*WINNER OF THE NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author*A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneersfamous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and morewith biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer.
A revolutionary exploration of the relationship between human energy and color, visualized through more than 200 photographs from the the Annie Leibovitz of aura photography (New York Times) and a Dutch painter on acid (Vogue).
As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires-groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and John Legend-and celebrates their achievements which are transforming lives and making history.
The poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles-with this compilation of celebratory odes featuring full-color illustrations by Melissa Koby.
One ofEsquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time *One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * ANew York TimesBook Review Editors' Choice *Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club *TheWeekMagazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped Americas idea of the future.
Discover the joys and self-nurturing benefits of plant parenthood, from learning how to begin building your own lush plant family to getting into those fun tips on how to care for your green gurls, with this beautiful, illustrated guide from the dazzling creator of the @plantkween Instagram account.
This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art Beautifully written A book I have always hoped someone would write NIGEL SLATER'[An] outstanding and enviably well-written biography.
The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and artists in response to the Bengal Famine of 1943.
The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and artists in response to the Bengal Famine of 1943.
While celebrating the centenary of the "e;annus mirabilis"e; of modernism, we now encounter modernism after postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, critical race, feminist, queer and trans writing and theory.
This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.
An intellectual history of the late Roman Republicand the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.
Lleno de consejos prácticos y motivación para todo profesional de ventas, Zig Ziglar Ventas es una completa guía de referencia para cualquier profesional en este campo.
Lucas Cranach der Ältere – ein Maler zwischen Reformation und RenaissanceMit rund 500 Werken gehört Lucas Cranach zu den bedeutendsten Künstlern des 16.
WINNER OF THE BEST MIXED MEDIA BOOK AWARD AT THE CREATIVE BOOK AWARDS 2024A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects.
Von A wie Atelier bis Z wie Zeit: Caspar David Friedrichs Werke und die Malerei der RomantikDie Kunsthistorikerin und Autorin Barbara Hess vermittelt in diesem empfehlenswerten Buch neue Sichtweisen auf einen der prägendsten Künstler der deutschen Romantik – Caspar David Friedrich.
In Sketching Men, veteran art instructor Koichi Hagawa, PhD explains how to quickly capture the dynamic male form through two distinct styles of sketching:Very rapid (1-3 minute) line drawings that capture the essence of the subject's posture and movementperfect for recording athletic action poses in the momentMore finished tonal drawings, which take a bit longer to render (7-10 minutes), but fill in lots of interesting texture and wonderfully realistic details and nuances, including the play of light and shadow, three-dimensional form and a sense of mass and balanceLearn to sketch the following:Individual body parts and their bones and musclesObjects held in the hands and with both armsStanding and sitting posesTransitions from prone and sitting poses to a standing poseBending, reaching and leaning posesPushing, throwing and dancing posesFolds, gathers and drape of clothingThis book contains hundreds of detailed studies and helpful examples.
ZERO-Kunst und Mode: Revolutionäre Verbindung von Kunst und DesignTauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der ZERO-Kunst und ihrer außergewöhnlichen Verbindung zur Mode.
Se organizó la exposición La violencia en Colombia según Fernando Botero entre el 5 y 27 de noviembre de 2009 en el Museo de Artes Visuales de la ujtl.
The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (14041472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissancea fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt's mythologizing of Alberti as a Renaissance or Universal Man.
New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century.
Dieses eBook: "Seespeck (Klassiker der Moderne)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence.
William Morris - one of the most influential designers of the 19th century and an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement - revisited in this inspirational interior design guide.
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world.
Raubkunst, Kunstraub, koloniale Sammlungen von Kulturgütern – nicht erst seit der Kontroverse um die nigerianischen Benin-Bronzen des Humboldt-Forums in Berlin ist ein Streit darüber ausgebrochen, wie mit Sammlungsobjekten aus kolonialen Kontexten umgegangen werden sollte.
Über dreißig Jahre nach dem Mauerfall fragt der Sammelband, der die Ergebnisse einer 2019 von der Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte in der Kunsthalle Rostock veranstalteten interdisziplinären Tagung präsentiert, erstmals grundlegender nach der Rolle der Institution Museum in der DDR.
A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize powerIn this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of the artist, nation, or period themselves became valuable properties.
A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time-the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties-has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art, even though there has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until now.
How artists created an aesthetic of "e;positive barbarism"e; in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.
From one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancient peoples, from Britain to ChinaIn this book, acclaimed archaeologist and art historian John Boardman explores Greek art as a foreign art transmitted to the non-Greeks of antiquity-peoples who weren't necessarily able to judge the meaning of Greek art and who may have regarded the Greeks themselves with great hostility.
Der überarbeitete und erweiterte BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors präsentiert 256 öffentlich zugängliche Privatsammlungen zeitgenössischer Kunst – große wie kleine, bekannte wie noch unentdeckte.
