The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking: Learn the Alternating-Bass Fingerpicking Style (Hanson Mark)(Other)

The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking: Learn the Alternating-Bass Fingerpicking Style (Hanson Mark)(Other)

Visual Guide to Lock Picking (McCloud Mark)(Paperback)

This is the definitive guide for learning the art of lock picking. Inside you will discover the secrets of the trade. By reading this book, practicing, and applying the methods introduced, you can successfully master picking most modern locks. This book makes it easy and gives you the edge to

Frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art (Frieze Magazine)(Pevná vazba)

The ultimate guide to 25 years of contemporary art, as seen through the filter of the world's leading contemporary art magazinefrieze A to Z of Contemporary Art charts the dynamic, changing landscape of the contemporary art and culture of the past quarter century. Drawing on frieze magazine's

Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (McKee Yates)(Paperback)

The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question

How to Write about Contemporary Art (Williams Gilda)(Paperback)

How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece

The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (Buskirk Martha)(Paperback)

An exploration of transformations in the nature of the art object and artistic authorship in the last four decades.In this book, Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other practices, contemporary artists have

The Art of Bop Drumming: Book & Online Audio (Riley John)(Other)

The definitive book on bop drumming---a style that is both the turning point and the cornerstone of contemporary music's development. This comprehensive book and audio presentation covers time playing, comping, soloing, brushes, more jazz essentials, and charts in an entertaining mix of text,

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (Porter Venetia)(Paperback)

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa brings together an extraordinary collection of work from the British Museum for the first time. The contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa is rich and vibrant. Whether living in their countries of birth or in diaspora,

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

Breakfast with the Centenarians - The Art of Ageing Well (Mari Daniela)(Paperback / softback)

Learn the art of growing old from the supercentenarians living life to the

Art/Commons: Anthropology Beyond Capitalism (Mollona Massimiliano)(Paperback)

Art/Commons is the first book to theorise the commons from the perspectives of contemporary art history and anthropology, focusing on the ongoing tensions between art and capitalism. This study is grounded in an analysis of contemporary artistic and curatorial practices, which the author describes

The Ends of Art Criticism (Bickers Patricia)(Paperback)

An engaging critical discussion of the aims and status of contemporary art criticism written by a highly respected art critic of many years'

Piano Zen: The Art of Playing Peaceful, Relaxing Music (Harrison Mark)(Other)

(Piano Instruction). Improvising your own peaceful, relaxing music on the piano may seem difficult for beginners, but it doesn't have to be! Pianist, composer/arranger, educator, and author Mark Harrison gets you into the Piano Zen mood by taking you through all the necessary steps to create your

Party Animals - My Family and Other Communists (Aaronovitch David)(Paperback / softback)

Blending memoir, history and biography, the author uncovers the story of his family's life by picking through letters, diaries and secret service files, which in turn unleash vivid childhood memories of a lost and idealistic

500 Smokin' Country Guitar Licks (Collins Eddie)(Other)

(Guitar). If your country guitar picking lacks the twang of the great Tele and electric fat-bodied Gibson players of days gone by, then you've found the right book 500 Smolin' Country Guitar Licks is designed to help you build the skills needed to crank out the honky tonk sound heard from Texas

Art of the Middle East (Eigner Saeb)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world since 1945. Includes more than 500 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script and biographies of the 200-plus featured

The New Philistines (Ahmari Sohrab)(Pevná vazba)

Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege.The quest for truth, freedom and the sacred has been thrust aside to make

50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know (Weidemann Christiane)(Paperback)

This survey of great contemporary artists is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of art today. Artists working after the Second World War faced a confounding array of challenges, as stylistic barriers were broken, technology advanced, and issues of sexuality and race came to the

The Accident of Art (Lotringer Sylvere)(Paperback)

There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the 'optically correct' is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. This 'accident' is provoking a reversal of

What's Next?: Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art (Weintraub Linda)(Paperback)

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What's Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture

The Art Book (DK)(Paperback)

Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find

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

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Stallabrass Julian)(Paperback)

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today, and the identity of who is controlling its future. In the midst of this, contemporary art

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