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Fired Up!
Katherine Duncan
Lark Books
201 E. 5th St., New York NY 10022
1-57990-088-7 $18.95
This guide to painted pottery is a recommended pick for newcomers to ceramic
crafts: it covers the basics of painting a first piece, from using tools to
designing and painting the work. Artists present their winning designs and
explain how to create and color them, with projects including step-by-step
photos and instructions.
Mortality Immortality?
Miguel Angel Corzo, editor
Getty Trust Publications
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1682
0-89236-528-5 $39.95 1-310-440-6795
Mortality Immortality? The Legacy Of 20th Century Art is based on a conference
on the preservation of contemporary art held at the Getty Center in Los
Angeles. Artists today are making art with unlikely materials. Contemporary
works of art may be ephemeral, repeatable, and disposable. These works may
incorporate paint, polyethylene, sand, paper, cloth, ice, photographs, and
combinations of media -- effectively challenging the boundaries of materials.
Consequently, the vulnerability and preservation of materials and
installations, as well as the intent of the artists, are raising new issues for
collectors, art professionals, and museum curators. Mortality Immortality? is a
stimulating volume of thirty-four essays offers diverse perspectives of the
survival of contemporary art. Mortality Immortality? is enhanced with more than
one hundred color plates.
Basic Water Color Answer Book
Catherine Anderson
North Light Books
1507 Dana Avenue, Cincinnati OH 45207
0-89134-877-8 $24.99 1-800-289-0963
In her Basic Water Color Answer Book, award-winning artist Catherine Anderson
answers more than one hundred of the most frequently asked questions about
painting in watercolor, from how much paint to squeeze out on the palette to
how to make the most of watercolor's inevitable "surprises". With a quick
reference, question-and-answer format and lots of step-by-step demonstrations,
the Basic Water Color Answer Book shows the aspiring watercolorist how to
solve common problems, avoid frustrations, and get off to a great start
painting in this popular medium.
Gustave Moreau
Genevieve Lacambre
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603-6110
0-691-00734-9 $60.00 1-800-777-4726
Gustave Moreau: Between Epic And Dream features masterpieces from every phase
of the life and work of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) with color reproductions of
each of more than 180 works (including paintings, watercolors, and drawings) as
featured in The Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition. Moreau's powerfully
evocative and mysterious imagery and his emphasis on the personal and intuitive
nature of artistic creation which has enjoyed a profound influence on late 19th
and early 20th century writer sand painters. Gustave Moreau is an impressive
body of scholarship and commentary on one of the finest painters of the 19th
century.
Milton Glaser: Graphic Design
Milton Glaser
The Overlook Press
386 West Broadway, NY, NY 10012
0-87951-188-5 $39.95 1-212-965-8400
Milton Glaser: Graphic Design explores the extraordinary artistic achievement
of America's pre-eminent graphic artist. Glaser has enjoyed an enormous impact
on our vision of the interaction between fine art and the commercial. Milton
Glaser: Graphic Design is a revealing introduction that speaks of the
influences on Glaser's work, the responsibilities of the artist, the
hierarchies of the traditional art world, and the role of graphic design in the
area of his creative growth. Glaser's work ranges from posters to book and
record covers, store and restaurant design to toy creations, magazine formats,
logotypes, and more.
Athenian Vase Construction
Toby Schreiber
Getty Trust Publications
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1682
0-89236-465-3 $70.00 1-310-440-6795
Toby Schreiber's Athenian Vase Construction: A Potter's Analysis is the first
comprehensive study by a working potter of the techniques used by the ancient
Greeks to form their varied pottery shapes. Organized alphabetically by vase
name, this book describes the procedure used to form twenty-four major types of
Attic vases. Each description is amply illustrated with photographs of pottery
and the author's line drawings of the techniques described in the text. An
introductory section describing the basic of the craft (from clay to firing)
allows those unfamiliar with potting techniques to follow the discussions
throughout the book. Athenian Vase Construction will be of intense interest to
potters, students of Hellenic studies, and the non-specialist general reader
with an appreciation for the functionality and beauty of the ancient craft of
pottery.
The Cave Paintings of Baja California
Harry W. Crosby
Sunbelt Publications
1250 Fayette Street, El Cajon, CA 92020
0-932653-23-5 $39.95 1-619-258-4911
Harry Crosby's The Cave Paintings Of Baja California is a dramatic and personal
account of discovering and visiting the remote caves and overhangs in Baja
California that have sheltered and preserved a veritable treasury of large
prehistoric paintings. These "Great Murals" created by an unknown people are
the most distinctive trove of rock art in North America. The scale of the
paintings and their sensitive renderings of animals and people often draw
parallels to the Paleolithic cave paintings of Europe. Crosby found and
photographed over 200 previously unreported rock shelters painted in the Great
Mural style and in this volume presents his photographs, chronicles of his
historic discovers, and his unique perspective on the painted sites. The Cave
Paintings Of Baja California is an invaluable reference work and field guide to
the magnificent prehistoric art that surveys on the rugged Baja peninsula. The
Cave Paintings Of Baja California is highly recommended for Native American
studies supplemental reading lists and North American prehistorical art
reference library collections.
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