Artists' books have emerged over the last 25 years as the quintessential contemporary art form, addressing subjects as diverse as poetry and politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers, as well a growing community of ...
"Journal Bliss" provides pages and pages of artistic inspiration designed to encourage the reader to embrace her inner eccentric and express her true self visually in her journal. Readers will love the stream-of-consciousness presentation of the book's interactive illustrations, doodles, tutorials, tips and prompts, all in Violette's trademark ...
In the mid-1960s, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. Mallock's A Human Document, and began cutting and pasting the extant text to create something new. The artist writes, 'I plundered, mined and undermined its text to make it yield the ghosts of other possible stories, scenes, poems, erotic incidents and surrealist ...
The first publication by the artist Damien Hirst, who is considered by some to be a successor to Duchamp, Warhol, and Koons. One of the most controversial artists of his time, Hirst was fundamental in reviving the art scene in London in the 1980s. The book includes paintings, sculptures, and installations of the artist's entire body of work, ...
This book for newcomers to the popular art of bookmaking teaches all the basics and features 12 easy and interesting projects. Features step-by-step instructions, colour project photos, detailed graphics, diagrams, tips and much more.
With perfect pitch for contemporary audiences, this new translation offers all the immediacy, hallucinatory surrealism, and wit that secured Arthur Rimbaud's esteemed position. As a major poet renowned for his strangely seductive power and innocence, Rimbaud was a dangerous and exhilarating force whose break with literary forms and conventions is ...
Rob Ryan's magical paper-cuts and screenprints have been used by designer Paul Smith, appeared on a Vogue model and graced book covers (THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS by John Connolly, The World to Come by Dara Horn). THIS IS FOR YOU is a magical, romantic and touching story of thoughts and dreams, loneliness and longing, the personal and the universal. ...
In this in-depth look at the book itself as art, the reader will be guided through a wide variety of binding techniques and structure styles, topped off with plenty of inspiration for transforming books into works of art. Techniques range from collaging directly in a pre-made book (altered bookmaking) to printmaking to making concertinas and books ...
Whimsical enough for children and urbane enough for adults, this remarkable gift book is a wondrous feat of paper engineering. Its pages are composed of pieces of multicolored paper that are die-cut and woven by hand. The patterns evoke a range of traditional textiles from around the world, such as Amish quilts, Navajo blankets, Fair Isle knitted ...
Collage techniques in scrapbook art are on the upturn. Now, with Creative Collage for Scrapbooks, there is a book offering fresh, innovative ideas and approaches to the fine art of successful layering. This book features: Dozens of innovative collage techniques with a refreshing new derivation from the look of shabby chic and altered-art collage ...
A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, the farce satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent. Championed as the first absurdist drama, "Ubu Roi "features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous ...
This book provides in-depth readings and analyses of many individual artists' books, and establishes a useful international overview. Topics discussed include: "Visual Deviants and Typographical Departures", "Various Ways of Frustrating Our Reading Habits", "Altering Books: The Cutting Edge of Editing", "The Book, the Museum, and Public Art", and ...
This follow-up to the same author's Decorated Page (ISBN 1-57990-299-5) offers even more great ideas for beautifying a personal journal: more breathtaking photographs to inspire, and more smart (and simple) ways to endow even the artistically timid with confidence. This book simply brims with suggestions and instructions. * Find out about the ...
Mixed media techniques have come to forefront again, with artists in every field combining materials and effects to create journals, altered art, collage pieces, memory art and more. With all the creative experiementation developing at such a fast pace, it is pertinent to know how various techniques and combinations work and whether they are right ...
In a graphic tour of America's counterculture, Fly visually and verbally documents the artists, activists, writers, anarchists, and musicians she met during a nationwide tour with her band. 100 illustrations, some in color.
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