The Arts Books
Draw Like a Boss Draw Like a Boss 2
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£42.75
Monacelli Press The Inner Life of the Artist
Book SynopsisFrom bestselling author Juliette Aristides comes an inspirational guide to thinking, making, and embodying the mind of a creative person
£17.95
Hirmer Verlag Linda Lighton Love and War
Book SynopsisFor fifty years, American artist Linda Lighton has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms. This monographic catalogue marks the first substantial survey of her pioneering work, which uses wit and seduction as conceptual weaponry to mine the relationship between sex, power, and politicsThis richly illustrated monograph gives a comprehensive overview of Lighton's career, delving into the ways that her highly original and often rebellious work pushes the boundaries of ceramic sculpture. Accompanied by new scholarship on the artist's practice, the publication situates her sculptureswhich use a feminist visual language to address social issues, such as gun violence, environmental degradation, and gender conformitywithin the context of broader art historical developments.
£31.50
University of Illinois Press Movie Workers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A much-needed critical volume. Movie Workers fills a major gap in scholarly and popular film history, presenting a meticulous and engaging analysis of a wealth of fascinating new data and case studies." --Technology and Culture "This is a very important book. It is no exaggeration to say that it totally re-writes the labour history of the British film industry. . . . Methodologically precise." --Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "This important study acts as a political weapon, a much-needed act of recovery and a revision of British film history." --Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Women’s Work in Film Production: Concepts, Materials, and Methods1. Organizing Work: Gender and the Film Trade Union2. The 1930s: Modernizing Production3. The 1940s: Wartime Opportunities4. The 1950s: Rebuilding Britain5. The 1960s: The New Pioneers6. The 1970s and 1980s: Working with FeminismEpilogue: Legacies and New BeginningsAppendix A: Application Form for Membership in the Association of CineTechnicians (circa 1930s)Appendix B: ACT Job Levels, 1947Appendix C: Film Technicians: Numbers and Percentage by Gender, Decade, and Production CategoryNotesSelect GlossaryIndexBack cover
£19.79
Yale University Press The Fabrication of Louis XIV Paper
Book SynopsisThe money spent by the French government on the public image of Louis XIV was extensive and succeeded in making him into a god like figure. In this book the author gives an account of the contemporary representations of Louis XIV and illustrates the relationship between art and power.Table of ContentsIntroducing Louis XIV; persuasion; sunrise; the construction of the system; self-assertion; the years of victory; the reconstruction of the system; sunset; the crisis of representations; the reverse of the medal; the reception of Louis XIV; Louis in perspective.
£18.16
Dover Publications Inc. How to Draw People
Book SynopsisBy joining circles, ovals, rectangles, and other shapes, beginning artists can create a boy on a swing, a fireman, drummer, mailman, cowboy, and 25 other subjects. Includes blank practice pages.
£6.83
Printed Matter, Incorporated A Book About Colab and Related Activities
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£31.46
Coracle Press A Table of Books in Ballybeg
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£14.25
Film and Video Umbrella Encyclopaedia and other works Alan Currall
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£11.40
Film & Video Umbrella Decoy Jane Prophet
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£9.95
Film & Video Umbrella It could happen to you A K Dolven
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£11.35
Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd The Ceramics Book
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£999.99
The Poetry Translation Centre the hammer and other poems
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£7.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Futures of Performance
Book SynopsisFutures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education. The book presents a breadth of new perspectives from the disciplines of music, dance, theatre, and mediated performance and from a range of institutional contexts. Chapters from teachers across various contexts of higher education are organized according to the three main areas of responsibilities of performing arts education: to academia, to society, and to the field as a whole. With the intention of illuminating the intricacy of how performing arts are situated and function in higher education, the book addresses key questions including: How are the performing arts valued in higher education? How are programs addressing equity? What responsibilities do performing arts programs have to stakeholders inside and outside of the academy? What are programs' etTrade Review"What is most meaningful about Futures of Performance is the focus on what individual and collectives of college and university faculty can (and should) do to insure a vibrant and impactful future for the performing arts. Futures of Performance explores the intersection of the vitality of the performing arts in society with the profound potential tertiary education has on preparing vocational professional artists and avocational arts lovers to make and love even more art. The extent to which the volume investigates the socio-political, economic, media, and cultural systems inherent in both the making of art and its consumption, as well as upon the entire educational enterprise, is significant."Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina, USA "Futures of Performance is distinct in that it places the performing arts in dialogue with each other through an interactive set of responsibilities–to the field, society, and academe–that continually influence and impact each other. One of the strengths of this volume is the personal journeys of the authors as they respond to devising new modes of interaction, the cultural history of their students, unanticipated historical events as well as the politics of the academy, the professional field, and society. Other strengths include the volume’s focus on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Throughout there is an emphasis on wholistic student centered approaches, responsiveness to unique cultural histories, and an open attitude toward an ever-evolving historical context. The essays in this volume are successful in providing this discursive dialogue and therefore provide an important contribution to a consideration of the future of performance in higher education."Barbara Sellers-Young, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsSection 1: Responsibilities to Academia Section I Introduction Karen Schupp Performance Across the Disciplines: Envisioning Transdisciplinary Performance Pedagogies in Postsecondary Education Jesse Katen Ethics, Standards, Evaluation, and Support of Creative Research in Academia Ali Duffy, Isabella Gonzales, and Destanie Davidson Preston Ugly Feelings and Social Justice: Interrupting Inaction in Times of Perpetual Crisis Lauren Kapalka Richerme Hosting Co(n)fusion: Art Residencies as Invitation-Practices Janaína Moraes Decolonizing Tertiary Dance Education Through Including Student Voices in a Curricula Change Project Camilla Reppen, Lovisa Lundgren, and Tone Pernille Østern The Creative Spaces at HBCUs Avis HatcherPuzzo, Soni Martin, Denise Murchison Payton, and Amanda Virelles Call of the Butterfly: The Tao of GenuineGenerosity Robert Farid Karimi Section 2: Responsibilities to the Fields Section II Introduction Karen Schupp The Distance of Education Adesola Akinleye Performing Hartford: A Community Turns its Head Rebecca K. Pappas Integrating Disciplines–Disciplining Integration: Opera Curriculum through a Transdisciplinary Counter-Critical Pedagogy Kevin Skelton Sustainable Futures in Performance Practice, Production, and Distribution Ecologies Max Zara Bernstein Fighting for Equity With(in) Parasitical Resistance Jessica Rajko A Tertiary Music Performance Education Through a Lens of Entrepreneurship Deanna Swoboda "Undervalued, Underpaid, Underappreciated": The Lived Experiences of Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts. Karen Schupp, Artemis Preeshl, and Joya Scott Section 3: Responsibilities to Society Section III Introduction Karen Schupp Performing Arts Education for Democracies: Are We Cultivating Citizens or Docile Laborers? Robin Raven Prichard Revitalizing the US Baccalaureate Dance Major: Integrating Values of Diversity and Interdisciplinarity Sherrie Barr and Wendy Oliver Interrogating the Academy’s Role in the Journey from Art Music to Heart Music Fiona Evison Toward a Pedagogy of Care: Well-being, Grief, and Community-based Theatre’s Role in Higher Education Rivka Eckert Arts Education in Community Colleges: A Critical Connection Amy C. Parks Pedagogies of Critical Embodiment: Activating Submerged Histories, Moving Toward Anti-Racist Futures Dasha A. Chapman The Performing Arts in the Next America: Preparing Students for Their Future Peter Witte
£35.99
Routledge Practices Education and Technology in Audiovisual Translation
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£43.69
Taylor & Francis Theological Discourses on Social Media
Book SynopsisTheological Discourses on Social Media will examine ten different social media platforms across three overarching parts. The task throughout is, first, to delineate the configuration and intent of a given form of social media and, second, to probe its implications for theology. On the whole, the volume will focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition, though dialogue with and insight from other religious traditions will also be featured. The upshot will be a unique theological engagement with the defining issue of our eraâa work that will be as relevant as it will be engrossing. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it will be a must-read for all students of theology, religion and media, and cultural studies.
£37.99
CRC Press Effective Serious Games Development
Book SynopsisThis book showcases the entire lifecycle of a serious games project and guides the reader through the different phases step by step. It follows a narrative approach, telling the story of a young game developer in a fictitious near-future setting who overcomes the challenges of a typical development process. The narrative is enriched by 15 short contributions from multinational experts on relevant topics for the development process of serious games.This book describes a holistic approach to serious games development and follows a project from its very beginning to its end. It covers the planning, creation, implementation and evaluation of a serious game. It does not cover technical details on how to write code or graphics for video games, but rather sets a focus on the conceptualization of serious games and coordination between the different roles and team members.This book will be of great interest to beginners who want to use serious games to solve their problems. It
£999.99
CRC Press A Gamers Introduction to Programming with MonoGame
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£48.99
CRC Press Game Development with Godot 4
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£49.99
CRC Press Face It
Book SynopsisAs animation software becomes more advanced and graphics become more refined, the opportunity to create informative detail becomes more achievable in your characters. You can't give every character the same facial contours anymore. Today's graphic engines and hi-definition screens enhance detail, and the features in your character can make or break the believability of your game or movie.Face It provides you with the resources that you need to ensure an accurate character model. By examining the skulls of people of different ages, ethnicities, and geographical areas, authors Patricia Beckmann-Wells and Scott Wells showcase the intricacies of the human head and face and show you how to apply that to your models.The Second Edition features new and updated tutorials as well as a new chapter discussing facial variation over time. Whether it be a Caucasian woman in her 50s or an African man in his late 20s, you'll know how to properly shape a forehead,
£999.99
CRC Press EventDatabase Architecture for Computer Games
Book SynopsisEvent-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design. An archetypal software production process, based on this architecture, is also introduced.This volume begins by describing the formal definition of software production processes in general, and the production process of computer games in particular. It introduces the two basic principles behind the software architecture that addresses the communication and productivity problems of a degenerative production process. It goes on to describe the archetypal software production process, and outlines the role that the Game Designers, Game Programmers, Game Artists, Sound Designers and Game Testers play in that process.This book will be of great interest to professional game developers involved in programming roles, such as Tools Programmers, UI Programmers, Gameplay
£46.54
CRC Press EventDatabase Architecture for Computer Games
Book SynopsisEvent-Database Architecture for Computer Games proposes the first explicit software architecture for game development, answering the problem of building modern computer games with little or no game design. In this volume, an example of a practical production process based on the software production process is explained, including examples of the game design, technical design, data design and tools design in that process.This volume includes a brief overview on how to optimize the results. This leads on to an exploration of how staff, especially Software Engineers, typically view optimization. It also explains how the vision of the Engineers relates to the vision of the leadership of a project or company. It describes how this leadership can also affect the efficacy of a production process, including the Event-Database Production Process.This book will be of great interest to professional game developers involved in programming roles, such as Tools Programmers, U
£46.54
CRC Press Extending and Customizing Unreal Engine Editor
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£47.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Game Audio Programming 5
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£49.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Audio Erotica
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£37.99
CRC Press Floating Point Numerics for Games and Simulations
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£999.99
CRC Press Get Into Game Dev
Book SynopsisGet Into Game Dev: Tech Interview Tactics is a crash-course on how to pass a game development technical interview. Itâs designed to guide intermediate and experienced coders through the depth and rigor necessary to land some of the most highly sought-after roles within interactive media.Unlike generic interview-prep books, GIGD maintains a laser-focus on game development to directly prepare candidates for roles like technical designer and gameplay engineer. Topics include 3D maths, programming fundamentals, and software design patterns. The author provides high quality instruction and practice problems based on his experience as a professional instructor and developer.Key Features: Includes an extensive set of practice questions taken from interviews of leading game development studios. Synthesizes coding and maths fundamentals into focused instruction, directly applicable to game development. Culminates in a rigorous
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CRC Press Crafty Game Writing
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£999.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Mastering Storyboarding
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£47.49
CRC Press Risk Management for Video Game Professionals
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£47.49
Taylor & Francis The Art of Mixing
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£45.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Lovesong
Book Synopsis''That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story ofthe end' Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their relationship. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships have their ups and downs; the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of experience. Love is a leap of faith.
£11.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Many Moons
Book SynopsisJuniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling towards one moment that could devastate them all.Many Moons opened at groundbreaking Theatre 503 in summer 2011.
£15.08
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hear Me Now
Book SynopsisA brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty original audition monologues, expressly created by a range of award-winning writers brought together by producer Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre Company. They're ideal for actors of colour searching for speeches for auditions or training, writers, teachers, and theatre-makers who are passionate about improving diversity.The book provides varied, nuanced stories that expand beyond the range of existing material available from a cross-dressing Imam, to the first Black Prime Minister, the British Indian girl with dreams of becoming a country music star, or the young Black boy who loves baking as much as football Hear Me Now is an essential tool for actors of colour to showcase their range, and seeks to inspire, empower, and
£15.99
1000 Words Writer Conversations
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£13.29
Poetic Pastel Press Dreaming About Tomorrow
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£9.37
Poetic Pastel Press Growing Long Growing Deep
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£9.37
1000 Words Curator Conversations
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£12.59
Gordon Bennett Publishing See You at the Premiere: Life at the Arse End of
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£14.24
David R. Godine Publisher Inc Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down
Book SynopsisLike a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing. This collection of drawings shows another side of Baez: lovingly loose and charming sketches on reoccurring themes such as politics, relationships, women, animals, and family. Each section, organized thematically, includes an introductory piece by the artist. Baez approaches her line drawings as exercises in freedom: she begins drawing upside down—often using her non-dominant hand—without any preconceived notion of where the lines might lead her. Beginning with her seminal debut album in 1960, Baez has been a musical force of nature of incalculable influence whose earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular. In 1963, she introduced Bob Dylan to the world, beginning a tradition of mutual mentoring that continued across her many recordings. As a lifetime advocate for non-violent social change, she marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr., shined a spotlight on the Free Speech Movement, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the Vietnam War, and inspired Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic. Am I Pretty When I Fly? reveals yet another side of a beloved icon.Trade Review“Am I Pretty When I Fly? shows me a side of Joan Baez I could not have imagined. It is entertaining, moving, ridiculously funny, insightful, and mysterious.” —Lana Del Rey“Joan Baez is still doing beautiful, cool stuff....abstract, quivery, weird, inscrutable, pure, and hilarious.” —The New Yorker “A book exploding with spontaneity and humor, and a grand tour through the mind of one of the great artists of the twentieth century.” —Steve Martin “Baez isn’t current, she’s timeless.” —Los Angeles Times “Joan Baez is much more than a cultural icon and spiritual/creative godmother to multiple generations of people on this planet. She has repeatedly put herself on the line for peace and justice and for the downtrodden who have nowhere to go. And then there’s that voice—stunning, earth-shattering, loving, reaching in and piercing one’s soul to help us hang on for dear life. And now her artwork and drawings, along with her pointed wit, reach into us again. We know we live in an upside down world, but the human eye, in its every waking moment, is actually taking an upside down picture and turning it right side up on the way to the brain. This book insists we see the world the way it really is. I’ve never seen such a work as this. Wow. Just wow.” —Michael Moore“Am I Pretty When I Fly? is moving, subversive, and heartbreaking. Childlike but not childish, full of wonder as well as despair. I loved it. Just like life. Thank you, Joan.” —Bette Midler“We always knew Joan Baez was funny and clever. We didn’t know she was that funny and clever. The real surprise, however, came to us in Joan’s new book, Am I Pretty When I Fly? These drawings elicit a stunning depth of feeling as they spin off from humor and romp through tenderness, cynicism, anger, heartbreak and—cloaked in silliness—a terrifying peek at current events. She has put down the guitar and reached for a pen and paper without missing a beat. This brilliant book is an example of an artist drawing the best of herself. These amazing ‘feelustrations’ are revelatory not only of Joan but humanity itself. She is a gift that keeps on giving.” —Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner “Fans and newcomers alike will appreciate this intimate look into Baez’s unique artistry....By gracefully walking a fine line between blunt-force honesty and flights of fancy, the book is satisfying, enjoyable, and rewarding.”—Kirkus Reviews
£28.79
Ulysses Press Drawing Dragons: Learn How to Create Fantastic
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£15.29
Getty Trust Publications Money in the Air
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£47.50
Yale University Press The Secrets We Keep
Book SynopsisAn intriguing look at secrecy during the Byzantine Empire and the role of the art historian in seeking truth
£16.99
Paizo Publishing, LLC Starfinder Pawns Signal of Screams Pawn
Book Synopsis The characters, villains, and starships of the Signalof Screams Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection ofmore than 100 creature and starship pawns, designed for use with the StarfinderRoleplaying Game or any tabletop science fantasy RPG. Printed on sturdycardstock, each of these double-sided pawns slots into a size-appropriateplastic base from the Starfinder Pawns Base Assortment, making them easy to mixwith traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With dozens of distinct images,the Starfinder Signal of Screams Pawn Collection depicts the enemies and alliesfrom all three adventure of the Signal of Screams AdventurePath. The Diaspora Strain The Penumbra Protocol Heart of Night
£19.13
David Zwirner Gerhard Richter: New York 2023
Book SynopsisThis highly anticipated catalogue, accompanying Gerhard Richter’s first exhibition with David Zwirner, presents Richter’s last paintings along with his recent explorations in drawing, printing, and sculpture. ---------- “[His last paintings] can feel almost like exquisite texts to be read. . . . Their freshness and spontaneity feels like a new beginning.” — Roberta Smith, The New York Times ----------- Known for his abstract and realist paintings, Gerhard Richter has pursued a diverse and influential practice characterized by a decades-long commitment to the medium and its formal and conceptual possibilities. This remarkable book celebrates the breadth of Richter’s newest bodies of work and archives a historical moment in the artist’s career. Full-color plates and installation views showcase a selection of the artist’s final works on canvas—made just before he announced his retirement from oil painting in 2017—alongside an expansive suite of new drawings made with ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper, a remarkable series of chromatic inkjet prints titled mood, and a stunning glass sculpture that debuted at the exhibition in New York. A newly commissioned essay by Dieter Schwarz, one of the foremost experts on Richter’s oeuvre, illustrates the artist’s path toward his newest bodies of work, revealing the creative process behind his iconic practice.
£48.75
David Zwirner Bob Thompson
Book SynopsisA colorful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson 'Thompson, who finally seems to be on fame's doorstep, invents in much the same way: he makes you feel how it might have felt to see a picture of an angel for the first time.' The New Yorker Influenced by jazz music, Bob Thompson painted spirited, colorful compositions that feature an interplay of bodies, allegories, and natural landscapes while reconfiguring European masterworks. Though his career as a painter spanned only a brief period, from 1958 to his untimely death at age twenty-eight in 1966, Thompson left behind a singular and influential body of figurative work that remains vitally resonant. Looking at his particular consideration of color, line, and figurationdeveloped during a period when abstraction was the dominant trend in American artthis intimate exhibition catalogue, the seventh volume in the Clarion series, pays homage to the friction Thompson generated between his proximity to and deviat
£21.25
First To Knock Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light
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£13.30
Idler Books The Idler 86: The Art of Living Punkily
Book SynopsisThe inspiring life of punk priestess Gina Birch, shocking tales from the Cynics of ancient Athens, Arthur Smith's best benches, joys of the e-bike, astrology in Middle Ages, plus sheds, beer, beekeeping and Stewart Lee's pop picks
£8.55
