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Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter 11
Course Technology PTR 2009; US$ 39.99Unlock your digital artistic talent with Corel Painter 11, the industry standard for pixel-based drawing and painting. Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter 11 provides step-by-step instructions for using the basic features of Painter 11 along with a Wacom graphics tablet. Created for artists by artists, Painter 11 realistically emulates... more...
Beyond Vision
Reaktion Books 2006; US$ 49.00Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882?1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician ? and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky?s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta... more...
Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 133.00Rosalind Krauss is, without visible rival, the most influential American art writer since Clement Greenberg. Together with her colleagues at ^IOctober^R, the journal she co-founded, she has played a key role in the introduction of French theory into the American art world. In the 1960s, though first a follower of Greenberg, she was inspired by her... more...
Avant-Garde and Criticism
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 102.20Avant-Garde and Criticism sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature,... more...
Von Kunstworten und -werten
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 126.00German art criticism began to develop in the second half of the 18th century in periodicals of the Enlightenment and was modeled after French art theory and salon criticism. However, while Academy exhibitions in the Louvre attracted crowds of visitors and established French salon criticism, it was not before the 1760s that the founding of many new... more...
Outsider Art
Reaktion Books 2010; US$ 35.00The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of soc more...
On Art and Artists
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier. In other words, an art critic. In 1759, his friend Grimm entrusted him with a project that forced him to acquire 'thoughtful notions concerning painting and sculpture' and to refine 'art terms, so familiar in his words... more...
2011
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 232.00Up-to-date information on some 7,000 institutions and approx. 12,000 persons in public life in Bavaria: authorities and departments of local, state and federal administration jurisdiction syndicates and other organizations from politics, business, academic life, the arts etc. notaries, church offices, schools, universities, museums, libraries, hospitals,... more...
DragonWorld
F+W Media 2011; US$ 26.99A tribute to dragonkind 120 dragons with advice and inspiration from 49 international artists From fire-breathing to friendly, dragons pretty much rule the fantasy world. Dedicated to the coolest of mythological beasts, DragonWorld is a showcase of some of today?s best, most imaginative dragon art. Some stick to the popular notion of what a dragon... more...
Art Escapes
F+W Media 2003; US$ 29.99Inspire your creative spirit - everyday! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, Art Escapes provides the ideas and encouragement you need to discover greater creativity and artistic confidence, even when you're short on time. Professional artist and instructor Dory Kanter shows you how to: Experience more fun and greater confidence... more...









