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Learn to draw in 30 days with Emmy award-winning PBS host Mark Kistler.

(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

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(Paperback)

This guide is aimed at all designers and artists already working in the visual arts field, as well as those just starting out or in art education who need to either compile or brush up their portfolio for jobs, commissions, art college or presentations. It covers everything you need to consider.

(Hardback)

Knowledge began to be systematically grounded in observation and display from the Enlightenment. This book contains themed sections that include: Revolt and Revolution; Science and Empiricism; Gaze and Spectacle; Acquisition, Display, and Desire; Conquest, Colonialism, and Globalization; Image and Reality; and, Media and Visual Technologies.

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Knowledge began to be systematically grounded in observation and display from the Enlightenment. This book contains themed sections that include: Revolt and Revolution; Science and Empiricism; Gaze and Spectacle; Acquisition, Display, and Desire; Conquest, Colonialism, and Globalization; Image and Reality; and, Media and Visual Technologies.

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This handy pocket guide contains 100 useful things that artists and designers should know before embarking on careers in the arts.

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This revised, second edition develops the creative principles established in the first edition, building particularly on three-dimensional forms, featuring a large number of new images.

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This extraordinary alphabet book is filled with an explosion of colorfully illustrated letters that teach early readers their ABCs and art terms from A is for Artist to Z is for Zentangle.

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An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender. -- .

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An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender. -- .

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A re-evaluation of the notion of positive (versus merely negative) freedom.

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This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

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This book analyses how three artists Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

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(Paperback)

The reputations of artists are curious things, influenced by factors beyond the quality of the work. Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist's reputation after he or she dies. It highlights the sometimes heart-wrenching way emotion and duty intersect in the making of decisions by those left behind.

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An introduction to the work of Alois Riegel (1858-1905), one of the founders of art history as a discipline.

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Explores how visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the image of the United States. This book presents both an analysis of the diversity of American visual media and a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture.

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Explores how visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the image of the United States. This book presents both an analysis of the diversity of American visual media and a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture.

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An annotated bibliography of suggested further reading completes this invaluable and unique resource for the student and teacher of modern American art, media and culture.

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Proposes an anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, this book presents a challenging and provocative account of what pictures are and how they function.

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The single family house, for example, shares with its foreign contemporaries the basic elements of plan, and yet the way in which these elements are organized into a whole gives our houses certain qualities which we can call uniquely American.