Author: Rigby Taylor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: artworks
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2008-09-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1409205525
ISBN-13: 9781409205524
Not for the faint-hearted, ArtWorks is a confronting thriller; at turns shocking, funny, romantic and thought provoking. When Max falls to his death from the dome of his new Art Gallery on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, his wife asks Max’s ex-lover, Peter, to take over as Director. After rescuing a strange young man from a raging sea, Peter investigates an art swindle and all hell breaks loose. He is raped and left for dead, but escapes, only to discover that he and his new friend Jon are wanted for murder. What follows is a hair-raising chase to clear their names. Murder, torture, cyclo
Author: Lori Schue
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publisher
Keywords: kids, artworks
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1557998124
ISBN-13: 9781557998125
Author: Robert Stecker
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ
Keywords: value, meaning, definition, artworks
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0271015969
ISBN-13: 9780271015965
What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticising, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current interpretive practices and to motivate an investigation of artistic value. Stecker defines art (roughly) as an item that is an artwork at time "t" if an only if it is one of the central art forms at "t
Author: Vasava Artworks
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
Keywords: design, amp, illustration, based, pixel
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-03-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0972563628
ISBN-13: 9780972563628
1 x 1 refers to the creation of images using pixels - or picture elements - the smallest-sized element that shows up on a computer screen. With the growth of the Internet, computer game design, pixel art has increasingly become mainstream and is now being widely used in print media and advertising. This book is an arresting, colorful global survey of an amazing new genre of art, one which is influencing the future of all design and art today. It is from pixels that the over 70 designers and artists featured in this book create icons, characters, games, illustration and animations. More than
Author: Karin Hessenberg
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Serie
Keywords: three, dimensional, artworks, create, need, basics, everything, sculpting
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-09-02
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0764158430
ISBN-13: 9780764158438
Art students and ambitious amateur artists who turn to this volume will find detailed training for creating original and distinctive works of sculpture. Karin Hessenberg, an experienced sculptor, opens with extensive advice on setting up the workplace and assembling tools and equipment. She begins instruction with a how-to course on clay modeling that includes five separate projects, four of which culminate with kiln firing. The book’s second major section presents five projects that teach the craft of molding and casting, using a variety of materials that include plaster in combination
Authors:Paul Melia, Alan Woods,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: artworks, greenaway, peter
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-02-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0719056241
ISBN-13: 9780719056246
Author: Charles Hersch
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: border, interruptions, testimony, ies, discourses, critical, series, suny, politics, artworks, arts, trilling, dylan, democratic
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1998-08
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0791438015
ISBN-13: 9780791438015
Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens. Focusing on a period in which the meaning of democracy came to the forefront of public debate, the fifties and sixties, the author argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens. Hersch addresses this issue by first looking at the ideas of Lionel Trilling and the New York Intellectuals in the 1950s, as expressed through literature and social commentary, and then by showing how jazz and rock musicians in the 19
