Stories of Art & Artists (Secker Tesdell Diana)(Pevná vazba)

Stories of Art & Artists (Secker Tesdell Diana)(Pevná vazba)

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Artist of the Beautiful' and Albert Camus's 'The Artist at Work' to Bernard Malamud's 'Rembrandt's Hat' and Aimee Bender's 'The Color Master,' the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who

Love Stories (Secker Tesdell Diana)(Pevná vazba)

Brings together an assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives

Christmas Stories (Secker Tesdell Diana)(Pevná vazba)

As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired topics ranging from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination. This work features stories that is imbued with Christmas spirit of one kind or another. It also includes: 'Green Holly'; 'The Night Before Christmas'; 'Vanka'; 'The

Wedding Stories (Secker Tesdell Diana)(Pevná vazba)

Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Bridal Party,' Joy Williams's 'The Wedding,' and Lorrie Moore's 'Thank You For Having Me', encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and

DK Life Stories Gandhi (Bailey Diane)(Pevná vazba)

How Art Works (Hull Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

What is art? How does art tell stories? Where do artists get their ideas from? Open this fascinating book to discover explosive ideas, wild colours, unexpected views and amazing works of art by world-famous artists. Includes Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites where you can take a

Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists (Knight Elliot A.)(Pevná vazba)

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts, pottery, visionary paintings, sculpture,

It Speaks to Me: Art That Inspires Artists (Finkel Jori)(Pevná vazba)

In this beautifully illustrated collection of interviews, fifty contemporary artists discuss the artworks that inspire them from museums around the world. Imagine your favorite artist leading you through a museum to the very work of art they can't stop thinking about. That's the experience at the

Art of the Glimpse - 100 Irish short stories(Pevná vazba)

An anthology of Irish short stories selected by writer, editor and broadcaster Sinead

Masterpieces of Fantasy Art (Hanson Dian)(Pevná vazba)

Fantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s with The Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian paperbacks with Frank Frazetta covers, and the late '60s emergence of fantasy psychedelia. It

Art Glass Today (Snyder Editor Jeffrey B.)(Pevná vazba)

Over 60 contemporary, international glass artists who transform molten glass into works of art. Learn about their blown, cast, kiln-formed, lampwork, cold work, fusing, laminating, carving, sand blasting, acid etching, and cutting techniques, shared in their own words. See installation pieces,

Garden in Art (Mancoff Debra N.)(Pevná vazba)

A major new study of the garden in art, including works by such artists as Botticelli, Hiroshige, Monet, Van Gogh and many others, with extended captions providing detailed interpretations of each work, as well as insights into the artists' sources of inspiration and principal themes. A delightful

The 21st-Century Art Book (The Editors of Phaidon Press)(Pevná vazba)

The 21st‐Century Art Book is an A‐to‐Z guide of contemporary artists featuring established art‐world figures - Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall - alongside rising stars of the next generations. Global in scope, the book features work from 50 countries across a

The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal (Burns Jim)(Pevná vazba)

A new collection of art from one of the UK's most acclaimed sci-fi artists featuring everything, from his initial sketches to his final works and published book covers. Includes covers from the SF greats - Greg Bear, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman,

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1 (Gordon-Levitt Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

HitRECord's collaborative coalition of artists andwriters are making history with The TinyBook of Tiny Stories: Volume 1, a collection of innovative crowd-sourcedcreative projects that pushes the limits of originality, cooperation, imagination, and inspiration. HitRECord, a grassrootscreative

Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Greenwald Diana Seave)(Pevná vazba)

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canon Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of

How Artists See Animals: Mammal Fish Bird Reptile (Carroll Colleen)(Pevná vazba)

How Artists See is a series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children the art of observation and increase their visual literacy. Each volume presents eighteen diverse works of art, all devoted to a subject that children know from personal experience. Author Colleen Carroll's

Body of Art (Phaidon Press)(Pevná vazba)

The first book to celebrate the beautiful and provocative ways artists have represented, scrutinized and utilized the body over centuries.Body of Art is the first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of

The Art and Making of Fantasy Miniatures (Kendall Jamie)(Pevná vazba)

Showcases a selection of the finest and most inspiring designers, artists and manufacturers of fantasy gaming miniatures.The Art and Making of Fantasy Miniatures is a showcase of some of the best talent in the industry. Compiled with the cooperation of eleven of the most innovative companies from

Tom of Finland. the Complete Kake Comics (Hanson Dian)(Pevná vazba)

In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Tom's Man. He tried out a blond named Vicky--a common male name in Finland--followed by a Tarzan-inspired Jack. Then in 1968 Tom settled on Kake, a dark-haired, mustached leatherman who

The Art of the Cocktail (Anderson Hamish)(Pevná vazba)

Do you love art? Do you like cocktails? Then this book is perfect for you.Artists have long been known to enjoy the nightlife, from Toulouse-Lautrec, who famously carried a draft of absinthe in a hollowed-out walking stick, to Andy Warhol, who revelled at Studio 54. This book captures the artistic

Clinical Application of Urologic Catheters, Devices and Products (Newman Diane K.)(Pevná vazba)

Designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the use of urologic catheters and devices in clinical practice. Sections of the book have been structured to review the overall indication for the use of urologic catheters and devices, types available, complications and

The Art of Diablo (Gerli Jake)(Pevná vazba)

For more than twenty years, the artists behind Diablo have conjured new visions of the heavens and the hells, built nightmarish corridors filled with monsters and demons, and unleashed swarms of malevolent creatures upon tens of millions of players worldwide.Featuring never before seen content, The

Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life (Clayton Eleanor)(Pevná vazba)

Barbara Hepworth is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, and her organic sculptures have come to exemplify three-dimensional modernist art. Published at a time of increasing interest in her work, this biography moves beyond the traditional narratives of modernism to provide