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A tribute to Mexico’s most important holiday, this extraordinary and definitive volume documents the immense creativity displayed by this popular annual celebration.

While there have been other books about the Day of the Dead, most are long out of print and aridly academic. This book features both exceptional “traditional” Indigenous material — such as vibrant folk art and crafts, flamboyant costumes and masks, special food and drink—but also a much more funky, modern approach that blends lively music and dance, colorful parades, cutting-edge contemporary street art, and a festive atmosphere that engages all of the senses with handmade altars, flowers, painted skulls, toys, paintings, murals, and other art objects.

Featuring hundreds of specially commissioned photographs and voluminous in-depth research, the book is lavishly illustrated and designed with an aesthetic that draws on both traditional material as well as Mexico’s contemporary street art style. Blending visual elements inspired by the country’s pre-Hispanic heritage, European influences, and modern art trends, the book explores the evolution of the Day of the Dead and the special role it plays. This book is the definitive, authentic resource for all things Day of the Dead.

About the Authors:

Déborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena have created acclaimed books about Mexican culture and society including Tacopedia, Pedro Friedeberg, and most recently Avocadomania, the 2022 Gourmand World Cookbook Award winner.

The Day of the Dead is a comprehensive, visual compilation of all forms of artistic material celebrating the world-famous annual Mexican festival. According to Mexican tradition, one day in the year belongs exclusively to the dead, a day on which they are granted celestial permission to visit friends and relatives on earth. In modern Mexico, festivities for the dead are idiosyncratic. Blending pre-Christian and Christian elements, celebrations for All Saints' and All Souls are unique in the Catholic world. Mexicans are as tormented by the idea of mortality as other nations, yet they honour and receive the departed with good cheer, visual splendour and imagination. Families welcome the returning souls with flowers, incense, candles and special foods. This is not a sombre occasion, but a time of feasting and reunion.

This anthology considers how the Day of the Dead has been celebrated in visual art and culture, from the traditional and iconic illustrations of skulls and singing skeletons by seminal lithographer José Guadalupe Posada to the paper cuts of Aaron Velasco Pacheco and representations of the festival by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and in the folk art of the Linares family.

Curated by Julian Rothenstein and written by Chloë Sayer, an independent scholar and curator, specializing in Mexican art and culture, this is a must-have book for anyone interested in this extraordinary cultural event and its artistic representation.

"The Mexican...is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is one of his favourite toys and his most steadfast love." Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad, (The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1961).

About the Author:

Chloë Sayer is an independent scholar and curator, specializing in Mexican art and culture. Based in London, she is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. She lectures extensively, leads cultural tours to Mexico and has made ethnographic collections in Mexico and Belize for the British Museum.

The definitive guide to the characters of the DC Multiverse and a vital addition to every comic book fan's bookshelf.

Iconic Super Heroes Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and The Flash have been transformed in recent years, along with many other DC characters. This new edition of the most comprehensive A-Z guide to DC's pantheon of Super Heroes and Super-Villains includes the latest earth-shaking developments in the DC Multiverse, with profiles of more than 1,200 characters.

Created in full collaboration with DC, the encyclopedia features characters and art from every key crossover event, including Dark Nights: Metal and its sequel Dark Nights: Death Metal.

With a foreword by DC legend Jim Lee, a brand-new cover design, and thrilling comic artwork, the fun and excitement of more than 80 years of comics history explodes off every page.

Experience the DC Multiverse like never before with The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition.

Copyright ©2021 DC Comics. All DC characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics. WB SHIELD: ™ & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

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Пролистать книгу The DC Comics Encyclopedia: New Edition на Google Books.

Updates with new diagrams and links. This best-selling one-stop resource is packed with practical advice on how to tackle the basics, such as simple chords and finger-picking, right through to more complex power chords, slurs, bends and slides. It also includes tips on stagecraft and performing live, and step-by-step guitar maintenance. The galleries of guitars and guitarists, the chord dictionary and scales have been comprehensively updated for this edition.

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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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