Es war Ittens Wunsch, mit einem bescheideneren, für jeden erreichbaren Buch das Wissen über die Gesetzmäßigkeiten und Möglichkeiten der Farben einem noch viel größeren Kreis von Interessierten, vor allem auch Schülern und Studenten, zu vermitteln, al ..

Jahrhundertelang war das Streben nach Schönheit eine Aufgabe der Kunst und der Gestaltung. Sagmeister und Walsh belegen, dass das Aufkommen des Funktionalismus der Schönheit als Funktion den Garaus gemacht hat. Sie zeigen, dass Schönheit nicht nur im ..

Die Kunst liegt in der Natur§1862 erschien erstmals Ernst Haeckels bahnbrechendes Werk Atlas der Radiolarien , in dem er bis dahin unbekannte einzellige Meereslebewesen auf minutiös gezeichneten und lithografierten Farbtafeln darstellte. Jahrzehnte s ..

Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An important book for art and design theorists, and othe

Black is the favourite colour for a wide range of people, from priests to penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, and has stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority, humility, sin, holiness, rebellion, conformity, wealth a ..

Theodor Adorno (1903–69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enorm ..

At the age of 19, on a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, a young Luc Tuymans saw the work of El Greco for the first time–an event that would lead him to become one of today's most influential artists. Almost 40 years later, that life-changi

Learn how to create vibrant character designs with the step-by-step guidance of professional artists from the illustration and animation industries.

Kniha History of Art History autora Christopher S. Wood vydaná v nakladatelství Princeton University Press v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 472, ISBN-13: 9780691204765, zařazení do kategorie: Teorie umění.

‚Great art has dreadful manners…‘ Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe ..

The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the California Institute of Arts, Bulgarian-born Eliza now lives in San Francisco where she created much of the art on these page

By the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established. To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a ..