Kunst og kultur

A comprehensive celebration of the fashions of one of the world's most revered designers.

Master the harmonica fast with this fun, easy guide Everybody loves the sound of a harmonica, and the thought of learning to play one is even more appealing.

This is a troubleshooting book filled with tips and handy advice for the beginner and intermediate potter.

Peter Beard turned his life on the African continent into a gesamtkunstwerk: a collage of photography, environmental activism, and diary writing. The original edition to this weighty XL tome may have instantly sold out, but it's now back to present the artist's unique world; a realm where high fashion models feed giraffes under the Kenyan sun...

This book offers a stunning visual history of one hundred years of design.

A comprehensive, practical guide to developing, testing, applying and firing your own glazes.

Provides a definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. In this title, iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuasion across the political spectrum, and a crucial resource for critical reflection.

Suitable for camera operators and directors who want to move the camera well, this title helps to learn various aspects of Steadicam operating. It moves from the physics and balancing of a Steadicam, through a line dances and practice shots, to the personal aspects of filmmaking - how individual operators make creative and practical decisions.

Painter, sculptor, writer and film maker, Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting. This title offers a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.

A truly modern home must meet many demands; community, privacy, sustainability, and the quirks of its inhabitants. This two-volume compendium surveys 100 of the most outstanding examples of residential architecture, telling the story of each house through photographs, plans, and architect biographies. Featured talents include Shigeru Ban, Tadao...

Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions

David Adjaye is one of the worlds most exciting and accomplished architects, and has built many highly acclaimed houses and public buildings in the UK and USA. This title documents Adjaye's tribute to African metropolitan architecture.

A record of a private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, this title reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.

From the 12th-century spoon used for the anointing at the coronation to the platinum crown created for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1937, the Crown Jewels' story is that of the English monarchy itself. This book tells the story of the development of the collection from the medieval period onwards.

Shows you how to pose your character, create emotion through facial expressions, and stage your character to create drama. This book includes assignments that allow you to join in and bring your drawing to the next level with concrete techniques, as well as more theoretical analysis.

The first in-depth look at a highly innovative jazz icon

Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of visual evocations overlooked by Fellini scholars over the years.

Tony Fletcher's A Light That Never Goes Out - part celebration, part paean - moves from Manchester in the nineteenth-century to the present day to tell the complete story of The Smiths.

William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. This book offers a survey of his life and work alongside some of his finest decorative work.

This book looks at the contemporary use of slip as a decoration, such as sponging, marbling, brushing on, using stencils, trailing, sgraffito and inlay amongst others. It looks at a wide selection of contemporary potters in order to both illustrate methods and inspire the reader.

Unjustly concealed in museum vaults or censored archives, the sensual works in Erotica Universalis finally emerge from subterranean realms in a banquet for the imagination and a feast for the eye! This compendium of erotic arts voyages through history from Ancient Egypt to Ovid, Aretino to Dali, to bring you the fantasies, obsessions, and sheer...

An accessible overview of the inspirational work of the big three Japanese fashion designers and their enormous influence on fashion today.

Combines conceptual and practical instruction on creating polished and eloquent images for film and video with the technical know-how to achieve them. This guide shows you how to become a strong visual storyteller through smart, effective choices for your shots. It shows you how to master the rules, then break them.

This text on aesthetics includes major sections on: Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; and Towards a Theory of the Artwork.