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What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting, Using the Language of Alchemy

James Elkins

From When one looks at a Monet, what exactly is one looking at? A framed painting, surely. And, too, as traditional art ...

Nabokov and the Art of Painting

D. Barton Johnson, Gerard De Vries, Liana Ashenden

About the Author Gerard de Vries’s writings on Nabokov have appeared in Russian Literature Triquarterly, Nabokov S...

Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art

David W. Galenson

Review In Painting outside the Lines, David Galenson offers the simple but fascinating thesis that statistical analysis r...

Arthur Boyd: A Life

Darleen Bungey

About the Author Originally a copywriter in Australian, American and UK advertising, Darleen Bungey worked as an associat...

And Picasso Painted Guernica

Alain Serres

From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4–8—In 1937, civilians in the Basque town of Guernica were ...

Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture

Robert Mills

From Publishers Weekly In this mixed bag of jargon-heavy academic meandering (it contains plenty of instances of "alerity...

Subject, Society and Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Roy Boyne

Review `This is a highly original, indeed an extraordinary book, standing out among the conventional philosophical treatm...

The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 3: Mughal and Rajput Painting

Milo Cleveland Beach

Review "Beach's work is a sumptuous survey of the history of this long tradition....The strengths of the work lie in Beac...

The History of Art: The Essential Guide to Painting Through the Ages

A.N. Hodge

The History of Art: The Essential Guide to Painting Through the Ages...

Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th Centuries BC: A Handbook (World of Art)

John Boardman

About the Author Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at Oxford. His books include th...

Modelling and Painting Figures (Osprey Modelling Manuals 8)

Jerry Scutts

From the Publisher A perfect combination of easy-to-follow text combined with comprehensive step-by-step photography make...

Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon

Sandra Cate

About the Author Sandra Cate teaches anthropology at San Jose State University. She is a co-editor of Converging Interest...

Aesthetics and Painting (Continuum Aesthetics)

Jason Gaiger

Review "This book shines a much needed clear, intelligent light on the central questions of the meaning and value of pain...

Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue

Ela Nutu, J. Cheryl Exum

Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue...

Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?: On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

Elkins

From Publishers Weekly Plato shrewdly noticed that a painting loses its liveliness the moment the viewer confronts its "m...

Art Explained (Annotated Guides)

Robert Cumming

About the Author Robert Cummings is a bestselling writer and art critic, and was formerly Chairman of Christie's Educatio...

The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology

Joseph Margolis

Review "In search of the distinctively human as a key to understanding language, culture, history, agency, creativity and...

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Michael Baxandall

Review `Of interest not only to Art Historians, but to anyone concerned with the material culture of the Renaissance.' D...

Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Siri Hustvedt

From Publishers Weekly These wonderful essays capture Hustvedt's thoughtful, intensely personal and aesthetically charged...

Painting and Decorating

Roy Hughes

Book Description The one stop resource for success in Further Education courses in Decorative Occupations / Painting & De...

Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures

Dominic Mciver Lopes

Review Dominic Lopes's Sight and Sensibility contributes, with originality and sharp argumentation, to a growing interest...

Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry

Donna Dewberry

Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry...

Oil Painting For Dummies

Anita Marie Giddings, Sherry Stone Clifton

Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy. But it gets much easier and a lot more fun when you follow a step-by-step approach th...

Building and Painting Scale Figures

Sheperd Paine

Building and Painting Scale Figures...

One stroke landscapes

Donna S. Dewberry

Donna Dewberry brings her popular One Stroke Technique to the landscape, creating five painting on canvas: a winter landscape with...

Pictures and Tears

James Elkins

From Library Journal A much different exploration of the meaning of painting is found in Elkins's Pictures and Tears. Elkins (S...

The Art of Painting Animals on Rocks

Lin Wellford

A step-by-step handbook on painting animals on rocks, which contains 11 projects including ladybirds, turtles, rabbits, kittens, f...

Donna Dewberry's Complete Book of One-Stroke Painting

Donna Dewberry

Review "Kathryn Gutzwiller is a renowned and well-respected scholar, and her wide ranging publications have contributed greatly ...

Techniques of fantasy art

Robertson

Techniques of fantasy art...

How to Use an Airbrush

Robert Downie

This is a How To Use An Airbrush Book from Kalmbach Books. FEATURES: Glossy softcover 96 page book with 215 full-color photograph...

Advanced Painter Techniques

Don Seegmiller

If you are interested in developing techniques for using Corel’s Painter, Advanced Painter Techniques is full of the author&...

Complete Book of One-Stroke Painting - North Light Books

Donna S. Dewberry

An inspirational guide to drawing and painting the fairy realm, this enchanting book looks at the origins and development of fairy...

50 Robots to Draw and Paint: Create Fantastic Robot Characters for Comic Books, Computer Games, and Graphic Novels

Keith Thompson

The ability to render eye-catching, convincing robots is a vital skill for artists who design computer games or illustrate graphic...

The Science of Paintings

Dusan Stulik, James W. Mayer, Peter Ian Kuniholm, Richard Newman, W. Stanley Taft

One's appreciation of a beautiful painting is enhanced by knowing about the aesthetic choices the artist made in composition and e...

How to Start a Faux Painting or Mural Business: A Guide to Making Money in the Decorative Arts

Rebecca Pitman

The complete how-to guide for turning faux, mural, and decorative painting skills into a viable, home-based career! Covering every...

The Encyclopedia of Airbrushing Techniques

Michael Leek

A complete A-Z visual directory of airbrushing techniques and how to use them. Using step-by-step demonstrations and the work of a...

Art Nouveau Designs

Judy Balchin

Packed with beautiful Art Nouveau designs—flowers and leaves, birds and animals, figures, borders, frames, and more. A...

Mastering digital 2D and 3D art

Don Seegmiller, Les Pardew

About the Author Les Pardew is a video game and entertainment industry veteran with 15 years of industry experience. His ...

Interactive Storytelling for Video Games: A Player-Centered Approach to Creating Memorable Characters and Stories

Chris Klug, Josiah Lebowitz

Review Lebowitz and Klug's tag-team approach to the subject makes this an engaging read, even for seasoned interactive stor...

XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers

Jonathan S. Harbour

Amazon.com Review Features of XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers The only boo...

Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st Century Learning

Review "James Paul Gee and Elisabeth R. Hayes offer us vivid portrait of women of all ages ‘gaming beyond gaming,&#x...

Warcraft - Day of the dragon

Richard A. Knaak

About the Author Richard A. Knaak is the New York Times bestselling author of some three dozen novels, including the The ...

Warcraft - Cycle of hatred

Keith R. A. Decandido

About the Author Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over...

Mac game programming

Mark Szymczyk

Review When I began writing games in 1985, I would have loved to have access to a reference like this one. -- Glenda Adam...

Revenge of the Giants: A 4th Edition D&d Super Adventure (D&d Adventure) (

Bill Slavicsek, Mike Mearls, Wizards Rpg Team

Revenge of the Giants: A 4th Edition D&d Super Adventure (D&d Adventure) (...

Rotation transforms for computer graphics

Vince J.

From the Back Cover Rotation transforms are used everywhere in computer graphics from rotating pictures in editing softwa...

An Introduction to Game Studies

Frans Mayra

An Introduction to Game Studies...

SilverFast: The Official Guide

Taz Tally

Review "...unlike the SilverFast documentation, this book goes down easily." -- By Mike Pasini Editor, Imaging Resource D...

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