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A compelling and authoritative overview of the drawings of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most celebrated and intriguing figures in the history of art.

Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) drawings are some of the most familiar and expressive in the history of art. Van Gogh believed that drawing was the 'root of everything', and this was reflected in his remarkable output of over 1,000 works during his short and tragic life; many of them personal, often lonely explorations of the emerging modern world.

This book is the first comprehensive account to celebrate the singularity of the artist's achievements in this field. Arranged broadly thematically, from drawings of potato harvesters to depictions of knotted poplars, pensive studies from life to a sketch of the famous Yellow House in Arles, eminent art historian and curator Christopher Lloyd encourages readers to consider the artist's drawings from a fresh viewpoint: documenting successes and failures, experiments, trials and disappointments. Primarily self-taught, Van Gogh's approach to drawing was instinctual, but he soon recognized the importance of mastering the grammar of art - anatomy, foreshortening, perspective - as well as materials and techniques, in order to express his emotional responses to a subject as vividly as possible. With examples from the artist's voluminous and emotionally charged family correspondence, sketchbooks, and comparative artworks by the Old Masters and contemporaries, this engaging study outlines why drawing is central to Van Gogh's oeuvre, and equal to the intensity and reputation of his paintings.

Featuring works from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and many other important collections in Europe and the US, this beautifully illustrated volume offers an extensive interpretation of the artist's drawings, beyond what has been published to date.

About the Author:

Christopher Lloyd is an art historian and curator. He was Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures in the British Royal Collection from 1988 to 2005, and is the author of Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels (2014), Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolours (2015), Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings (2019) and Masterpieces: An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland (2022), all published by Thames & Hudson. His many other publications include art monographs, official catalogues of museum collections and general surveys of the British Royal Collection.

Contents List

Preface
Brief Chronology of the Life of Vincent van Gogh
1. Setting Out
2. Figures
3. Compositional Drawings: Figures and Landscapes
4. Place
5. Landscape
6. Portraits
7. Repetitions
Epilogue

A paperback reissue Hazel Soan's classic practical art book.

Hazel Soan is a well-known and popular artist and an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher. In The Essence of Watercolour Hazel shows how wonderfully versatile and beguiling the medium of watercolour is and how to get the most out of it.

Hazel stresses how important it is to understand the characteristics of the medium in order to exploit it to the full. She encourages the reader to explore the properties of watercolour and to be unafraid of strength of colour and brushstroke.

Hazel shows through demonstration and projects that tone is king in watercolour and illustrates how to paint light with the use of shade. Armed with this understanding she demonstrates that watercolour is not such an unforgiving medium after all: accidents and mistakes can be disguised, overridden and corrected.

The Essence of Watercolour is a culmination of many years of Hazel's teaching and demonstrating, in which she offers inspirational insights into the secrets of watercolour painting and encourages artists to take their art to the next level.

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Пролистать книгу The Essence of Watercolour: The Secrets and Techniques of Watercolour Painting Revealed на Google Books

Від Turner Classic Movies – це важливий путівник із усіма подробицями стилю, досягнень і знакових фільмів найвпливовіших режисерів в історії кінематографа від епохи німого кіно до 1970-х років.

Вже більше століття ті, хто створює кінофільми, торкаються наших сердець і душ; вони перенесли та змінили наш розум, сп’янили та зачарували наші почуття. Бачення одного художника є єдиною найвидатнішою силою за лаштунками: режисер. The Essential Directors висвітлює невидимі сили, що стоять за деякими з найвизначніших екранних тріумфів від естетичного піку німого кіно до Нового Голлівуду 1970-х років.Беручи до уваги вплив кожного митця на середовище, культурний вплив і ступінь досягнення, Turner Classic Movies представляє збірку найвпливовіших кінематографістів Голлівуду з профілями, що пропонують історію та розуміння стилю оповіді кінематографіста, унікальних штрихів, внеску в засіб, ключових фільмів і характерних моментів фільму, на які варто звернути увагу. Роботи цих художників, що змінюють правила гри, ілюструють понад 200 повнокольорових і чорно-білих фотографій.

У The Essential Directors ви прочитаєте, як Сесіл Б. ДеМілль оновив релігію, щоб визначити епоху, і як Оскар Мішо подолав бар’єри, щоб стати найвпливовішим чорношкірим режисером 1920-х років. Ви здивуєтеся ефективній майстерності "One-Take Woody" Van Dyke і знову закохаєтесь у вишукану класику студійної епохи Джорджа Кьюкора. Ви дізнаєтеся, як такі жінки, як Дороті Арцнер та Іда Лупіно, побудували процвітаючу кар’єру в індустрії, якою керують чоловіки, і дізнаєтеся, що спонукало Майка Ніколса поєднати комедію з трагедією, ставши при цьому найбільш високооплачуваним режисером свого часу. The Essential Directors представляє роботи цих художників, що змінюють правила гри, і десятків інших у цьому приголомшливому виданні.

Про автора:

Слоан Де Форест – письменник, актор та історик кіно, який писав про кіно для Sony, Time Warner Cable, Фонду Мері Пікфорд і Bright Lights Film Journal. Вона написала есе до книг Natalie Wood: Reflections on a Legendary Life by Manoah Bowman and Grace Kelly: Hollywood Dream Girl by Jay Jorgensen and Manoah Bowman. Вона живе в Голлівуді - ментально, духовно та географічно.

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Погортати книгу The Essential Directors The Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakers

Зробіть крок у світ чаклунства як добра, так і зла, де культовий персонаж міфів і легенд знову унікально оживає.

Від першої передбачуваної повішеної відьми в Салемі та зображень чаклунства Гойї до шекспірівського «Макбета», «Гоґвортсу» та інших — немає недоліку в натхненні, а також у перероблених характеристиках і головних стереотипах. Тепер 30 найталановитіших у світі художників у жанрі фентезі та концептуальних творів відкривають власний особистий прояв відьми.

Починаючи з дослідження, читачі стануть свідками алхімії деталей, витягнутих із, здавалося б, буденного, трансформованого всього тіла відьми, фантастичного, але водночас неймовірно правдоподібного. Процес проектування продовжується, щоб накладати заклинання не лише на зовнішність, але й на оточення, практики та магічні речі цієї єдиної у своєму роді відьми.

Завдяки остаточному дизайну, зображеному як штриховим малюнком, так і в повному кольорі, визначається весь персонаж і його світ. Короткий опис кожної відьми детально описує її походження, поведінку, сильні та слабкі сторони та, звичайно, повноваження. У результаті вийшло 320 сторінок, укладених у чудово оброблену тверду обкладинку, найкращий польовий посібник із створення відьом, які виходять за рамки часу, місця та навіть найяскравішої уяви.

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У цьому незамінному Field Guide to Witches приєднайтеся до 20 талановитих концепт-художників та ілюстраторів у подорожі через темні ліси, стародавні гори та моторошні болота в пошуках відьом, чарівниць, богинь і старух, яких потрібно оживити.

Легендарні історії цих персонажів досліджуються та пробуджуються на понад 300 чудово оформлених сторінках із захоплюючими ескізами, надихаючими ілюстраціями та безцінними ідеями щодо дизайну персонажів, які поєднуються з дослідженнями, чутками та міркуваннями кожного художника. Не наважуйтесь увійти у світ відьом без цього посібника, який покаже вам шлях.

• Відкрийте для себе 20 чарівних відьом від 20 художників з усього світу
• Понад 300 сторінок ескізів, кольорових ілюстрацій і творчих ідей
• Досліджуйте фольклор і міфи, вивчаючи, як художники створюють магічні дизайни персонажів

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Переглянути відео про книгу The Field Guide to Witches: An artist’s grimoire of 20 witches and their worlds

A filmmaker's most precious assets - not just for directing actors, but also for making all the storytelling decision - are his instincts, imagination, and intuition. The author reveals the secrets that can keep an imagination alive and free a director's intuition, so everyone on the set can function at full creativity. You will learn about: sources of imagination ; goals of script analysis ; tools of the storyteller ; the lost art of rehearsal ; and the director's authority.

The Film Director's Intuition is the follow up book to Weston's best-selling book, Directing Actors also published by Michael Wiese Productions

About the Author:

Judith Weston, who lives in Los Angeles, has taught "Acting for Directors" for over a decade throughout the U.S. and Europe, and is the author of the best-selling book, Directing Actors.

Важливий довідковий посібник із методів і техніки скління

Наповнена інформацією та рецептами глазурі, The Glaze Book дозволить вам посилатися на сотні керамічних поверхонь. Кожен рецепт глазурі чітко проілюстрований, щоб ви могли бачити колір і реакцію поверхні, які він може запропонувати, і містить опис, включаючи його діапазон випалу та використання, для якого він може бути використаний.

The Glaze Book надає легкодоступну довідку щодо
- Методи і прийоми
- Сировина
- Інструменти та обладнання для скління
- Змішування глазурі
- Способи застосування
- Рецепти глазурі для фаянсу, кераміки та порцеляни

Про автора:

Стівен Мерфітт працює з керамікою протягом останніх 30 з гаком років як викладанням, так і виставлянням.

The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering is a visually led, comprehensive guide to designing and realizing hand-drawn letterforms in the most widely used contemporary tattoo styles.

Each chapter constitutes an accessible overview to these key tattoo styles, including an account of the history, complexities and relevant sub-styles, interviews spotlighting leading practitioners, galleries of exemplary artists’ work, sketches, sketchbooks, finished designs and detailed how-to-design guides to allow readers to truly understand each style.

More than a step-by-step, technical handbook for professional and practising tattoo artists, The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering is also an informative introduction to both understanding tattoo styles, their history and context, and learning from them to inform other graphic arts. Touching on the role of lettering in tattooing, as well as considering the components of typographic tattoos, it offers an insight into how tattoo art intersects with other areas of design practice, including sign-making, furniture painting and scrimshaw.

Combining great book design with the inimitable expertise of a master tattoo artist, The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering is the ultimate guide for all with an interest or involvement in tattoo art, typography and calligraphy, and graphic design.

Contents List::

Foreword • Traditional • West Coast • Fancy Script • Calligraphic • New School

About the Authors:

B.J. Betts is one of the most influential tattoo artists working today. Based in Delaware, USA, he has published a number of industry-standard guidebooks on tattoo lettering.

Nick Schonberger is a writer, blogger and critic on fashion, culture and music. He lives in New York.

The Great Mughals presents, for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r.1556-1605), Jahangir (r.1605-1627) and Shah Jahan (r.1628-1658).

Providing a compelling new narrative to describe the origins of Mughal art, it explores how a huge Iranian influence permeated the sophisticated craft traditions of the Indian subcontinent to create a distinctively Mughal court are included: from contemporary portraits to jewelled gold vessels and carpets.

In chapters that conjure the unique dynamics of each reign, essays with a historical sweep combine with texts focused on important objects to tell unexpected stories about a dynasty perhaps best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal.

About the Author:

Susan Stronge is Senior Curator, Asia Department at the V&A.

A concise, accessible, and up- to-date overview of the arts of Africa from prehistoric times to the present day.

A concise, accessible and up-to-date overview of the arts of Africa from prehistoric times to the present day.

This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of post-colonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artefacts, and the challenges of the present. This enormous and complex field of study, once under-appreciated by the Western art world, is now of global importance and an essential subject of education in art history.

For ease of reference and analysis, this indispensable guide is structured chronologically into manageable and meaningful chapters covering ancient art, the Middle Ages, travel and trade, encounters with Europe in the age of exploration, the colonial era, the rebuilding of the continent in recent times, and contemporary art. It addresses core, continent-wide themes in African visual and cultural expression, from the life-cycle (motherhood, children, initiation, religion) to the body and representations of power dynamics. Important regional artistic expressions are also explored, such as the cultures of Mali (the Western Sudan), Nigeria (the lower Niger and Benue area), the Congo Basin and various nomadic populations across the continent.

Written from an inclusive modern perspective, focusing not only on royal traditions but also the broader global history of the continent and its artistic practices, this is an excellent introduction for students, museum visitors and anyone with an interest in fine art, African history and cultural studies.

About the Author:

Suzanne Blier is Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a leading expert on African art, architecture and culture. Her many books include A History of Art in Africa (co-author, 2000), Royal Arts of Africa (2012), Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba (2015) and The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (with David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2017).

Intended to be kept at a screenwriter’s fingertips, The Hollywood Standard provides what even the best script software can’t: clear, concise instructions and hundreds of examples to take the guesswork out of a multitude of formatting questions that perplex even seasoned screenwriters.

Contents include:

• When a new scene heading is appropriate and when it isn’t
• How to format shot headings, dialogue, direction and transitions
• How to control pace with formatting • How to make a script page visually inviting to the reader
• What to capitalize and why
• How to get into and out of a POV shot
• How to handle text messages and Zoom meetings
• How Hollywood’s most innovative screenwriters are pushing the boundaries of format
• How format for animation differs from live-action formats Simply put, Riley knows more about script format than anyone in Hollywood and shares it all in this indispensable guide.

About the Author: 

Christopher Riley is a professional screenwriter who cowrote with his wife Kathy Riley the award-winning German-language film After the Truth. The Rileys have written scripts for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Mandalay Television Pictures, Sean Connery’s Fountainbridge Films, and Robert Cort Productions. Christopher produced the action-thriller Red Line and executive produced the web series Bump+. He began his career as a proofreader in the standard-setting script processing department at Warner Bros., a department he eventually rose to manage. He is the former director of the Act One Hollywood Writing Program, the author of the classic screenplay format guide The Hollywood Standard, an instructor of screenwriting at the undergraduate and graduate levels, a founding partner of Story Masters Film Academy, and a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America West.

A new edition of this classic collection of letters, critical reviews and reminiscences by Impressionist artists and their contemporaries.

The Impressionists - Monet, Manet, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley and others - are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. Their struggle to impose a new vision is one of the most absorbing in the whole history of art. With imagination and insight, art historian Bernard Denvir brings Impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists themselves and their contemporaries, against the background of the time.

Through letters, critical reviews, statements and reminiscences - whether explosive or appreciative, blinkered or perceptive - of the people who were there, the story of this ground-breaking art movement comes alive. This was the age of innovation, political liberalization, emergent photography and modern ideas about perception. The Impressionists had new ways of painting, but they also had a new world to paint.

This revised edition now features full colour reproductions of art throughout and an updated bibliography.

About the Author:

Bernard Denvir was a distinguished art critic, art historian and writer. He was head of the Department of Art History at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, a member of the Council for Academic Awards, and for several years President of the British section of the International Association of Art Critics. He wrote widely on art, including books on Chardin, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Fauvism.

Contents List:

Introduction
Documents 1855–1871
Impressionist colour Documents
1. 1871–1873
2. 1874–1876
3. 1877–1881
4. 1882–1885
5. 1886–1894
6. 1895–1920
Biographies
Chronology
Bibliographical note
List of illustrations

The perfect introduction to the world of Japanese myth and legend

This is a smart and succinct guide to the rich tradition of Japanese mythology, from the earliest recorded legends of Izanagi and Izanami, their divine offspring and the creation of Japan, to medieval tales of vengeful ghosts, through to the modern-day reincarnation of ancient deities as the heroes of mecha anime. While many around the world love Japan’s cultural exports, few are familiar with Japan’s unique mythology - enriched by Shinto, Buddhism and regional folklore.

Mythology remains a living, evolving part of Japanese society, and the ways in which the people of Japan understand their myths are very different today even from a century ago, let alone over a millennium into the past. Offering much more than any competing overview of Japanese mythology, The Japanese Myths not only retells the ancient stories but also considers their place within the patterns of Japanese religions, culture and history, helping readers to understand the deep links between past and present in Japan, and the ways these myths live and grow.

Joshua Frydman takes the very earliest written myths in the Kojiki and the Nihonshoki as his starting point, and from there traces Japan’s mythology through to post-war State Shinto, the rise of the manga industry in the 1960s, J-horror and modern-day myths. Reinventions and retellings of myth are present across all genres of contemporary Japanese culture, from its auteur cinema to renowned video games such as Okami. This book is for anyone interested in Japan, as knowing its myths allows readers to understand and appreciate its culture in a new light.

Contents List:

Introduction
1. What are the Japanese Myths?
2. Age of the Gods
3. The Imperial Mythos
4. Living Kami and Divine Humans
5. Canon Foreigners
6. A World Flush with Spirits
7. Invention and Rediscovery

About the Author:

Joshua Frydman is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. An expert on ancient Japan, his academic interests include the development of writing systems (in East Asia and worldwide), and the role of transregional and global cultural interactions in the development of premodern societies as viewed through literature and art. He is also the author of Inscribed Objects and the Development of Literature in Early Japan.

Багряна риба бореться з людиною. Грізно дивиться рогатий демон.

Ці яскраві сцени — татуювання, створені з болем, вирізані на тілі Якудза, страшного таємного товариства японських гангстерів. Це бачення Ірезумі, легендарних майстрів татуювань, які роками створюють живі шедеври. Фотограф Сенді Феллман описує цей дивний і жорстокий світ як у своєму тексті, так і на своїх приголомшливих великих фотографіях Polaroid розміром 20 x 24 дюйми.

Про автора:

Сенді Феллман — відомий фотограф, чиї роботи були представлені на багатьох персональних і групових виставках у Сполучених Штатах, Європі, Японії та Австралії. Її фотографії можна знайти в численних приватних і громадських колекціях, зокрема в Музеї сучасного мистецтва, Метрополітен-музеї, Національній бібліотеці та Центрі креативної фотографії. Її роботи також широко публікувалися протягом останніх п’ятнадцяти років.

The Landscape Painter’s Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting.

Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated volume leads you step by step through his approach to the genre, from establishing a composition using basic shapes to applying time-tested color strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and special topics, including:

- The Complete Color Strategy. What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a painting’s strategy?
- Notan. Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition.
- Picture Formats. How does the picture format — horizontal, vertical, or square — affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?
- Color Grouping. A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups.
- Composition. An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example.
- Workshop Exercises. Instead of demonstrations that show how the author paints, The Landscape Painter’s Workbook includes 10 skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through essential lessons on your own.

With examples of work by 45 contemporary landscape painters — more than 80 paintings in all — ​in oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolor, the lessons are suitable for all mediums. Each painting is thoroughly analyzed in terms of shape, composition, or color, with supporting diagrams, thumbnails, and photographs.

The Landscape Painter’s Workbook inspires and informs all artists, from aspiring to accomplished, on how to successfully portray the majesty and subtlety of the natural world.

The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.

About the Author:

Mitchell Albala, whose semi-abstract and atmospheric landscapes have been exhibited nationally, is the author of two books: The Landscape Painter’s Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color (Rockport Publishers) and Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice (Watson-Guptill), a leading title on the subject since it was published in 2009. In addition to leading plein air workshops in Italy, Albala is also a popular workshop instructor in the Pacific Northwest and has lectured on Impressionism and landscape painting at the Seattle Art Museum. He has written for International Artist and Artists & Illustrators magazines, and his work was profiled in the French Arts magazine Practique des Arts. His popular painting blog holds a top spot on feedspot.com’s “Top 80 Websites & Blogs for Painters.” His paintings, workshops, and blog can be found on his website mitchalbala.com. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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This beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body art

Tattoos are everywhere: one in three of us has at least one. Body art is one of the most popular ways of expressing our identity and beliefs.

But whether we’re aware of it or not when we choose a design to be permanently inked on our skin, a complex language of meanings lies behind the visuals we choose. A lotus flower, koi carp swimming upstream or a dragon rising towards the sun: in the language of tattoos these are all symbols of strength and overcoming adversity.

This book uncovers the meanings behind tattoo symbols, delving into the history of the most popular motifs that recur in many different tattoo styles, including tribal, traditional, Japanese and realistic. Over 130 symbols are grouped according to their meanings, whether it’s good luck, freedom, wisdom, power, spirituality or love.

Each symbol is illustrated with stunning, specially drawn visuals by acclaimed artist and tattooist Oliver Munden, and accompanied by an explanation by tattoo expert Nick Schonberger which delves into its history, significance and application in tattooing.

Both a visual delight and a fascinating insight into the rich cultural heritage of tattooing, this is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn more about tattoo symbolism, in need of inspiration for their next tattoo, or who just loves tattoo art.

About the Author:

Nick Schonberger is a writer, blogger and critic on fashion, culture and music, based in New York. He is the co-author of TTT: Tattoo (2018) and The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering (2019).

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