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Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sevres
Giulio Dalvit, author
Xavier F. Salomon, author
Giles
https://gilesltd.com
9781913875251, $17.95, HC, 72pp
https://www.amazon.com/Propagazioni-Giuseppe-Penone-at-S%C3%A8vres/dp/1913875253
Synopsis: A major figure in the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s, the renowned Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (b. April, 3, 1947) is known for his exploration of the relationship between art and the natural world in a body of work that includes sculpture, performance, works on paper, and even garden design. His first works in porcelain, the exquisite disks presented here, draw attention to the moment of touch (the convergence of surface and skin) that underpins so much of his work.
Published to accompany a special exhibition of works by Penone organised by New York's Frick Collection, "Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sevres" is a new volume that comprises eleven porcelain disks that the artist made during his 2013 collaboration with the Manufacture Nationale de Sevres, the influential porcelain factory founded in the 18th century. A continuation of his Propagazioni (Propagations) series, begun in 1995, which includes various media, each disk bears the imprint of one of the artist's fingertips. One of them is in gold, its imprint a variation on the artist's index finger. Never before presented to the public, the disks are installed in a gallery adjacent to a porcelain at the Frick's temporary home on Madison Avenue, kindling a rich artistic dialogue which is further explored in this remarkable volume.
Critique: With the publication of "Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sevres by Xavier F. Salomon (deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York) and Giulio Dalvit (assistant curator of Sculpture, The Frick Collection, focusing on the museum's sculpture and medals collections), have created an inherently fascinating and expertly illustrated volume that is further enhanced with the inclusion of a two page Bibliograpy. This unique study will prove to be a valued and very special addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Art History collections. .
The Art of Drawing Manga
Talia Horsburgh
Walter Foster
c/o The Quarto Group
https://quarto.com
9780760375440 $22.99 pbk / $11.99 Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Drawing-Manga-manga-step-Collectors/dp/0760375445
Synopsis: Explore 35 step-by-step how-tos and more than 100 additional tips and tricks for creating a variety of manga characters, animals, and scenes in The Art of Drawing Manga.
With 144 pages of in-depth instruction and hundreds of reference images, The Art of Drawing Manga is suitable for all manga artists and enthusiasts, regardless of skill level or age. From learning the basics of drawing archetypal characters with intriguing personalities to creating action-packed poses and even drawing entire manga scenes from scratch, this is the ultimate guide to creating all things manga. This book shows how to draw people and animals, develop intriguing characters, create eye-catching poses and scenes, and write stories and dialog for a manga book.
All instruction is easy to follow, so you can quickly learn to draw different faces and expressions, hairstyles, clothing and accessories, animals (both real and fictional), heroes, villains, sidekicks, and so much more.
Step-by-step instructions make the drawing process approachable for beginning and aspiring artists.
Projects range from simple and easy chibis to more detailed scenes with multiple characters in action poses.
Also included are tips for developing your own style, while looking to common styles for inspiration.
Templates at the end of the book allow for easy practice of character faces and poses.
With everything you need to start in the world of manga, The Art of Drawing Manga is your ultimate guide to creating your own characters and developing your own original manga books and stories.
Critique: The Art of Drawing Manga is a full-color, step-by-step guide to drawing characters, animals, poses, and scenes in the style of manga (Japanese comics). Chapters demonstrate the basics of creating black-and-white art, shading, and colorization, as well as drawing characters, facial expressions, dynamic poses, and putting everything together to tell a story in one's own unique style. Thoroughly accessible and user-friendly, The Art of Drawing Manga is an excellent starting point for anyone with a creative interest in graphic novel storytelling, highly recommended! It should be noted for personal reading lists that The Art of Drawing Manga is also available in a Kindle edition ($11.99).
The Nature of Creativity
Jane E. Hall
Merrell Publishers
www.merrellpublishers.com
9781858947013, $35.00, HC, 160pp
https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Creativity-Mindful-Approach-Making/dp/1858947014
Synopsis: As we become increasingly aware of the power of nature to lift our spirits, so, too, are we becoming more conscious of the role that mindfulness can play in sparking our creativity.
With the publication of "The Nature of Creativity: A Mindful Approach to Making Art & Craft" renowned textile artist and embroiderer Jane E. Hall brings this perception together. As a successful professional artist, Jane still finds great happiness and inspiration in connecting with nature, and here encourages the reader to attune to the beauty of the natural world as a way of stimulating their creativity.
Jane begins by explaining how spending time in nature helps us to engage the senses and rediscover playfulness, and outlines her belief that one should embrace the process of making art rather than focusing on its final form. She shares the special spaces, both indoors and out, that allow her imagination to have free rein, and then presents 10 creative ideas inspired by nature.
These 'Creative Contemplations' first explore building your own treasure collection of materials to use in artistic projects, and then move on to the creation of a range of beautiful designs: stunning mandalas of petals, leaves, and shells; delicate dreamcatchers; a dainty purse of honesty seed pods; handmade birds' nests; exquisite embroidered butterflies; 'woodland fairies' composed of lichen-covered twigs and feathers; and much more. Some 'Contemplations' include step-by-step instructions, while others feature the stories behind their making in order to inspire you to push beyond your perceived creative limits.
Jane's writing style is uplifting and engaging, and the text throughout is accompanied by specially commissioned photography. No matter how skilled or unskilled you believe yourself to be, "The Nature of Creativity" will nurture artistic thoughts and help to find inner happiness through the natural landscape, unlock artistic potential and breathe creativity back into daily life!
Critique: Impressively illustrated throughout with full color photography, "The Nature of Creativity: A Mindful Approach to Making Art & Craft" is an inherently fascinating and inspiring read that will have a very special appeal to nature and mixed- media crafts. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "The Nature of Creativity: A Mindful Approach to Making Art & Craft" is very highly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Contemporary Arts & Crafts collections.
Editorial Note: Jane E. Hall is an acclaimed fine and textile artist and embroiderer whose work has featured in numerous exhibitions and magazines. She is based in Dorset. Her previous publications are The Art and Embroidery of Jane Hall: Reflections of Nature (2006) and The Art of Embroidered Butterflies (2012).
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sevres
Giulio Dalvit, author
Xavier F. Salomon, author
Giles
https://gilesltd.com
9781913875251, $17.95, HC, 72pp
https://www.amazon.com/Propagazioni-Giuseppe-Penone-at-S%C3%A8vres/dp/1913875253
Synopsis: A major figure in the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s, the renowned Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (b. April, 3, 1947) is known for his exploration of the relationship between art and the natural world in a body of work that includes sculpture, performance, works on paper, and even garden design. His first works in porcelain, the exquisite disks presented here, draw attention to the moment of touch (the convergence of surface and skin) that underpins so much of his work.
Published to accompany a special exhibition of works by Penone organised by New York's Frick Collection, "Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sevres" is a new volume that comprises eleven porcelain disks that the artist made during his 2013 collaboration with the Manufacture Nationale de Sevres, the influential porcelain factory founded in the 18th century. A continuation of his Propagazioni (Propagations) series, begun in 1995, which includes various media, each disk bears the imprint of one of the artist's fingertips. One of them is in gold, its imprint a variation on the artist's index finger. Never before presented to the public, the disks are installed in a gallery adjacent to a porcelain at the Frick's temporary home on Madison Avenue, kindling a rich artistic dialogue which is further explored in this remarkable volume.
Critique: With the publication of "Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sevres by Xavier F. Salomon (deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York) and Giulio Dalvit (assistant curator of Sculpture, The Frick Collection, focusing on the museum's sculpture and medals collections), have created an inherently fascinating and expertly illustrated volume that is further enhanced with the inclusion of a two page Bibliograpy. This unique study will prove to be a valued and very special addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Art History collections. .
The Art of Drawing Manga
Talia Horsburgh
Walter Foster
c/o The Quarto Group
https://quarto.com
9780760375440 $22.99 pbk / $11.99 Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Drawing-Manga-manga-step-Collectors/dp/0760375445
Synopsis: Explore 35 step-by-step how-tos and more than 100 additional tips and tricks for creating a variety of manga characters, animals, and scenes in The Art of Drawing Manga.
With 144 pages of in-depth instruction and hundreds of reference images, The Art of Drawing Manga is suitable for all manga artists and enthusiasts, regardless of skill level or age. From learning the basics of drawing archetypal characters with intriguing personalities to creating action-packed poses and even drawing entire manga scenes from scratch, this is the ultimate guide to creating all things manga. This book shows how to draw people and animals, develop intriguing characters, create eye-catching poses and scenes, and write stories and dialog for a manga book.
All instruction is easy to follow, so you can quickly learn to draw different faces and expressions, hairstyles, clothing and accessories, animals (both real and fictional), heroes, villains, sidekicks, and so much more.
Step-by-step instructions make the drawing process approachable for beginning and aspiring artists.
Projects range from simple and easy chibis to more detailed scenes with multiple characters in action poses.
Also included are tips for developing your own style, while looking to common styles for inspiration.
Templates at the end of the book allow for easy practice of character faces and poses.
With everything you need to start in the world of manga, The Art of Drawing Manga is your ultimate guide to creating your own characters and developing your own original manga books and stories.
Critique: The Art of Drawing Manga is a full-color, step-by-step guide to drawing characters, animals, poses, and scenes in the style of manga (Japanese comics). Chapters demonstrate the basics of creating black-and-white art, shading, and colorization, as well as drawing characters, facial expressions, dynamic poses, and putting everything together to tell a story in one's own unique style. Thoroughly accessible and user-friendly, The Art of Drawing Manga is an excellent starting point for anyone with a creative interest in graphic novel storytelling, highly recommended! It should be noted for personal reading lists that The Art of Drawing Manga is also available in a Kindle edition ($11.99).
The Nature of Creativity
Jane E. Hall
Merrell Publishers
www.merrellpublishers.com
9781858947013, $35.00, HC, 160pp
https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Creativity-Mindful-Approach-Making/dp/1858947014
Synopsis: As we become increasingly aware of the power of nature to lift our spirits, so, too, are we becoming more conscious of the role that mindfulness can play in sparking our creativity.
With the publication of "The Nature of Creativity: A Mindful Approach to Making Art & Craft" renowned textile artist and embroiderer Jane E. Hall brings this perception together. As a successful professional artist, Jane still finds great happiness and inspiration in connecting with nature, and here encourages the reader to attune to the beauty of the natural world as a way of stimulating their creativity.
Jane begins by explaining how spending time in nature helps us to engage the senses and rediscover playfulness, and outlines her belief that one should embrace the process of making art rather than focusing on its final form. She shares the special spaces, both indoors and out, that allow her imagination to have free rein, and then presents 10 creative ideas inspired by nature.
These 'Creative Contemplations' first explore building your own treasure collection of materials to use in artistic projects, and then move on to the creation of a range of beautiful designs: stunning mandalas of petals, leaves, and shells; delicate dreamcatchers; a dainty purse of honesty seed pods; handmade birds' nests; exquisite embroidered butterflies; 'woodland fairies' composed of lichen-covered twigs and feathers; and much more. Some 'Contemplations' include step-by-step instructions, while others feature the stories behind their making in order to inspire you to push beyond your perceived creative limits.
Jane's writing style is uplifting and engaging, and the text throughout is accompanied by specially commissioned photography. No matter how skilled or unskilled you believe yourself to be, "The Nature of Creativity" will nurture artistic thoughts and help to find inner happiness through the natural landscape, unlock artistic potential and breathe creativity back into daily life!
Critique: Impressively illustrated throughout with full color photography, "The Nature of Creativity: A Mindful Approach to Making Art & Craft" is an inherently fascinating and inspiring read that will have a very special appeal to nature and mixed- media crafts. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "The Nature of Creativity: A Mindful Approach to Making Art & Craft" is very highly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Contemporary Arts & Crafts collections.
Editorial Note: Jane E. Hall is an acclaimed fine and textile artist and embroiderer whose work has featured in numerous exhibitions and magazines. She is based in Dorset. Her previous publications are The Art and Embroidery of Jane Hall: Reflections of Nature (2006) and The Art of Embroidered Butterflies (2012).
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. We accept no funds from authors or publishers. Full permission is given to post any of these reviews on thematically appropriate websites, newsgroups, listserves, internet discussion groups, organizational newsletters, or to interested individuals. Please give the Midwest Book Review a credit line when doing so.
The Midwest Book Review publishes the monthly book review magazines "California Bookwatch", "Internet Bookwatch", "Children's Bookwatch", "MBR Bookwatch", "Reviewer's Bookwatch", and "Small Press Bookwatch". All are available for free on the Midwest Book Review website at www (dot) midwestbookreview (dot) com
Anyone wanting to submit books for review consideration can send them to:
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
278 Orchard Drive
Oregon, WI 53575-1129
To submit reviews of any fiction or non-fiction books, email them to Frugalmuse (at) aol (dot) com (Be sure to include the book title, author, publisher, publisher address, publisher website/phone number, 13-digit ISBN number, and list price).
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
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