Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia

Pattern Design: A Period Design Sourcebook

A collection of over 500 designs covers wallpaper, textiles, furnishings, costume, tiles and ceramics. It includes designs, which range from medieval through renaissance and the 19th century up to the 1970s; from classic French 17th-century wallpaper through William Morris pomegranate designs to 1950s children's wallpaper.

Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces. This title presents the story of eight of these men in the forward operating theatre.

An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols

Explains the meanings associated with objects, plants, animals, myths, religious symbols, and images in art.

Modern Art: Impressionism to Today

Dynamic Anatomy

Dynamic Anatomy

This revised edition covers text on artistic anatomy. It includes 75 never before published drawings from the Burne Hogarth archives and 24 pages of new material. Action studies and practical diagrams show how to render the anatomical details of the figure in motion and at rest.

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I: 1

AlphaTangle: A Truly Tangled Alphabet (Design Originals)

Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Inquiry

Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

Presents examples of studio-based research in art, film, video, creative writing and dance, each contextualized by a theoretical essay, complete with references. This book draws on such thinkers as Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its examination of the relationship between practice and theory.

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist's execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical common-places are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based.

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook 2

Features 100 innovative, and classic packaging and paper engineering ideas across a variety of end uses, with templates showing how to copy, fold, construct, and complete them from widely available materials.

The Packaging and Design Templates Sourcebook (c/w CD-rom): Creative Packaging Solutions for Outstanding Design

Covering areas such as food and drink, product packaging, CDs and DVDs, books, retail and stationary, this book presents a showcase of 140 innovative and classic packaging and paper engineering ideas. Accompanying each project is a detailed template, which shows the reader how to copy, fold and construct each project from available material.

Surfaces and Textures: A Visual Sourcebook

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression