Kunstenaar Kris Martin brengt in het Kasteel van Laarne een groep van tien hedendaagse Belgische kunstenaars samen onder de noemer NADIR. Het nadir (van het Arabisch nathir, ‘tegenovergesteld’) is in de astronomie het punt dat vlak tegenover het zenit staat en zich dus recht onder de waarnemer bevindt. Voor Martin is het een metafoor: NADIR gaat over kijken naar wat er is, over naar de kern gaan. Hij besloot om het kruim van de Belgische kunstscene samen te brengen in een groepstentoonste...

An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art

This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing.

Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustrations that depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level, and explain...

Reveals the decorative seams, refined stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up some of the garments in the V&A's superlative 19th-century fashion collection. This title gives the reader a unique opportunity to examine historical clothing that is often too fragile to be on display.

A reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history

Introducing over 100 great artists (both historic and contemporary), Art Rules provides practical, creative and sometimes tongue-in-cheek advice inspired by those who have succeeded before.

Create unique protest graphics with the Protest Stencil Toolkit, revised and updated for modern-day activists.  

Combine the 42 robust stencils, and the typeface, to create slogans and visual messages.   

Includes symbols from a variety of important protest movement

Take an eerie journey through history as you meet over 180 human skulls and discover the stories behind them.

It is said that the skull is the only human body part that is as powerful dead as it was when living. Skulls is made up of a series of short illustrated stories laced with fascinating facts, historical and medical references and compelling anecdotes. The testimonials of thirty-plus skull collectors reveal what is known of - or speculated about - the often gruesome history of the skull...

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.