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Ubiquitous in the music world, Fender^® guitars and amplifiers are also icons in popular culture, their shapes and sounds instantly recognizable. Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the company and its legendary instruments.

Originating in Leo Fender’s modest radio and amplifier repair shop in Fullerton, California, Fender Musical Instrument Corporation went on to become the world’s preeminent name in musical instruments. Today, Fender’s guitars, amplifiers, and script logo are recognizable even to those with only a casual interest in music.

From Fender’s first instrument — a 1946 lap steel guitar — to Leo Fender’s groundbreaking early six-string guitar designs like the Esquire that set the standard for the electric guitar explosion to follow, author Dave Hunter traces Fender’s entire history to the present. All the innovations and landmark models are here, as well as legendary players who became synonymous with Fender instruments across musical genres.

In addition to the instantly recognizable Telecaster^® and Stratocaster^®, Hunter examines Fender’s legendary offset guitars like the Mustang^®, Jazzmaster^®, and Jaguar^®, and such lesser-known models as the Marauder, Coronado, Bronco™, and more. The Jazz Bass^® and Precision Bass^® also feature, as do Fender’s acoustic guitars and workhorse amplifiers like the Bassman^®, Twin Reverb^®, and Princeton^®, to name a few.

Along the way, readers get in-depth scoops on the relationships dozens of players have enjoyed with Fender: rock ’n’ roll pioneers like Hank Marvin and James Burton; classic-rock icons like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton; blues legends Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Buddy Guy; alt-rock gods J Mascis and Kurt Cobain; more recent guitar heroes like Courtney Barnett, beabadoobee, and H.E.R. …the list goes on. In addition, Hunter explores the work of the award-winning Fender Custom Shop and the guitars produced there.

Illustrated throughout with rare images from company archives, Fender 75 Years treats readers to rare behind-the-scenes views of the shop floor throughout the years, studio imagery of the guitars, rare period advertising and brochures, and performance images of Fender players.

It’s the definitive look at the Fender’s first three-quarters of a century and a must-have for every guitar enthusiast.

About the Author:

Dave Hunter is an author, musician, and journalist. He is the author of several popular books about guitars, amps, and effects, including Voyageur Press's Star Guitars, The Fender Stratocaster, The Gibson Les Paul, and 365 Guitars, Amps & Effects You Must Play. A regular contributor to Guitar Player and Vintage Guitar magazines, he resides in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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This handbook combines three "schools of thought" regarding figure drawing that are, at least on the surface, at odds with each other. But with his vast teaching experience, Zeller has seen that on a deeper level they are very compatible. Such a synthesis leads to a more complete understanding of the figure. Although this comprehensive approach is reflected in contemporary art and art education, no book has ever combined all three before. Gestural: The dynamic, gestural, rhythmic understanding of the figure as practiced by the great Mannerists of the Renaissance. This philosophy emphasizes life and rhythm in the human form. Rooted in the 16th and 17th centuries. Structural: A solid architectural understanding of the structure and anatomy of the body as the basis for building solid figure drawings. Rooted in the 20th and 21st centuries. Atelier Method: A beautiful, careful, detailed understanding of surface morphology of the figure. Smooth surface rendering. Very sensual. Rooted in the 18th and 19th centuries. This fresh, modern treatment of the subject will be eagerly received by today's artists and art students.

About the Author:

Robert Zeller is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from New Orleans, Zeller received a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He finished his education with atelier training from Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier and in-depth anatomical and structural study with the sculptor Sabin Howard. Zeller is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and has exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Houston, Paris, and New York, where he has had two solo shows. He is the founder of the Teaching Studios of Art (www.teachingstudios.com) in Oyster Bay, New York. For more about the artist, visit www.robertzeller.com.

Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count – це не типова книга з інструкціями з малювання; вона пояснює двоетапний процес, що стоїть за такими гігантами, як DreamWorks, WB та Disney.

Хоча існує багато книг про малювання людської фігури, жодна з них не навчає, як малювати фігуру від перших кількох позначок швидкого ескізу до останнього віртуозного штриха готового шедевра, не кажучи вже про переконливий та зрозумілий метод.

Тепер це змінюється!

У книзі In Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count відомий художник Стів Х'юстон показує як початківцям, так і професіоналам дві основоположні концепції, що лежать в основі найвидатніших шедеврів мистецтва, та як використовувати їх як основу для власного успіху.

Вирушайте в подорож малювання та дізнайтеся, як ці два стовпи опори стоять за всім, від Венери Мілосської до Сивіли Мікеланджело та «Оленя в Шаркі» Джорджа Беллоу, і як вони є фундаментальними інструментами для анімаційних студій по всьому світу. Не кажучи вже про те, як найкращі художники коміксів з часів зародження цього виду мистецтва використовують їх, усвідомлюють вони це чи ні.

In Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count описує той самий двоетапний метод, якому навчали художників DreamWorks, Warner Brothers та Disney Animation, тож беріть олівець і починайте малювати.

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Informative and instructive, this comprehensive guide will give you all the tools you need to draw the human figure, from life and from a screen. While many books focus on just one aspect of figure drawing, this manual unites the skills of observation, expression and understanding in one coherent approach. Beginning with the key principles of observation, Figure Drawing will help you to build a strong foundation of skills to make well-observed, proportionally accurate drawings. As the book progresses you will explore processes and exercises that move beyond the purely observed to express the gesture, form and substance of your model.

_Photographic and illustrative examples throughout the book support your learning at every step.
_Clear step-by-step tutorials provide a practical understanding of the key materials, skills and ideas in figure drawing.
_A comprehensive anatomical reference section, broken down into manageable zones, deepens your knowledge of the human form.
_The book is a Swiss-bound paperback, designed to lie flat when open and in use.

About the Author:

Jake Spicer is a passionate advocate of drawing as a tool for social change, communication & investigation and promotes wider visual literacy through his works as an artist, author & tutor. He lives in North Wales and works as head tutor of the independent drawing school Draw Brighton, Co-Director of the Drawing Circus and as a visiting tutor at galleries & institutions across the UK, including the National Portrait Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, V&A and Brighton University.

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The newest book in bestselling author Christopher Hart's Figure It Out! series simplifies the basics of drawing people through essential tips and tricks. Geared toward both the general drawing audience and more seasoned artists, Figure It Out!: Simple Lessons, Quick Results offers the basic keys to drawing the human figure, broken down into straightforward steps that anyone can understand and attempt. This is the easy way to learn how to draw people, with no need for in-depth explanations on anatomy or musculature.

For example: most figure-drawing books, including previous books in the Figure It Out! series, teach how to draw the torso with a focus on the rib cage, collar bones, pectoral placement, etc. Simple Lessons, Quick Results takes a more straightforward approach by breaking the torso down into three simple, distinct areas that are easy to understand and draw for excellent results without the extra information. In another example, Chris focuses on drawing the natural curves of the body as opposed to drawing muscles, which would require much more time to explain and absorb. Many of the final drawings in the book are presented in full color and shown in basic clothing as well, making them more representative of real people one would see every day. Using the signature, simple instruction that Chris is known for, Figure It Out!: Simple Lessons, Quick Results is designed to solve common figure-drawing problems that aspiring artists can relate to.

With this book, anyone with even a passing interest in drawing will immediately grasp the basics of drawing people — and get the quick results to prove it!

About the Author:

Christopher Hart is the world's bestselling author of manga, basic drawing and cartooning books. His titles have set the standard for art instruction with more than 3 million copies in print in eighteen languages. Renowned for up-to-the-minute content and easy-to-follow steps, all of Hart's books have become staples for a new generation of aspiring artists and professionals.

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A glorious selection of jewellery based on the human figure, all in the holdings of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris

Following on from Flora and Fauna, this is the third book in a series devoted to the splendid jewellery collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The theme this time is the human figure. It begins in the Byzantine era and ranges through the medieval and Renaissance periods and beyond to the 19th century when Lalique, Fouquet and the Maison Vever produced pieces that were the embodiment of elegant sophistication, and into the 20th, when artists such as Picasso and Giacometti joined forces with jewelers like Jean Lurçat and Line Vautrin. Figures & Faces is packed with striking and witty works of art that will charm all lovers of jewellery.

Contents List:

• Introduction
• Two essays by Évelyne Possémé and Patrick Mauriès
• The jewellery

About the Authors:

Patrick Mauriès is a writer and publisher of many notable titles on fashion and design, including Jewelry by Chanel, A Cabinet of Rarities, The World According to Karl and Fashion Quotes to name a few, all published by Thames & Hudson.
Évelyne Possémé is chief curator at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Складання кадрів за допомогою камери – це одне.

Зробити відео вражаючим за допомогою монтажу – це зовсім інше. Ця унікальна книга – ваш обов’язковий шпаргалка для створення монтажів, які використовують монтажери для створення незабутніх фільмів. Фантастична для кінематографістів, студентів, кіноманів або будь-кого, хто хоче дізнатися, як монтаж впливає на глядача та історію фільму. Кінематографісти YouTube: Ця книга зарядить ваші творіння енергією!

Книга Film Editing робить невидиме мистецтво монтажу видимим, використовуючи 600 барвистих кадрів з популярних, недавніх фільмів. Кадри, що супроводжуються короткими описами, ідеально підходять як для читачів, які люблять дивитися, так і для тих, хто віддає перевагу спогляданню. Написаний редактором та автором книги Cut by Cut, цей словник у картинках монтажів показує, як відзняті кадри монтуються разом, щоб створювати фільми, які вражають глядачів своїм темпом, зв’язками персонажів та тривалими історіями.

Про автора:

Чендлер двічі був номінований на премію «Еммі» за комедійний монтаж. Гаель монтував усі типи жанрів на всіх носіях: плівці, стрічці та цифровому форматі; і навчила сотні професіоналів та студентів зробити свій найкращий монтаж. Вона написала кілька сценаріїв для художніх фільмів, один з яких переміг у конкурсі програми підтримки продюсерів Scriptwriters Networks. Її перша книга називалася «Монтаж за монтажем: як змонтувати свій фільм чи відео». Крім того, вона створила численні онлайн-курси з різних тем, включаючи монтаж.

Чудова, раніше не публікована колекція всіх картин і фресок, представлених в Уффіці, Палатинській галереї палацу Пітті, Академії та Дуомо, а також більше — майже 2000 творів мистецтва — усі вони представлені в практичному та елегантному форматі м’якої палітурки.

Місто Флоренція є домом для десятків музеїв і палаців, які містять багато найвідоміших у світі творів мистецтва. Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes – це багата та чудова колекція з тисяч картин і фресок, яку щороку відвідують мільйони мандрівників, включно з мистецтвом Джотто, Леонардо да Вінчі, Мікеланджело, Гірландайо, Корреджо, Боттічеллі, Караваджо, Тиціана, Рембрандта, ван Дейка, Ель Греко та сотень інших.

Досліджуйте історію мистецтва у Флоренції за допомогою семи есе Росса Кінга, автора бестселерів «Купол Брунеллескі» та «Мікеланджело та стеля Папи», у яких розповідається про те, як картини, політика та повсякденне життя флорентійців впливали одне на одне. Історик мистецтва Аня Гребе, автор книги The Louvre та The Vatican, також висвітлює 250 найбільш знакових і значущих картин і фресок в історичному місті з детальною інформацією про атрибути робіт, біографічні подробиці художників тощо.

Ця вражаюча колекція з майже 2000 картин і фресок є обов’язковою для будь-якого любителя мистецтва, студента чи мандрівника у кріслі.

Про автора:

Росс Кінг є автором бестселерів «Купол Брунеллескі» та «Мікеланджело та стеля Папи», а також романів «Екслібрис» і «Доміно». Живе в Англії, поблизу Оксфорда.

From Lewis Miller, the celebrated floral designer and Flower Bandit himself, an intimate and joyous behind-the-scenes look at his signature Flower Flashes as they introduced bright moments of natural beauty into the city when they were needed most.

Before dawn one morning in October 2016, renowned New York-based floral designer Lewis Miller stealthily arranged hundreds of brightly colored dahlias, carnations, and mums into a psychedelic halo around the John Lennon memorial in Central Park. The spontaneous floral installation was Miller's gift to the city -- an effort to spark joy during a difficult time. Nearly five years and more than ninety Flower Flashes later, these elaborate flower bombs -- bursts of jubilant blooms in trash cans, over bus canopies, on construction sites and traffic medians -- have brought moments of delight and wonder to countless New Yorkers and flower lovers everywhere, and earned Miller a following of dedicated fans and the nickname the Flower Bandit.

After New York City entered lockdown, Miller doubled down, creating Flower Flashes outside hospitals to express gratitude to frontline health workers and throughout the city to raise spirits. This gorgeous and poignant visual diary traces the phenomenon from the first, spontaneous Flower Flash to the even more profound installations of the pandemic through a kaleidoscopic collage of photos documenting the Flower Flashes, behind-the-scenes snapshots, Miller's inspiration material, fan contributions, and more.

About the Author:

Lewis Miller was born and raised in California farm country amid olive, almond, and peach orchards, and developed a respect for nature early on. At eighteen, he moved to Seattle where he studied horticulture and landscape design, and after seven years of successfully pursuing his interests in design, flowers, and event planning, Miller moved to New York, where he worked for one of the city's top floral boutiques. In March of 2002, Miller's vision of a country life in a metropolitan setting inspired him to create Lewis Miller Design. Since striking out on his own, Miller has created stunning floral designs for the Met, the Whitney, Tiffany, Ferragamo, Versace, Viktor Rolf, and Bergdorf Goodman. In 2016, Miller invented the Flower Flash -- a guerilla flower installation -- and has created more than 90 since.

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A new selection of letters, statements and interviews reveal the preoccupations, thoughts and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s most influential and important artists.

The documents selected for Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words illustrate Bacon’s sharp wit and ability to express complex ideas in highly personal, memorable language. Included here are not only letters to friends, patrons and fellow artists, but also intriguing notes and lists of paintings. They often come with a sketch as an aide-mémoire or an injunction to himself as he worked in the studio, and many have only come to light since his death.

Bacon’s letters mirror and reveal his dominant preoccupations at different points throughout his long career. Most of Bacon’s letters have never been published and include several that he wrote to the author. Particularly intriguing is the record of a dream that he jotted down, outlining impossibly beautiful paintings he had conjured up in his sleep. Together with photographs, archive material and works by the artist are numerous reproductions of Bacon’s characteristic handwriting, from the briefest jottings and notes to more extensive letters and statements.

Bacon frequently came up with memorable epithets and definitions. He delighted in doing with words what he set out to do in painting: 'I like phrases that cut me.' Michael Peppiatt explores the personal legacy of one of the 20th century’s most important painters and presents a compelling verbal self-portrait that reveals both man and artist.

Contents List:

Introduction
Statements and Quotations (1949 – 1989)
Letters (1943 – 1992)
Studio Notes (1954 – 1990)
Selected Interviews (1958 – 1986)
Chronology

About the Author:

Michael Peppiatt is a well-known writer and curator, who began his career as an art critic in London and Paris in the 1960s. Described by The Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’, his previous books include Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma and Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait. He was guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts’ exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’ (London, 2022).

Ця знакова видавнича подія вперше представляє всю творчість картин Бекона у розкішному п'ятитомному наборі.

Редактор Мартін Гаррісон, після призначення спадкоємцями Френсіса Бекона, присвятив понад десять років створенню цього чудового видання, першого в історії повного каталогу-резоне робіт великого британського художника. Цей п'ятитомний комплект, що включає багато раніше неопублікованих картин, дозволяє вперше побачити та оцінити творчість Бекона в повному обсязі, причому всі роботи відтворені у повному кольорі. Єдиний попередній каталог-резоне Бекона був опублікований у 1964 році, зібравши лише 37% від загальної творчості Бекона та маючи лише 27 кольорових репродукцій. Лише близько половини з 584 картин, що збереглися, доступні для публіки на виставках та у публікаціях; завдяки Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné всю творчість художника можна побачити та оцінити вперше.

Каталог, що містить близько 800 ілюстрацій у п'яти томах у твердій палітурці з тканини, включає три книги, що охоплюють вивчення всієї творчої історії Бекона, доповнені двома додатковими томами: перший містить вступ, хронологію та незамінний покажчик і посібник користувача, а другий — каталог ескізів Бекона з ілюстрованою бібліографією. Чудово оформлені та надруковані, п'ять томів Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné упаковані в красиву тканинну обкладинку.

A focused look at double-figure paintings by the celebrated British artist, whose disturbing portrayals radically altered the genre of figurative painting in the twentieth century.

This book highlights a theme that preoccupied Francis Bacon throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both physical and psychological. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to the subject until 1967, the year that homosexual acts in private were decriminalized in England and Wales, when he painted Two Figures on a Couch, also featured in this volume. In Bacon's paintings, the human presence is evoked sometimes viscerally, at other times more fleetingly, in the form of a shadow or a blurred, watchful figure. In certain instances, the portrayal takes the form of a composite in which male and female bodily traits are transposed or fused. A number of the works in Couplings were inspired by Bacon's own fraught relationships.

Francis Bacon: Couplings features an introductory text by Richard Calvocoressi; a new essay and plate texts by Martin Harrison; and a never-before-published interview with Bacon by Richard Francis and Ian Morrison; as well as studio ephemera and working documents that illuminate Bacon's process.

About the Authors:

Richard Calvocoressi is an art historian and a director and senior curator at Gagosian, London. Martin Harrison, a curator and writer on art and photography, is an authority on the work of Francis Bacon.

In 1949 Francis Bacon found his subject - the human body - and from then on it remained his principal theme. But he did not paint from life. Instead he appropriated images from the mass media that he manipulated into his "studies." This book presents over 200 of these documents, about which Bacon was secretive but which, it emerges, were integral to his creative process.

Culled from thousands of pieces of original material found in his studio, including newspapers, magazines, books, and photographs, these items have each been exhaustively and minutely researched, providing for the first time comprehensive details of the artist's sources. Previously unseen, these visually thrilling documents demonstrate Bacon's tactile, visceral relationship with his sources and his unerring eye for seeking out visual stimulation in the most unexpected places.

This unique selection of material from Bacon's sudio - meticulously documented and compellingly presented - will provide an invaluable insight into both the artist's work and his working methods.

Francis Bacon (19091992) was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form; he portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation.

At the centre of this volume are about sixty of Bacons disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death.

Texts by a range of experts on the artist offer new insights into these radical and often discomfiting images, so brilliantly reproduced on the pages of this book.

A magnificent, beautifully produced slip-cased volume, showcasing the entire career of direct Franco Zeffirelli

This is the ultimate book on the extraordinary life and work of Franco Zeffirelli. Produced with the full co-operation of the director and his family and complete with a superb DVD, the book has insights by the writers Matthew Gurewitsch, Masolino d’Amico and Giovanni Gavazzeni, the noted film critic Tullio Kezich and the renowned screenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico.

The photographs trace the arc of Zeffirelli’s career in full detail, from the spectacular opera productions of ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘La Bohème’, to such award-winning films as 'Jesus of Nazareth' and 'Tea with Mussolini'.

Contents List:

Preface • Zeffirelliana by Matthew Gurewitsch • Passion for Art, Passion for Life: A Conversation with Franco Zeffirelli by Caterina Napoleone • I. Theatre II. Opera • III. Film • Biography, bibliography and credits

About the Authors:

Franco Zeffirelli is one of Italy's greatest director and producer of operas, films and television.
Caterina Napoleone has published several books, including Zeffirelli at The Met: One Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-Nine Performances (So Far). In 2009 she was Zeffirelli’s historical adviser on his Omaggio a Roma, a short film about the Eternal City.