Auguste Rodin
Women, at par with men, enjoy all rights under Islamic law. This is true, contradictory to the common belief that Islam denies women of their natural rights. This study, with painstaking research and scientific and logical treatment offers a new approach to the whole matter. The author has studied the vital issues in the right earnest and presented them in a proper perspective, backed by reason, that makes this volume a must for all scholars, students and common readers, having interest in Islam, Women Studies and Sociology.
Apontamento - Hist籀ria da Vila
Os sinos da Vila de S. Sebasti瓊o repicaram em muitas horas hist籀ricas desta Vila em que se decidiram com batalhas e sangue derramado os destinos da ilha Terceira, dos A癟ores e de todo o Portugal. Ecoaram esses sinos, sobretudo, no quotidiano da Vila e dos seus habitantes Badalaram do alto de montes e da sineira da Matriz e de ermidas. Foram recusados ? sua C璽mara e for癟ados a serem entregues pela Junta de Par籀quia por quem os sonegara ? C璽mara.. Mesmo neste epis籀dio historicamente banal persistiu a m獺 vizinhan癟a secular das outras duas C璽maras da Ilha.. E dobram ainda todos os dias os sinos da Vila do aleij瓊o da sineira que mancha a fachada da Matriz para que convocam o povo. Este at矇 pode ter esquecido o conjunto de que resta a sineira. A imagem da capa tenta avivar mem籀rias historicamente distra穩das da coer礙ncia e harmonia arquitet籀nica daquele frontisp穩cio..
Cabin Booth
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, is one of the most important and well-known painters of the Italian atistic scene, after a long period of oblivion he has returned to enjoy all the attention it deserves. This essay offers insight into his biography, his works of art and the artistic period in which he lived and which influenced his artistic life. Keeping in mind one fact: Caravaggio was a great theater director rather than a painter.
Cabina de control
Miguel ?ngel Merisi, conocido como Caravaggio, es uno de los pintores m獺s importantes y reconocidos del panorama art穩stico italiano, despu矇s de un largo per穩odo de olvido ha vuelto a disfrutar de toda la atenci籀n que se merece. Este ensayo ofrece una visi籀n de su biograf穩a, sus obras de arte y el per穩odo art穩stico en el que vivi籀 y que influy籀 en su vida art穩stica. Teniendo en cuenta un hecho: Caravaggio fue un gran director de teatro m獺s que un pintor.
Coni Minneci
Printed for the solo exhibition, Coni Minneci: Mothers of Invention - Real Women Who Rock, from September 18 - October 17, 2020, at Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. The exhibit catalog showcases thirty-six modestly scaled, mixed media artworks by Coni Minneci (American, born 1950) honoring twenty-six historic and contemporary women inventors. In addition to researching the women and their inventions, she challenged herself to incorporate multiple references to their inventions in the artworks and, in many cases, this involved actually using the materials they invented. The resulting artworks, hybrids of painting and assemblage, are thoughtfully conceived and expertly constructed and took Coni five years to complete.
Barshadee Dinharoo
Barshadee Dinharu (बर्षादी दिनहरू, Essays on Those Rainy Days) is a collection of essays by Prakash Sayami. It was originally published in March 2010. The book is prefaced by Jagdish Ghimire, Prof. Dr. Sanat Kumar, and Dr. Kashinath Nyaupane.
Bertille Bak. The Fairy Tale of the Real
Bak never starts from a definite project a priori; at times they are casual meetings, everyday observations that lead her to approach groups of people whose own story is worth being told because oftentimes it remains invisible and unheeded or is in decline. Her videos do not have the documentary style at all, but they are micro-narrations characterized by light tones and ironic twists, which highlight certain aspects of a given group, whose habits and rituals become aesthetic endeavours capable of reaffirming the present, of restoring the dignity of their story, of looking afresh at it and with less gloomy colours. A sort of creative re-processing of grief or a realisation of their own present through an aesthetic act.[Manuela Pacella] This essay (with text in English and an Italian translation) on Bertille Bak (Arras, 1983) covers a decade of the French artist's activity, from 2007 to 2017, identifying the key points, framing it in that historical-artistic context defined by Hal Foster as "artist as ethnographer" and comparing it with other artists on the international scene. Bertille Bak's works are the result of months of observation and coexistence with groups of individuals whose history is on the verge of extinction and who become co-producers of her films and many of her derivative objects. According to Manuela Pacella, collective participation - ranging from conception to acting, from scenography to sound - is the key point of Bertille Bak's methodology, to which is added the goal of creating a light and imaginary narrative, sometimes with ironic and burlesque tones. And it is precisely through the use of the fable and the accentuation of the artifact elements that Bak finds a poetic shortcut to tell the truth.
David Czupryn
- Joint publication featuring two separate catalogues- Painting that navigates the line between fiction and reality- Accompanied an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Solingen from 12 March to 26 April 2020Presenting the art of David Czupryn and Jochen M羹hlenbrink, this publication explores two contemporary approaches to painting. They subtly challenge our perception of the world and investigate reality: What is reality, what is illusion? What is true and what is false? The paintings by both artists are designed to trick the eye. In his own unique style, Jochen M羹hlenbrink creates a semblance of reality by imitating various materials that deceive viewers with their realism. Cardboard, plastic foil, adhesive tape, stacks of pictures leaning against a wall, used pizza boxes, or dry bread - M羹hlenbrink paints light, shadows, brilliant reflections, surfaces, and signs of wear and tear in such lifelike detail that people sometimes fail to notice that they are looking at a painting. David Czupryn takes an opposite approach. He does not aim to trick us into believing that his surreal visual worlds are real. His images recall theater stages where human hybrids appear next to carefully arranged still lifes whose different textures are meticulously depicted. In the spirit of classical trompe-l'oeil painting, Czupryn is a master of aesthetic deception who translates the pictorial language and techniques of past ages into the present and skillfully integrates numerous references to the history of art and religion, iconography and allegory, politics and society into his paintings. Text in English and German.
Inner Portraits
A collection of Stanslav Szukalski's portraiture works, including essays and background on many of the artworks. Inner Portraits provides a major survey of Szukalski's work as draftsman, painter, and sculptor. This is a new edition: upgraded, expanded, and newly re-designed. Many images and texts in this edition have never been published before. Stanislav Szukalski (1893 1987) was an artist, anthropologist, and member of Chicago's artistic elite during the 1920s who spent his last years in obscurity. Today he is remembered for his political and scientific views and his brilliant sculptures. Highly regarded in both the US and Poland between the World Wars, he lapsed into obscurity, living and working "America's Cultural Siberia" (Southern California) until comic art collector Glenn Bray rediscovered him in 1973. Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonard DiCaprio.
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective of political feminist artists who expose discrimination and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture all around the world. This book explores all their provocative street campaigns, unforgettable media appearances, and large-scale exhibitions.Each copy comes with a punch-out gorilla mask that invites readers to step up and join the movement themselves.Captions by the Guerrilla Girls themselves contextualize the visuals.Explores their well-researched, intersectional takedown of the patriarchyIn 1985, a group of masked feminist avengers--known as the Guerrilla Girls--papered downtown Manhattan with posters calling out the Museum of Modern Art for its lack of representation of female artists. They quickly became a global phenomenon, and the fearless activists have produced hundreds of posters, stickers, and billboards ever since.More than a monograph, this book is a call to arms.This career-spanning volume is published to coincide with their 35th anniversary.Perfect for artists, art lovers, feminists, fans of the Guerrilla Girls, students, and activistsAdd it to the shelf with books like Wall and Piece by Banksy, Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope by Artisan, and Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents by Nicholas Ganz
Conversations
Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career. These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the meaning of citizenship, moving his studio to Lesbos to be on the front lines of the migrant crisis, how to make art, and technology as a tool for freedom or oppression. Ai opens up about his relationship to his father as a poet and as a dissident forced into hard labor in a small village after the Cultural Revolution. He shares his thoughts on formal education and the importance of finding your own way as an artist. New York--both the city and its people--were formative for Ai Weiwei, and he speaks eloquently about how these experiences continue to influence him. Ai conjures up scenes from his long relationship with the city: dropping out of Parsons School of Design because he couldn't afford tuition, making portraits in Washington Square Park as an undocumented immigrant in the 1980s, taking photos for the New York Times at demonstrations in Tompkins Square Park, and returning to set up the Good Fences Make Good Neighbors project across the city. These candid, spontaneous conversations reveal why Ai Weiwei has become such a major force in contemporary art and political life.
Tetsumi Kudo: Cultivation
The eerily prescient work of a near-forgotten Japanese artist, whose 1960s and '70s sculptures anticipate contemporary ecological anxietiesContemplating Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo's (1935-90) work in the 21st century provokes a sense of the uncanny on multiple levels: grotesquely beautiful on their own, his abject sculptures seem to foretell today's environmental concerns with their depictions of ecological decay. Born in Osaka, Kudo's life was greatly impacted by the aftermath of the atomic bomb in 1945; this trauma compounded by the Vietnam War's ever-present atmosphere of destruction led to a consistent focus on dystopia and decomposition in his work. Kudo's fluorescent birdcages and blacklight terrariums are furnished with an assortment of sculptures and found objects: melted plastic flowers, colorful phallic chrysalises and dismembered resin body parts come together to convey a distinctly modern anxiety in regard to our ailing world. Kudo's work does not intend to provide comfort in the midst of crisis; rather, his pieces urge viewers to reflect on how we may or may not continue to survive in a world that we ourselves have ruined through pollution and consumerism. As the artist's work reaches a peak of topicality, this volume presents a focused selection of Kudo's pieces from the 1960s and 1970s that demonstrate a postwar awareness of the atomic bomb's effect on reproduction and the environment.
Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History
Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History tells the definitive story behind the creation of Jim Henson's beloved series. It's been over thirty-five years since the irrepressible Fraggles first hit the screen in the beloved children's television hit Fraggle Rock. Created by the legendary Jim Henson, along with Michael K. Frith, Jerry Juhl, Duncan Kenworthy, and Jocelyn Stevenson, Fraggle Rock remains a favorite of fans to this day. This delightful volume tells the incredible story of the bighearted show that helped instill open-minded values in a whole generation of viewers. Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History follows the show's creation, from early concepts to the incredible puppetry that brought the unforgettable characters, such as Gobo, Red, and Mokey, to life. Exclusive interviews with Stevenson, Frith, Kenworthy, and several other major contributors reveal fascinating, exclusive insights that take the reader further into Jim Henson's world than ever before. Featuring a wealth of rare concept art and behind-the-scenes photographs from the archives of The Jim Henson Company, Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History is the definitive look at one of the best-loved television shows of all time.
Laurent Grasso
Known for installations exploring science, natural phenomena, and contemporary mythologies, French artist Laurent Grasso presents a visual journey of his avant-garde, conceptual work. Drawing on the visual possibilities of electromagnetic energy, radio waves, and natural phenomena, French conceptual artist Laurent Grasso explores their effect on our perception via immersive videos, sculptures, paintings, and drawings that resort to images or techniques borrowed from cinema or art history. At the crossroads of heterogeneous temporalities, geographies, and realities, his installations play with shifting viewpoints, boundaries between fiction and reality, and unusual perspectives. This tome explores the artist's manipulations of what we perceive to be time's consistency, showcasing artworks merging a wide range of interests, including scientific speculations and fictions; natural catastrophes; and representations of power and authority. This questioning of time appears in Grasso's Studies into the Past paintings, created using historically accurate techniques, which reconstruct our perception of the reality of another era to create a "false historical memory." Vibrant photographs display his unique pieces, while astute observations from some of the world's foremost art critics offer insight into Grasso's approach.
Harry Potter: Coloring Wizardry
Bursting with beautiful, exclusive illustrations, Harry Potter: Coloring Wizardry is a must-have coloring book for fans of the magical film series. Escape to one of the most beloved series of all time! Harry Potter: Coloring Wizardry takes fans on a film-by-film journey through the wizarding world with over 80 illustrations of beloved scenes for fans of all ages to color--from Harry's first-ever Quidditch match in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to the battle of Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. With compelling and intricate designs perfect for hours of relaxation and creativity, Harry Potter: Coloring Wizardry is the perfect opportunity to celebrate every fan's love for the Harry Potter films.
Art in Diverse Social Settings
This edited volume examines the important and multi-varied role that art plays in today's diverse society. Built on a multidisciplinary and dialogical approach, the book brings together the views of scholars and artists from around the world to explore central questions relating to the purpose(s) art services in contemporary, pluralistic societies.
Loving You is Easy
Explore love in the time of corona! Here are 20 coloring pages and activities that are designed to build communication and closeness for couples during the quarantine. This activity book will change date night for couples.
Arte e antropologia in Italia negli anni Settanta
Questo libro nasce dallo studio di un'area poco conosciuta della ricerca artistica, quella che negli anni Settanta si 癡 sviluppata intorno a temi e pratiche connessi all'antropologia, incontrando la teorizzazione critica, sul piano internazionale, di una tendenza denominata "Arte antropologica". L'indagine mette in luce il contesto italiano e analizza l'opera di alcuni artisti che hanno saputo congiungere l'intuizione e la scienza, anche se distanti quanto a formazione e modalit? operative. Artisti che hanno privilegiato il lavoro manuale e la cultura materiale, usando per簷 anche media diversi (performance, film, fotografia, teatro, registrazione sonora, reperti e scrittura) e ricorrendo a logiche concettuali. Attratti dalla ricerca sul campo, hanno adottato una metodologia "scientifica" e al contempo fittizia, propensa ad includere "tracce" della storia oppure del mito. Con una cautela critica fondata sulla letteratura esistente, vengono quindi analizzati i percorsi di Claudio Costa, Antonio Paradiso e Armando Marrocco, che hanno affrontato tematiche ancestrali e hanno fatto dell'antropologia uno strumento funzionale alla ricerca di s矇 e dell'identit? dell'uomo. Viene inoltre considerato il lavoro sull'oggetto e sul territorio di Ugo La Pietra, pi羅 orientato verso una prospettiva di "Arte nel sociale". Un capitolo 癡 dedicato anche a Mario Cresci, Michele Zaza, Aldo Tagliaferro e Franco Vimercati, dediti alla fotografia e in diverso grado coinvolti in questioni antropologiche. Infine, un breve cenno a Giuliano Mauri, Livio Marzot e Aurelio Caminati completa un quadro ricco e complesso, in cui la ricerca dei nessi fra arte e antropologia sconfina nei territori inafferrabili della natura, dell'archeologia, del mito e della memoria.
Growing Up with Papa
Growing Up with Papa is an expression of love and feelings for family, friends, animals, flowers and nature through art and proverbs. It displays the special bond between father and daughters through 60 colourful photos of paintings by Ellyse Tran from the age of 7 to 13. It also contains words of wisdom from Aristotle, Baha'i writings, Buddha, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Evelyn, Josh Billings, Lao Tzu, Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel Johnson, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, among many others and Vietnamese poets: Nguyen Du and Nguyen Dinh Chieu.
The Bell That Rang For Nobody
Written in a little black pocket journal is this collection of thoughts, dreams, and poems; concerned with capturing the kinetic energy that exists within our relationship to the world, its moments, and their dissolution or reverberation.
idaho brown
idaho brown is the 10th printed release by Los Angeles writer, Cliff Weber. The book contains both poetry and full color collage. For more info, visit www.cliff-weber.com
Harry Potter: Harry`s Wand Pen
Celebrate your love of the HARRY POTTERTM films with this collectible pen designed to look like Harry Potter's iconic phoenix feather wand.
Maybe the People Would Be the Times
In his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City. The glue holding the collection together is autobiography. Every item carries deep personal significance, and most are rooted in lived experience, in particular Sante's youth on the Lower East Side of New York in the fertile 1970s and '80s. He traces his deep engagement with music, his experience of the city, his progression as an artist and observer, his love life and ambitions. Maybe the People Would Be the Times is organized as a series of sequences, in which one piece leads into the next. Memoir flows into essay, fiction into critical writing, humor into poetry, the pieces answering and echoing one another, examining subjects from multiple vantages. The collection shows Sante at his most lyrical, impassioned, and imaginative, a writer for whom every assignment brings the challenge of inventing a new form.
Simple Pleasures
Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (1904-1983). Lee was one of the most recognized artists in America during the 1930s and 40s, and was a leading figure in the Woodstock Artist's Colony. Her oeuvre reveals a remarkable ability to merge the reduction of abstraction with the appeal of the everyday. In so doing, she offers one of the very rare examples of a coherent visual identity that successfully bridged the various artistic "camps" that formed with the shift in the art world in the post-World War II era.Doris Lee exploded onto the national scene in 1935 when her painting Thanksgiving was awarded the Art Institute of Chicago's Logan Prize and instigated the Sanity in Art movement in protest. Two years later, her painting Catastrophe was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple Pleasures explores this initial national recognition in the 1930s within the context of American Scene painting, and traces the artist's thematic interest in the simple objects and scenes of the everyday through her career. It also examines the influence of the rise in abstraction during the late 1940s and 1950s, and the particular way in which this abstraction found resonance with Lee's long-held interest in, and collections of, folk and non-western art. During this post-war period, Lee, like many of her American Scene colleagues, found lucrative work in the heyday of commercial advertising. Lee's commercial commissions for patrons such as American Tobacco Company, Life magazine, Abbott Laboratories, and Associated American Artists are especially compelling in both their populist accessibility and in their deceptively sophisticated abstraction. Sixty-five works by the artist span the 1930s through the 1960s and are comprised of paintings, drawings, prints, and commissioned commercial designs in fabric and pottery. Included are advertisements by companies that commissioned images from Lee, and photographs that contextualize the artist's work within the Woodstock artist's community.
Kaws: He Eats Alone
A clothbound collection of KAWS' instantly recognizable riffs on pop culture, featuring bold graphics and a familiar cast of characters Few artists have managed to bridge the gap between high and low culture as seamlessly as KAWS has since his career took off in the 1990s: his iconic cartoon-inspired designs have graced fashion collections, vinyl figurines, and skateboards as well as canvases sold for millions of dollars. Frequently portraying familiar figures such as Mickey Mouse and Spongebob Squarepants with cauliflower ears and X'ed-out eyes, KAWS employs a sophisticated dark humor throughout his work, exploring the relationship between art and consumerism. This publication documents the artist's first exhibit in the Middle East, with more than 40 key pieces in sculpture and painting from the last two decades. The exhibit in Doha, Qatar, and its accompanying catalog also feature a number of KAWS' commercial collaborations alongside his 5-meter-tall sculpture Companion (Passing Through) and his inflatable 40-meter-tall piece Holiday. Bound in cloth, this volume is a gorgeous collection of KAWS' most exciting work. Brian Donnelly (born 1974), known professionally by his graffiti tag KAWS, is the mastermind behind one of today's most recognizable artistic brands. A graffiti artist since adolescence, Donnelly received his BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. He then worked as a background artist for animated TV programs before becoming an independent designer. He has worked with artists like Kanye West and collaborated with brands such as Supreme, Nike and Comme des Gar癟ons. He is currently represented by Skarstedt Gallery in New York.
The Whimsical World of Marion Wright
Ever wonder what a play on words looks like in picture form? That's what you get over and over in the Whimsical World of Marion Wright. Sometimes quirky, sometimes downright funny, author and artist Marion Wright gives you the best of her well-nourished imagination. Wright has exhibited her work around the world, but her favorite part of any exhibit is watching people's expressions as they go by her paintings. Some people don't understand the work and walk right by, but others giggle and bring their friends to look. The main goal, Wright says, is to get people to smile. There's is too much sadness in the world, and this is one artist's way to help people to be happier.
Victoriana
Victoriana is a beautiful and lush collection of the mixed media collage art of Jennifer Anne Gordon.The original pieces were made with old photos, antique letters, and playing cards, as well hand painted paper and various other ephemera. These were combined with acrylic paint, oil pastels, and watercolor.The colors are rich, and each piece is a multi-textural visual story, each image is a mystery, and a dream. Jennifer's love for all things vintage, especially the late Victorian and Edwardian Eras is combined with her passion for performance, circus girls, steampunk and burlesque came together to create the pieces collected here.Her work is collected throughout the world. This collected work is perfect for appreciators of a time gone by, lovers of vaudeville, and silent film stars. What people are saying - "Her mixed media art is incredibly unique and breathtaking! Antique photos and letters are a common theme and inspiration to much of her work. There is an unbelievable presence in her artwork that draws you in. It is almost as if each work has its own life and its own past.""Like dusty pressed flower petals unearthed from a long-forgotten trunk in the attic, Jennifer's Collages ache with hidden stories and desires half-met. Her characters are doe eyed Silent Era theater beauties, pale gilded fashion icons, and folkloric dreamers, all frozen in time."
Eleeza
The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the California Institute of Arts, Bulgarian-born Eliza now lives in San Francisco where she created much of the art on these pages. She produces effortless movement with her sketched lines and animation-influenced dynamic touches. Well known for her portraits and figures of women and children, Eliza's style is distinctive and rich in detail. In addition to a gallery filled with a mix of old favorites, new creations and bespoke commissions for this book, you will be invited into Eliza's world. Enter her studio to discover her workspace and favorite tools. Eliza also shares techniques with us in step-by-step workshops to help us capture some of that dynamic movement that infuses her work. Both aspiring and established artists will benefit from Eliza's technical tips and words of wisdom about life, work, and more.
The Crystal Rose
As I sit and begin to write these linesI'm reminded of a much earlier timeI must have been 8 when I first beganTo create prose with a pen in my handAlthough most times it was done for funWho'd have guessed one day a writer I'd becomeSo I've laid myself bare, all the triumphs and trialsThe trauma, the hurt, the frowns, and the smilesLet these words be a beacon and offer insightWhen you're alone in the darkness and looking for lightI'm certainly grateful that you took the timeTo share my experiences I've put into rhymeThe Crystal Rose is a captivating collection of poetry and art. Beautifully illustrated, the accompanying artwork helps bring to life the riveting prose. Moving and inspirational, these pages are a journey through love, heartbreak, friendship, betrayal, and a celebration of life.
Mannahatta
This book features a series of artworks that celebrate the architectural history of Manhattan. As a life-long New Yorker, Marilyn Henrion's vision has always been deeply rooted in the urban geometry of her surroundings, from the earlier geometric abstractions to the more recent mixed media works. She is particularly interested in the co-existence of past and present, especially in architecture and other man-made structures. Built during different periods in the history of Manhattan, we can delight in seeing them simultaneously, often side by side Both above and below ground, these rich visual treats abound as she makes her way through her neighborhood streets of Soho, lower Manhattan and beyond. Throughout the ages, the presence of the human hand upon the landscape has always expressed our eternal yearning for immortality, evidence that says "I was once here". Much as Edward Hopper did in the 20th century, Henrion synthesizes and transforms the "facts" of the material world to reflect her experience of a particular place. Whether focusing on historic landmarks with new eyes, or construction sites that testify to the vibrant ever-evolving cityscape, her objective is to illuminate beauty in unexpected places...a subway entrance, a doorway, a fire escape, a rooftop. An insightful essay by Ulysses Grant Dietz, Chief Curator Emeritus, the Newark Museum of Art, introduces the work.
ThorvaldsenCollector of Plaster Casts from Antiquity and the Early Modern Period
The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europe's most soughtafter artists; he was also a collector. In addition to his own works and drawings, he built extensive collections of paintings, prints, drawings and books - and of ancient artefacts from Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquity: coins, lockets, containers, vases, lamps, fragments of sculpture and more. He also acquired a large collection of plaster casts, primarily after ancient sculptures and reliefs, but also of works dating from the Renaissance and up until his own lifetime. Thanks to Thorvaldsen's bequest to the city of Copenhagen, his birthplace, all of these collections are still largely intact and well preserved at his museum. Home to a total of 657 plaster casts, the Thorvaldsen Museum's cast collection is unique for several reasons: The collection offers us insight into the sculptor's working methods and the development of his work because it served a clear function as an image bank of forms, motifs and subjects for Thorvaldsen's own endeavours. Furthermore, the dual fact that the collection is so well preserved and was established over a relatively brief period of time makes it a valuable example illuminating the trade and distribution of plaster casts during the first half of the nineteenth century. These areas of study form the central focal point of Volume I of this publication. Volume II contains a catalogue of the individual objects in the cast collection, while Volume III collects the overviews, inventories, concordances and primary sources referred to in the first two volumes. Arising out of many years of study of Thorvaldsen's cast collection conducted by their author, the classical archaeologist Jan Zahle, these books contain comprehensive source material from the period, much of it previously unknown.
50 faces
Finally a Gallery you can make your own. Does your mirror reply with an oddball face? This is a book of funny face illustrations, 50 new friends and family that love you--- they will remind you that none of us fit in. We are all oddballs and that's why we are all perfectly the same in our own different way. Everyone has their quirks- and so we are all perfect, you will notice that it is exactly these quirks that you will love and adore most about each face. You could use this book as a passive observer-a silent contemplator, or if you'd want to get more involved than just looking at the pictures, choose one of the included suggestions for using this book interactively, Explore this book as a;StorytellerTribe creatorDoodlerSelf-experiment of your perceptionSpecial method. No matter which way you use this book, with all these funny faces you will learn that the most beautiful face is one that is truly smiling.
The Crystal Rose
As I sit and begin to write these linesI'm reminded of a much earlier timeI must have been 8 when I first beganTo create prose with a pen in my handAlthough most times it was done for funWho'd have guessed one day a writer I'd becomeSo I've laid myself bare, all the triumphs and trialsThe trauma, the hurt, the frowns, and the smilesLet these words be a beacon and offer insightWhen you're alone in the darkness and looking for lightI'm certainly grateful that you took the timeTo share my experiences I've put into rhymeThe Crystal Rose is a captivating collection of poetry and art. Beautifully illustrated, the accompanying artwork helps bring to life the riveting prose. Moving and inspirational, these pages are a journey through love, heartbreak, friendship, betrayal, and a celebration of life.
Stained Glass - A Handbook on the Art of Stained Glass, Its Origin and Development from the Time of Charlemange to Its Decadence
Originally published in 1922, this unusual works is a comprehensive and informative look at the origin and history of Stained Glass. Extensively illustrated throughout and containing a list of artists in glass from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries this works is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any one who is interested in the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Spirituality in Art -- Artwork of Jindrich Degen
Spirituality in Art, the latest book featuring forty-four of Jindrich Degen's works, is a selection of paintings relating to themes of spirituality. It represents his artistic endeavors over more than a decade. The collection contains mainly abstract art and is organized under six themes - enlightenment, spiritual journey, meditation, mandalas, Christian symbolism, and celebration.
Colour and Contrast -- Artwork of Jindrich Degen
This book of 184 pictures is a selection of Jindrich Degen's paintings, presenting both realistic and abstract art in various media including oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolour. His diverse range of subjects is organized under twelve categories. The collection features still lifes, landscapes, townscapes, real-life portraits, as well as abstract images representing floral, nature, and spirituality themes.
חמסותעיצובי פסיפס מקוריים במגוו&
החמסה, כף היד המקושטת, היא קמע מזל עממי בצורת כף יד פתוחה, עם חמש (חמסה) אצבעות צמודות זו לזו. לחמסה מיוחסות בתרבויות שונות, סגולות למזל טוב והגנה מפני עין הרע. מקורותיה של החמסה עתיקים ומופיעים ביהדות, באסלאם ובנצרות.הספר מתמקד בחמסות מפסיפס, כל אחת מהן בעיצוב מקורי ושונה, תוך לימוד טכניקות מגוונות.הספר מציע מגוון חמסות בעיצוב מקורי, בגדלים וצורות שונותכל חמסה מלווה בתמונות המראות את שלבי העבודהטיפים לעבודה בפסיפסעבודה בחומרים מגווניםשיטה מיוחדת לשילוב קטעי טקסט בפסיפסובנוסף, בסוף הספר קישור להורדת כל הדוגמאות.מובטחת לכם חוויה צבעונית ומהנה!
Built to BurnTales of the Desert Carnies of Burning Man
BUILT TO BURN tells the story of how Tony, a San Francisco blues musician, became Coyote, builder of Burning Man's legendary city in the desert, and how he came to lead a ragtag band of circus runaways, freaks and geeks that would become its Department of Public Works. In 1996, Tony was making a decent living as a musician, but his creative juices had run dry: one night onstage, he realized he'd just played an entire sax solo while thinking about his laundry. So when a wild-at-heart friend invites him to something called "Burning Man," he grabs his backpack and hops in the car, unaware that the experience ahead will not only turn him inside out, but alter the course of his life. An essential Burning Man origin story, BUILT TO BURN chronicles the wild uncertainty and creative chaos of the early days in the desert, when the event's future was under constant threat and the organizers were making everything up as they went along. It's a tale of struggle and survival, of friends made and friends lost, as Coyote and his misfit crew battle raging storms, crazed livestock, angry townsfolk and each other, locking horns with the real-life cowboys, Indians, outlaws and outcasts of Nevada's high desert frontier.Told with wry humor and a bit of cowboy philosophy, BUILT TO BURN invites the reader to experience Burning Man as it was before it got civilized, when it was as wild and untamed as anything out of the Old West.
(UN)Imaginable
(UN)IMAGINABLEThe Pandemic SeriesWorldwide Pandemic? Honestly, who would've believed this could happen? Not me. But it did.I was laid off from my day job on March 18th, and all of a sudden told to stay home for the unforeseeable future. After ten days of feeling unsettled and maybe a little scared, I decided to do what I love. I started to paint. The decision I made was to paint one painting a day until the self isolation was over. I had no idea how long that would be, but I finally had the time to be a full-time artist. Every day, with every painting, I wrote about how I was feeling - little thoughts that were reactions to social media or the news or conversations with friends. This was an unprecedented time and emotions and opinions were flying. I went back to work on May 22, #56 of my Pandemic Series, and decided that I would end on #60. This is an Art Book first and foremost. But it is also a journal of my experience through a crazy time.
(UN)ImaginableThe Pandemic Series
(UN)IMAGINABLEThe Pandemic SeriesWorldwide Pandemic? Honestly, who would've believed this could happen? Not me. But it did.I was laid off from my day job on March 18th, and all of a sudden told to stay home for the unforeseeable future. After ten days of feeling unsettled and maybe a little scared, I decided to do what I love. I started to paint. The decision I made was to paint one painting a day until the self isolation was over. I had no idea how long that would be, but I finally had the time to be a full-time artist. Every day, with every painting, I wrote about how I was feeling - little thoughts that were reactions to social media or the news or conversations with friends. This was an unprecedented time and emotions and opinions were flying. I went back to work on May 22, #56 of my Pandemic Series, and decided that I would end on #60. This is an Art Book first and foremost. But it is also a journal of my experience through a crazy time.
Comestible 7-Day Meal Plan
What we eat has tremendous implications for our health, society, and the environment. Interweaving ethical, political, aesthetic, and poetic registers, Badani's seven messy and discomforting "recipes" invite the reader to consider the larger ecological landscape in which food and diet are part of the greater global narrative.Part ecological manifesto, part artistic parody, this provocative work - disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook - blends ideas about consumerism, power, experience, time, nature, innocence, hope, sin and salvation. Melding photography together with elements ranging from poetry to science to informed psychobabble, this 7-day "diet plan" is funny, whimsical, and refreshingly critical of the greed behind consumption.Pat Badani is a visual artist, writer and researcher who explores notions of utopia and dystopia through emergent art practices in works dealing with globalization, human migration, and ecological sustainability. Her works revitalize connections between food and cultures by scrutinizing the diets we eat.
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[ruled Notebook/Journal/Diary to write in,60 sheets, Medium Size (A5) 6x9 inches]. Notebook for fast and simple saving of instructions, ideas, descriptions or for all things you do not want to forget. Due to a handy format, the notebook can be comfortably used in any situation. Perfect for spontaneous collection of ideas or as a memorization tool. Practical handling due to easy pocket format. Perfect as gift to say thank you, or as birthday present or for yourself.
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[ruled Notebook/Journal/Diary to write in,60 sheets, Medium Size (A5) 6x9 inches]. Notebook for fast and simple saving of instructions, ideas, descriptions or for all things you do not want to forget. Due to a handy format, the notebook can be comfortably used in any situation. Perfect for spontaneous collection of ideas or as a memorization tool. Practical handling due to easy pocket format. Perfect as gift to say thank you, or as birthday present or for yourself.
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[ruled Notebook/Journal/Diary to write in,60 sheets, Medium Size (A5) 6x9 inches]. Notebook for fast and simple saving of instructions, ideas, descriptions or for all things you do not want to forget. Due to a handy format, the notebook can be comfortably used in any situation. Perfect for spontaneous collection of ideas or as a memorization tool. Practical handling due to easy pocket format. Perfect as gift to say thank you, or as birthday present or for yourself.
