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A new book by the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library that represents the glories of the Book of Kells for today’s readers, revealing the astounding detail and richness of one of the greatest treasures of medieval Europe.

One of the most remarkable manuscripts to survive from the early Middle Ages in Europe, the Book of Kells was probably painted around 800 in a monastery at Iona in Scotland or Kells in Ireland, or perhaps in both places.

Extraordinarily inventive and intricate imagery accompanies the texts of the four Gospels: full-page depictions of Evangelists and their symbols, lavish honorific openings to the Gospels, extraordinary initials, and decoration that combines complex interlace, animals, and human figures.

This newly photographed book explores the Book of Kells through its historical background; a display of the elements of the book at their actual size; the spectacular openings of the texts that precede the Gospels; a study of earlier and comparable manuscripts; detailed examination of symbols and themes, with special enlarged details; a look at the scribes and artists who worked on the manuscript; and a consideration of technical aspects, illuminated by recent scientific research.

The rich illustrations feature more than fifty full-size reproductions of complete pages of the manuscript plus enlarged details that allow one to relish the intricacy of elements barely visible to the naked eye. Supplementary images place the manuscript in its setting and provide comparisons for its iconography and style.

Everything you need to know about the queen of the charts and our hearts.

From her signature red lip to her endless list of chart-topping hits, Taylor Swift is a force to be reckoned with.

Every blank space in The Book of Taylor has been filled with colourful collages of our fave cat-loving, Grammy-winning, country-pop queen, alongside 50 T-Swiz facts, including her biggest fears, her unpublished manuscript, her go-to drive-through order and more.

Go beyond friendship bracelets and get to know your dream BFF on a whole other level.

About the Author:

Billie Oliver is a film critic and freelance journalist, based in Melbourne, Australia. She’s a bona fide pop-culture junkie and has written plenty of Harry-laden red-carpet recaps in her time. Billie has previously published We Heart Harry, Love Ya Olivia, It’s Britney…!, Chalamania, Keanu Forever, and Let it Lizzo! with Smith Street Books.

The third volume in this luxurious series, this work is a celebration of the most precious objects of the Cartier Collection.

The Cartier Collection, housed in Geneva, Switzerland, gathers together over 1,360 pieces that reveal the stylistic and technical developments in the creations of this world-renowned house. Following the previous works in this series devoted to Cartier’s jewelry and timepieces, this third volume explores the precious objects and accessories that complete the collection: from opulent gold and black enamel vanity cases set with platinum and rose-cut diamond fleurons to exquisite and stylish cigarette holders, belt buckles, hat pins, and evening bags. The jeweler has always placed great emphasis on male elegance and an array of men’s accessories is also showcased, including polished gold razors, sophisticated leather travel bags, and diamond-encrusted platinum and onyx cuff links.

From the extravagant yet sublime Tutti Frutti evening bag, made of a weave of seed pearls and dripping with gold, diamond, ruby, emerald, and sapphire details, to exotic and intricate Chinese powder compacts, these creations are works of fine art. This handsome volume recounts the history of the House of Cartier and its sublimation of often everyday items, which became veritable precious objects. The text is illustrated with more than 550 pieces taken from the collection ― beautifully reproduced in full size and in color ― which can usually only be admired in retrospective exhibitions held in internationally-renowned museums. Other archival material includes photographs of high society clients, detailed sketches and studies for various pieces, and vintage advertising posters.

Presented in a luxurious silk slipcase with ribbon closure, this tome is a tribute to some of the most exquisite objects in the Cartier Collection.

About the Authors:

François Chaille is an art historian and fashion expert. He has written several titles, including The Cartier Collection: Jewelry, The Cartier Collection: Timepieces, Cartier: Creative Writing, Cartier: Innovation through the 20th Century, and Girard-Perregaux. Franco Cologni is Chairman of the Cultural Council of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie.

Timepieces are the perfect distillation of Cartier's craft: At once bona fide jewels, the ultimate expression of style, and miracles of detail and precision, they are at the heart of all that the legendary house represents. Equal in beauty, value, and design to Cartier's jewels, each timepiece is an object of unparalleled luxury and elegance, emblematic of the "Cartier style." More than 450 pieces, including the complete collection of "mystery clocks" whose hands seem to float in midair, are presented here, representing more than 150 years of the finest horology. Each object is accompanied by its individual history and detailed technical specifications. Full-scale reproductions, including 12 gatefolds, are followed by an illustrated and comparative chronology, glossary of terms, and complete index.

About the Authors:

François Chaille is an art historian and fashion expert. He has written several titles, including The Cartier Collection: Jewelry, The Cartier Collection: Precious Objects, Cartier: Creative Writing, Cartier: Innovation through the 20th Century, and Girard-Perregaux. Franco Cologni is Chairman of the Cultural Council of the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie.

A love letter to a time before Instagram and the legendary party scenes of the 2000s that brought together the new millennium’s rising stars of pop culture.

Under the moniker the Cobrasnake, the photographer Mark Hunter captured the party scenes of Los Angeles and New York during the hipster-glam heyday of the 2000s — and in doing so defined the look of a generation.  Armed with just a Polaroid and a primitive website, Cobrasnake captured pioneers of youth culture from Kanye West and Steve Aoki to Jeremy Scott, Katy Perry, and Virgil Abloh — icons of the indie pop world in the making. Intimately connected with the people around him and keyed-in to the edgier fringes of the fashion, music, and art worlds, Hunter photographed influencers before they were influencers, in the wild and at play from the streets of LA to NYC and beyond. Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred of Cobrasnake’s favorite images alongside ephemera, from concert tickets and backstage passes to outtakes and unseen photographs from his many adventures. These photographs are records of the last generation of partiers to predate the livestreaming of culture afforded by today’s social media — capturing the energy and vibrancy of a time before Instagram.

About the Author:

Mark Hunter is a photographer who under the moniker of the Cobrasnake chronicled the party scenes of Los Angeles and New York in the 2000s. His work has appeared everywhere from editorials in Rolling Stone and Harper’s Bazaar to advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein and Helmut Lang. He lives in Los Angeles.  

With helpful tips and easy to follow step-by-step lessons, The Essential Book of Drawing is the perfect resource for artists looking to hone their drawing style and technique.

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing is a comprehensive guide to drawing a vast array of subjects, from landscapes and flowers to animals and portraits. This helpful resource begins with a thorough introduction to the essential tools and materials artists need to get started, including different types of pencils, sketchbooks, papers, and other tools. Additionally, artists will learn the fundamentals of drawing, as well as a variety of drawing techniques, including rendering realistic textures, creating volume, and capturing perspective. The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing guides beginning and intermediate artists through a series of easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects covering a variety of subject matter. With helpful tips and beautiful artwork to inspire, The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing is the perfect resource for artists looking to hone their drawing style and technique.

About the Authors:

Founded in 1922 by artist Walter T. Foster, Walter Foster Publishing, a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA and a subsidiary of the London-based Quarto Group, Inc., is the world's leading publisher of instructional art books and kits for adults and children. Walter Foster's diverse selection of drawing, painting, doodling and mixed media art books and kits have created a foundation for millions of beginning, intermediate, and advanced artists looking to hone their talents, learn new techniques and discover different mediums. From colour mixing recipes and art tools to the fundamentals of drawing and painting, Walter Foster's books cover a wide variety of topics and mediums across a broad spectrum of traditional and eclectic subject matter for artists of all skill levels. Walter Foster Publishing continues to expand its offerings every year, producing cutting-edge art-instruction books and kits for a worldwide audience.

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Пролистать книгу The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing: More than 200 Drawing Techniques, Tips & Lessons на Google Books.

Дослідіть творчі можливості цього неймовірно універсального асортименту глазурі за допомогою цього вичерпного посібника для художників-керамістів усіх рівнів.

Відкрийте для себе світ глазурі з The Complete Guide to Low-Fire Glazes for Potters and Sculptors.. Поттер, автор подкастів і автор книги Mastering the Potter’s Wheel, Бен Картер, кидає виклик переконанням, що серйозні митці працюють виключно з високотемпературними матеріалами, ділячись роками досліджень створення вишуканих горщиків із слабким вогнем і глазурі. Дізнайтеся про переваги випалу за нижчих температур, дослідіть візуальні нюанси глазурі з низьким рівнем вогню та спостерігайте, як відомі художники процвітають у цьому діапазоні температур.

Цей візуально захоплюючий ресурс, проілюстрований приголомшливими фотографіями робіт Картера та інших художників, охоплює:

- Уявлення про переваги та візуальні властивості глазурі з низьким рівнем вогню
- Вказівки щодо створення лабораторії глазурі
- Пояснення того, як складається глазур
- Поради щодо усунення типових несправностей глазурі
- Проектування та виготовлення пробної плитки
- Техніки нанесення шарів, використання глазурі як форми, інтеграції декалей, атмосферного випалу тощо
- Перевірені рецепти глазурі — від глянцевої до сатинової, матової та олов’яної — для різноманітних оздоблень і створення кольорів

Незалежно від того, чи ви новачок у світі керамічної глазурі, чи хочете розширити свої знання про глазурі з низьким рівнем вогню, Повний посібник із глазурі з низьким рівнем вогню – це ваш шлях у світ мистецьких можливостей.

Серія Mastering Ceramics для художників, які ніколи не припиняють навчатися. Завдяки переконливим проектам, експертним думкам, покроковим фотографіям і галереям робіт найкращих митців сучасності ці книги є ідеальними супутниками для студій.

Також доступно із серії: Amazing Glaze, Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations, Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay, Mastering Kilns and Firing, Mastering Hand Building, та Mastering the Potter’s Wheel.

Про автора:

Бен Картер – гончарна студія та інструктор майстерні та автор книги Опанування гончарного кола.Він отримав ступінь бакалавра з кераміки/живопису в Аппалачському державному університеті та ступінь магістра з кераміки в Університеті Флориди. Він читав лекції та проводив семінари в університетах і ремісничих центрах у Сполучених Штатах, Китаї, Австралії, Канаді та Новій Зеландії, а також брав участь у численних виставках за запрошеннями та журі. Роботи Бена були представлені в Australian Journal of Ceramics, Pottery Making Illustrated, а Ceramics Monthly; Pottery Making Illustrated  визнав його художником року за версією щорічника Ceramic Arts 2016. З 2012 року він веде та продюсує популярний подкаст Tales of a Red Clay Rambler.Бен живе в Нью-Джерсі.

'An ideal introduction to one of the world’s great classical sites' Sunday Times

Pompeii is the best known and probably the most important archaeological site in the world. This book is the most up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive account for the general reader of its rise, splendour and fall. The drama of Pompeii’s end has been handed down by Roman writers, its paintings and mosaics have astonished visitors since their discovery, and its houses and public buildings still present a vivid picture of life, disaster and death in a Roman town.

About the Author:

Joanne Berry is a Roman historian and archaeologist, and a lecturer in Ancient History in the School of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University. Much of her research to date has focused on the ancient site of Pompeii. In 2008 she founded Blogging Pompeii, a news and discussion site for Pompeii and the archaeological sites of the Bay of Naples.

A landmark publication in the study of Islamic calligraphy, exploring the historical and cultural roots of this quintessential Islamic artform

This is the first comprehensive exploration of the ‘Proportioned Script’, an Arabic writing system attributed to the Abbasid wazir (minister) Ibn Muqla and the master scribe Ibn al-Bawwab that has dominated the art of Arabic and Islamic penmanship from the 10th century to the present day. A remarkable work of original scholarship that ranges across multiple disciplines – history, literature, philosophy, theology, sacred geometry and calligraphy, Drs Moustafa and Sperl have succeeded in unearthing the very foundations of Arabic penmanship, with implications for the arts of Islam as a whole.

Volume One, Sources and Principles of the Geometry of Letters, traces the origin of the Proportioned Script to the cross-cultural encounter between Greek learning and the scientific, artistic and philosophical pursuits of classical Islam. On the basis of instructions in surviving sources, it identifies a grid module that serves as a common foundation for the design of all the Arabic letter shapes.

In Volume Two, From Geometric Pattern to Living Form, the authors construct each of the letter shapes on the grid module and compare their findings to samples traced by two classical master scribes. They conclude by examining the religious, aesthetic and cosmological significance of the Proportioned Script in the wider context of the Islamic cultural heritage.

About the Authors:

Ahmed Moustafa is an acclaimed artist and scholar in the art of Islam. Numerous of his works have been acquired by major museum and private collections worldwide, including the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Stefan Sperl is Senior Lecturer in Arabic at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. His published work covers aspects of classical Arabic literature, Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.

Winner of the World Award for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran 2016

Studio One is the legendary Jamaican reggae label that launched onto the world Bob Marley and theWailers.

As iconic as Motown was to soul, or Blue Note for Jazz, Studio One was the creation of one great figurehead Clement Sir Coxsone Dodd.

This deluxe hard-back book is the first ever to tell the story of Studio One and the many artists that it produced. The book features hundreds of stunning full size record cover designs of Studio One and original artwork as well as rare and exclusive photographs, original flyers and artist interviews.

In the 1950s Clement Dodds Downbeat Soundsystem was the most important sound system in downtown Kingstons burgeoning dancehall scene, fighting off the competition of Duke Reid, Tom the Great Sebastian and others. Dodd began producing his own records in the late 1950s and in 1963, the year after Jamaican Independence, he launched Studio One.

Described by Chris Blackwell as the University of Reggae, Studio One is by far the most important record label in the history of Reggae music, an A-Z of Jamaican music. It is where Bob Marley and theWailers, Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Freddie McGregor, The Skatalites, Marcia Griffiths, Burning Spear, The Heptones, Toots and the Maytals and many more artists became stars.

As Jamaica approaches the 50th anniversary of independence, this stunning deluxe book is a timely look at Reggae musics legendary record label and the artists and musicians that it made famous.

The Cure “Stills” розповідають про зміни в житті одного з провідних британських рок-гуртів протягом пост-панку та нью-вейву кінця 70-х та 80-х років. Протягом майже 50 років існування гурту фронтмен і єдиний постійний учасник Роберт Сміт підтримував популярність гурту протягом усіх музичних епох, залишаючись вірним своєму індивідуальному стилю та неординарності.

У створенні різних втілень The Cure головну роль відіграв фотограф Пол Кокс, який вперше зустрів гурт на Top of the Pops у 1980 році. Встановивши творчі, продуктивні та довірливі стосунки з гуртом, Кокс створив The Cure у всій їхній красі. Ця книга, що містить понад 200 кольорових та 75 чорно-білих зображень із супровідними підписами, відібраними та написаними Коксом та Смітом, є прославленням основоположного гурту крізь об'єктив вправного фотографа.

Про автора:

Кар'єра Пола розпочалася наприкінці 1970-х років, спочатку з роботи в London Features International, де він фотографував гурти на концертах та різних місцях. Однією з них була студія BBC для Top of the Pops, де Пол вперше зустрівся з The Cure у 1980 році.

_Понад 200 кольорових та 75 чорно-білих знімків The Cure протягом десятиліть
_Супровідні підписи, написані фронтменом Робертом Смітом та фотографом Полом Коксом
_Передмова Роберта Сміта
_Приголомшливі зображення, відібрані з особистого архіву Кокса під наглядом Роберта Сміта
_Включено до списку «Книги року 2024» за версією Rough Trade

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Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo’s amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable Mexican artist. The 170-page journal contains the artist’s thoughts, poems, and dreams - many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera  - along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor illustrations.

The text entries, written in Frida’s round, full script in brightly colored inks, make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist’s political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than 35 operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of 18. This intimate portal into her life is sure to fascinate fans of the artist, art historians, and women’s culturalists alike.

Visitors to the Paris catacombs were once greeted with a sign telling them that they were entering THE EMPIRE OF DEATH.

Beginning in the early modern period and continuing to the 19th century, elaborately decorated charnels, tombs and chapels were constructed with the focus on human bone.

This riveting book takes the reader on a tour of these macabre masterpieces with specially taken, arresting photographs and a commentary researched from a multitude of sources. It's a momento mori for our age.

Paul Koudounaris has a doctorate in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has written widely on European ossuaries and charnel houses for both academic and popular journals. He visited and photographed over seventy sites containing human bones in nearly twenty countries in the course of writing this book.

Авторитетний огляд складної роботи Твомблі

Сай Твомблі створив мистецтво, яке вирізнялося своєю багатогранністю, чутливістю та оригінальністю. Упродовж своєї творчості він йшов власним мистецьким шляхом, незалежним від сучасних тенденцій, і довгий час його творчість залишалася непоміченою для широкої аудиторії. До моменту його смерті в Римі, у віці 83 років, він був визнаний у всьому світі як один із найбільших і найбільш самобутніх художників 20-го та початку 21-го століття.

Ця книга містить авторитетний огляд складної роботи Твомблі, об’єднуючи найважливіші з його картин і циклів живопису, а також добірку його малюнків, скульптур і фотографій. Кожна група робіт представлена ​​та обговорена поважними істориками мистецтва, зокрема Саймоном Шама, Ласло Глозером, Кірком Варнедо та Тьєррі Ґройбом.

Народився в Лексінгтоні, штат Вірджинія, Сай Твомблі (1928–2011) навчався в Бостоні, штат Нью-Йорк, і в коледжі Блек-Маунтін, штат Південна Кароліна, перш ніж подорожувати світом і зрештою оселитися в Європі; з 1957 року він базувався в Італії. На ранньому етапі він почав розвивати власну символічну мову літер і слів, яка передбачала образотворчу форму поезії. Згадки з мистецтва, історії та міфології незабаром розширили цей поетичний словниковий запас, який часто поєднувався з чуттєвим залученням до намальованої поверхні.

Список вмісту:

Вступ Нікола Дель Россіо • МАЛЕВНИКИ • Сай Твомблі Саймона Шама • КАРТИНИ • Написи в Аркадії Кірка Варнедо • СКУЛЬПТУРИ • ФОТОГРАФІЇ • Томблі Ласло Глозера • «Перевернута археологія» Сай Твомблі Тьєррі Греуба

Про авторів:

Нікола Дель Росіо, давній супутник Сая Твомблі, є автором або редактором багатьох книг про Твомблі, включно з каталогами його малюнків і скульптур.
Саймон Шама, професор історії та історії мистецтва в Колумбійському університеті, Нью-Йорк.