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Black, favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility and sin and holiness. This book discusses the social history of the color black in Europe. It is suitable for those interested in the history of fashion, art, media, or design.

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Argues that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This book analyses the motivations behind chromophobia and focuses on the work of writers and artists who have been prepared to look at colour as a positive value.

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One of the great innovations of the Impressionists was their radical use of colour: their application of strokes of complementary or contrasting hues captured the shifting effects of light and foregrounded the nature of vision.

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A nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places are significant to us.

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This book chronicles the development and reception of 'The History Projects' through the artist's own reflections, and the writings and conversations that have circulated around them

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An introduction to design theory and terminology in a visually appealing and accessible format. It culminates with a section on formal analysis, aimed at teaching readers how to express their observations in formal writing and critical discourse. It is suitable for design educator, student, or professional, native or non-native English speaker.

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This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the disciplin

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How do pictures tell stories This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.

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Offers an understanding of artistic creativity by examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors. This book provides insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.

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Offers an approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its practitioners. This book explores the works and concerns of three European abstract painters - Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky - and then those of their American successors - Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still.

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A comprehensive guide to the complex world of public art.

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A meditation on twilight in Western thought, painting, and literature. This ambitious account of the arts of the evening, now available in paperback, deftly combines prose-poetry, memoir, philosophy, and art history. Intertwining personal, cultural, and artistic histories, it is a richly rewarding book written in a unique voice.

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A new book from Reaktion best-selling author and artist, David Batchelor, The Luminous and the Grey is a unique study of the places where colour comes into being and where it fades away.

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The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist represents the most extensive collection of Mead's visionary film work ever printed, including ALIENS, Blade Runner, Star Trek The Motion Picture, and Elysium, compiling hundreds of images, sketches and concept arts from a career spanning almost 40 years, many of which have never been seen in print before.

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Introduction -- Determine what art is -- Make something from nothing -- Stand out in a noisy and distracted world -- Get others to see things in very specific ways -- Make things that are meaningful -- One more thing ... -- Text notes -- Quotation sources.