Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Study & Teaching

K.Ludeking, Der Leib und die Lettern. Albrecht Durers Selbstbildnis von 1500; E.Osterkamp, Spartacus unter den Deutschen. Uber die Geschichte einer literarischen Niederlage; F.Forster-Hahn, Deutsch, modern und judisch. Max Liebermanns Ausstellungen in Berlin und London 1906; U.Haselstein, Eine Genealogie der Moderne. Flaubert, Cezanne und Gertrude Stein; C.Asendorf, Korper in Kraftfeldern. Kunst Krieg und Raumtheorie in der Klassischen Moderne

Was eigentlich bedeutet "Nachahmung der Natur"? Im Horizont dieser Frage rekonstruiert das Buch paradigmatische Verschrankungen von kunstlerischer Praxis, Bildtheorie und Naturwissen. Im Zentrum stehen dabei Naturabgusse und Fossilien sowie das Zeichnen und angewandte Perspektive. Zu den Protagonisten gehoren Kunstler wie Wenzel Jamnitzer und Bernard Palissy, Sammler wie Ferrante Imperato und Rudolf II. oder Autoren wie Fabio Colonna und Francois Niceron. Die kontrastive Gegenuberstellung von Verfahren indexikalischer Bildgebung und Spielarten der zeichnerischen Konstruktion gibt neue...

JENNY istdas Literaturmagazindes Instituts fur Sprachkunst an der Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien, die den Fokus auf Texte junger AutorInnen legt. Nach dem Motto Denken, Behaupten, Grosstun beobachtet sie, was aktuell in der Literatur passiert und formuliert Thesen. Das Format JENNY offnet sich verschiedenen Gattungen: neben Prosa, Lyrik und Dramawird Raum fur poetologische Reflexion und Grenzuberschreitendes geboten.

Oils give a rich, majestic quality to a painting, but may often be deemed too tricky or ambitious to try. Examples of landscape, marine, nude, and equestrian paintings will inspire and show the rich diversity, texture, and depth that oil painting can achieve. Written by a professional painter, this volume encourages artists of all levels to experiment with the medium and to develop their art. Included is information on the importance of drawings, and a guide to oil paints, suggesting...

Drawings are the foundations of great fantasy art where concepts, thoughts, and inspirations first become an image. In Sketching from the Imagination: Fantasy, fifty talented traditional and digital artists have been chosen to share their sketchbook works and describe their artistic practices when forging new ideas as beautiful sketches. Ranging from Hollywood film concept designers to talented students, each artist is handpicked from a vibrant international art community and from a wide spectrum of styles and mediums.

This exquisite new title explores how fifty artists...

Watercolor offers great potential for expression. Its fluidity, full color range, generous spread, and variety of marks can portray a likeness, a response, a feeling--even the notions of time and speed. It explains the importance of color, tone, shape, texture, and scale through exercises and shared techniques. But it also encourages the artist to explore the joy of the medium, to develop handling skills, confidence, and to find their unique painting "voice." Included is advice on...

This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices - and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational settings, but too often the relationship between art, education and spirituality is ignored. Exploring artistic disciplines such as dance, drama, visual art, music, and writing, and forms such as writing-witnessing, freestyle rap, queer performative autoethnograph, and poetic imagination, this book...

David Dewey has compiled the most comprehensive book on watercolors featuring modern materials and methods for mastering this medium. In this complete introduction, you will learn how to handle watercolors effectively by becoming acquainted with the essentials of theory, technique, practice, and design principals. Unfold the tricks behind:

• Choosing the right materials and tools, along with discerning differences between brands
• Mastering basic skills, such as composing, rendering shadow and light, and perspective
• Understanding color theory, harmonies and chords,...

Hybrid Drawing Techniques: Design Process and Presentation reaffirms the value of traditional hand drawing in the design process by demonstrating how to integrate it with digital techniques; enhancing and streamlining the investigative process while at the same time yielding superior presentation images. This book is a foundations guide to both approaches: sketching, hardline drawing, perspective drawing, digital applications, and Adobe Photoshop; providing step-by-step demonstrations and examples from a variety of professional and student work for using and combining traditional...

Welche Strategien nutzen zeitgenossische Kunstler im Umgang mit dem Katalog, wie prasentieren sie dort ihre Arbeiten und sich selbst, was lasst sich daraus fur den Kunstbegriff ableiten? Wie wird eine Ausstellung in ein Buch ubersetzt und dadurch neu aufbereitet? Wie eng oder weit ist der Bezug zur Ausstellung gefasst, und wie ist das Verhaltnis zwischen Katalog und Kunstlerbuch, dienender Funktion und Autonomie? Der vorliegende Band analysiert exemplarisch Text- und Bildinszenierungen in Ausstellungskatalogen im Bezug auf Geschichte und Konventionen des Mediums. Einbezogen werden auch die...