Design as Art (Munari Bruno)(Paperback)

Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle (Munari Bruno)(Paperback)

In the early 1960s Italian design legend Bruno Munari published his visual case studies on shapes: Circle, Square, and, a decade later, Triangle. Using examples from ancient Greece and Egypt, as well as works by Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto, Munari invests the three shapes with

Design as Art (Munari Bruno)(Paperback)

Sets out the author's ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use

Munariho stroje - Bruno Munari

Kniha Munariho stroje:Bruno Munari, bezesporu jedna z nejvýznamnějších a nejoriginálnějších osobností na poli průmyslové grafiky a designu dvacátého století, přichází s popisem strojů užitečných i neužitečných, ale dozajista neobvyklých: od ventilátoru s mávajícími

Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesture (Munari Bruno)(Paperback)

Attenzione They say that a gesture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to speaking with your hands, the Italians speak volumes. This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno Munari, will help the phalange-phobic

Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design (Levin Golan)(Paperback)

An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, anecdotes, and interviews; more than 150 color images. This book is an essential resource for art educators and artists who want to explore code as a creative medium, and a guide for computer

Teaching Primary Art and Design (Ogier Susan)(Paperback)

Trainee and beginning teachers often find it hard to plan for and teach good art lessons as there is little guidance on subject knowledge and outstanding practice. This key text will provide primary trainee teachers with subject knowledge, expert advice, and guidance along with practical solutions

The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-Three Discussions (Nettl Bruno)(Paperback)

Known affectionately as 'The Red Book,' Bruno Nettl's The Study of Ethnomusicology became a classic upon its original publication in 1983. Scholars and students alike have hailed it not just for its insights but for a disarming, witty style able to engage and entertain even casual readers while

Toward a Geography of Art (Kaufmann Thomas Dacosta)(Paperback)

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the 'place' of art, and often the art itself results from

Goethe: Life as a Work of Art (Safranski Rdiger)(Paperback)

A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and--as Rdiger

Warhol - A Life as Art (Gopnik Blake)(Paperback / softback)

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Trapp J. B.)(Paperback)

Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the way

Art as a Social System (Luhmann Niklas)(Paperback)

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art--in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set

Cave Art (David Bruno)(Paperback)

Deep underground, some of humanity's earliest artistic endeavors have lain untouched for millennia. The dark interiors of caves, wherever they may be found, seem to have had a powerful draw for ancient peoples, who littered the cave floors with objects they had made. Later, they adorned cave walls

Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt (Rose Barbara)(Paperback)

Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the

Art Deco Patterns & Designs (Erb Phoebe Ann)(Paperback)

Art Deco's attraction is as magnetic today as in its earliest appearance in France, showcased eventually at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs held in Paris in 1925. We may think we know the parameters of this avant-garde design genre, from the superb Chrysler Building to Florida's South Beach

Dada: Art and Anti-Art (Richter Hans)(Paperback)

'Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace,' writes Hans Richter, the artist and filmmaker closely associated with this radical movement from its earliest days. Here he records and traces Dada's history, from its inception in wartime Zurich to its collapse

Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Hoelscher Jason A.)(Paperback)

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its

The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Cotton Charlotte)(Paperback)

In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination (McNiff Shaun)(Paperback)

A pioneering art therapist extolls the arts as a powerful tool in psychotherapy, describing how activating the imagination can heal the mind, heart, and soul The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to 'familiars'--the themes, methods, and materials

Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Bruno Giuliana)(Paperback)

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between 'sight'

The Art of Chinese Brush Painting (Cross Maggie)(Paperback)

The history of the ancient art as well as the techniques and materials required to produce stunning Chinese brush paintingsChinese brush painting is steeped in history, symbolism, and ritual, and closely linked to Chinese calligraphy. This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a journey

Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching (Prior Ross W.)(Paperback)

Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (Hall James)(Paperback)

The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist's execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular,

Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science (Anderson Gemma)(Paperback)

Gemma Anderson's Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enhance morphological insight, specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics and