Product Description: This new volume in the Performance Ideas series is drawn from the ongoing video work art is/poetry is/music is (Speaking Portraits), which features over 1000 artists—painters, poets, musicians, dancers, actors, video-/filmmakers—in eleven countries saying what art is...read more

Product Description: Leonardo's Kiss is an artist monograph on all 20 Leonardo paintings, and his Lucan self-portrait with it's kissing function is fully explained. The work also deals with the precursor to tarot, the Matrix, here attributed to Angelo Parrasio, and the invention of the game of Tarot through three developmental packs by Bonifacio Bembo at Milan's Visconti-Sforza court...read more

Product Description: International fine art auction results for calendar year 2015 with sales prices of over 135,000 listings by almost 35,000 artists. Entries encompass oil paintings, works on paper, drawings, miniatures, prints and photographs (above $3,500), and sculptures...read more

Product Description: International auction results for calendar year 2015 with sales prices of over 47,000 Old Master, Modern, and Contemporary Fine Prints; Decorative, Historical, Sporting, Topographical, Natural History, Botanical, and Japanese Prints; Fine Art, Vintage, and Film Posters; Illustrated Books, Livres d' Artiste, Books and Periodicals with Original Graphics; Picasso Ceramics...read more

How many times have you read the caption next to a work of art in a museum, or a review of a contemporary art exhibition in a magazine and found yourself none the wiser? For many, the language in which modern art is described can be as mystifying as the art itself. How necessary, then, to find a reliable guide through the confusing terminology that bedevils so much art writing. Drawing on the expertise of the most visited modern art museum in the world, The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date resource for museum goers, art students, and general readers alike, comprehensive in scope but small enough to fit into a bag or pocket. From Abstract Expressionism and Body Art through Young British Artists (YBAs) and Group Zero, with hundreds of topics in between, every term, whether it be a theme, a movement, a medium, or a practice, is defined with clarity and precision. The entries are complemented by 50 illustrations.International in scope, and ranging in time from the dawn of Impressionism through to the internet age, this is the perfect companion for all those wanting to increase their understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art.

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living. By the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover. (romance).

Using this experiential workbook, your studentscan practice all the steps important to social work practice. The author includes case examples and situations that clearly illustrate the essential skills of generalist social work practice, dozens of summaries and skill-building exercises, and much more. As your students work their way through the book, they'll het actual hands-on practice in developing skills.

Product Description: European cinema is feted as both original and daring, challenging and sometimes controversial: it has created some of the most memorable horror films ever made and produced some of its most visionary and influential practitioners...read more

Work more effectively and gauge your progress along the way! This Study Guide that is designed to accompany Levin’s The Earth Through Time, 7th Edition includes chapter overviews, learning objectives, questions for review, key terms, illustrations, and maps. Through six best-selling editions, Harold Levin's The Earth Through Time has proven that studying the ancient world doesn't have to be a passive experience. Instead, the text encourages you to make the Earth's history your own and to get involved in the material. As our understanding of paleogeography grows and the field advances, this text consistently keeps the pace. The new edition features updated and revised content as well as outstanding art and highly motivated pedagogy.

Product Description: Draw, paint, or sculpt the human figure! Models for figure drawing, painting, or sculpting are traditionally nude. This 9th book in the Art Models series, however, is all about the non-nude figure, finally making this acclaimed reference available to younger artists...read more

Product Description: Throughout history dress and fashion has always responded in complex ways to the shifting social, economic and political landscape surrounding it, simultaneously representing and creating the identity of the wearer. Arguably one of the most important signifiers of class, clothing is able both to describe social status as well as play a part in developing class identities...read more