The Vatican: All the Paintings: The Complete Collection of Old Masters, Plus More Than 300 Sculptures, Maps, Tapestries, and Other Artifacts

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This comprehensive and heavy tome illustrates all the works of art on display in the Vatican and underscores the variety of its art, including works that popes commissioned from painters as well as works that were accumulated for art appreciation and prestige beginning in the 17th century. The book is divided into 22 sections representing the museums and areas of the Vatican. This includes the "Pinacoteca" (painting gallery), with paintings given to or purchased by the popes or removed from altarpieces of papal churches. Also included are images of art from the Borgia Apartments, the famous Raphael Rooms, and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Lesser-known works are included, such as a collection of modern religious art and tapestry and maps. The diversity of the holdings is highlighted by such collections as the Pio-Clementine Museum of early Christian Rome, the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, and the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, as well as the Ethnological Museum, which houses non-Western art. Not to be forgotten is St. Peter's Basilica and Piazza, and its art including Michelangelo's famous "Pieta" sculpture.
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David Busch's Canon EOS 5D Mark III Guide to Digital SLR Photography

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With DAVID BUSCH'S CANON EOS 5D MARK III DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY, you'll learn how to select the best autofocus mode, shutter speed, f/stop, and flash capability to take great pictures under any conditions, advanced shooting techniques, including high-definition movie making, how to use flash functions, including wireless flash, troubleshooting and prevention tips to keep your camera and media operating smoothly, and the basics of good photography as you master your camera's operation!
 

More Than a Likeness: The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte

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More Than a Likeness: The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte is the first comprehensive book on the life and work of one of today's most renowned watercolorists. From Whyte's earliest paintings in rural Ohio and Pennsylvania, to the riveting portraits of her southern neighbors, historian Martha R. Severens provides us with an intimate look into the artist's private world.

The Style of Coworking: Contemporary Shared Workspaces

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This exploration of the innovative interior design of coworking spaces offers a unique look at a workplace revolution that's sweeping the globe. This illustrated survey of spaces dedicated to coworking features 30 of the most impressive office spaces around the world. Google Campus in London, The HUB's global network of sites, and more off-the-radar examples such as Makeshift Society in San Francisco are just a few of the spaces profiled. Each is illustrated via a range of wide-angle and close-up photographs, offering readers page after page of inspiring ideas--from a repurposed shipping container to a beautiful cushion made from a vintage silk scarf.

Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas

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The most ambitious summary of site-specific art in the western hemisphere to date, this coffee-table book encompasses works that span two continents and thousands of years: from ancient geoglyphs in Chile's Atacama Desert, to pop artist Claes Oldenburg's whimsical clothespin sculpture in Philadelphia, and nearly everything in between. The editors, led by Amanda Renshaw, have organized the sites geographically, which encourages thrilling visual and conceptual relationships between sites across cultures and periods. It's a pleasure, for example, to view Michael Heizer's land artwork "Double Negative" alongside the pictographs in Utah's Horseshoe Canyon. Similarly, it is revelatory to see that James Turrell's cavernous Roden Crater shares the sublimity of baroque church interiors in Ecuador and Brazil. Large-scale photographs allow for an immersive experience of these faraway, sometimes inaccessible sites, while the pithy commentary is highly informative. There are other reasons to admire this book, not least of which is the ephemeral nature of some site-specific art. Frank Stella's maximalist murals and relief sculptures in Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre, for instance, among the largest site-specific commissions of the 20th century, are to be dismantled in the future. While it's a shame that site-specific works of street art are excluded, this book remains a striking achievement.
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52 Weekend Digital Photo Projects: Inspirational Projects, Camera Skills, Equipment, Imaging Techniques

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Enjoy a year's worth of creative adventures with "Digital Photo"--the essential publication on digital photography. With invaluable advice and fully illustrated step-by-step guides, this stunning collection helps anyone create beautiful, professional-looking images using a variety of subjects and techniques. The 52 projects range from portraits in natural light and night photography to holiday gatherings, architecture, reflections, motion blurs, special effects, and abstracts.

Michael Freeman's Photo School Fundamentals: Exposure, Light & Lighting, Composition

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Photography is international best-seller Michael Freeman s life, and in this book he works together with fellow photography experts to share his and their knowledge with anyone who wants to learn not only how to take better photos, but also why those photographs work and where they fit in with the history of the craft. Inspired by the structure of a college course and the benefits of a collective learning environment, this book teaches the fundamentals of photography not just through comprehensive lessons and instructions, but also through challenges in which readers can participate. Sample work from Michael s students provides inspiration, and critical evaluations of the results ensure that the core concepts are being grasped every step of the way. Additionally, readers can join in by sharing their work via the series dedicated website.

Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George

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From 1918 until the early 1930s, Georgia O'Keeffe lived for part of the year on Alfred Stieglitz's family estate at Lake George, New York. O'Keeffe and Stieglitz stayed there from spring until fall, and she reveled in the discovery of new subject matter. She found respite in the bucolic setting, and in her studio, nicknamed "the shanty," she could concentrate on her work without the distractions of city life and the Stieglitz clan that congregated at the lake in the summer months. The Lake George retreat provided the basic material for her art, while evoking the spirit of place that was essential to O'Keeffe's modern approach to the natural world.This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, examines the extraordinary body of work O'Keeffe created there, from magnified botanical compositions of the flowers and vegetables she grew in her garden to a group of remarkable still lifes of the apples and pears that she picked. O'Keeffe became fascinated with the variety of trees that grew there, and they were the subject of at least twenty-five compositions. Architectural subjects emerged as a theme, as did a number of panoramic landscape paintings and bold, color-filled abstractions. During this highly productive period, O'Keeffe created more than two hundred paintings on canvas and paper in addition to sketches and pastels, making the Lake George years among the most prolific and transformative of her seven-decade career.

David Busch's Portrait/Candid/Street Photography Compact Field Guide ( David Busch's Digital Photography Guides )

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2014 Photographer's Market

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Thousands of successful photographers have trusted "Photographer's Market" as a resource for growing their businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working photographers today: magazines, book publishers, greeting card companies, stock agencies, advertising firms, contests and more.

The Complete Digital SLR Handbook: Master Your Camera to Take Pictures Like a Pro [With CDROM]

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The explosion in affordable digital SLRs has given many amateur photographers a truly powerful camera for the first time. This special handbook will teach SLR owners everything they need to know about their equipment. Includes a free CD with step-by-step video tutorials.

Digital SLR Photography All-In-One for Dummies : 2nd. edition

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A compilation of 7 minibooks in one volume:

•  Getting started with Digital SLRs
• Going through the looking glass
• Hey, your exposure's showing
• Spiffying your shots
• Shooting movies
• Getting specific about your subject

Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs ( Voices That Matter )

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The author presents his advice and practice routines for composing and capturing photographs of people, illustrated with examples from his own practice sessions and from his extensive work photographing weddings around the world.

Photographing Families: Tips for Capturing Timeless Images

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Portrait photography is so much more than just photographing people. You must be photographer, psychologist, director, stylist, kindergarten teacher, puzzle-maker, salesperson, artist, and post-production technician. Michele Celentano has perfected every skill. Now, she shows you how to create family portraits to be cherished for generations. Find the style that fits your personality. Create portraits that illustrate family relationships. Learn to work with kids, nervous moms, reluctant dads, elderly subjects, and the family pet. Transform plain locations into great backgrounds. Pose your subjects so they look their best. Master post-production techniques. Promote your brand and market your business

Make Good Art

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In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art.
The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman's inspiring speech.

An Artist in Venice

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Architect and artist Van Doren offers a love letter to Venice in this elegant and slender volume, and he sings his praise to the city through majestic prose and 23 beautiful watercolor paintings of Venice. He quickly discovers, after wandering into San Giacomo di Rialto, perhaps Venice's oldest church, that the city has one "great transformative advantage: Mediterranean light," which offers a new way of seeing the city's architecture, the history of art, and his own painting. Van Doren praises numerous artists from whom he draws lessons as he explores the city. James Whistler captures the "sweet serenity with perfect pitch." He admires deeply John Singer Sargent's watercolors of Venice that exhibit his "supreme confidence with color." Van Doren takes John Ruskin as his model, confessing that Ruskin was an "artist of architecture" whose writings convinced him that he could become a painter. In all of his paintings, he has attempts to keep in mind the lesson of one of his teachers: "Keep it simple. Don't try to make it more complicated than it already is." Clearly, he's learned his lesson well. Illus. (Jan.) Copyright 2013 Publishers Weekly.

New Markets for Artists: How to Sell, Fund Projects, and Exhibit Using Social Media, DIY Pop-Ups, eBay, Kickstarter, and Much More

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Although the book title touts mostly online markets, artist and writer Carey ("Making It in the Art World: New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money") also covers the benefits, drawbacks, and strategies for success in art fairs, public art, museums, and galleries. However, the bulk of the book is about using web-based tools: one chapter details relevant features of Facebook and Twitter in great depth, others advise on website development, advertising, eBay, and digital art galleries. Carey occasionally misses the mark, as when he devotes an entire chapter to selecting appropriate passwords (information readily available on the web), but in most cases the information provided is carefully tailored to artists. Case studies throughout illustrate successful usage of each tool, market venue, or strategy. He also offers advice on interpersonal communication, such as how to talk to studio visitors and how to follow up with email and phone contacts. A final chapter suggests methods for using the book in a professional development course. VERDICT Recommended for all artists looking for a market online.--Heidi Senior, Univ. of Portland Lib., OR Copyright 2012 Reed Business Information. Library Journal (11/01/2012)

Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India After Independence

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At midnight on August 15, 1947, India declared its independence from British rule. India's anticolonial movement--synonymous with Mohandas Gandhi, peaceful resistance, and civil disobedience--is celebrated here, but the book also reveals the movement's dark side, namely, the coinciding partition into India and Pakistan, remembered for its violent riots and upwards of a million deaths. Editor Bean (curator, South Asian & Korean art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA) explores how these transformative moments brought political, social, and economic change to India and Indian artists, particularly painters, who responded by experimenting with content, style, and new artistic techniques. Over the next 50 years, the Indian economy bloomed and boomed, and its rapid growth continued to shape both culture and postindependence art. This book tackles the period from 1947 to the 1990s, and its contributors are scholars and curators who have deep knowledge of the postindependence Indian art scene and modern and contemporary art. The catalog is beautifully written and illustrated with 122 color plates, nearly all of which are works in the Peabody Essex Museum's Herwitz Collection. Library Journal (02/15/2013)

The Civil War and American Art

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Released alongside an extensive exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this latest from Harvey (The Painted Sketch) provides a nuanced, sensitive, and deeply informed accounting of a major period in the history of American art. Harvey sees with fresh attention the "war-infected layer of meaning" that permeates the period around the Civil War, gracefully navigating the political and aesthetic complexities that altered the literal and metaphoric landscapes of the time. She balances the broader world of military campaigns with detailed examinations of prominent artists, turning her attention to topics such as the rumbling skies of landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church and the subtleties of Winslow Homer's attitudes regarding race. Her sustained exploration is accompanied by striking reproductions of the images, with the gruesome photography of ravaged bodies and landscapes affecting enough to invigorate interest in the historical topics. Paired alongside these studies are considerations of popular poetry and journalism, highlighting the ways that visual art both altered the broader culture while remaining inseparable from it. The comprehensive study manages to remain engaging across its redolent academic and historical interests, creating a sincere excitement appropriate to Harvey's always insightful and vital reckoning with America's scarred past. Color illus.
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Zentangle Untangled: Inspiration and Prompts for Meditative Drawing

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In "Zentangle Untangled," Kass Hall introduces you to the fun and relaxing doodling" process of Zentangle(c)--an engaging art form that uses repetitive patterns to create striking works of art that anyone can achieve regardless of age or artistic ability.

Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu

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In flight from her hectic New York life with her avidly sociable husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and in pursuit of quiet and isolation, O'Keeffe found the perfect refuge in New Mexico. Her passion for the land and sky and her profound attachment to her homes at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu shape and vitalize all of her best-known paintings, yet the full story of how she acquired and lived and worked in these sanctuaries has never been told before. Lynes (Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections, 2007), curator of the Georgia O'Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, and Lopez, director of Abiquiu Historic Properties, thoroughly and thoughtfully chronicle the ways the artist turned her cherished homes and studios into veritable works of art. With information on adobe construction and the Pueblo Revival style, striking black-and-white photographs of the artist in her homes by such famous photographers as Ansel Adams, O'Keeffe's paintings of Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu, and new color photographs that capture the enduring beauty and serenity of O'Keeffe's gracefully pristine sanctuaries, this is a gorgeous and enriching addition to the O'Keeffe collection. Booklist (11/01/2012):

Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall

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The British artist known as Banksy creates illegal street paintings with superhero daring and political conviction. But his most impressive feat is his anonymity, which is zealously protected by his cultish followers and ace organization, Pest Control. Ellsworth-Jones had no intention of revealing Banksy's identity when he sought an interview with the artist, but he was refused. So be it. Secrecy feeds the flame of this thought-provoking, irony-steeped, unauthorized investigation into how a regular guy from Bristol elevated graffiti to a fine art only to find himself trapped in the paradox of becoming a commercially successful, anticapitalist guerrilla artist. While he gamely searches for extant street paintings, Ellsworth-Jones chronicles ludicrous battles over wall removal, the tagging of Banksy's work by rival street artists, pop-up exhibits, and the lengths to whichfans go to purchase Banksy prints. Formerly chief reporter for the Sunday Times of London, Ellsworth-Jones redresses his lack of an art historian's fully dimensional perspective by candidly sharing his learn-on-the-go adventures and discoveries in a thoroughly ensnaring, eye-popping account of the paradigm-shifting innovations of a bold and brilliant masked artist.
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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary

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This elegant biography of a little-known Cumbrian landowner, builder and local daughter captures the rural and industrial changes in Georgian England. Accomplished British historian Uglow (A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, 2010, etc.) ably depicts the picturesque landscape of Carlisle, just south of the Scottish border. As the eldest daughter of deep descendants of the Wreay landed gentry, who pioneered the iron and alkali works feeding the Industrial Revolution, Sarah Losh (1785-1853) and her beloved younger sister, Katharine, did not feel compelled to marry and relinquish their independence. Rich from their father's and uncles' early industriousness, well-educated, strong-willed and bookish, the daughters were able to travel to Italy and elsewhere to study art and architecture, and they brought their ideas home to "improve" their estate and local structures such as the Carlisle school and church. After the death of her sister in 1834, Sarah threw herself into the work of building, combining her love of poetry, antiquities and her ancient land into a distinct, original style that was not Gothic, but that melded simple, rustic elements of the old Saxon and Norman, what she considered Lombard Romanesque. Employing in the woodwork designs of available flora and fauna like eagles and pine cones, Sarah embarked on work as a sculptor herself. With a light touch, Uglow integrates greater historical developments--e.g., the Napoleonic wars and the development of Romanticism--within an intimate bucolic story of people whose life was the land. A writer who knows her subject intimately creates a fully fleshed portrait of an England that would soon vanish with the advent of the railroads. COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960 to 2010

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"In some 400 pages this book provides thumbnail sketches of more than 140 alternative spaces and related organizations, including the artist-run restaurant Food, Bomb magazine and the activist group Gran Fury... This is an indispensable source boo that leaves you wanting more--specifically, individual studies of some of the organizations it covers. It stands as a vibrant and irrefutable evidence of what happens when people take things into their own hands." "The New York Times"

Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing

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This unusual volume profiles the working process of ten contemporary emerging and established artists working in the medium of drawing, with 15 related projects for the reader to work through.

George Bellows

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Library Journal (11/01/2012):
In association with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, which is currently holding a major George Bellows retrospective, this account of Bellows's paintings, drawings, and graphic art has 12 contributions, each written by a different scholar. The result, edited by Brock (associate curator, American & British paintings, National Gallery of Art; "American Modernism: The Shein Collection"), is a lively and comprehensive consideration of Bellows, the Ashcan School artist known for his modernist figurative depictions of life in the first two decades of the 20th century. Bellows's art famously covered wide subject matter, including New York tenement life; Woodstock, VT, townscapes; Monhegan, ME, seascapes; and boxing matches and portraiture. No other volume solely on Bellows's work has been published in decades, though he has appeared in books about the Ashcan School, such as the recent "An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan School" by David Peters Corbett. The Bellows retrospective will move on to New York's Metropolitan Museum and London's Royal Academy. This well-written book will appeal to art lovers in the three cities hosting the exhibit, and anyone interested in the Ashcan School or New York in the 1910s and '20s. VERDICT This is a fresh look at an artist due for a book-length treatment.--Kathryn Wekselman, Cincinnati, OH Copyright 2012 Reed Business Information.

The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World

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Library Journal (06/01/2012):
Campanario founded the nonprofit organization Urban Sketchers, and this book showcases the work of over 100 artists worldwide who draw scenes from the cities where they live and travel, posting them at urbansketchers.org. The concept caught on fast, and new groups are forming around the world, connecting with each other online. Here, Campanario offers guidance on tools, techniques, the urban environment, and drawing styles, but the main strength of this book is the 500-plus full-color examples of successful sketches drawn in metropolises and towns all over the globe. VERDICT Part travel book, part art instruction, this is a great guide to look at before (or instead of) your next vacation. Copyright 2012 Reed Business Information.