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Realistic Figure Drawing by Joseph Sheppard (Paperback - North Light Books)
 

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Realistic Figure Drawing by Joseph Sheppard (Paperback - North Light Books)
A traditional approach to drawing the figure taught through hundreds of Sheppard's classical, timeless figure drawings.

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Abstract Expressionism by David Anfam (Paperback - Thames & Hudson)
 

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Abstract Expressionism by David Anfam (Paperback - Thames & Hudson)
Taking into account the new research that has transformed our understanding of the movement, David Anfam sets the political implications of abstract expressionism in perspective and returns our attention to the works themselves. 175 illustrations.

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Principles of Three Dimensional Design by Stephen Luecking (Paperback - Illustrated)
 

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Principles of Three Dimensional Design by Stephen Luecking (Paperback - Illustrated)

This text is a thorough introduction to three-dimensional design: the importance of forms and objects in space. It covers the areas of problem solving: form/plane/space relationships. Of equal importance is its unique coverage of functional, cultural, and spatial contexts that condition the meanings we impart in creating objects. Its underlying goal is to provide a practical and theoretical understanding of how objects and the spaces they occupy shape the physical and perceptual nature of our reality.

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Color by Betty Edwards (Paperback - J P Tarcher)
 

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Color by Betty Edwards (Paperback - J P Tarcher)
The author of The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain distills the complext principles of color theory into a practical, easy-to-follow method of working with color to produce harmonious and pleasing combinations, explaining how to see and use color and how to mix and combine hues. Simultaneous. One Spirit & QPB.

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DVD Studio Pro 3 For MAC OS X by Martin Sitter (Paperback - Peachpit Pr)
 

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DVD Studio Pro 3 For MAC OS X by Martin Sitter (Paperback - Peachpit Pr)

If you thought you were producing fairly sophisticated DVDs before, wait 'till you see what you can do with Apple's just-released DVD Studio Pro 3! With its stunning QuickTime-based movie transitions (Alpha Transitions) and a brand-new Graphic View that lets you interact with your project in a storyboard environment, DVD Studio Pro 3 promises to bring a whole new level of sophistication to your DVD projects. This task-based guide ensures that you start taking advantage of it immediately! In these pages, you¿ll discover how to build on your existing DVD authoring skills to master version 3's many powerful new features--including more than 30 additional transition styles, superb HD-to-MPEG-2 encoding, and more. Veteran author Martin Sitter breaks down each DVD Studio Pro task--from setting chapter markers to adding subtitles and creating scripts--into concise step-by-step instructions accompanied by informative screen shots. By the end of the volume, you'll be juggling multiple audio tracks, creating custom transitions, creating smart buttons, and more in the quest of DVD perfection!

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The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan (Paperback - Thames & Hudson)
 

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The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan (Paperback - Thames & Hudson)
The Book of Kells is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. Its earliest history remains controversial but it was in the keeping of the monastery of Kells, Co. Meath, for most of the Middle Ages - hence its name - and has been in the library of Trinity College Dublin, since the mid-seventeenth century. It is a masterpiece of medieval art - a brilliantly decorated copy of the four Gospels with full-page illustrations of Christ, the Virgin and Child and the Evangelists, and a wealth of smaller decorative painting that does not always relate to the sacred text. The strange imagination displayed in the pages, the impeccable technique and the very fine state of its preservation make it an object of endless fascination. This edition includes the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail - spiral and interlace patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humor. Accompanying the illustrations is a new, up-to-date text by Bernard Meehan, the current Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin. It provides a scholarly analysis of these exuberant inventions, the artists, the text and the writing, and a full account of the historical background to the miraculous world of the Book of Kells.

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Design Basics Index by Jim Krause (Paperback - How Design Books)
 

Design Basics Index by Jim Krause (Paper...

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Design Basics Index by Jim Krause (Paperback - How Design Books)
Covers everything from typography and color to layout and business issues, providing a wealth of samples and exercises, discussing the necessary tools and techniques for creating dynamic layouts, sharing industry tips, and listing numerous project suggestions. Original.

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Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America by Jacqueline Barnitz (Paperback - Univ of Texas Pr)
 

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Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America by Jacqueline Barnitz (Paperback - Univ of Texas Pr)
The twentieth-century art of Latin America is art in the western tradition, and its leading figures--Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, to name only a few--have achieved international stature. Yet much of the writing about this art has offered either a victimized view of an art tradition dominated by foreign models or a romanticized view of what Latin American art should be. This pathfinding book, by contrast, seeks not to "invent" Latin American art but to look at it from the points of view of its own artists and critics.
Drawing on some forty years of studying and teaching Latin American art, Jacqueline Barnitz surveys the major currents and artists of the twentieth century in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America (including Brazil). She progresses chronologically from modernismo and the break with nineteenth-century academic art to some of the trends of the 1980s, setting each movement within its historical and cultural contexts. This grand survey of modern Latin American art will thus be the essential guide to a vibrant art tradition, as well as a vital teaching tool. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions of major works, it will be useful to artists, collectors, historians, writers, and social scientists, as well as art historians.

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Arts and Crafts Movement by Elizabeth Cumming (Paperback - Thames & Hudson)
 

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Arts and Crafts Movement by Elizabeth Cumming (Paperback - Thames & Hudson)
Surveys Arts and Crafts design in Britain, America, and Europe, as applied to architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, metalworks, textiles, and books.

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Dada and Surrealism by Matthew Gale (Paperback - Phaidon Inc Ltd)
 

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Dada and Surrealism by Matthew Gale (Paperback - Phaidon Inc Ltd)
Dada and Surrealism were two revolutionary art movements which emerged in response to the events and ideas of the early twentieth century. Dada, characterized by found objects and works made according to the laws of chance, was anarchic and anti-art. In part a reaction to the senseless destruction of the First World War, it questioned all accepted values. Surrealism, in contrast, was a more defined movement which evolved in the 1920s as artists and writers took up Freud's concept of the unconscious to undermine traditional conventions. By use of such techniques as automatism, artists sought to represent in concrete terms the imagery of dream and fantasy. In this clear and lively account, Matthew Gale explores the work of a wide range of artists -- from Marcel Duchamp and Raoul Hansmann to Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali -- and uses paintings, collages, sculptures, assemblages, photographs, photomontages, film stills and graphics to illustrate the rich variety of Dada and Surrealist art. This essential introductory book is the first to reproduce many of these works in colour.

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