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'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon 'Unlock your inner creativity and ease your anxiety' Daily Telegraph THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER Since its first publication, The Artis...

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The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies The landmark 1963 book by Josef Albers . . . isnt just for aspiring artists. Its mesmerizing illustrations are a revelation for anyone interested in c...

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Whether your favourite medium is digital, traditional, or a mix of both, Stockholm-based Feefal will have used it to explore her unique world of anthropomorphised figures, animals in dream-like settings, and cool-girl magic. Her spooky-cute style ...

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Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing systemfifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner. These keys, along with ...

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This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect rece...

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Wassily Kandinskys Om det andliga i konsten tillhör 1900-talets viktigaste teoretiska texter om konst. Den skapade ett stort intresse för abstraktion och anknyter trots sin modernism till äldre tiders traktat om måleri. Här presenteras den återige...

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This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course. Written in an accessible style, the book introduces two basic art historical methods - formal analysis and contextual analysis. In this new edition revising auth...

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OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE 'You will quickly amaze and delight yourself. Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing I've done in lockdown' India Knight, Sunday Times Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the wor...

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Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recog...

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Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of ar...

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Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, "Art as Experience" has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on t...

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Detta är en bok om bildtolkning och det intrikata samspelet mellan bild och text i läromedel, faktaböcker och populärkultur. Författaren belyser bildens tysta budskap, det vill säga de normer och värderingar som gestaltas i bilder men förblir okom...

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A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world. Humans did not discover fire-they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we ...

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Decode the secrets and uncover the origins and meanings of over 2,000 signs and symbols, from ancient hieroglyphs to modern-day logos. Why is a heart pierced by an arrow a classic symbol of love? What are the ancient roots of fertility symbols? Wh...

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'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth a...

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This book explores the question of how to paint a realistic picture of something that doesn't exist. It is intended not only for artists interested in fantasy and science fiction, but also for anyone who wants to recreate history, visualize e...

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'Unlock your inner creativity and ease your anxiety' Daily Telegraph 'I absolutely love this book' Emma Gannon **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER** Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the ...

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Matisse var en stor pedagog som under hela sitt liv skrev och uttalade sig om konst med klarhet och precision. Läs om färgens roll och villkor, om konflikten mellan teckning och färg, om porträtt, böcker, bokillustration och mycket annat. Här finn...

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Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host. Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw! All you nee...

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A critical response to dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticizing art and aesthetics at a time when the art world is locked in an analysis of identity politics. The book addresses the question of how art can be an empowering and revolut...

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Perspective is easy; yet surprisingly few artists know the simple rules that make it so. Now they can remedy that situation with this step-by-step book, the first devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective. Using over 250 simple line d...

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Varför räknas måleriet och skulpturen, arkitekturen, musiken och poesin till de »sköna« konsterna? Och vilken betydelse har detta haft för för hur vi uppfattar vad som är konst och vad som inte är konst? I Kairos nr 2 redogör den amerikanske teore...

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'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scint...

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The Divine Proportion reveals a number of simple patterns: It is seen in the seed patterns of fruits, the family tree of bees, the pyramids of Egypt, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance paintings, the human body, shells ... the list is endless. Mathema...

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Powerful Paintings from a Watercolor Master "The most nearly 'perfect' paintings to me are rarely the ones simply characterized by technical expertise. More often, they are the ones in which you can sense the beating heart of the ar...

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The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create sol...

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This work offers comprehensive representation of the theories which underpinned developments in the visual arts during the 20th century. As well as writings by artists, the anthology includes texts by critics, philosophers, politicians and literar...

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The second installment in the intriguing journey of Guweiz, whose stunning art has earned him over 1 million followers on Instagram. Following on from his first book, Guweiz: The Art of Gu Zheng Wei, the artist now takes us deeper into his world o...

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Drawing is not a talent, it's a skill anyone can learn. This is the philosophy of drawing instructor Brent Eviston based on his more than twenty years of teaching. He has tested numerous types of drawing instruction from centuries old classic...

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Essäer om måleriet gavs ursprungligen ut som appendix till 1765 års Salonger . Texten är Diderots första försök att formulera de principer som väglett honom som kritiker. Här tydliggörs de spänningar som genomsyrar alla Salongerna : mellan moralen...

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