General Art category: 18772 books
by David Lowenthal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against...
The Art of Paint Pouring
Tips, techniques, and step-by-step instructions for creating colorful poured art in acrylic
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Learn the creative, innovative technique of making art by pouring paint with The Art of Paint Pouring! Featuring easy step-by-step projects, practical tips, and beautiful art from an established paint-pouring expert, this book will help artists of any skill level make colorful, textured art by pouring...
The Art Abandonment Project
Create and Share Random Acts of Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Art sharing at its sneakiest!Art sharing at its sneakiest!
The Art Abandonment Project is your guide to expressing yourself through random acts of art! Create something for the joy of making it, and then leave it for an unsuspecting person to find--be it on a shelf at the library, a park bench,...
New Tendencies
Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978)
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics.
New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist art movement, emerged in the early 1960s in the former Yugoslavia, a nonaligned country. It represented...
Laboratory Lifestyles
The Construction of Scientific Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....
by Peter Briggs, R Siva Kumar, Erin Manning
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Over a two-year period, from 2016 to 2018, four French museums —Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch d’Issoudun, La Citadelle de Belfort, La Piscine in Roubaix— are joining forces to present Peter Briggs' work. All four museums are multidisciplinary and all focus...
Basics Interactive Design: Interface Design
An introduction to visual communication in UI design
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
If you want to design successful user interfaces then you need clear and effective visual communication.Interface Design will help you achieve this using a range of incisive case studies, interviews with professional designers and clear hands-on advice to help you produce user-focused front-end designs...
by Stephen Wildish
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Interesting Information + Slick Graphics = This Infographic Book
This is the super-stylish book you didn’t know you needed until you saw it. Packed with weird and wonderful visual information, it is guaranteed to entertain and help you look at things in a completely new way.
Basics Interactive Design: User Experience Design
Creating designs users really love
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactive...
by Jean-Claude Moineau
Language: French
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 22, 2016
«Le pire ennemi de l’art, ce n’est, contrairement à ce qu’a pu donner à croire la modernité, ni la vie ni le monde moderne ni la culture mass-médiatique moderne, autrement dit un hypothétique ennemi extérieur, c’est l’art lui-même, et ce pas seulement au sens où l’art aspirerait...
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 5
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #5
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings. Part 5 The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich...
by Turkka Keinonen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
How do we design for users? How might users best participate in the design process? How can we evaluate the user's experience of designed products and services? These fundamental questions are addressed in Designers, Users, and Justice, through a series of dialogues between a design scholar and a...
The Vatican Art Deck
100 Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This one-of-a-kind array of 100 art masterpieces, quality printed on handsome card stock, brings together the finest works from the magnificent spiritual and artistic collection of the Vatican.
The Vatican is one of the most popular destinations in the world, with more than 5 million visitors...
Classical Art
A Life History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated...