For the Postsecret project, which was started in October 2004, Warren asked people to write a secret they had never told anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it to him. This compilation is astonishing in its honesty and creativity.
The author of the "New York Times"-bestselling PostSecret books addresses life's biggest questions, as he reveals the incredibly moving, personal postcards he's received that touch upon every aspect of spirituality.
In Frank Warrens most extraordinary book yet, he presents the most provocative and outrageous postsecrets to date--the confessions of people whose secrets have been hidden their entire lives, and whose relevations will have a deeply significant effect on their futures.William Morrow
From the bestselling author of "PostSecret" comes a collectible, flexibound book offering a fascinating glimpse inside the secret world of teens and college students, presented through their homemade postcards anonymously submitted to Warren. Full color.
The perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private Post-depression USA was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's technicolor fantasies of the American dream. From the Forties to the Sixties his painted adverts and posters for, among ...
The shocking, poignant, and at times humorous confessions of men and women come alive through their never-before-seen, handmade postcards, which are created using photographs, collages, illustrations, and more.
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and ...
Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices ...
When Two Knotty Boys, Dan and J. D., began teaching rope bondage together in 1999, they discovered that most people learn best when they're shown -- close up, step by step, and repeatedly -- how to tie basic knots and combine them into bondage techniques. It is this learning process that they duplicate in this book. With the help of world-renowned ...
In the art world at the beginning of the 21st century many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many thought-provoking examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and ...
"Air Guitar" is Dave Hickey's "memoir without tears"--a journey through the vernacular cultural landscape of the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Looking back from the vantage-point of his adopted hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, Hickey speculates on everything from jazz and rock-and-roll to basketball and professional ...
Readers will learn to create their own finished graffiti-style artwork using basic drawing techniques to create completed, colourful scenes. It includes more than 25 simple step-by-step demonstrations showing how to use traditional mannequin outlines and shapes; how to draw characters such as skaters, hip hop artists, punk rockers and other ...
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except may be when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and ...
This classic sociological examination of art as collective action explores the cooperative network of suppliers, performers, dealers, critics, and consumers who - along with the artist - "produce" a work of art. Howard S. Becker looks at the conventions essential to this operation and, prospectively, at the extent to which art is shaped by this ...
Colourful and comic, Peter Max's art has been an integral part of contemporary American culture for more than three decades, beginning in the 1960s. His trademark posters have achieved international popularity. From being named Official Artist of the Grammy Awards for five successive years to painting a Continental Airlines 777 plane, Max's ...
Bua, the artist who created the best-selling college dorm poster "The DJ," brings his unique urban art - melding hip-hop, graffiti, and old-school breakdancing styles - into this visually arresting book. Justin Bua creates cool art. With sketches, studies, and narrative explaining how his pieces were created, "The Beat of Urban Art" takes you into ...
Here is Tolkein's Middle Earth as it appears in the 2003 movie, THE TWO TOWERS. This volume also includes interviews with the movie's master of special effects, the art directors and costumers, and director Peter Jackson.
Since 2001, Gigposters.com has been the Internet's first and best resource for rock-show poster art; their massive online database showcases more than 90,000 posters from 7,000 different designers, including all of today's top poster studios. "Gig Posters Volume I" highlights the best 700+ examples in their collection, including 101 perforated and ...
Ask any designer, fashion editor, or art director where the hottest trends are coming from, and they'll tell you it's from the streets of certain cities. And if you ask them what magazine gives the best, most authoritative coverage of these outsider fashion incubators, chances are they'll say "Nylon." "Nylon "here combines its street cred and ...
From the author of the enormously successful "Graffiti World" comes this spectacular follow-up, celebrating the contributions of women to contemporary graffiti and street art. Two eight-page fold-out collages, a fold-out poster jacket, and an authoritative text round out the impressive package.
This text presents an overview of the most influential and best-loved American artists and their works. It covers three centuries, ranging from Puritan portraits and the American Impressionists through to the videos and digital works of today's conceptual artists. The book is shown in an A-Z format, and seeks to encourage readers to contemplate ...
From Obey to Obama and all thats in between, Supply & Demand, The Art of Shepard Fairey - 20th Anniversary Edition expands upon the previous version of this book and adds 100 new pages of illustrations and text to showcase Faireys entire body of work, a massive retrospective covering 20 colorful years. Recently thrust into the spotlight for his ...
Beginning with the big jolly Santa on the cover consulting his book of "Extra Good Boys and Girls," NORMAN ROCKWELL'S CHRISTMAS BOOK overflows with the good cheer of the season. It contains selections by writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Saki, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, and Fannie Farmer (whose sumptuous Christmas dinner, c. 1896, ...
Join Bart and the kids of Springfield in the newest collection of comics and stories filled with mistaken identities, alien recipes, cereal package prizes, unrequited love, lima beans, facial hair, karaoke and much more all in one bratty book. Ages 7+
We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved "Time" magazine to name 'You' their 2006 person of the year. But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds, we have not lost the urge to make our physical world more meaningful. By leaving art and ...
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