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In five complementary contributions, recognised authors draw a fascinating and complex picture of contemporary jewellery in the twenty-first century. Through a rich palette of themes, works, reports and concepts from current art practices, they illum ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent decades has raised questions about exhibition-mak ..

It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. ‚Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing.‘ The result is this unique combination ..

In Chroma, Derek Jarman explains the use of colour in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great colour theorists from Pliny to Leonardo. He also talks about the meaning of colours in literature, science, philo ..

Turn the pages of this lavishly-produced book to discover a collection of monsters, creatures, and characters created by self-taught concept artist Francisco Garc s, AKA Dibujante Nocturno. The artist and illustrator shares his journey, revealing how his s

INTRODUCTION Synthesis and analysis The difference between static and dynamic symmetry Sources for the study of dynamic symmetryTHE DYNAMIC SYMMETRY OF THE PLANT The summation series How dynamic symmetry was discovered The logarithmic s ..

Die Kunst liegt in der Natur§1862 erschien erstmals Ernst Haeckels bahnbrechendes Werk Atlas der Radiolarien , in dem er bis dahin unbekannte einzellige Meereslebewesen auf minutiös gezeichneten und lithografierten Farbtafeln darstellte. Jahrzehnte s ..

An overview of the theories of color from antiquity to the present. An indispensable study for all who work with color including artists, glazers, architects, decorators, designers, ceramic and textile artists, and the student of color theory.

This is an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists. It uses detailed instruction and step-by-step examples to teach key artistic methods. It is based on SCAD's world-famous sequential arts curriculum with examples o ..

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in a ..

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writ