Art & Art Instruction

25001 books

Sold Out

$57.00

by Bill Gardner (Author), Sarah Whitman (Author)The 13th editions of the bestselling LogoLounge book series features the latest and greatest of identity design created by highly accomplished and noteworthy designers from all around the world. Carefully curated by an expert panel made up of some of the most revered names in the industry, this volume offers up endless opportunity for insight and inspiration. Discover 3000 amazingly crafted logos organized into unique visual categories for easy ...

Sold Out

The Problem with Stupid: Ignorance, Intellectuals, Post-Truth and Resistance - Paperback

$19.95

by Tom Grimwood (Author)In the past two decades, the rise of a particular commonplace in public debate has emerged on both the Left and the Right: the threat of 'the stupid.' Far from a throwaway ad hominem, stupidity has become a key trope for both explaining and criticising the election results, culture wars and the advances of post-truth. But how do we negotiate 'the stupid' in a meaningful way? Does critique and resistance depend on the mobilisation of intellect, and what does the prevale...

Sold Out

Draw 100: Dragons: From Basic Shapes to Amazing Drawings in Super-Easy Steps - Paperback

$19.95

by Paul Bryn Davies (Author)Learn to draw 100 extraordinary dragons in 6 easy steps, starting with simple shapes. For all ages. Enter the dragon's den and draw every scale! From fire-breathing monsters to majestic sea serpents, Paul Bryn Davies' boundless imagination will inspire you to draw like you never have before. Start off simple with playful hatchlings and soon you'll be illustrating battling giants and gnarled wyverns. With 100 drawings to choose from, the possibilities (and dragons) ...

Sold Out

Watercolour Flowers for the Absolute Beginner - Paperback

$19.95

by Fiona Peart (Author) "True to its title, this is a complete course in painting watercolor flowers for anyone who is inspired or curious about giving it a try, but who may be intimidated by a lack of experience or skill" - BOOKLIST Packed easy-to-follow techniques, quick exercises and 20 outlines - so there's no need to draw anything. From the bestselling Absolute Beginner Art series. Expert artist and teacher Fiona Peart helps you to take your first steps with watercolor, showing you step-...

The Unstoppable Artist: Discovering the Artist Inside Yourself - Paperback

$71.84

by Barbara L. McCulloch (Author)Can you imagine feeling the joy of being a creative artist and exploring new ideas courageously? Would you appreciate the peace of knowing you are truly on the right path by creating colorful art so powerful that viewers crave it? Can you imagine feeling your spiritual connection and knowing your art has an important purpose? In The Unstoppable Artist, author Barbara L. McCulloch guides you through step-by-step projects to empower you on your journey as an insp...

Planet X and the Kolbrin Bible Connection: Why the Kolbrin Bible Is the Rosetta Stone of Planet X - Hardcover

$32.35

by Greg Jenner (Author), Marshall Masters (Foreword by)"Greg Jenner spent decades connecting the dots for this book. Now you can do the same, in a single evening!"-Marshall MastersGreg Jenner is one of the top Planet X historians alive today - if not the best! He believes that the ancients were extremely clear in their warnings to us about Planet X.He believes the ancients were extremely clear in their warnings to us about Planet X, and in this groundbreaking work, he makes it all click toget...

Bahrain Village Houses: A Walk in the Past - Hardcover

$99.00

by Mansoor Ahmed Alaali (Author)Bahrain consists of a group of islands in the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain boasts several civilizations stretching over five thousand years. The deep Arab roots meant that they traditionally had an embedded Arab culture and traditions. This is a unique book focusing on the designs and architecture of old Bahraini traditional village houses. The book focuses on how the old Bahraini builders demonstrated such workmanship and use of local materials to build marvelous des...

Sold Out

Johnnie Cooper: The Listener: Paintings 2019-2022 - Hardcover

$48.55

by Johnnie Cooper (Artist)British abstract artist Johnnie Cooper presents his new major body of work, inspired by Walter de la Mare's brooding poem 'The Listeners'. Painted during the twilight hours outside his woodland studio, Cooper's work captures the deep beauty and mystery of a forest dissolving into nighttime shadows, bringing a darker and more abstract emotion to the fore. Following on from Johnnie Cooper's two previous Black Dog Press publications - Sunset Strip (2019) and Fractured L...

Sold Out

The Art of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - Hardcover

$49.99

by Amy Ratcliffe (Author)A fantastic, full-color, oversized hardcover that chronicles the making of Gearbox's genre-mashing looter shooter! Go beyond the Borderlands with The Art of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands! Embark on a chaotic adventure that reimagines a cast of unforgettable characters as players journey through the Wonderlands. Admire the details of Tiny Tina's tabletop world in this handsome hardcover filled with the unique concept art of the environments, creatures, weapons, and character...

Sold Out

Pokémon: Trainer's Mini Exploration Guide to Kanto - Hardcover

$11.99

by Insight Editions (Author), Austin (Author)Dive deep into the Pokémon in the Kanto region with this pocket-sized guide filled with facts! Pokémon: Trainer's Mini Exploration Guide to Kanto is a perfect on-the-go guide to many of the exciting Pokémon in the Pokémon universe, including Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, and more! This small book offers an incredible treasure trove of Pokémon art. Learn about the Pokémon of the Kanto region! A great gift for fans of all ages, this offic...

Sold Out

National Gallery of Ireland Diary 2023 - Hardcover

$27.00

by Abby Wynne (Author)This beautifully illustrated diary contains some of the finest paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland's permanent collection. Featuring 56 carefully reproduced paintings in a week-to-view format, this year's diary celebrates female artists, with the cover featuring Lavinia Fontana's 'Isabella Ruini as Venus'. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.7 x 7.6 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2022

Sold Out

$40.00

by Sarah Simblet (Author), John Davis (Photographer)Unlock your inner artist and learn how to draw the human body in this beautifully illustrated art book by celebrated artist and teacher Sarah Simblet. This visually striking guide takes a fresh approach to drawing the human body. A combination of innovative photography and drawings, practical life-drawing lessons, and in-depth explorations of the body's surface and underlying structure are used to reveal and celebrate the human form. Combini...

Sold Out

$17.99

by Danielle Dufayet (Author), Katia Klein (Illustrator)Benford loves art, and his very first canvas is ready and waiting! But he can't think of a single thing to paint. Not one! Nothing! His mind is completely BLANK! How will Benford break free from his painter's block? Author Danielle Dufayet highlights the importance of believing in yourself, having confidence, and trusting your talent in this encouraging picture book. After all, there are no mistakes in art--just chances to be creative and...

Sold Out

Wild Light: A Printmaker's Day, a Printmaker's Night - Hardcover

$28.99

by Angela Harding (Author)With over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn. "I, like many other people, find great inspiration in the way mornings, evenings or bright midday light changes the way we see the things around us. The bouncing light of a cloud-filled storm sky can change a seascape through a palette of blues, greys, and turquoises. The cool summer moonlight that cross...

Sold Out

$26.95

by Marina Vishmidt (Editor)A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character. Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life whose key instantiations are art and...

Sold Out

$26.95

by Pandora Syperek (Editor), Sarah Wade (Editor)OCEANS attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea and its running currents within contemporary art and visual culture. Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat, and tears. They also represent a powerful nonhuman force, rising, flooding, heating and raging in unprecedented ways as the climate crisis unfol...

Sold Out

$44.95

by Sam Thorne (Editor), Martin Clark (Editor)A richly illustrated volume--and the first exhibition catalog--of the work of the artist Allison Katz, whose multilayered paintings, ceramics, and posters are both embodied and enigmatic. London-based Canadian artist Allison Katz has been exploring painting's relationship to questions of identity and expression, selfhood and voice, for more than a decade. Animated by a restless sense of humor, her works articulate what the artist has called a "genu...

Sold Out

Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular - Paperback

$44.95

by Sarah J. Montross (Editor)The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural assimilation, as well as the construction of nature. This pioneering study of Hugh Hayden's work includes 90 full-color images of the artist's remarkable, labor-intensive sculptural practice over the past decade, as well as critical essays by curator Sarah Montross, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Carmen Maria Machado, and an in...

Sold Out

The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features - Hardcover

$29.95

by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi (Author)A broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia. How do you read a face? For thousands of years, artists, philosophers, and scientists have explored the question of what our outer appearance might reveal about our inner selves. In The Language of the Face, a marvelously comprehensive exploration of the pseudoscience of physiognomy, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi co...

Sold Out

Tatiana Trouvé Great Atlas of Disorientation - Hardcover

$65.00

by Tatiana Trouvé (Artist), Laura Hoptman (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Jean-Pierre Criqui (Interviewer)A career retrospective on the influential multimedia artist, with a focus on her drawingsInternationally celebrated for her large-scale drawings, cast and carved sculptures, and site-specific installations, Paris-based Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé (born 1968) explores the relationship between memory and material. highlighting the passage of time against the remarkable endurance of common ob...

Love You Dad: The Gift Of Colouring - Paperback

$14.38

by Christina Rose (Author)Love You Dad: The Gift of Colouring The perfect anti-stress colouring book for fathers Give your dad the gift of relaxation with this inspiring anti-stress colouring book. Promoting relaxation the carefully selected geometric, 3D & symmetrical patterns will guide him through a journey of de-stressing art therapy, while the inspiring words & quotes celebrating fatherhood will remind him just how important he is to you. This lovely gift will take your dad's fre...

Sold Out

Leaning Out of Windows: An Art and Physics Collaboration - Paperback

$40.00

by Ingrid Koenig (Author), Randy Lee Cutler (Author)Art and physics collide in this expansive exploration of how knowledge can be translated across disciplinary communities to activate new aesthetic and scientific perspectives. Leaning Out of Windows shares findings from a six-year collaboration by a group of artists and physicists exploring the connections and differences between the language they use, the means by which they develop knowledge, how that knowledge is visualized, and, ultimate...

Sold Out

$70.00

by Jaklyn Babington (Author)Bursting with energy and life force, this visual cornucopia celebratesthe work of Sri Lankan Australian sculptor and painter, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran. He is one of Australia's most prominent and sought-after contemporary artists, and the youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. His exuberant ceramic idols and installations gleam with vivid, impossible-to-ignore immediacy, provoking and stimulating audiences as he explor...

Sold Out

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume III, Issue 2 - Paperback

$18.95

by Leon Wieseltier (Editor in Chief), Celeste Marcus , Michael Ignatieff (Author)Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this issue of Liberties: Michael Ignatieff - The Mind's Emancipation; Mary Gaitskill - The Trials of the Young; Sergei Lebedev - Putin's Philosopher: A Memoir; Michael Walzer - Moral Concern; Justin E. H. Smith - The Happiness Industrial Complex; Andrew Scull - The Fashions in ...

$40.00

by Terrence Sanders Smith (Created by)50 Contemporary Artists is my response to publishers, critics and curators who systematically regurgitate the same list of contemporary artists every season. Being an Artist, Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine and the Curator of Artvoices Art Books, I view thousands of artists and their works annually. Arguably, countless artists are intentionally left out of the conversation because of geography, race, religion and or sexual preference. Art and its fu...

Sold Out

Power Star, Volume 1. Trade Paperback: Volume 2 - Paperback

$37.80

by Ramses Francois (Author)If you loved the first issue we'll get ready for Power Star Volume 1. And Volume 1 collects issues 2-6. Get to know more about Power Star, the king of the stars.Author BiographyWORKING HARD AT MY DREAMS IS ALL I DO.I HAVE WORKED WITH THE GREATS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS AND READY TO START THIS PART OF MY JOURNEY, WHICH IS ART AND STORYTELLING. HOPE YOU ALL FOLLOW ALONG WITH MY GROWTH.I WORKED WITH THE GREATS LIKE KANYE WEST AND JAY-Z ANR SO MUCH MORE. Number of Pages: 1...

Sold Out

The Bizarre Reports #1: Volume 1 - Paperback

$20.00

by Ramses Francois (Author)The bizarre reports is all about bizarre stories, tales of life.Bizarre Reports is meant to open your mind.Stories beyond your imagination.Spoiling the book is not a cup of tea, don't miss out on the first issue of The Bizarre Reports, Sure to have everyone talking, enjoy.Author BiographyWORKING HARD AT MY DREAMS IS ALL I DO.I HAVE WORKED WITH THE GREATS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS AND READY TO START THIS PART OF MY JOURNEY, WHICH IS ART AND STORYTELLING. HOPE YOU ALL FOL...

Sold Out

The Sensual Zodiac: Volume 1 - Paperback

$18.00

by Linda Schulte (Author)An introduction to Entrelacer by El. My husband jokingly tells me that my form of art that I have christened 'Entrelacer' seems like our fourth child. Maybe he is right. It started out young and without a defined direction. It takes a lot of time and over the last decades it has slowly grown and matured. The evolution of Entrelacer actually began, as with all of my fellow sisters, at the young age when we start cutting out paper dolls. When I was a child it was my gre...

Sold Out

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print - Hardcover

$37.80

by Jessica D. Brier (Author)This richly illustrated volume surveys photographs, prints, artist's books, and printed sculptures, and explores how artists have embraced, rejected, and reclaimed the grid.Author BiographyJessica D. Brier, Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, is a curator and historian of art and design specializing in the intermediality of photography, printmaking, graphic design, and architecture. She holds a PhD in art histo...

Sold Out

John Kenn Mortensen's Night Terror - Hardcover

$29.99

by John Kenn Mortensen (Author)When the sun goes down, our minds invent all manner of horrors that may lurk in the darkness. Danish cult illustrator John Kenn Mortensen draws inspiration from this shadowy realm, and his pen skillfully conjures these eerie visions on paper. Open this book (if you dare) to encounter a frightful horde of sepia-toned spooks -- witches, wraiths, goblins, giant spiders, wild boars, evil clowns -- and countless other unspeakable creatures. Hairy, hooded, or horned, ...

Sold Out

Out of My Head: The Imaginary Creatures of Josep Baqué - Hardcover

$49.99

by Brian Chidester (Author), Josep Baque (Author)In this first-ever critical biography of Baqué, art historian, author, and curator Brian Chidester reflects the artist and his creation through the prism of 20th century art, the Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939-75), and the few correlative records in Baqué's personal archive. Yet the book doubles as a manual of sorts on the creative process, and most fascinatingly, speaks to the deeper role the imagination plays in overcoming oppression thro...

Sold Out

James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters - Paperback

$24.99

by Bill Schelly (Author)In Empire of Monsters, the award-winning biographer Bill Schelly digs beneath the hype and myth-making to tell the true story of James Warren, one of the 20th century's most influential and independent publishers. Featuring numerous eye-opening, often outrageous anecdotes about the colorful, larger-than-life figure, this book covers Warren's childhood in the slums of south Philadelphia, a traumatic military injury during the Korean War, the hardscrabble origins of Warr...