.
Falling in Autumn
'My encounters with nature are very personal. I am inspired by watching jays gathering acorns, owls hooting and the joy of hearing nightingales.' Falling Into Autumn is the third book in a stunning seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding. This series will take readers on a journey through the seasons, reflecting Angela's view as the nature around her transforms and evolves over the months. Taking in landscapes across the UK, from views from her homely studio in Rutland to the Scottish wilderness, via the low-lying marshlands of Suffolk and the windswept hills of Yorkshire, the beautiful illustrations and evocative imagery of the prose make this the perfect book for nature lovers and art lovers everywhere. Featuring many of Angela's most beloved prints, alongside Angela's observations and inspirations, Spring Unfurled, Summer's Hum, Falling into Autumn and Winter's Song are a joyful celebration of nature and wildlife across the UK at all times of year.
Silicon Valley Reimagined
In January 1949, the Benedetti Brothers & Co. of Santa Clara Valley published their latest home technology catalog. Inside: wireless telephones, portable radios, data wristwatches, and tabulating machines for the home - all available for immediate delivery.Silicon Valley Reimagined: Illustrated Gadgets from an Alternate 1949 presents a meticulously crafted product catalog from a timeline where the tech revolution arrived decades early. Each illustrated gadget carries the analog aesthetic of the postwar era - warm wood finishes, vacuum tubes, precision dials - wrapped around technology the real 1949 could never have imagined.Complete with fictional manufacturers, period-accurate pricing, and 2025 equivalents that reveal just how far ahead of their time these devices were, this is alternate history told not through narrative, but through the everyday language of commerce - a catalog from a world that almost was.For readers who love technology history, industrial design, speculative fiction, and the enduring question of what Silicon Valley might have looked like if someone had gotten there first.
Brand Something Beautiful
If you don't tell your story well, who will?If you're like most writers, artists, musicians, solopreneurs, and other creatives, you love making things. But you dread marketing.Marketing feels hard- like complete guesswork-because no one has ever helped you define your brand. Without a clear brand, marketing is like trying to build a house without a foundation. In a swamp. With alligators.Branding is about much more than logos or taglines. It involves understanding you and your unique gifts and desires, and then connecting those with the needs of your audiences. Branding is the missing middle between making something beautiful and helping people find and embrace that beauty. Inside this book, you'll discover a proven five-step process-Determine, Discover, Define, Design, and Delight-that bridges the gap between creating and selling, a method that makes marketing not just easier, but more enjoyable. You'll develop your own creative brand that will help you: articulate who you are as a creative, understand the difference between a personal brand and a creative one, make better decisions, charge premium prices, and enable others to describe and recommend your work.Many creative people aren't clear about what they want or how to achieve their dreams. Or if they are, they don't know how to message their passion well or communicate it in a way that resonates with customers, clients, collectors, and other vital audiences. In this book, you'll gain the clarity you need to focus on the work you were made to create, and then to share that work in ways that excite others.It's time to stop guessing at how to promote what you do and instead, start building emotional connections that turn admirers into loyal customers.Your creative work deserves to be seen. Your brand is how the world will find it.
King Alpha
Willow Creek was a town that noticed everything-and forgot nothing. Small, quiet, and unchanging, it lived by details: who lingered too long at the diner, who left their lights burning late, who didn't belong.And no one doubted that the man who claimed the abandoned Victorian on Elm Street didn't belong.They called him King Alpha. Tall, magnetic, and impossibly composed, he drew people to him as though by design. Women drifted into his orbit without conflict, men grew uneasy but said nothing, and children whispered his name like a prayer. Each night, the long-dead Victorian glowed golden, as though the house itself had been waiting for him.Bobby noticed first. His wife murmured Alpha's name in her sleep. His notebook-the Dossier-began to fill with words he didn't remember writing, warnings written in his own hand. Alongside Paul, his closest friend, Bobby tried to resist the pull. But resistance came at a price. The town bent toward Alpha as if it had always been his, and Bobby realized the stranger was not just a man, but a presence: a fracture, a silence, a crownless king.Now Bobby must confront the terrifying truth: to resist Alpha is to break, but to surrender is to be remade.Dark, atmospheric, and haunting, King Alpha is a supernatural thriller about power, devotion, and the unseen forces that consume ordinary lives.���� Step into the circle. Enter Willow Creek. Get this book now.
The Future of the Art World
A wide-ranging collection of interviews conducted by New York Times contributor Andr獺s Sz獺nt籀 sheds light on the future of the art world in a rapidly changing societyThis is the third in a series of books investigating the future of the museum, following on The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (2020) and Imagining the Future of the Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects (2022). If the previous volumes examined the "software" and the "hardware" of the museum, respectively, the third installment of the trilogy surveys the social, cultural, economic, institutional and technological conditions in which museums operate. The conversations engage voices not heard in the prior volumes: artists, curators, collectors, members of the art trade, social scientists, entrepreneurs and others. The dialogues range across a panorama of topics, from the future of the art gallery and outlooks for the art fair, to the role of globalization in the art world, to the internal and external forces transforming cultural institutions, to the impacts of climate change, to perspectives on the future of digital creativity and artificial intelligence. Several conversations shed light on the evolution of specific global regions--from Asia to Africa to Latin America to the Gulf nations and the Middle East--where some of the most transformative investments in arts infrastructure are currently being made. The dialogues grapple with the question of whether the art world can adjust to the future incrementally, or whether it is heading into a period of systemic, paradigmatic transformation. Taken together, the conversations offer a portrait of an art world seeking to adapt to a society undergoing an accelerated period of change.Andr獺s Sz獺nt籀 (born 1964) is a Budapest-born, Brooklyn-based author and editor who has been conducting conversations with art-world leaders since the early 1990s, including as a frequent moderator of the Art Basel Conversations series. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Artforum and many others.Conversations with: Refik Anadol, Albert-L獺szl籀 Barab獺si, Larissa Buchholz, Diana Campbell, Joshua Citarella, Marcello Dantas, Simon Denny, Noah Horowitz, William Kentridge, Agnieszka Kurant, Sylvain Levy, Atsuko Ninagawa, Alain Servais, Yoram Roth, et al.
Project Sketchbook
Why do artists keep sketchbooks-and what secrets do these private pages hold?Project Sketchbook Volume 1 opens the door to a world rarely shared with the public: the personal sketchbook pages where ideas are born, risks are taken, and creativity unfolds in its purest form. Inside, you'll discover the work of twenty-six artists from Canada, the United States, and Germany-each sharing the raw beauty of their sketchbook pages alongside reflections on their process, inspiration, and creative journey.This book isn't just for artists. It's for anyone who has ever wondered what creativity looks like on the basic level. Every page invites you to explore-whether through a double-page spread bursting with color, a quick sketch made in a moment of observation, or an experimental collage that redefines what a sketchbook can be.Part exhibition catalogue, part behind-the-scenes peek into the artistic process, and part call to action, Project Sketchbook Volume 1 is a reminder that creativity is for everyone. Be inspired and find the spark to begin your own sketchbook practice.
Freeing Our Frozen Songs
What do you do when your body can no longer house the brutalities of the life you have lived? This book is for readers who have experienced the darkness of trauma. It is also for those who want to better understand the impact of trauma on survivors.Collectively, our co-creators confronted and then freed what had long been frozen inside of us. Our stories are now held within this book, and our bodies are lighter. We have experienced profound pain. We are not afraid of confronting this pain; rather, we are terrified of what might happen if we don't. Some of us are poets, some are visual artists, and some combined both gifts as we dug for and then dragged our wounds into the light to be seen, felt, and released. Ten artists created eighteen works of art each for this anthology. We met regularly to support one another as we created and healed, both individually and collectively. Each artist's chapter is divided into three sections: six works that represent the root wounds of their Past, six works that represent how that root wound continues to show up in their Present, and six works that represent the hope found in the transmutation of their past and present into their triumphant Possible, where the light of hope is found. Each chapter of our book represents an individual's study of light and dark. That which forms us, and is formed by us. That which has been, is, and will be-that which was once frozen, and is now free. In this transformative and empowering anthology, you will find: Ten chapters by ten different artists who worked collectively and individually to transmute their pain into their power through creativityCreative, powerful explorations of trauma, its impact on the feminine, and its collective impact on us allRaw, unfiltered vulnerability that opens a path toward empathy and an understanding of the feminine experience in a patriarchal societyInspiration to embark on your unique path from pain to power through intentional transmutational creative expressionFind out more about our anthology at www.freeingourfrozensongs.com.
100 Windows
Established in 2010 by Stefanie Seidl in a former gateway for horse-drawn carriages that is now enclosed by glazing at both ends, the project space BERLIN-WEEKLY offers the narrow yet exceptionally tall display space to artists as a highly visible public stage for installations that respond to the setting or site. Its unilateral orientation toward the street makes BERLIN-WEEKLY a creative intervention into the urban fabric that harnesses the shopwindow format. The book presents 100 selected window installations to illustrate the widely diverse ways in which individual artists have engaged with the venue, time and again transforming the unusually shaped small space. With works by: Menno Aden, Alexandra Baumgartner, Isabelle Borges, Astrid Busch, Simon Faithfull, Moritz Frei, Max Frisinger, Wolfgang Flad, Dagmara Genda, Andreas Greiner & Armin Keplinger, Sabine Gro?, Marc van der Hocht, Sabine Hornig, Ir癡 ne Hug, Bettina Khano, Julia Kissina, Nikolaus List, Ulrike Mohr, Virginie Mosse, Piotr Nathan, Katja Pudor, Philip Topolovac, Inken Reinert, Sophia Schama, Geerten Verheus, Sinta Werner, Barbara Wille, and others
Russian Icons
A beautifully and lavishly illustrated book on an important private collection of late Russian icons written by distinguished art historians. The artistic quality and historical significance of Russian icons - religious paintings of characters and scenes from the Eastern Orthodox Bible - have been of a consistently high order ever since they first emerged in that country in the eleventh century CE. Less constant, however, have been the care with which these works have been treated and their commercial value. Russian icons were at various times encouraged, then vandalized, then exported, then banned from export; during the worst privations under the Tsars and the Bolsheviks, people felt forced to use them as bartering counters and even sometimes as firewood.After the collapse of Communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Oleg Kushnirskiy (born 1960) came to the West and set about assembling a collection of Russian icons in the United States, where they would be well protected from physical decay and safe from further religious and political upheavals. Acquired from a variety of sources - ecclesiastical, civic, and domestic - the Kushnirskiy Collection is now stored in New York and exhibited periodically in universities, galleries, and museums in numerous locations, thus fulfilling the collector's ambition to bring these masterpieces to a wider audience than ever before. This complete catalog features sixty works, the oldest created in the mid-seventeenth century, the most recent in the early twentieth. Accompanying the images are insightful analytical commentaries by distinguished art historians.A clear conspectus of 300 years of Russian religious artBeautifully illustrated throughout with over 400 photographs of complete icons and detailsReadable text that explains the artistic processes and the historical context
Paint 50: Watercolour Nature
Learn to paint 50 vibrant watercolor nature motifs in the loose, ethereal style of popular artist Clarice Gomes (@helloclariceg). Create colorful, softly blended vignettes of delicate flowers, juicy grapefruit, fluffy bumblebees, striking toadstools and more! Over the course of 50 simple watercolor projects - including exotic fruit, iconic trees, vibrant insects and traditional flowers - this beginner-friendly title will teach you how to paint! Each project can be completed in six to eight simple steps, using a small selection of colors and a handful of easy-to-follow watercolour techniques. No prior knowledge of watercolor techniques needed - This book contains a short list of tools and materials needed to get started and a clear and informative guide to the basic techniques needed.No drawing skills required - Some simple outlines are included where necessary, but at the heart of Clarice's painting style is the mantra 'go with the flow' be bold and creative and learn to work with the marks you make.Suitable for artists of all levels - Clarice's clear instructions guide the reader from start to finish in a way that makes it easy for anyone to pick up a brush and learn how to paint in her loose, characterful style.Latest title in the bestselling series - Animals and Flowers have already been published and are selling extremely well.Whether you want to create a hand-painted card, decorate your wall or maybe you simply want to learn the relaxing art of painting with watercolors, with 50 cute motifs to choose from, you'll easily find something to inspire you.
Eric Fischl: Late America
Major new catalogue on one of the leading figurative painters working in the USA today. Contemporary artist Eric Fischl has been unwavering in his commitment to painting the human figure throughout his long career, revealing the body's central role in determining social and individual experience. As the first major book on the artist in over a decade, this beautifully illustrated publication accompanies a new exhibition in Phoenix, Arizona and includes early, well-known paintings and works on paper focused on the inhabitants of middle-class American suburbs with their social taboos, family secrets, toxic masculinity and unacknowledged privileges. Also featured are the recent poetically and revealingly titled series of paintings Late America, Presence of an Absence, and Complications of an Already Unfulfilled Life. These works were created in the contexts of the pandemic, political activism and division. Featuring new and unpublished work, this book will be essential for Fischl's many loyal fans, and all those interested in modern and contemporary figurative painting.
Angela Harding: Fair Isle Puffins (Blank Sketch Book)
New title in the Flame Tree Sketch Book collection, this luxurious sketch book features beautiful art, high-quality production and the thick paper stock makes it ideal for sketching and drawing. A FLAME TREE SKETCH BOOK. Beautiful and luxurious, the sketch books combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, the thick paper stock makes them ideal for sketching and drawing. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed in full colour, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and bookmark ribbons. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. THE ARTIST. Printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding trained in Fine Art at Leicester Polytechnic and Nottingham Trent University. She now lives in the UK's smallest county, Rutland, where she works from her garden studio in Wing. Angela has received commissions for her illustration work from most of the UK's major publishers, and her unique and distinctive style has become recognisable to nature lovers and book lovers alike. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Media as a Catalyst for Change
How an effective role of media organizations play in a democratic country like India is a matter of study. In a democracy, the media can be used as a bridge between the rulers and the ruled. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the fact that how media plays the role of 'Watch Dog of Democracy' by providing government related information to the public and secondly, to what extent it creates a public opinion by becoming the voice of the views of the citizens. Nation building through political, social, economic and cultural democracy, the role of the media as a representative forum is not only to disseminate information and entertainment, but also to educate the public about social and political movements and their benefits and then to form public opinion, after which the opinion of public is directly or indirectly translated into legislation affects construction. In a country where there is still widespread poverty, unemployment and backwardness, the media should be oriented towards development journalism, which along with the creation of public opinion can give the legislature and political parties the right to influence the progress of the common man of the country. Can media force the making of key laws? Therefore, this research type book assesses the media's ability to give policy shape to the preferences of the common men. The problems faced by the public are disseminated through print media, electronic media and social media networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instragram and WhatsApp are put in front of the public and the government, after that public opinion is created, this public opinion gives a policy basis to those problems and thus legislations related to them are created. The present book reviews the comments of Indian & Western Media on scrapping of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution as this Article was unnecessary and it used to use for vote bank politics, violation of human rights, separatism, militancy and it was also a greater obstacle in the way of Jammu & Kashmir's development and unity and peace of India.
Artista
ARTISTA is a curated celebration of creativity, vision, and innovation in contemporary art. Carefully assembled by ICM Gestora Cultural, this book presents a hand-picked selection of artists whose work reflects the diverse voices, mediums, and narratives shaping today's artistic landscape. Each featured artist brings a unique perspective, challenging conventions and expanding the dialogue between tradition and modernity, local identity and global culture.Through painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, and interdisciplinary practices, ARTISTA offers readers a panoramic view of contemporary expression. The book not only highlights artistic talent but also emphasizes the importance of cultural management and curation in giving visibility to emerging and established creators. Every page invites readers to discover new aesthetic experiences, explore creative processes, and connect with stories that transcend borders.Designed as both a source of inspiration and a reference for collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts, ARTISTA embodies ICM Gestora Cultural's mission to foster cultural exchange and promote artistic excellence. More than just a compilation, it is a testament to the transformative power of art in society today-a vivid snapshot of creativity at its most compelling and relevant.
Performance Art
The standard reference since its first publication in 1979, Performance Art continues its authoritative chronicling of one of the most important art forms to emerge in modern times. Art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg has updated her magnum opus to reflect the current state of performance in an age where digital and web technologies are becoming increasingly dominant, as she shows how a medium once used in sporadic bursts of artistic dissent has become a worldwide phenomenon.Performance is now the medium of choice for many creatives entering the global conversation of art and culture. As the medium has developed across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas it has become one of the most popular art forms for articulating "difference," whether dealing with issues of identity, politics, race, or historical background. Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Sanford Biggers, Tania Bruguera, Patty Chang, Rashid Johnson, Autumn Knight, Pierre Huyghe, and Jacolby Satterwhite are among the many new and established artists whose work can now be seen in the context of other innovators in the field from the Futurists and Dadaists to Yves Klein and Laurie Anderson. Goldberg explores contemporary artists' approaches to politics, tradition, social engagement, and the art world itself, while evaluating the changing status of performance.This revised edition includes an updated foreword, an expanded reading list, and a new chapter outlining developments in the second decade of the twenty-first century in the fields of dance, architecture, technology, and virtual performance.
You're Already Working
You're Already Working: Here Is Your Creative Practice invites readers to enter a deep exploration of the art-making life. Its encouraging mantra "you're already working" instills confidence by encouraging readers to acknowledge their own excursions into creativity. Using personal experiences from the author's rich and varied creative work and high-level teaching background, You're Already Working guides readers in developing a sustainable and meaningful creative practice. It illuminates crucial aspects of the creative process-from exposing raw work, to radically changing mediums and venues, to delving into historical research, to sharing grief through physicality. With exercises, insights, and contemporary-world observations, this book offers actionable ways to enhance productivity, overcome setbacks, and push artistic boundaries. Wendy Richmond's career spans design, studio art, writing, teaching, and collaboration at WGBH, MIT, Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, and International Center of Photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally and supported by fellowships from MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She is the author of Design & Technology: Erasing the Boundaries; Overneath; and Art Without Compromise.
Glitches & Glory
Discover how David Szauder blends playful creativity with playful innovation to turn glitches into striking, thought-provocing art.Glitches have become a new visual language, reshaping digital aesthetics and expanding creative possibilities. As technology redefines how we create and perceive images, artists push boundaries, transforming fragmented data into striking, unexpected compositions.Glitches & Glory traces this evolution through the work of David Szauder, who fuses digital techniques with artistic vision to craft layered, thought-provoking visuals. His work challenges perception, revealing the intricate interplay between memory, machine intelligence, and visual storytelling.Blending bold imagery with critical insight, this book examines how digital art embraces disruption, opens new creative frontiers, and reimagines the relationship between technology and artistic expression.
Color Curious
A creative's guide to color: ​how to observe it in your surroundings, combine it into unique palettes, and apply it fearlessly in art, craft, and design. Artist Ana Bianchi is on a mission to help people use color confidently in any creative practice. This playful and highly visual book invites you to refresh your relationship to color by observing the world around you. Each chapter takes a deep dive into a different color scheme--from monochromes to the famous "pop of color"--and helps readers find inspiration in art history, travel, household objects, and more. Hands-on projects feature a wide variety of media and applications, from painting a still life to making a gallery wall in your home. Quotes, stories, vibrant visual examples, and insightful guidance provide an accessible master class in becoming color curious and creating the consistent and rewarding habit of observing, analyzing, and creating with color. This book is perfect for art students seeking to establish their personal voice, creative types hoping to integrate more color into their lives, and professional artists eager for a new perspective. INTUITIVE APPROACH: Ana Bianchi eschews technical color theory and embraces an intuitive and playful approach instead. Whether you're an aspiring artist or a professional, whether you want to apply color in your paintings or your wardrobe, you'll find approachable and useful ideas in this book. RAINBOW EYE CANDY: The colorful photos and artwork are instructive and a delight for the eyes. Bianchi's signature images show flowers from her garden and everyday objects from her home arranged by color, highlighting the multitude of inspirations to be found in your surroundings and applied in your art. FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON COLOR: From the unique hues of vintage objects and faded flowers to the particular joy of kaleidoscopic, childlike palettes, the color explorations in this book will help you see the world with new eyes and approach your creative projects with refreshed energy. Perfect for: Professional and aspiring artists in all media Art students and enthusiasts Designers, home decorators, floral designers, and crafters Anyone who eagerly awaits Pantone's Color of the Year announcement Readers of color exploration books like The Secret Lives of Color and Color: a Natural History of the Palette Fans of inspirational creativity books like Find Your Artistic Voice and The Artist's Way
Haas Brothers
The first comprehensive monograph on the daring, irreverent, and fantastical art of the Haas BrothersStep into a world where design meets art in the most audacious, subversive, and captivating ways. Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley is the much-anticipated first monograph on the daring, irreverent, and fantastical art of Niki and Simon Haas. Known for their boundary-pushing creative practice, the duo work across the fields of art, craft, design, and technology with an approach that is at once conceptual, yet formal, and intellectual, yet playful.The book accompanies the first major touring mid-career retrospective devoted to the Haas Brothers at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan in Fall 2025, and highlights more than 100 of their most iconic works, from almost ridiculous, conversation-starting furniture to cheeky life-size sculptures. Rich texts, including first-hand personal stories from the brothers and an interview by avant-garde mother-daughter artists Lita and Isabelle Albuquerque, complement the book's vivid imagery.Featuring a padded, hot pink cover, Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley proves these iconoclastic visionaries are two of the most exciting and innovative figures in contemporary art and design.
Chromorama
The new colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer 'One of the best books on colour I've read. A layered tapestry of stories, insights and ideas, each beautifully and clearly written. For anyone interested in colour, it's a must' Marion Deuchars Why are pencils yellow and white goods white? Why is black the colour of mourning? What connects Queen Victoria's mauve gown and Michelle Obama's yellow dress? In Chromorama, acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli delves deep into the history of colour to show how it has shaped the modern gaze. With over four hundred illustrations throughout and with examples ranging widely across art and culture - from the novels of Gustave Flaubert to The Simpsons, from Byzantine jewellery to misshapen fruit, from Mondrian to Hitchcock's thrillers - Falcinelli traces the evolution of our long relationship with colour, and how first the industrial revolution, and then the dawn of the internet age, changed it forever. Beautifully designed, deeply researched, and written with warmth and wit, Chromoroma is an engrossing account of shade and light, of tone and hue, of dyes, pigments, and pixels. It is the story of why we now see the world the way we do.
Renoir Daily Planner 2026
Renoir Planner 2026 (Dance at le Moulin de la Galette) Schedule Each Appointment and Stay Organized in 2026!Would you like to: - See your schedule at a glance?- Have a clear overview of your to-do list?Then look no further...This beautiful Daily Planner 2026 lets you keep track of everything you care about.Get This 2026 Monthly Planner and Start Organizing Your LifeThis stylish agenda scheduler will make things easy. Take back control of your time, to do what really matters.This is What You Can Use This Planner For: - Keep track of appointments- Birthdays of loved ones- Meetings at the office- Family events- Medical visits- HolidaysBasically, anything you want to plan!What Will You Get If You Buy This 2026 Year Planner?- 2026 Calendar: January - December- Monthly calendar spread (2 pages!), giving you a bird's-eye view of each month- For every day, space to write down your goals, tasks, and appointments- Large size: lots of space to write + quick overview of your schedule- Perfect bound and printed on high-quality durable paper- Soft, premium coverSo, would you like to be on top of things in 2026?Then don't wait any longer and click the 'Buy' button to get this 2026 planner.
Big School of Drawing Animals
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SERIES, now in English! More than 2.3 million copies sold in 23 languages!Big School of Drawing Animals is your complete guide to the art of drawing animals with accuracy, creativity, and fun. Whether you are a complete beginner or an artist with some experience looking to refine your skills, this 192-page book covers all the essentials you need to create both realistic and imaginative animal art, from basic drawing techniques to advanced concepts. Through step-by-step tutorials, explore popular animal subjects, such as cats, dogs, horses, and a variety of wildlife, learning techniques for each animal's unique anatomy and characteristics. Additional instructions on colored pencil techniques, light, shadow, and perspective provide a foundation for success. Designed to inspire and inform, this guide helps you capture the beauty and personality of animals on paper. Inside, you will find: Step-by-step instructions for drawing animals, covering popular pets like cats and dogs, as well as wild animals.Core art fundamentals, including perspective, light, and shadow, essential for creating dynamic and realistic animal drawings. Colored pencil techniques, providing guidance on adding depth and texture to bring animal illustrations to life.With helpful tips and easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons, Big School of Drawing is the perfect series for beginning artists ready to grab a pencil and get started drawing. With practice, you'll soon be able to create your own realistic pencil drawings. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Frans Hals Planner 2026
Frans Hals Planner 2026 (The Laughing Cavalier) Schedule Each Appointment and Stay Organized in 2026!Would you like to: - See your schedule at a glance?- Have a clear overview of your to-do list?Then look no further...This beautiful Daily Planner 2026 lets you keep track of everything you care about.Get This 2026 Monthly Planner and Start Organizing Your LifeThis stylish agenda scheduler will make things easy. Take back control of your time, to do what really matters.This is What You Can Use This Planner For: - Keep track of appointments- Birthdays of loved ones- Meetings at the office- Family events- Medical visits- HolidaysBasically, anything you want to plan!What Will You Get If You Buy This 2026 Year Planner?- 2026 Calendar: January - December- Monthly calendar spread (2 pages!), giving you a bird's-eye view of each month- For every day, space to write down your goals, tasks, and appointments- Large size: lots of space to write + quick overview of your schedule- Perfect bound and printed on high-quality durable paper- Soft, premium coverSo, would you like to be on top of things in 2026?Then don't wait any longer and click the 'Buy' button to get this 2026 planner.
Spiritual Tattoo Symbols
This book is a compendium of symbols with sacred meanings, perfect for anyone looking to find a meaningful tattoo design, professional tattoo artists or anyone interested in folklore and religion. It gathers some of the most popular and lesser known signs from around the world in a comprehensive and accessible guide. Looking at each symbol's history and origins, it unveils the cultural and spiritual significance, alongside any folklore to give each image context, and showcases different tattoo styles for those seeking inspiration or just a fresh approach to a traditional design. The directory includes 75-100 lead symbols and themes, reflecting the way these develop and emerge across different folklore and religions. Each of these has an accessible list of meanings as well as a list of key uses and context to where the sacred origins lie.
Caravaggio Planner 2026
Caravaggio Monet Planner 2026 (The Calling of Saint Matthew) Schedule Each Appointment and Stay Organized in 2026!Would you like to: - See your schedule at a glance?- Have a clear overview of your to-do list?Then look no further...This beautiful Daily Planner 2026 lets you keep track of everything you care about.Get This 2026 Monthly Planner and Start Organizing Your LifeThis stylish agenda scheduler will make things easy. Take back control of your time, to do what really matters.This is What You Can Use This Planner For: - Keep track of appointments- Birthdays of loved ones- Meetings at the office- Family events- Medical visits- HolidaysBasically, anything you want to plan!What Will You Get If You Buy This 2026 Year Planner?- 2026 Calendar: January - December- Monthly calendar spread (2 pages!), giving you a bird's-eye view of each month- For every day, space to write down your goals, tasks, and appointments- Large size: lots of space to write + quick overview of your schedule- Perfect bound and printed on high-quality durable paper- Soft, premium coverSo, would you like to be on top of things in 2026?Then don't wait any longer and click the 'Buy' button to get this 2026 planner.
15-Minute Art Pen and Ink
Discover how to draw with ink in just 15 minutes a day with 15-minute Art Pen & Ink. From whimsical woodlands to fantastical flora and fauna, Anna Tromop encourages you to explore the magic of ink through fifty 15-minute drawings. Each relaxed project is accompanied by simple step-by-step instructions and all can be completed in six steps or less. All you need is a pen! With a guide to outlining and shading, as well as traceable templates and practice pages, this book proves that ink drawing is for everyone - no matter your skill level or age. So: get ink-spired and tap into your creativity for just a few minutes every day.
Grandma Moses
A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860-1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old when Otto Kallir, a New York art dealer and recent 矇migr矇 from Nazi-held Austria, introduced her to the world. "Grandma Moses," as the press dubbed her, quickly became a polarizing figure, beloved by the public yet dismissed by the art world for her story-time scenes and lack of formal training. Drawing on Moses's reflection on her own life as "a good day's work," the book charts Moses's creative development from her earliest artistic efforts to the emergence of her signature style, revealing a multidimensional artist who fused direct observation of nature, labor, and personal memories to tell idiosyncratic yet compelling stories. It positions Moses as a central figure in the history of twentieth-century American art, a painter whose life and work bore witness to the Civil War, two world wars, and the civil rights era. Beautifully illustrated, Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work captures the indomitable spirit Moses brought to her artmaking, conveying a candor and authority that still resonate today with the quest for a homespun American visual tradition. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition ScheduleSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DCNovember 25, 2025-July 12, 2026
The Fantastic Art of Roy G. Krenkel
A stunning collection of magical artworks by the legendary Roy G. Krenkel! With nearly five hundred pieces of art, including sixteen generous foldouts, this is the definitive collection for fans of and newcomers to the virtuoso fantasy artist Roy G. Krenkel--curated by Craig Yoe, with a foreword by Sara Frazetta and a preface by Michael WM Kaluta. If master draftspersons of the Renaissance were reincarnated to create sword-and-sorcery art of more contemporary times, they would have had Roy G. Krenkel as their mentor. RGK defined the term "an artist's artist," and younger fantasy artists have furiously collected and ardently studied his incredible work. Roy filled the pages of the pro-zine/fanzine Amra with his favorite art. Now at last, the complete Amra illustrations are lovingly gathered from the rare 'zine to inspire and enthrall artists and art lovers. Fantastic dinosaurs, ape men, barbarians, cavemen and women, citizens of ancient civilizations, and saber-toothed tigers populate the luxurious pages of this stunning tome as only Roy G. Krenkel can deftly embellish them.
Can We Stop Killing Each Other?
An exploration into the darkest side of humanity and its expression through art and culture. Can We Stop Killing Each Other? wrestles with the darkest side of humanity. It explores the fundamental question of why humans are led to kill, examining the artworks, films, video games and television programs that grapple with and manifest themes of death and destruction. Using material culture linked to moments of extreme violence, such as the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, this publication offers a challenging but eye-opening consideration of some of the most horrifying events in human history as explored through art. Using historical and contemporary art as a lens to explore these themes, the book will include a new interview with Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgessa (b.1983), who creates emotive paintings reflecting on the refugee crisis. It will also explore the role of art as sanctuary from violence, through new approaches to the work of Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Hen Party
A charming guide to keeping beautiful chicken breeds, both common and rare, by one of Britain's best-selling garden writers. Gardener, artist, and writer Parkinson has kept flocks of happy chickens since childhood. In this wonderful collection, he distills everything he has learned about his feathered friends into one charmingly illustrated, bite-sized volume featuring his own watercolor portraits of nearly sixty breeds. Spotlighting both common and rare chicken breeds from around the world, Parkinson describes the personalities, behaviors, egg-laying abilities, and other characteristics of each type of hen. Along the way, he also covers practical skills to help each kind of chicken thrive. Inspiring, delightful, and adorned with Parkinson's own portraits of his "ladies," this charming book is a delight for chicken aficionados and budding gardeners alike--as well as simply anyone dreaming of a balanced, sustainable life on the land.
How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
How artists make a living and how money changes artIt may not be the worst time in history to get paid to make art, but it certainly is the strangest. The institutions and markets that have been supporting the arts are undergoing massive changes, some even disappearing. Meanwhile the tools to make art and find audiences have never been more accessible, and there are more people than ever making art.How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists is an attempt to reckon with the history of money in the arts -- from Titian to Taylor Swift -- and how that complicated relationship is changing. David Berry analyzes past and present financial dynamics in the arts to show the practicalities of how artists make a living and how that, in turn, affects the reception and perception of artists and their work: the impacts art has on wider society, how economic realities affect aesthetic judgements of art, what kind of people are able to work as artists, and how political and cultural ideas about the nature of art affect what kind of resources are made available to it.David Berry explores how art has become central to our understanding of humanity by tying art to what makes the world go round: money. Along the way, he challenges popular ideas of what constitutes a successful artistic career and considers what our treatment of artists says about us.
Cubist Male Portraits - Coloring Book
Cubist Male Portraits Coloring Book features 30 striking illustrations that reimagine men's faces through the lens of cubism. From sailors and musicians to intellectuals, pilots, and dreamers, each portrait blends masculine strength with abstract geometry. Inspired by Picasso and modern art, this unique book is perfect for adults who enjoy creativity, relaxation, and contemporary design.
Image & Echo
Image & Echo by Kieran BevilleWhere paintings speak, poetry answers.Step into a gallery unlike any other-one where Monet's dawn mist, Van Gogh's turbulent stars, Kahlo's fierce gaze, and Botticelli's divine Venus are not just seen, but heard. In Image & Echo, poet and scholar Kieran Beville enters into dialogue with some of the world's greatest artworks through the timeless craft of ekphrastic poetry.More than simple description, these sonnets, blank-verse meditations, and lyrical monologues inhabit the worlds the paintings create-listening for what the brushstrokes whisper, questioning what the colors conceal. Alongside each poem, Beville provides vivid reflections on the history and meaning of the artworks, offering both insight and inspiration.From the hushed farewell on Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs to the storm-lit brilliance of Van Gogh's Starry Night, from the still sands of Gauguin's Tahiti to the unflinching self-portrait of a wounded visionary, Image & Echo is a journey across centuries, styles, and souls.
Snakes in Hats
85 creative illustrations, all hand-drawn and printed in vibrant color!Using traditional mediums such as watercolor, markers, and colored pencils, this book contains original art set to thirteen different themes including: Snakes in HatsFlower FairiesDino DessertsCloud WizardsMice and SpicePerfect for art enthusiasts and those looking for creative inspiration!
Image & Echo
Image & Echo by Kieran BevilleWhere paintings speak, poetry answers.Step into a gallery unlike any other-one where Monet's dawn mist, Van Gogh's turbulent stars, Kahlo's fierce gaze, and Botticelli's divine Venus are not just seen, but heard. In Image & Echo, poet and scholar Kieran Beville enters into dialogue with some of the world's greatest artworks through the timeless craft of ekphrastic poetry.More than simple description, these sonnets, blank-verse meditations, and lyrical monologues inhabit the worlds the paintings create-listening for what the brushstrokes whisper, questioning what the colors conceal. Alongside each poem, Beville provides vivid reflections on the history and meaning of the artworks, offering both insight and inspiration.From the hushed farewell on Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs to the storm-lit brilliance of Van Gogh's Starry Night, from the still sands of Gauguin's Tahiti to the unflinching self-portrait of a wounded visionary, Image & Echo is a journey across centuries, styles, and souls.
How to Art
A funny, inviting, full-color book about art for people who don't know about "art"--featuring new artworks by David Shrigley. What is art, where do I find it, and once I'm in front of it, what am I supposed to think about it? Kate Bryan is a self-confessed art addict who has worked with art for over twenty years. But before she studied art history at university, she'd visited a gallery just twice in her life and had no idea she was entering an elitist world. Now, she's on a mission to help everybody come to art. Like playing or listening to music, or cooking and eating great food, reading or watching films, making art or looking at other people's deserves to be an enriching part of all our lives. How to Art provides a nifty way to ingest art on your own terms. From where it is to what it is, to tips on how to actually enjoy famous artworks like the Mona Lisa, to how to own art and make art at home, to vital advice for making a career as an artist and even how to make your dog more cultural, How to Art gives art to everyone--and makes it fun. Laced throughout with original artworks by the very down-to-earth artist David Shrigley.
How to Start a Dissident Art Movement
Since 2015, British artist-writer Alexander Adams has been at the forefront of debates at the intersection of politics and culture. Beginning in the mid-2010s with a critique of the failings of liberalism, evolving through books on iconoclasm and artivism, Adams found his assumptions falling away. Experience of the collapse of the public arts and political consensus-as well as encountering writings by perennial traditionalists-led Adams to address the essence of being an artist in his writings, gathered in one book for the first time.How to Start a Dissident Art Movement is a collection of polemical art essays, speeches, manifestoes and personal reflections (many previously unpublished) that develop arguments in Adams's previous books. This book acts as a challenge and invitation to ambitious artists today by outlining the inner conflicts many experience. Focussing on core issues, How to Start a Dissident Art Movement steps over criticism of institutions and instead warns of fake traditionalism and the illusory hope of localism, calling for a reconsideration of Modernist art and the establishment of parallel networks. Included is a selection of mordant and revealing private letters by the author, which discuss great art, name sources of inspiration and consider problems faced by working artists.
Summer's Hum
'The wildflower bank outside my window hums and buzzes. At midday, the summer sun spreads the perfume of roses and honeysuckle to every corner.' Summer's Hum is the second book in a stunning seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding. This series will take readers on a journey through the seasons, reflecting Angela's view as the nature around her transforms and evolves over the months. Taking in landscapes across the UK, from views from her home studio in Rutland to the Scottish wilderness, via the low-lying marshlands of Suffolk and the windswept hills of Yorkshire, the beautiful illustrations and evocative imagery of the prose make this the perfect book for nature lovers and art lovers everywhere. Featuring many of Angela's most beloved prints, alongside Angela's observations and inspirations, Spring Unfurled, Summer's Hum, Falling into Autumn andWinter's Song are a joyful celebration of nature and wildlife across the UK at all times of year.
Devil's Club
Devil's Club: A Botanist's Journey Across the American Frontier follows Rachael Williams, a bold and tenacious young woman in 19th-century America who defies society's constraints to pursue a life of scientific discovery. Denied entry to New Geneva College and suffocated by social expectations, Rachael refuses to accept the quiet future laid out for her. With only her father's memory and her love of plants to guide her, she sets out alone on the treacherous Oregon Trail, determined to find the elusive Devil's Club, a plant rumored to possess powerful, ancient medicinal properties.But the Oregon Trail is more than a physical journey; it is a crucible. Every mile tests her endurance, challenges her beliefs, and forces her to confront not just the dangers of the land but also the grief and doubt she carries within. The wild terrain is both breathtaking and brutal, filled with unpredictable perils and fleeting moments of wonder.Along the way, Rachael navigates the hostility of strangers, the complexity of newfound relationships, and the ever-present question of whether ambition and independence are worth the cost. As the miles stretch on, the lines between strength and vulnerability blur, and survival becomes a delicate balance of courage, trust, and resilience.In Devil's Club, the raw beauty of the frontier conceals deeper truths, and every step forward brings Rachael closer to a discovery that could change not only her future but how she sees herself. Will she find the plant and fulfill her father's legacy? Or will the trail claim more than she can bear to lose?
Bibliophile Advent Calendar for Booklovers
An irresistible advent calendar for booklovers based on Jane Mount's beloved Bibliophile books and artwork. The Bibliophile's Advent Calendar for Booklovers includes: 24 miniature book-shaped folded cards with questions, trivia, and illustrations A mini keepsake journal for recording the year's bookish highlightsA bookshelf for your little library A special surprise gift for the 25th day!Each tiny bookish detail will delight you! Numbered pockets hold a question for the day or trivia made for booklovers, accompanied by irresistible illustrations. The little library provided inside offers the perfect place to shelve the mini treasures once you have enjoyed each day's fun! Then, you can turn to the mini keepsake journal to record and reflect on your reading life. This deluxe advent calendar will create a perfect holiday tradition to return to and savor anew every year. BOOKLOVER'S COUNTDOWN CALENDAR: Enjoy 25 days of bookish fun with this irresistible advent calendar based on Jane Mount's beloved bestseller, Bibliophile. Discover a fun new themed prompt every day (folded to look like an adorable miniature book!), fill the delightful little library shelf inside, and celebrate your literary love in the included mini keepsake journal. POPULAR AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR: Jane Mount has become synonymous with creative, unique book illustrations, especially in her signature book stack style. From her own illustration-filled books to covers designed for Reese Witherspoon's book club, bookstore tote bags to covetable enamel pins, and much more, Jane's work is instantly recognizable. UNIQUE ADVENT CALENDAR: A wonderful family tradition for some and a crafty new endeavor for others, advent calendars offer an engaging way to kick off the holiday season. This artistic all-paper calendar features an interactive element that makes it a delight to return to year after year. GREAT GIFT FOR BOOKWORMS: For Jane Mount fans or any bookstagram or booktok devotee, this advent can be paired with Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany, Bibliophile: Diverse Spines, or themed items including Bibliophile Reader's Journal, Ceramic Vase, Wall Calendar, stationery, and puzzles to create a booktastic bundled gift! Perfect for: Booklovers and voracious readers Aspiring writers Book club members, librarians, and teachers Fans of Jane Mount and Ideal Bookshelf Holiday shoppers, advent calendar collectors, and Christmas enthusiasts
Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures from Avatar: The Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra
Discover the creatures of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra with this in-depth exploration of the Four Nations' animal inhabitants! Part of what everyone loves about the Four Nations is all the strange and wonderful (and sometimes scary!) creatures that inhabit them! From the Air Nomads' flying bison, to Kyoshi Island's elephant koi, to the Earth Kingdom's singing groundhogs and the little purple pentapus, look to this hardcover volume for images and information on Avatar and Korra's creatures large and small.
Pocket Prompts Watercolor
When you're short of ideas for your next watercolor painting, Pocket Prompts Watercolor has 55+ lessons, exercises, and inspirational ideas to get your artistic practice going. Pocket Prompts Watercolor is a versatile, easy-to-carry resource for watercolorists who want to stay creatively inspired and motivated no matter where they are. This mini guide is packed with techniques, tips, and creative prompts that offer a fresh approach to watercolor painting. From blending and layering techniques to exercises that help you explore color and texture, Pocket Prompts Watercolor encourages artists to experiment, overcome creative blocks, and find inspiration at any moment. Whether you're new to watercolor or a seasoned artist, this book will help you achieve beautiful effects and refine your skills. Inside you'll find: Inspiring prompts and watercolor exercises: Discover 55+ lessons designed to encourage experimentation and skill building.Techniques and tips for artists of all levels: Whether you're just beginning or advancing, you'll find valuable insights.Convenient, portable format: A pocket-sized book perfect for taking your art inspiration anywhere you go.With Pocket Prompts Watercolor, you'll always have a reliable source of creative inspiration close at hand, helping you to create expressive, vibrant watercolor art anytime, anywhere.
The Great Kitschification
The essays gathered in The Great Kitschification are an aesthetic diagnosis, surgically precise and intellectually generous, of true art versus the simulation of art called kitsch.Suzanne Visser ties together the sensibilities of artists who could never be mistaken for kitsch to extract from their work something elemental: the stubborn trace of a human at risk.They are the ground of Suzanne's claim: that art is not reducible to output, but emerges from a condition of attention no machine can replicate.Visser shows how easily an aesthetic of abundance-instant variation, infinite remix-can flood the eye while starving the soul. What is lost, she argues, is not originality per se, but orientation: the slow attunement that links gesture to meaning and maker to world.These essays invite, with uncommon clarity, a form of looking that resists the quick reward. The defense of authenticity here is not moralistic. It is procedural. Visser asks: How was this made? By whom? Under what constraints? These questions are not barriers to appreciation, but its preconditions.Why does this matter now? Because we stand at a moment when the apparatus of imitation is accelerating faster than our ability to discern what is being lost. Visser's book argues for human specificity. For the value of friction. For the slowness of bodies and hands, and the imperfect echo of memory in material. What is offered here is not a doctrine, but a form of resistance-not anti-AI, but pro-art.
What We Leave Behind
In What We Leave Behind, Peter Wortsman's fourth book of cut-ups, he lets the words run wild, in some cases, as in French poet Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrames (1918), letting words break ranks and dance on the page; in other cases, coupling word and image; and finally, succumbing to the lure of the visual in collages in which words play a subordinate role or disappear altogether. If, as this book's first poem maintains, "we know each other from what we leave behind," Wortsman writes, "I will hope these cut-up words and images bestir a smile or two on the face of the reader and perhaps a knowing nod."
Devil's Club
Devil's Club: A Botanist's Journey Across the American Frontier follows Rachael Williams, a bold and tenacious young woman in 19th-century America who defies society's constraints to pursue a life of scientific discovery. Denied entry to New Geneva College and suffocated by social expectations, Rachael refuses to accept the quiet future laid out for her. With only her father's memory and her love of plants to guide her, she sets out alone on the treacherous Oregon Trail, determined to find the elusive Devil's Club, a plant rumored to possess powerful, ancient medicinal properties.But the Oregon Trail is more than a physical journey; it is a crucible. Every mile tests her endurance, challenges her beliefs, and forces her to confront not just the dangers of the land but also the grief and doubt she carries within. The wild terrain is both breathtaking and brutal, filled with unpredictable perils and fleeting moments of wonder.Along the way, Rachael navigates the hostility of strangers, the complexity of newfound relationships, and the ever-present question of whether ambition and independence are worth the cost. As the miles stretch on, the lines between strength and vulnerability blur, and survival becomes a delicate balance of courage, trust, and resilience.In Devil's Club, the raw beauty of the frontier conceals deeper truths, and every step forward brings Rachael closer to a discovery that could change not only her future but how she sees herself. Will she find the plant and fulfill her father's legacy? Or will the trail claim more than she can bear to lose?
Devour
We are proud to bring you Devour: Art & Lit Canada - ISSN 2561-1321. Devour is dedicated to the Canadian cultural voice. Find some of Canada's finest literary and visual talent from coast to coast to coast, featured in every issue. The mission of Devour: Art & Lit Canada is to promote Canadian culture by bringing world-wide readers some of the best Canadian literature, art and photography. We would love to hear from you. Send us a short review of Devour to: Devour Art And Lit Canada @ gmail. com. (no spaces) If you are Canadian and would like to submit your work you can find the "Call for Submission" info among the back issues or email us.
