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The MindBody Workbook: a thirty day program of insight and understanding for people with back pain and other disorders
This Workbook offers the reader a thirty-day structured journal to identify and express psychological issues that may be causing back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, TMJ, and other disorders. The author, Dr. David Schechter, a former student of Dr. John Sarno, has developed a Workbook that guides the reader through a process of insight and awareness to harness the mindbody connection.From the Author: I’ve been fascinated by the mindbody connection since before medical school. The seminal event of my medical education in this regard was my own cure from chronic, unexplained knee pain with the guidance of John Sarno, MD from NYU’s Rusk Institute. After this personal success, I performed a follow-up study of his patients, under his auspices and determined that this approach proved successful in a remarkably high 77% of chronic back sufferers.
As my career has progressed, I’ve developed my own program of treatment that includes an office consultation and educational materials on this subject for my patients. This Workbook is a resource for people suffering from mindbody disorders that I may not personally be able to treat. With the help of a local physician to exclude more serious disease, they should be able to benefit greatly from the thirty-day structured journal approach, on their own, as my own patients do in my office. This Workbook has been used successfully by over 30,000 individuals as of 2022 and in published research studies. Author note:
If you order the ebook, be prepared to answer the questions in a notebook, computer or tablet, or by voice recording. Research has shown the effectiveness of journaling is based upon your doing something with the answers (writing, recording), not just thinking about the answers.
While the process of journaling can be challenging, the rewards are great and it is a still you can come back to, in the future, when needed to process other emotional challenges.
You can utilize this Workbook before or after the newer MindBody Workbook Volume Two published in 2023.
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Gluten Free Christmas: 80 Easy Gluten-Free Recipes for a Stress-Free Festive Season
Fuss-free, simple and delicious recipes to see you through the festive season, that all of the family will love!
Gluten Free Christmas will show you just how simple it is to recreate all your festive favourites, from Christmas Eve nibbles and the main event, to sweet treats, edible gifts and a Boxing Day feast.
Best-selling author Becky Excell has spent years developing delicious dishes and sharing them with her followers on Instagram. She is here to show you that a gluten-free Christmas can be enjoyable and easy, without having to miss out on anything. An essential book when it comes to gluten-free home cooking, Gluten Free Christmas will ensure that you have the best Christmas ever.
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How Do I Do That In Photoshop?: The Quickest Ways to Do the Things You Want to Do, Right Now! (2nd Edition)
The simplest, easiest, and quickest ways to learn over 250 Photoshop tips, tricks, and techniques! Scott Kelby, the world s #1 best-selling photography technique books author, is back with a totally updated and revised new edition of his bestselling book How Do I Do That In Photoshop? The first edition of this bestselling book presented an entirely new concept in Photoshop books one that s designed from the ground up to get you straight to whatever it is you need to do in Photoshop right now, get your answer fast, and get you back to editing your images in Photoshop. Thanks to Adobe s incredibly popular Creative Cloud Photography plan, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom, photographers are extending the depth and power of Lightroom by jumping over to Photoshop to do all those things Lightroom just can t do (or Lightroom can do, but in Photoshop, it s faster and easier, or the results are just better). Because Photoshop has so much power and depth, sometimes the things you need are well kinda hidden or not really obvious. There will be a lot of times when you need to get something done in Photoshop, and you know Photoshop can do it (because Photoshop can do just about anything), but you have no idea where Adobe hid that feature, or what the secret handshake is to do that thing you need now so you can get back to working on your images. That s why this book was created: to quickly get you to the technique, the shortcut, the setting, or exactly the right thing you need to do right now. Here s how it works: When you need to know how to do a particular thing, you turn to the chapter where it would be found (Layers, Printing, Fixing Problems, Special Effects, etc.), find the thing you need to do (it s easy, each page covers just one single topic), and Scott tells you exactly how to do it just like he was sitting there beside you, using the same casual style as if he were telling a friend. That way, you get back to editing your images fast. This isn t a book of theory, full of confusing jargon and detailed multi-step concepts. This is a book on which button to click, which setting to use, and exactly how and when to use it, so you re never stuck in Photoshop again. This will be your go to book that sits within reach any time you re working in Photoshop, and you are going to love having this type of help right at your fingertips.Read more
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Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection #1
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights come to life in these pulse-pounding graphic novel stories!
What do you wish for most?
It’s a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Oscar think they know the answer to. Oswald wishes his summer wasn’t so boring, Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and Oscar wishes to get his hands on the mechanical toy that’s out of stock all over town.
But in the twisted world of Five Nights at Freddy’s, their hearts’ deepest desires have an unexpected cost.
- Told through delightfully scary artwork
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- This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy’s fans.
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Management accounting techniques: Question book (Accountancy Revision Workbooks)
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Worldes Blis: A Savernake Novel (The Savernake Forest Medieval Murder Mysteries Book 1)
A scorching summer. A melancholic merchant. A mysterious murder.
The date is 1208.Sir Aumary Belvoir, Lord of Durley and a king’s constable and the warden of Savernake Forest, receives the strangest request. The self-important and vituperative vintner, Aldous of Pitchcott, needs protection, claiming he is about to be murdered.
Aumary is sceptical but moves Pitchcott to Marlborough Castle, where he is locked in a room in the castle wall. No one can possibly reach him, but within the day, Aldous Pitchcott is dead.
Aumary discovers that many in the town wished Pitchcott harm, but how did the killer reach him? Aumary and his friends are baffled! Can Aumary reveal the guilty party before the murderer strikes again?Worldes Blis, a strange thirteenth-century song, provides the backdrop to the fourteenth novel in Susanna M. Newstead’s Savernake Medieval Murder Mystery Novel series.
Author Interview
1) How difficult is it to research settings for a Medieval Murder Mystery?
I’ve been doing it so long, I don’t really know. When I first started there was no web. Much of the history was a bit of a mystery even to experts. The manuscripts one might have needed were difficult to access but with the help of many people and institutions like libraries, I managed the investigation I needed. I’m still researching – it never ends. One has to play detective oneself never mind write about secrets and intrigue.
2) This is the fourteenth novel in your series. How do you keep the stories so fresh and exciting?
Ah, this is just practice I think. Clues have to be eked out and red herrings buried deep in the mystery. Pacing is very important and the investigation has to go on at the right speed, with little moments of humour to lift the intrigue.
3) Did you discover anything fascinating when researching this book?
Yes. All about Medieval scaffolding! Who knew exactly how the builders put together a castle? And the fact that some of that Medieval work is sometimes still there! I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
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- Belvoir’s Promise
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- The Unquiet Grave
- The Lark in the Morning
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THE ULTIMATE CHINESE PALEO BEGINNERS KITCHEN (30 Day Weekly Meal Planning For Chinese Paleo Meals.): Chinese Paleo Cuisine Unveiled: Learn the Art of … Eating With These Paleo…
The Ultimate Chinese Paleo Beginners Cookbook is an essential culinary guide for those looking to embrace a Paleo lifestyle while savoring the rich flavors of Chinese cuisine.
This meticulously crafted cookbook offers a diverse array of mouthwatering recipes that seamlessly blend traditional Chinese ingredients with the principles of Paleo eating, making it a perfect resource for beginners and seasoned Paleo enthusiasts alike.
With detailed instructions, insightful tips, and an exploration of regional Chinese dishes, this cookbook empowers readers to create delicious and healthy meals that cater to both their dietary goals and their love for authentic Chinese flavors.
Below are the highlights of the book’s chapters:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Chinese Paleo:
An overview of its principles.
Chapter 2: The Basics of Paleo Eating:
Foods that are allowed and what to avoid on the Paleo diet.
Chapter 3: 60 Essential Kitchen tools and equipment needed for Chinese Paleo cooking.
Chapter 4: Detailed Guidance On Stocking Your Chinese Paleo Pantry.
Chapter 5: 50 Chinese Unique flavors and ingredients commonly found in Chinese Paleo cuisine.
Chapter 6: Chinese Paleo breakfast recipes: Instructions To Prepare Them.
Chapter 7: Nutritious Chinese Paleo lunches: Instructions To Prepare Them.
Chapter 8: Delicious Chinese Paleo Dinner recipes: Instructions To Prepare Them.
Chapter 9: Chinese Paleo Snacks and Appetizers:
Instructions To Prepare Them.
Chapter 10: Chinese Dessert recipes that satisfy your sweet tooth while still adhering to the Paleo lifestyle.
Chapter 11: 30 Day Weekly Meal Planning For Chinese Paleo Meals.
Chapter 12: 45 Tips for maintaining your Chinese Paleo diet when dining out or traveling.
Chapter 13: 45 Tips for sourcing high-quality, Chinese Paleo-friendly ingredients.
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Notebook with A-Z Tabs: A5 Lined Journal Organizer with A-Z Tabs Printed | Calming Blue Watercolor Design
This A-Z index notebook is ideal for storing any referencing data. This notebook’s alphabetical parts will make it easy to find the information you need.
When we are searching for precise details in a notebook, this happens often. Finding such knowledge requires time. We’ve flipped through a lot of pages but can’t seem to find them. It’s really aggravating, as well as a waste of time.
As a result, we’ll need a notebook with alphabetical sections.
This type of book would undoubtedly serve as an effective knowledge organizer. It’s ideal for keeping track of details that can be organized into alphabetical parts.
There are no prompts in this alphabetical notebook. You are free to fill it with whatever details you want. It all depends on what you want to do. Each page also has a large number of rooms to choose from.
However, if you’re searching for an alphabetical notebook with prompts (such as address books or password books), this notebook may not be for you.
Please bear in mind that while prompts work well with basic details, they don’t always work well with rooms that need additional information. So, whether or not this book is right for you depends on your goals and personal preferences.
Summarizing the book specification:
- Size: A5 – 5.85″ x 8.30″
- Amount of pages: 110 pages
- Type: soft cover, matted
- Design: smart-and-simple cover design, white paper sheet
- Interior: lined pages with A-Z sections printed respectively, 4 pages for each letter section
- Perfect gift for anyone who are looking for an alphabetical lined notebook.
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Notebook: Notebook for dog lovers, Cute dog notebook for gifts, dog notebook for kids
The perfect notebook for the dog-lover in your life!
Are you searching for that perfect gift or new school notebook for your journaling friend or favorite little student? This notebook is bound to put a smile on any dog-lover’s face. The colorful, fun cover has been professionally designed with the writer in mind: a great place for note-taking, list making, jotting down thoughts or taking course notes, this notebook is meant for dog-lovers of all ages. Great for kids to take to class or for Grandma to keep track of her phone numbers, cause who doesn’t need a notebook?
Check out the Look Inside feature for a page sample!
Details:
– Paper: white, lined (90 GSM)
– 110 pages
– Convenient Size: 6 x 9 inches
– Cover: soft, matte finish
– Perfect bound
– Suitable for gel, ink or pencilDon’t wait to grab this dog-tastic notebook for yourself or your favourite dog-lover, order your copy now!
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Drawn From Nature: The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art
- Foreword by Dr Shirley Sherwood, OBE
- Features 220 colour illustrations
- Unique account of Irish botanical art by author, art historian, and curator, Patricia Butler
- Demonstrates the significant contributions made by Irish artists in the field of botanical art
- Glorious botanical artworks from the 17th century to the present
For centuries, artists of all disciplines have expressed delight in nature through the highly skilled and captivating medium of botanical art.
The distinguished contributions of Irish botanical artists include records of plants from 17th-century Ireland, early illustrated floras and botanical art found in the field of design. Drawn from Nature: The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art also covers the importance of botanical art to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland during the 19th century, as well as the vital plant portraits produced by Irish women. These portraits assisted generations of botanists in understanding and describing the natural world but received scant recognition.
Published for the first time, these outstanding examples of Irish botanical art, from both public and private collections, demonstrate a shared desire by botanical artists to observe, illuminate and record Ireland’s unique flora. This book finally affords them the recognition they deserve.
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Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting
An intensely intellectual painter, Robert Motherwell is renowned for his distinctive Abstract Expressionist style. The seminal artist permeated his gestural works with an expressionism and austerity reflective of the human psyche; at the same time his oeuvre addressed political and humanitarian themes. Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting is an in-depth exploration of his artistic practice. Leading art scholars examine the American artist’s turn from Surrealism to abstraction and analyze the major series that developed over his fifty-year career. The catalogue studies the dialogue between Motherwell’s art and the nineteenth-century French painting tradition, investigates his relationship to Spanish techniques and processes, with an emphasis on their underlying political significance, and delves into Motherwell’s use of ochre pigment, with its evocation of both deep geological time and avant-garde practices.Read more
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Large Print Christmas Coloring Book: Christmas Realistic Coloring Book for Amazing Christmas World Lovers to Color and Relax For Adults, Women, Seniors
Unleash your creativity with the Large Print Christmas Coloring Book Immerse yourself in a world of captivating designs that will both inspire and relax you.
Features:
- Variety of Abstract Designs: Explore a diverse array of abstract designs that invite you to let your imagination run wild as you fill them with color.
- Therapeutic Art: Take a break from the daily hustle and discover solace in the therapeutic art of coloring. It’s a wonderful way to unwind and destress.
- Versatile Coloring Tools: Use your favorite coloring tools, whether it’s pens, pencils, markers, or watercolors, to breathe life into these enchanting designs.
- Single-Sided Printing: Each page is printed on one side, preventing ink bleed-through and allowing you to easily frame your finished masterpieces.
- Generous Size: With dimensions of 8.5×11 inches, this coloring book provides ample space for intricate coloring and creative expression.
Indulge in a coloring experience that not only soothes the soul but also ignites your artistic flair. Let’s Coloring be your companion on a journey of relaxation and self-expression.
Discover the perfect gift for a friend, co-worker, or children, and create lasting memories together!!
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Origami Paper 500 sheets Rainbow Colors 6″ (15 cm): Tuttle Origami Paper: High-Quality Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Color Combinations … (Instructions for 5…
This pack contains 500 high-quality origami sheets printed with bright colors of the rainbow.These beautiful origami papers were developed to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. The pack contains 12 different solid colors, and all of the papers are printed with coordinating colors on the reverse. This provides aesthetically pleasing combinations in origami models that show both the front and back of the sheets.
This origami paper pack includes:
- 500 sheets of high-quality origami paper
- 12 unique colors
- Over 40 sheets of paper for each color
- Double-sided color
- 6 x 6 inch (15 cm) squares
- Instructions for 5 easy origami projects
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Yokai: The Ancient Prints of Japanese Monsters
The long Pax Tokugawa was founded on the blood of 40,000 severed enemy heads. Indeed, 1600 marked the end of the period of wars that saw the defeat of the troops opposed to General Ieyasu Tokugawa.The absence of wars, banishing the memories and horrors of past massacres, favoured the development of epic tales that gave rise to dark and terrifying atmospheres, such as the game of the hundred candles, a test of courage in which a handful of warriors meet on a summer night to tell each other scary stories populated by monsters from the national tradition. So we have the Joro¯ gumo, comely women who reveal their true nature as enormous spiders to their victims; the Tanuki, endearing badgers able to transform themselves; the Bakeneko, monstrous cats; the Kappa, aquatic beings that pester women; the Ningyo, mermaids whose fragrant flesh can give men renewed youth or an excruciating death.
The macabre ritual of the hundred candles is the great idea behind this original project that presents 200 works from the 18th and 19th centuries, including prints, rare antique books, clothes, weapons, swords, a samurai suit of armour, as well as seventy-seven precious netsuke, small ivory sculptures, from the Bertocchi private collection and a ten-metre long scroll that tells the story of Shutendoji, a mythological creature (Oni) at the head of an army of monsters that haunted Mount Oe near Kyoto. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Villa Reale in Monza, the book is a real journey of discovery of Japanese imagery, ranging from Hokusai’s famous manga notebooks (alongside his other masterpieces) to the works of Loputyn, the contemporary illustrator well known to hotaku manga enthusiasts.
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Ed Ruscha / Now Then: A Retrospective
Published to accompany the most comprehensive presentation of Ed Ruscha’s work to date, co-organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), this catalogue spans 65 years of the artist’s remarkable career and mirrors his own cross-disciplinary approach.Spanning 65 years of Ed Ruscha’s remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN features over 250 works, produced from 1958 to the present, in various mediums―including painting, drawing, prints, film, photography, artist’s books, and Installation. Published to accompany the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date, and his first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the richly illustrated publication highlights Ruscha’s most acclaimed works alongside lesser-known aspects of his practice. Essays by an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine Ruscha’s work under a new light, beyond the categories traditionally imposed him, to present fresh perspectives on one of the most influential figures in postwar American art. No more a painter or a bookmaker than he is a Pop or a Conceptual artist, Ruscha is a keen observer of our rapidly changing world. Featuring rarely seen paintings and works on paper made early in his career to cross-media multisensory installations, the publication captures the ceaseless reinvention that has defined Ruscha’s prolific, six-decade career.
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Art Escapes: Hidden Art Experiences Outside the Museum: Hidden Art Experiences Outside the Museums
Art exists all around us: one just needs to know where to look. Escaping the conventional settings of the museum or gallery, a fascinating variety of art pieces exist everywhere from Ghanaian patios to the Las Vegas desert, from the forest in Scandinavia to the buzzing streets of Mexico City.
Art Escapes is a thoughtful journey through these little-known gems that become a destination in themselves, and should be part of every art-lover bucket list. Away from the queues, the crowds, and the constraints of the classic art spaces, these places invite you to discover creativity in a new light.
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Graffiti Lettering Guidebook: A Beginner’s Guide to Learn Drawing Graffiti Letters (Tags, Throw-ups, Old School, and Wildstyle) – Alphabets, Details, and Pieces!
GRAFFITI LETTERING GUIDEBOOK – LEARN TO DRAW GRAFFITI LETTERS EASILY :
This book makes learning graffiti lettering simple, from alphabet basics to making your graffiti pieces. It’s packed with easy-to-follow steps and different projects for you to practice.
What makes this book great is how it teaches different graffiti styles. You’ll get to try out Tags, Throw-ups, Old School, Wildstyle, and Other Styles, along with alphabets, details, and designs. Every section has tips and advice to help you find your unique style. This variety means you can create all kinds of awesome graffiti art. Even better, the book guides you through more advanced stuff, so you can keep getting better.
Book details:
- Popular graffiti styles – All with letter variations;
- 8.5 x 11″ – A big size for easy drawing;
- Simple lessons for beginners;
- Clear steps and tips;
- No need to be an artist already.
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Star Trek: Picard: The Art and Making of the Series
An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek: Picard, a three-season spin-off of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and a must-have for all Star Trek fans.
Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The book explores each of the three separate season-long narratives, which tell the story of Picard in later years, as he is brought out of retirement on his family chateau to face old enemies such as the Borg, take command of a new starship, and ultimately reconcile with his past.
New characters such as Doctor Jurati (Alison Pill), Cristóbal Rios (Santiago Cabrera), Soji (Isa Briones) and Elnor (Evan Evagora) feature alongside appearances by old enemies and friends, such as Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching), Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), Data (Brent Spiner), and Q (John de Lancie). Season 3 sees a full-scale Next Generation reunion, featuring Worf (Michael Dorn), Dr. Beverley Crusher (Gates McFadden), and Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton).
Alongside interviews with showrunners, writers, cast, and crew, discussing concepts and character arcs, “Spotlight” features explore makeup, costumes, art, and visual effects. A final section features reflections on the much-beloved character from its original incarnation in Star Trek: Next Generation through to its final satisfying conclusion.
This beautifully illustrated hardback, featuring behind-the-scenes and on-set photography, and a range of production art, is an in-depth exploration of a hugely popular and seminal Star Trek character.
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The Art of Liverpool FC
ART AS BIG AS LIVERPOOL…
The modern era has brought an explosion of spectacular street-art celebrating all things Liverpool FC – from current stars to club legends and much-loved campaigners – while for years Anfield’s Spion Kop has been on every supporter’s bucket-list – the sport’s most legendary ‘end’ and a must-see spectacle of colour and passion, its flags and banners transported to major finals at home and abroad.
This beautifully-illustrated book celebrates the talent, devotion and originality of the LFC Family – expressed through new and traditional media – as well as the club’s iconic stadium, statues, prized possessions and memorials. Come with us on a guided tour of the greatest gallery in football.
‘The Art of Liverpool FC’ is a superb collection of the fan art and culture that
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Public, Art, Space
Traditionally thought of as a way to satisfy the ego of heads of businesses or public sector organisatio ns, works of art seen in public spaces are now enjoying moun ting popularity as younger artists see their creation as an opportunity to make a mark. ‘Read more
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The biggest mysteries of the worlds most famous painters: Art mysteries, Secrets in paintings, Enigmatic masterpieces, Artistic geniuses, Hidden symbolism in art, Techniques of…
“Enigmatic Brushstrokes” takes readers on a captivating journey through the enigmas and secrets hidden within the masterpieces of the world’s most renowned painters. This unique book combines the intrigue of art mysteries with stunning visual representations, as each mystery is beautifully illustrated in the style of the respective painter.
In this immersive exploration, readers are introduced to the mysterious and baffling aspects of the works of art that have puzzled art historians and enthusiasts for centuries. From the cryptic smile of the Mona Lisa to the hidden symbolism in Hieronymus Bosch’s surreal landscapes, each mystery is carefully dissected and analyzed, offering insights into the minds of these artistic geniuses.
The book delves into the intriguing questions surrounding each painter’s techniques, inspirations, and personal lives, providing a deeper understanding of their artistic choices. It uncovers hidden messages, symbolic references, and the techniques employed by these masters to create their timeless works. Through meticulous research and expert analysis, the authors shed light on the puzzling aspects of each painting, inviting readers to become detectives themselves.
What sets “Enigmatic Brushstrokes” apart is its unique visual approach. The book is adorned with custom-made paintings that bring the mysteries to life, seamlessly blending the style and essence of each artist with the enigma they created. Readers can immerse themselves in the rich artistic worlds of Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Picasso, and many others, as they unravel the secrets woven into their iconic masterpieces.
Throughout the chapters, readers will discover captivating stories and anecdotes about the painters, their lives, and the historical contexts in which they worked. From ancient art legends to modern-day puzzlements, the book covers a wide range of mysteries, appealing to both art enthusiasts and casual readers alike.
“Enigmatic Brushstrokes” serves as an invitation to explore the boundless creativity and imagination of the world’s most famous painters. It offers a fresh perspective on their art, challenging readers to engage in critical thinking and to appreciate the depth and complexity hidden within each brushstroke. This remarkable journey into the mysteries of art is a testament to the enduring power of these masterpieces and the enigmatic genius of their creators.
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交陪美學論: 當代藝術面向近未來神祇 (Traditional Chinese Edition)
● 龔卓軍「近未來的交陪：台南蕭壠國際當代藝術節」相關論述首次有系統集結成書。
● 臺灣獨特之「交陪美學論」第一本專書
● 評論爬梳國內外相關重要文獻、學術研究、及當代重要展覽、影像、表演、藝術季等作品
「交陪 Kau-Puê」——含有交易、買取之意。（廈門話）
交際應酬、互盡友誼、彼此密切往來。（臺詞辭典）
街境守望、社區聯防、友境出陣、誼廟互挺。（《臺南府城聯境組織研究》）
五百年前，西方社會幾乎所有人都擁有對神或魔性力量的信仰，至今這種信仰只是眾多選項之一。五百年後，經過西方和日本的殖民、政權交替，臺灣民間信仰與廟宇文化中的交陪組織，至今仍維持活力不墜，影響著庶民社會的文化藝術表現語彙。
本書作者龔卓軍任教於臺南藝術大學藝術創作理論研究所，為近年臺灣最具能量、創意和影響力的藝術學者及策展人之一。 二〇一七年在臺南蕭壠文化園區策展之「近未來的交陪：蕭壠國際當代藝術節」，以紮實的田野調查先行，將臺灣民俗與宗教文化以藝術理論、美學觀點梳理廓清，並邀集跨域藝術家進行創作上的精彩交陪對作，令此展備受好評迴響，引起廣泛討論，並獲第十六屆台新藝術獎年度大獎肯定。此後作者延續策展及書寫藝術評論不輟，逐步建構出臺灣獨有的「交陪美學」概念。
本書為作者繼二〇〇七年《身體部署》的當代哲學理論之後，首度集結系列評論，直陳其十年策展實踐內蘊的藝術理論，讓地方文化面向世界文化，藉廟會藝術提煉當代藝術，從民間廟宇之間的動態「交陪境」，打造出一條屬於臺灣文化蘊育的獨特美學思路。
書中分成「理論」、「影像」、「展演」、「跨域」四大部分，以系列性的策展研究書寫，構築爬梳「交陪美學」的深層內涵，試圖探討當代藝術和民間藝術之間的交互滲透和內在張力，勾勒出藝術話語新路徑。
本書涉獵評論之議題／作品之關鍵字：
交陪論：後祭祀圈中的當代藝術
潘春源／潘麗水／傀儡謠／洪通／黃志偉／神紋樣／八吉祥／鬼魂的迴返／邊緣藝術／陳秋山／廖慶章
影像論：起咒出神的身影系譜
臺灣狂公子／臺灣美學文件／張照堂／林柏樑／沈昭良／陳伯義／港千尋／多孔世界／東南亞攝影／民族誌詩學
展演論：館閣陣頭的身體與當代巫山水
蔡小月／南管館閣／陣頭／雲端香路／無垢舞蹈劇場／行者／壞鞋子舞蹈劇場／吃土／土方巽／孿主體／舞踏／黃蝶南天舞踏團／秋田鎌鼬美術館／帳篷劇／海筆子／Zomia
跨域論：亞際連帶與限界藝術
佐渡島／日惹／香港／仙台／總爺／蕭壠／東海岸／越後妻有／里山
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Art in Motion: Riding the Paris Metro
A rich history and moving look at the accessible, immersive art embedded in the Paris subway systemSubmarine wall decorations, a ceramic declaration of human rights, a stained-glass red hen, a mosaic mouth, an aedicule made of Murano glass. The Paris Métro, the city’s public subway network, has been exhibiting on its walls for over a century, through works imagined by French and foreign artists, punctuating and enhancing the underground travels of Parisians and tourists. Beginning in 1900, architect Hector Guimard was entrusted with creating the subway entrances. Through the style of Art Nouveau, his works embrace the notion of free art―accessible to all, moving, surprising, and ambitious.Today, the subway system still champions this approach of an immersive cultural experience and artistic openness as evidenced by the twenty or so creations selected for Art in Motion. With concise and well-researched texts, Anaël Pigeat introduces us to the artists and gives them a voice. She explains their creative process, pays tribute to the work of the many craftsmen and craftswomen and to the innovations found, and also highlights the numerous constraints entailed by the subway environment. With a contemporary perspective by photographer Philippe Garcia, the book captures the works in their environment, then moves closer to show us the material and the artistic gestures. Each creation carries its own story and its own relationship to the underground: Whether they offer a reinterpretation of existing works or take us down memory lane, lead us into a dream-like world or fit in the framework of an international exchange, these works shine on and imperceptibly change our travels.Read more
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Healing Art: How art in hospitals promotes healing
- Explores the concept that art promotes healing through a survey of work created for the Robert Bosch Hospital in Germany
- Includes 48 commissioned artworks by significant contemporary artists, including some that were created with input from patients
- Offers specialist contributions from architecture and art history, healthcare design, art and corporate philosophy
- Text in English and German
Art can contribute to a healing environment, supporting the work of hospitals and enriching the lives of both patients and staff members. In this book, Isabel Gruener, the art officer at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, explores how the hospital’s commissioned art program supports the complex process of healing. Whether it is seriously ill patients in the intensive care unit, visitors in the public corridors, or employees in sterile functional areas: each is affected in their own way by the total of 48 artistic interventions. The narrative describing these art projects, which were created between 1998-2018, is supplemented by specialist contributions from the fields of art, design, and corporate philosophy. They explore an interdisciplinary approach and offer a view towards the future potential of healing art in healing environments.
Contents: Art can be Communication, Art for Buildings and Hospitals, The Effect of Bulit Space on Convalescence.
Text in English and German.
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MAINTENANT 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art
When a war ends provisionally, the agreement is called a ceasefire. But when peace ends, there is only war. War and peace are co-dependent. Perhaps it is now time for a “Peacefire.”
In Maintenant 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, nearly 250 artists from more than 40 countries explore the concept of the end of both war and peace, exploring provocative outsider ideas as dada has done since its inception. With searing cover art by Uta Kaxniashvili, this issue of the renowned journal elaborates on dada’s original premise as an antiwar movement.
The Maintenant series, established in 2008, explores themes of politics, humanity, philosophy, and current concerns from an antiwar, anarchic (and often eye-opening) perspective. Past issues include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Hubaut, Heide Hatry, Avelino de Araujo, Pawel Kuczynski, Inas Al-Soqi, Giovanni Fontana, Nicole Eisenmann, Syporca Whandal, and Kazunori Murakami; past writers have included Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, Harry E. Northup, Malik Crumpler, Maw Shein Win, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock, including Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Bibbe Hanson and more.
Critics have praised the series since its inception. Seattle Book Review calls Maintenant, “A smorgasbord for those who are sick and tired of it.” Tribe LA dubs the journal, “A compilation of leading Dada-influenced artists from around the world that is timely and relevant.” Serbia’s Madjan Magazine proclaims that the Maintenant series proves “Dada is not dead.” The Maintenant series is archived in leading institutions worldwide, including Museum of Modern Art New York.
Contributors to Maintenant 17 include: Derek Adams • Mariam Ahmed • Jamika Ajalon • Youssef Alaoui • Linda J. Albertano • Austin Alexis • Joel Allegretti • Daina Almario-Kopp • Hala Alyan • Jim Andrews • Wayne Atherton • Liz Axelrod • Mahnaz Badihian • David Barnes • Amy Barone • Vittore Baroni • Tchello d’ Barros • Gaby Bedetti • Regina Lafay Bellamy • C. Mehrl Bennett • Volodymyr Bilyk • Mark Blickley • Clemente Botelho • Gedley Belchior Braga • Michael Georg Bregel • Kathy A. Bruce • Imanol Buisan • Fork Burke • Billy Cancel • Peter Carlaftes • Wendy Cascade • Nick Cash • Mutes César • Sarah M. Chen • Nguyễn Bá Chung • Hal Citron • Lynette Clennell • Andrei Codrescu • William Cody • Chuck Connelley • Roger Conover • Anothony Cox • Malik Ameer Crumpler • Raf Cruz • Tchello d’Barros • Wer Da • Steve Dalachinsky • Allison A. Davis • Holly Day • Avelino De Araujo • Francesca Dharmakan-Bremner • Natalie DiFusco • Dario Roberto Dioli • Rachel Dixon • Sam Dodson • Carol Dorf • Eric Drooker • Robert Duncan • Salvatore Esposito • Fong Fai • Agenta Falk • Massimo Fantuzzi • Jeff Farr • Becky Fawcett • Rich Ferguson • Maria Filek • Cheryl J. Fish • Kathleen Florence • Robert C. Ford • Dorothy Friedman • Thomas Fucaloro • Ignacio Galilea • Sandra Gea • Kat Georges • Christian Georgescu • Robert Gibbons • Gordon Gilbert • James J. Gleeson • Mark Glista • Ed Go • Gemma Goette • John Goodby • Odeon Grace • S.A. Griffin • Fausto Grossi • Meghan Grupposo • Egon Guenther • Genco Gülan • Ana Maria Guta • Bibbe Hansen • Jesper Hasseltoft • Heide Hatry • Jeffrey Hecker • László 2 Hegedűs • Aimee Herman • Robert Hieger • Karen Hildebrand • Mark Hoefer • Juleigh Howard-Hobson • Matthew Hupert • Frie J. Jacobs • Annaliese Jakimides • Marta Janik • Mathias Jansson • Lisa Marie Jarlborn • Debra Jenks • Dale Jensen • Jerry Johnson • Boni Joi • Milana Juventa • Jerry Kamstra • Suzi Kaplan Olmsted • Christine Karapetian • Adeena Karasick • Uta Kaxniashvili • Marina Kazakova • Oladipo Kehinde • Trần Đăng Khoa • Doug Knott • Kollasch • Daniel Kolm • Gregory Kolm • Ron Kolm • Daina Kopp • Mark Kostabi • Paul Kostabi • Inna Krasnoper • Paweł Kuczyński • Béné Kusendila • Wang Lan • Gary Lawless • Mercedes Lawry • David Lawton • Jane LeCroy • Sarah Legow • Patricia Leonard • Linda Lerner • Martin H. Levinson • Alexander Limarev • Frédéric Lipczynski • Richard Loranger • Mina Loy • Ruggero Maggi • Sara Maino • Gerald Malanga • Jaan Malin • Jessica Manack • Fred Marchant • Marronage • Bronwyn Mauldin • Jesse McCloskey • Pierre Merejkowsky • Ashley Miller • Lois Kagan Mingus • Charles Mingus III • Richard Modiano • Mike M. Mollett • Thurston Moore • Luiz Morgadinho • Karen Neuberg • James B. Nicola • Gerald Nicosia • Lance Nizami • Harry E. Northup • Anna O’Meara • Ruth Oisteanu • Valery Oisteanu • Marc Olmsted • John Olson • Jane Ormerod • Yuko Otomo • Bibiana Padilla Maltos • Csaba Pál • Erzsébet Palásti • Lisa Panepinto • Gay Pasley • John S. Paul • Giorgia Pavlidou • James Penha • Puma Perl • Robert Petrick • Raymond Pettibon • Charles Plymell • Kai Pohl • Leslie Prosterman • Renaat Ramon • Nicca Ray • Mado Reznik • D.M. Rice • Travis Richardson • Wes Rickert • Benjamin Robinson • Bruce Robinson • Edel Rodriguez • Mykyta Ryzhykh • Martina Salisbury • Paulo Sanches • Kellie Scott-Reed • Beatriz Seelaender • Jack Seiei • Silvio Severino • Sheree Shatsky • Susan Shup • Jeff Shutt • Bertholdus Sibum • Denise Silk-Martelli • Zoltán Simon • Angela Sloan • Katherine R. Sloan • Phil Demise Smith • Valerie Sofranko • Paul Sohar • J. R. Solonche • Pere Sousa • Orchid Spangiafora • Dd. Spungin • Marilyn Stablein • Alex Starr • Laurie Steelink • Eva Helene Stern*** • Christine Stoddard • Thomas Stolmar • Rich Stone • W.K. Stratton • Belinda Subraman • Neal Skooter Taylor • Robin Tomens • Zev Torres • John J. Trause • Ann Firestone Ungar • Yrik Max Valentonis • Anoek Van Praag • Nico Vassilakis • Maggs Vibo • Lynnea Villanova • Voxx Voltair • Barbara Vos • Silvia Wagensberg • George Wallace • Scott Wannberg • Mike Watt • Poul R. Weile • Ingrid Wendt • Benjamin B. White • Brenda Whiteway • A. D. Winans • Francine Witte • Yaryan • Gerald Yelle • Andrena Zawinski • Larry Zdeb • Nina Zivancevic • Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis • Joanie HF Zosike
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Sharrow Vale and the Antiques Quarter
Darren O’Brien documents two developing communities of Sheffield as gentrification begins to take place. Both areas are seeing an influx of outsiders and changing community dynamics.
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Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art: Thirteen Artists Explore Nature’s Limits
Natural Wonders spotlights the works of thirteen artists who work in various media to depict themes of nature both its beauty and its more disquieting aspects from painting and sculpture to 3-D landscapes and botanical replications to dioramas and lenticular prints. The range of works encourages us to be more attentive to our natural surroundings and address timely issues such as habitat loss, environmental toxins, bioengineering, and increasing alienation from nature. Ramljak s essay provides a broad cultural and historical context for the contemporary artworks, complemented by artist statements and an interview between environmentally minded artists Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman.Read more
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The Listening Forest
Published as the culmination of a residency held by Sophie Herxheimer with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art in the East Midlands.
Sophie as an inner-city Londoner was intrigued to swap her familiar streets for a remote cottage in an ancient woodland. Getting lost in tracts of forest in and around the town of Corby inspired a new sequence of poems as well as many drawings and collages. A selection of these appear alongside the bulk of the book’s content: stories collected and drawn live in ink, from members of the public in the area, about the ways we humans relate to nature and the woods.
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How To Draw Portraits: Navigating Realistic Portrait Drawing for Profit and Passion (Including Where To Sell Your Art)
Unlock the Power of Realistic Portrait Drawing for Both Passion and Profit!
“How To Draw Portraits” is your gateway to a captivating journey through the art of lifelike portraiture.
Whether you’re an aspiring artist or an experienced creator, this comprehensive guide offers a profound exploration of the techniques, emotions, and opportunities that lie within the realm of portraiture.
Highlights of “Brushstrokes Of The Soul”:
- Mastering Realism: Immerse yourself in the art of capturing every intricate detail, from facial proportions to lifelike textures. Elevate your skill set as you learn to breathe life into your portraits.
- Infusing Emotion: Discover how to convey emotions and tell compelling stories through your subjects’ eyes, capturing the essence of their souls on the canvas.
- Navigating Light and Shadow: Unveil the magic of light and shadow, and harness their power to add depth, dimension, and drama to your portrait art.
- Monetizing Your Craft: Turn your passion into profit! Explore a diverse array of avenues where you can showcase and sell your masterpieces, from online platforms to galleries and beyond.
- Connecting with Your Audience: Learn to engage and resonate with a global community of art enthusiasts, as you unveil your portraits to the world and build a loyal following.
- Unleash Your Creative Potential: Whether you’re driven by artistic fervor or the allure of financial success, “Brushstrokes Of The Soul” empowers you to forge a unique path, where passion and profit intertwine.
Embark on an odyssey of self-expression, creativity, and entrepreneurship, and let your portraits become a testament to the artistry within your soul.
Join a new wave of artists who are not only mastering the craft of portrait drawing but also transforming their passion into a thriving venture.
Are you ready to navigate the realms of realistic portrait drawing for both profit and passion?
Add “Brushstrokes Of The Soul” to your collection today and let your journey begin.
Note: “Brushstrokes Of The Soul” includes valuable insights into where to sell your art, making it an essential resource for artists seeking to elevate their skills and monetize their talents.
Click the ‘Buy Now’ button and start your artistic and entrepreneurial journey today!
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The Artistic Splash: A Beginner’s Guide to Watercolor Techniques and Inspiration
Discover The Magical World of Watercolor Painting!
Unlock your creative potential with “The Artistic Splash.”
Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of art or looking to elevate your skills, this comprehensive guide is your gateway to mastering the captivating art of watercolor painting.
Immerse Yourself in a World of Color and Light:
- Dive into the foundations of watercolor painting with expert guidance and step-by-step tutorials.
- Learn essential techniques, from brushwork and blending to wet-on-dry and wet-on-wet applications.
- Unleash your creativity as you explore the art of layering and multilayered glazing for stunning depth and dimension.
Capture the Essence of Your Subjects:
- Paint vibrant landscapes that transport you to serene vistas and distant horizons.
- Bring everyday objects to life with still life compositions that celebrate beauty in the ordinary.
- Learn the secrets of portrait painting, capturing emotions and expressions with every stroke.
Ignite Your Imagination and Find Inspiration Everywhere:
- Immerse yourself in a world of inspiration, from nature’s beauty to personal experiences.
- Explore ways to infuse your art with emotion, telling compelling stories through your creations.
- Let the vibrant hues of watercolors ignite your imagination and set your creativity afloat.
Unlock a World of Creative Possibilities:
- Discover how to turn mistakes into masterpieces, embracing the unexpected with confidence.
- Gain insights into composition and focal points, creating captivating artworks that draw viewers in.
- Learn how to evaluate and improve your work, refining your skills with each stroke.
“The Artistic Splash” isn’t just a guide; it’s a journey of self-expression, discovery, and growth.
Whether you’re a beginner artist or a seasoned creative, this book provides a comprehensive foundation and a wellspring of inspiration. Join us on this transformative artistic adventure and unleash your inner artist with the captivating beauty of watercolors.
Embrace the joy of creation—order your copy of “The Artistic Splash” today and start painting your masterpiece!
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Notebook: Dog notebook 6×9 inches
This notebook is 6×9 inched and has 120 pages making it perfect for around the house and out and about. This notebook is sturdy and the cover has an original photograph of two dogs on it making is a perfect gift for any dog lovers.Read more
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The Art of Egyptian Islamic Calligraphy: A Journey through History and Culture
This ebook explores the rich history and cultural significance of Egyptian Islamic calligraphy art, tracing its evolution from ancient times to the present day. The book features stunning examples of calligraphic art from across Egypt, highlighting the unique styles and techniques that have emerged over the centuries. Readers will learn about the spiritual and aesthetic significance of calligraphy, as well as its practical applications in areas such as architecture, decorative arts, and manuscript production. The ebook also includes profiles of prominent calligraphers and artists, as well as a look at how technology is changing the way calligraphy is created and experienced.
Keywords: Egyptian Islamic calligraphy, calligraphic art, Arabic calligraphy, Islamic culture, Egyptian history, calligraphy techniques, traditional calligraphy, contemporary calligraphy, calligraphy and technology, calligraphic applications.
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The Time of the Force Majeure: After 45 Years Counterforce Is on the Horizon
This book offers a 21st-century manifesto from the pioneers of the eco-art movement. Since the 1970s Helen and Newton Harrison have been creating art inspired by the earth. They established a worldwide network among biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners, politicians, and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues about ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. This definitive survey traces an influential joint career that has lasted nearly half a century. Organized chronologically, it features works from each decade, from their earliest installations to their continent-traversing work of the 1990s; and their most recent works both educating people about global warming and designing large scale responses to the phenomena itself.Read more
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Acrylic Alchemy: Creative Approaches to Painting with Acrylics
This comprehensive guide takes you on an artistic journey through a world of expressive possibilities, revealing the secrets of mastering this versatile medium. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, you’ll find inspiration and techniques that will elevate your acrylic creations to new heights.
Exploring Acrylic Mediums for Expressive Painting Dive into the rich universe of acrylic mediums, from gels to pastes, and discover how they can transform your paintings into textured masterpieces.
Mixing and Layering Techniques for Dynamic Acrylic Art Explore the art of color mixing and layering to achieve depth, dimension, and luminosity in your acrylic paintings.
Creating Texture and Dimension With Acrylics Unleash your creativity by incorporating texture and dimension into your acrylic pieces.
Unconventional Tools and Materials for Unique Acrylic Effects Think outside the brush! Explore innovative tools and materials that can breathe life into your acrylic artwork, including palette knives, sponges, and even found objects.
Playing With Color: Vibrant and Bold Acrylic Compositions Master the art of color theory and create striking compositions that command attention. Learn how to evoke emotions, set moods, and tell stories through your use of color.
Abstract Acrylics: Embracing Intuition and Spontaneity Release your inner abstract artist as you embrace intuition and spontaneity in your acrylic paintings. Explore techniques that encourage free expression and allow your creativity to flow without boundaries.
Realism With Acrylics: Capturing Detail and Depth Take a detailed journey into the world of realism with acrylics. Learn how to capture intricate details, achieve realism, and breathe life into your subjects through precise techniques and meticulous layering.
Acrylic Pouring: Fluid and Mesmerizing Artwork Experience the mesmerizing world of acrylic pouring. Discover the secrets of creating captivating, flowing compositions with vibrant colors that merge and dance on the canvas.
Glazing and Translucent Effects With Acrylics Master the art of glazing to create stunning translucent effects that add depth and luminosity to your acrylic paintings. Learn to build layers of color and achieve a radiant, ethereal quality in your work.
Exploring Acrylic Mark-making Techniques Delve into the world of mark-making with acrylics. Experiment with brushes, palette knives, and unconventional tools to create captivating patterns, textures, and visual interest.
Mixed Media Magic: Combining Acrylics With Other Materials Take your acrylic paintings to the next level by incorporating mixed media elements. Discover how to seamlessly blend acrylics with various materials, such as collage, found objects, and more, to add depth and narrative to your artwork.
Acrylic Collage: Adding Texture and Layers to Your Art Learn the art of acrylic collage, where texture and layers take center stage. Explore techniques for incorporating paper, fabric, and other materials to create captivating, tactile compositions.
Acrylic Abstract Landscapes: Creating Mood and Atmosphere Transport your viewers into captivating landscapes as you explore the techniques of acrylic abstract landscape painting. Learn how to convey mood, atmosphere, and emotion in your work.
Portraiture With Acrylics: Capturing Life and Emotion Discover the art of acrylic portraiture and breathe life into your subjects. Learn the secrets of capturing intricate facial details, emotions, and the essence of your subjects.
Acrylic Still Life: Illuminating Objects Through Color and Light Master the art of acrylic still life painting and bring everyday objects to life. Explore techniques for rendering textures, playing with light and shadow, and creating captivating compositions.
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Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground
Over 30 years, San Francisco’s underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, impossible, life-changing experiences. Today big corporations are trying to figure out how to spend millions of dollars to do what these artists and anti-artists did using nothing but time, space, and imagination. It was “a movement without a manifesto,” with people discovering how it worked through trial and error. Very little was written down – until now. Caveat Magister, widely seen as one of the leading voices of Burning Man’s philosophy, has written this book to explain what these experiences were, why they worked, and how you can create your own.
You Will Learn:
- What “psychomagical” experiences are, and why they can have such a powerful transformative effect
- Why rag-tag groups of weirdo artists have been so good at peak experience design, and why wealthy corporations filled with equally talented people have done so poorly
- Where “magical art” connects with the work of Jung and the Humanistic psychologists to support personal development and mental health
- How to create experiences that go beyond design and seem impossible – until you experience them yourself
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Destination Art: Art Essentials: 0
Manifesting in a broad range of media, from massive land and environmental works and extensive sculpture parks to giant public murals, ‘destination art’ demands to be found and met in its own space and on its own terms. Some works require a committed pilgrimage to find – in deserts, forests, and quarries, on farmland and in mountains, in ghost towns and nature reserves. Others might be hidden gems in urban environments. What unites them in every instance is an artistic symbiosis between the installation and its setting.Through the eyes of renowned art historian Amy Dempsey, the magic of public art comes alive – and while the art is undoubtedly important, the journey there is often equally so. Perfect both for armchair adventurers and keen globetrotters, Destination Art offers a clear way in to a vast subject. From the vibrant Rainbow Village in Taiwan and the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, to Antony Gormley’s Inside Australia at Lake Ballard, Dempsey expertly guides readers through the most exciting and significant destination artworks in the world. Each featured installation is accompanied by a short essay, stunning photographs and useful information on key works and where to find them.
With 104 illustrations in colour
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Gouache Painting Tutorials: Gouache and Beautiful Projects for Beginners: The Art of Gouache Painting
Enjoy the meditative art of gouache with simple supplies, colorfully illustrated lessons, and easy step-by-step instructions!
With a few simple steps, straightforward lessons promise fun and colorful results — no pressure and no skill required.
This simple painting medium produces colorful, modern paintings to adorn invitations, gifts, and walls.The forty lessons cover useful topics like:
Painting your flowers
Painting on foods
Painting landscapeIt’s never too late to pick up a new hobby — start painting your own beautiful cards and artwork today!
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Graffiti South Africa
In a visual feast, hundreds of vibrant images showcase the work of South Africa’s most influential graffiti artists, which will entertain and inspire graffiti enthusiasts and art fanatics all over the world. Selective interviews with major graffiti personalities reveal their passions and inspirations and cover all aspects of the movement, creating a true representation of its evolution. Initially unknown for its graffiti scene, South Africa has now become a prime destination for many renowned international graffiti writers. From underground tunnels and abandoned buildings to train yards and townships, local writers, each with their own distinct style, spread their work across the nation. Now, for the first time ever, the global spotlight can fall on these talented artists.Read more
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Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art
“Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students.” —Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for teachers about how to teach art as social practice.
Along with a series of introductions by leading social practice artists in the field, valuable lesson plans offer examples of pedagogical projects for instructors at both college and high school levels with contributions written by prominent social practice artists, teachers, and thinkers, including:
- Mary Jane Jacob
- Maureen Connor
- Brian Rosa
- Pablo Helguera
- Jen de los Reyes
- Jeanne van Heeswick
- Jaishri Abichandani
- Loraine Leeson
- Ala Plastica
- Daniel Tucker
- Fiona Whelan
- Bo Zheng
- Dipti Desai
- Noah Fischer
Lesson plans also reflect the ongoing pedagogical and art action work of Social Practice Queens (SPQ), a unique partnership between Queens College CUNY and the Queens Museum.
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Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund
Features projects by forty-five internationally acclaimed artists whose installations in New York City were made possible by the Public Art Fund. It examines the deverse ways in which artists have created a participatory experience of contemporary art in public spaces. Art Fund.Read more
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Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters
PREFACE INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: The ORIGINAL SKYPE Meet a cave dweller, an African king, an Egyptian pharaoh, a Greek goddess, a Christian saint, and others who let you know who they are and what matters. What would a Roman general and Elvis Presley have to say to one another? Chapter 2: Figure Things Out Art is traditional, innovative, noisy, silent, figurative, abstract, pretty, ugly, orderly or messy. Objects change meaning depending on where they are and what is around them. Chairs, windows, animals, people, and trees may show up in unfamiliar places. Understanding grows through dialogue. Chapter 3: STEP Back to Go Forward Images from ancient to contemporary art show views of time, nature, human relationships, and more. Artists transform invisible values into visible forms and reveal ways people and cultures make sense of their worlds. Chapter 4: WHOSE LENS? Labels and headlines lead you to expect certain ideas. Artists use their perspectives to manage yours. Your tastes, opinions, prejudices, and past experiences affect what you see. When you are alert to the difference between projecting and receiving, you can move from sight to insight. Chapter 5: ART IN DIALOGUE Paintings from 16th century Iran and 20th century America talk to one another. They learn what is important to each by asking questions and modelling open-hearted dialogue. They see how artists in both cultures paint unreal scenes to seek what is real. Chapter 6: The CAPTURE Students in communication and mediators in training meet modern art at the Hirshhorn Museum. They ask one another what they see and answer by describing. They discuss each others’ perceptions. Successful mediators must be fine observers and excellent listeners. Chapter 7: QUESTION AND PLAY Practice overhearing yourself through questions and play. Simple observations lead to complex ideas. Circles and lines make up pictures and provide metaphors in art and in life. Narrow categories limit understanding. Questioning art is a form of intercultural communication. Chapter 8: Travel Go to new places through art without suffering culture shock. A bowl, etched with calligraphy, takes you on a journey to Iran, and a soup can goes with you to America. Both are more than their visual forms. Questioning them carries you from surface to depth. Chapter 9: WHEN ART SPEAKS, LISTEN Language of all kinds communicates, bewilders, clarifies, and obscures. Become fluent in the language of art and question its colours, materials, and forms – its titles, symbols, archetypes, and frames. “Speaking” the language of art leads to cultural fluency. Chapter 10: FOLLOW YOUR SENSES – SENSE MEANING Body and mind work together. Your senses introduce you to art and to the rest of the world. Notice your first reactions, your thoughts and feelings. Then, return to the art by observing and describing. Open yourself to others’ stories. Chapter 11: MAKE SENSE OF THE SENSELESS In the wake of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, artists used small things to confront large ideas. Prayer rugs and cheeseburgers are filled with meaning. Find spiritual beliefs, patriotism, war, sex, and politics, along with fears, loves, desires, and angers. Chapter 12: IN OTHER WORLDS In 2010, the world watched the rescue of trapped Chilean coal miners. Artists take you underground to their dark world. Go more deeply into yourself through detailed questions about what you see in places you may never enter except through art.Read more
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Painted Cities: Illustrated Street Art Around the World
Lorna Brown is an artist specialising in watercolour architectural paintings that represent something other than just bricks and mortar. With a keenness for adventure, she likes to hunt for new places to paint; buildings with character and story that represent the people who have occupied these spaces in the past, present and future.Lorna has travelled around the world to produce this collection of illustrations of street art in urban landscapes. Visiting London, Bristol, Helsinki, Berlin, Cairo, Bethlehem, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Christchurch, Melbourne, Painted Cities demonstrates how the architecture shapes the unique street art in each city and tells the story of the painters and people who live there.
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments
A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.
An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these decisions, and how?
Erin L. Thompson, the country’s leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles, brings much-needed clarity in Smashing Statues. She lays bare the turbulent history of American monuments and its abundant ironies, from the enslaved man who helped make the statue of Freedom that tops the United States Capitol, to the fervent Klansman fired from sculpting the world’s largest Confederate monument—who went on to carve Mount Rushmore. And she explores the surprising motivations behind contemporary flashpoints, including the toppling of a statue of Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol, the question of who should be represented on the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park, and the decision by a museum of African American culture to display a Confederate monument removed from a public park.
Written with great verve and informed by a keen sense of American history, Smashing Statues gives readers the context they need to consider the fundamental questions for rebuilding not only our public landscape but our nation as a whole: Whose voices must be heard, and whose pain must remain private?
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Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces
Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces is an anthology of texts on art, media and aesthetic practice in the context of squatting, occupation and urban space activism. It includes pieces by activist researchers working between the academy and the movements they write about, journalistic first-person narratives by squatters, original photography and interviews with artists, theorists and activists involved in struggles over urban space and creative production in the city. Focused primarily on the European context its international relations and connection, this diverse collection of material is organized into sections by country so as to highlight the contrast between different voices and frames of reference. While many of these voices assert accounts of a cohesive, international squatter movement or are committed to specific political projects the anthology, when taken as a whole, tells a more complex story about constellations of movements and practices intensely engaged with local conditions that have developed – sometimes independently, sometimes in dialog with one another – as people have struggled to survive, express themselves, carve out zones of autonomy and resistance, and push back against the dominance of capitalism in the city. In this, “cultural production” appears in a variety of forms ranging from conventional art practices, to the organizing of communities and networks, to the production of media and setting up of information systems. Likewise, squats, occupations and social centers are figured as art projects themselves, housing and workspaces for artists or, most significantly, constituent parts of an alternative infrastructure for the autonomous production of knowledge, discourse, and aesthetics. Making Room includes stories of the squatter movement in Germany both in the 1980s and ’90s as the Cold War was ending and Neoliberalism taking shape, and in its contemporary manifestations as resistance to gentrification and struggles for housing and the inclusion of migrants. In Northern Europe it recounts episodes in the emergence of militant autonomism from the softer counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s as struggles hardened and utopian exuberance faded in the face of the consolidation of global capitalism and was replaced by grim, determined holding actions. In Italy the housing struggles and social center movement of the 1980s appears as a more popular and pragmatic revival of activism following the decimation of the radical left in the dark years of the anni di piombo. This revival has found new resonance in the resurgence of squatting in Italy and the occupation and debt resistance movement in Spain that have taken much inspiration from it. Other texts in the anthology recount struggles to define the role of creativity as cities in Western Europe and North America have become post-industrial urban economies, organized around knowledge work and affective labor, and gentrification has replaced urban decay as a primary problem. Finally, another narrative thread runs through the anthology tracing a history of radical media from the underground printing and publishing practices of the 1960’s and ’70s through the proliferation of pirate radio and television projects and into contemporary hacker and internet activist culture.Read more
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George Rickey: A Life in Balance
The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the streets of New York City. Now, here is the story of his life, his times, and his vision of balance that created something new―sculpture that is defined by movement.
Before his death in 2002, George Rickey created more than 3,000 moving sculptures, including hundreds of major outdoor installations. His “useless machines,” as he called them, achieved complete rotation, used multiple variations of the pendulum, and delighted viewers with the joyride effects of conical movement.
George Rickey: A Life in Balance follows the life of a renowned artist―first a painter, then a sculptor―who found inspiration all around him―as a child visiting the Singer Sewing Machine factory managed by his father, in his adventurous youth in the London and Paris art studios of the 1920s, as an engineer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and later as a pioneer in academic art programs around the United States when he embarked on the sculpture he became famous for.
But this is not only the story of a single artist’s creativity and achievement but of Rickey’s life in the larger context of the twentieth century: from Depression-era America to the upheaval of World War II, from the rise of New York as the world’s art capital at mid-century to the tumultuous 1960s, when Rickey emerged as an international figure rubbing elbows with Alexander Calder, David Smith, Christo, and many others. It is also the story of an exceptional marriage and of Rickey’s charismatic, devoted wife, Edith Leighton, who managed her husband’s career and reputation in the high-powered art circles of New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles.
Belinda Rathbone (author of The Boston Raphael and Walker Evans: A Biography) has captured the spirit of an artist and his world in this deeply researched and engrossing biography. George Rickey: A Life in Balance is for any reader fascinated by the lives of artists, the creation of enduring art, or twentieth century modernism. Includes 30 photographs that document Rickey’s life and work.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018
In 2018, London’s Hyde Park was home to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s latest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture took cues from mastabas of the first urban civilizations of Mesopotamia, which were mud benches with two vertical sides, two slanted sides, and a flat top. Towering at 20 meters high, its 600 metric tons anchored to the Serpentine Lake, this waterborne project gathered 7,506 painted oil barrels to create a floating mosaic of red, white, blue, and mauve.
The most ambitious of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s barrel works to date, The London Mastaba is a precursor to the duo’s work in progress The Mastaba (Project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). First conceived in 1977, The Mastaba for Abu Dhabi, if realized, would be Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s greatest achievement and only permanent large-scale work. Situated in the desert and made of 410,000 multicolored barrels, the 150-meter-high sculpture would be the largest in the world, rising higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Designed by Lorenza Giovanelli and Christo, this book gathers drawings, collages, technical data, scale models―many published for the first time―and photographs by Wolfgang Volz to trace Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 60-year history of barrel artworks.
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Amazing Art Adventures: Around the world in 400 immersive experiences
Discover hundreds of the most interesting and memorable art experiences from around the world in this stunningly immersive and beautifully illustrated title!Amazing Art Adventures offers us art and culture as an experience both within and beyond the gallery, opening a door to unexpected adventures
– art fairs, festivals, installations, art trails, galleries, art islands, monuments, sculpture parks and museums.
Aimed at all of us who travel to learn about new places and cultures, the book gathers together hundreds of unforgettable art experiences around the world, acting as an inspirational travel guide for anyone interested in art. From the Lightning Field in New Mexico to an art island in Japan, expert guide Yolanda Zappaterra leads us on a comprehensive, worldwide tour of bucket list destinations for every season.Divided into sections by continent, the book is a thrilling cultural journey, an insider’s guide to the visual arts that suggests different ways to experience art beyond the usual galleries and institutions, leads readers to art in unusual places, creates trails that will give insights into the lives of famous artists as well as putting the spotlight on more interesting and unknown works in well known museums.
Through more than 400 entries, plus photographs and maps, the book expands our understanding and appreciation of the world’s art in exciting new ways.
- Uncover a Chagall masterpiece in a tiny Kentish church
- Follow a land art map of North America from the Spiral Jetty and Lightning Fields to Seven Magic Mountains and the Star Axis
- Trip the light fantastic at the Atelier des Lumières in Paris
- Delight in the sinuous curves of Oscar Niemeyer’s MAC in Rio de Janeiro
- Lay your head in a very arty bed at the aha Shakaland Hotel & Zulu Cultural Village
- Be dazzled by recycled ceramics at the Rock Garden of Chandigarh in northern India
- Exercise body and mind with a walk along London’s Art Line
- Be blown away by Tacoma’s Museum of Glass
- Trek into the Brazilian rainforest for art in the jungle at the Inhotim Art Museum
- Sample big cheeses in Switzerland at Art Basel
- Cross the Seto Inland Sea to land at the art island of Naoshima in Japan
- Walk among the gods and monsters of Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tuscan Tarot Garden
- Commune with a unicorn at the Met Cloisters in New York
- See the seeds of Africa’s future art scene in a former grain silo at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town
- Enter a field of light in Uluru, Australia
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