"Valentine's Day Portraits: A Grayscale Coloring Book" is an enchanting collection of 76 single-sided illustrations that immerse you in the world of love and affection. Each page offers a beautifully detailed grayscale portrait, inviting colorists to explore the depth and emotion of romantic connections. As you add hues and shades, watch each illustration come alive, turning each page into a personal masterpiece of color and sentiment. Crafted for colorists of all levels, this book provides a...

"Mardi Gras Portraits: A Grayscale Coloring Book" is a festive collection of 53 single-sided illustrations that captures the spirit and excitement of Mardi Gras through the eyes of those who celebrate it most passionately. Each page features detailed grayscale portraits of people, especially children, dressed in the extravagant and colorful costumes that define this iconic celebration. From elaborate masks adorned with feathers and beads to vibrant outfits that shimmer with sequins and satin,...

How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? Worlding Ecologies serves as an anthology of examples and wayward navigational tool, assembling eighteen authors exploring this question from their diverse backgrounds––as scientists, artists, philosophers, activists, theorists and curators––to rigorously approach urgent ecological challenges, including cl...

In this book the leading authority on Japanese art history sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive aesthetics, prominent artists, and movements that have achieved global influence and popularity. The History of Art in Japan discusses works ranging from earthenware figurines in 13,000 BCE to manga, anime, and modern subcultures.

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art, exploring the writings of Elizabeth Siddall, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot.

Discusses and describes the material nature of paintings, how they age and the main types of conservation treatment carried out on panel and canvas paintings, along with some of the problems involved in cleaning and restoration.

The book is composed of nine chapters, accompanied by practical exercises and images that will turn the reader into a learner and a flamenco enthusiastic, providing the theoretical basis and practical elements for an understanding that combines reason and emotion.

Flamenco is the synthesis of a process of gestation that began in the first third of the 19th century and that continues to increase its entire range of artistic variables, whether in guitar playing, dancing, singing or percussion, ...

Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents and centuries, the author argues that curation is far from a static practice.

A succinct but thorough introduction to abstract art since 1900, revised and updated.

A concise account of the history of fashion and costume from prehistoric times through to today.