Subject: Art (Keywords)

Using readily available, seasonally related materials, this series provides an ideal and fun introduction to the seasons for young children. The crafts are explained in easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, and are perfect for teachers and time-poor parents looking for original ideas.

Using readily available, seasonally related materials, this series is an ideal and fun introduction to the season for young children. The crafts are explained in easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and are perfect for teachers looking for original ideas as well as time-poor parents.

General readers, art students and practitioners alike will pick up this book again and again, to check facts, browse among the pictures, and explore how great artists like Breughel, Goya, Constable and Picasso first captured our admiration and why they remain influential to this day.

Here are the sacred and the scandalous, the minimalist and the opulent, the groundbreaking and the conventional. There are paintings that captured the feeling of an era and those that signaled the beginning of a new one. Works of art that were immediately recognized for their genius, and others t...

According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. Beyond exhibiting the skill of the artist, the portrait must surpass the task of imitation, as just and precise as it may be, to translate both the intention of the artist as...

Here are the most sensual and harmonious masterworks to the most provocative and minimalist sculptures. Sculpture shapes the world and our concept of beauty, leaving everlasting silhouettes and always creating new intriguing ones. These masterworks are the mirror of an era, of an artist and his p...

In this packed publication we bring you everything you need to know to become a better designer. Discover software secrets, how to go freelance, how to set up your own design studio and much, much more!

This lively introduction to nearly four centuries of British art offers children a strong foundation for learning in a playful and imaginative way, and will inspire them to dream, create, and think.

In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking of England" in which he writes not only of the First World War but th...

Munch’s The Scream. Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Rodin’s The Thinker. Monet’s Water Lilies. Constable’s landscapes. The 19th century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them in an instant. At the time, however, their avant-garde nature was the ...