In one of the most stunning expositions of mathematical publishing, Oliver Byrne combines Euclid's geometric theories with vibrant colour proofs, turning what was already a cornerstone academic text into a pedagogical work of art.
Seven Years with Banksy is an illuminating memoir of the worlds most celebrated graffiti artist, offering an insight into his life and work through the experiences that he and the author Robert Clarke shared together during Banksys formative years.
Sweeping in its scope, The Legends of Hip Hop is an intimate look at the visionaries, the movers and the shakers, and the pioneers who have helped shape the world of hip hop.
This “expert and elegantly written” book reveals how dealers have been a major force in art history from the Renaissance to the avant garde (The Guardian, UK).
In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.
WRITING THE VISUAL: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR TEACHERS OF COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION offers a variety of creative and theoretically based approaches to the development of visual literacy.
Charity Adams Earley, commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in World War II, summarized the history of women in the military when she wrote in 1989: "e;The future of women in the military seems assured.
"e;Reaction and the Avant-Garde"e; illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the century, which had a powerful hold on Europe's intellectual elite.
A lavishly illustrated guide to the work and technique of the internationally renowned artistMary Edna Fraser has taken the art of batik to otherworldly heights.
What I hope this timely and fascinating book does is to take the reader beyond the lurid interest in art by society's outcasts, to discovering the hugely positive role art plays in prison life - Grayson Perry.
Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American SouthLooking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "e;Art is central to my life.
"e;The quotidian images of friends, pets, furniture, food, and selfies, taken with her phone, were digitally altered ~cursed~ with AI softwares, like a prophetic, visceral take on the mundane world.
Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American SouthLooking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "e;Art is central to my life.
A lavishly illustrated guide to the work and technique of the internationally renowned artistMary Edna Fraser has taken the art of batik to otherworldly heights.
In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history.
Master of portraiture Monte Zucker presents page after page of essential photographic lessons to enable photographers to achieve and exceed their financial and artistic goals.
In this book, Michel Lauricella presents both his artistic and systematic methods for drawing the human bodywith drawing techniques from the ecorche (showing the musculature underneath the skin) to sketches of models in action.
Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of his reign in his new temple to the Aten at Karnak.
