A Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup


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Created by some of Japan's most talented and up-and-coming special effects make-up artists, this is the first Japanese language Special Effects Make-Up "how-to" guide! From easy "scar" make-ups to basic techniques to masks and full-scale prosthetics, each process is covered in a fully illustrated, step-by-step process.




John Baldessari


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By combining and colliding the unexpected, the US artist John Baldessari (1931-2020), created conceptual works that raise questions regarding what art is, how art is made, and what art can look like. After concluding in the 1960s that a photographic image or a text were more adequate expressions of his artistic intentions than painting, John Baldessari's practice took a new direction. Since then, Baldessari has combined subjects from the imagery of popular culture with linguistic examinations, creating works that challenge artistic norms and boundaries. Besides the two essays the book also includes a wide selection of Baldessari's own writings from 1968-2011.




I'll Drown My Book


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This book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries. Contributors respond to the question: What is conceptual writing? 'I'll Drown My Book' offers feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon.




Decoding Manhattan


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Mysteries and folkways of New York City revealed in an entertaining collection of graphic art The life and legend of New York City, from the size of its skyscrapers to the ways of its inhabitants, is vividly captured in this lively collection of more than 250 maps, cross sections, flowcharts, tables, board games, cartoons and infographics, and other unique diagrams spanning 150 years. Superstars such as Saul Steinberg, Maira Kalman, Christoph Niemann, Roz Chast, and Milton Glaser butt up against the unsung heroes of the popular press in a book that is made not only for lovers of New York but also for anyone who enjoys or works with information design.




Awaking Beauty


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Graphic but mystical, vibrant yet enigmatic, the work of American artist Eyvind Earle is a treasure trove of subtle and shimmering contradictions. From fanciful backgrounds for Disney classics such as Sleeping Beauty to bold experiments in multimedia art, from ambitious commercial animations to lush and otherworldly oil landscapes, Earle's oeuvre never fails to please the eye and engage the imagination. And here, collected in Awaking Beauty—the official catalog for the 2017 Walt Disney Family Museum exhibition of the same name—is a definitive exploration of his life's full work. Born in New York City in 1916, Earle showed early talent, hosting his first solo exhibition at the age of fourteen. After traveling in Mexico and Europe as a teenager, he bicycled across the United States, painting watercolors to pay his way. In the late 1930s, he began designing Christmas cards—which have sold more than 300 million copies over the years—while continuing to exhibit his fine art. Earle's transformative moment, however, came in 1951, when he was hired at The Walt Disney Studios as a background painter. Again, he proved a quick study, lending his talents to the Academy Award-winning short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, beloved full-length feature Sleeping Beauty, and many other time-honored Disney animated films. After his tenure at Disney ended in 1958, Earle turned his attention to commercial animation and advertising, then returned ot fine art full-time in 1966. Here, in the last three decades of his life, Earle created an immense and impressively varied body of work. He became an expert at the silkscreen-printing process known as serigraphy, a painstaking art form that could require up to 200 individual screens. He also created dozens of graphic and arresting scratchboards—engravings carved into boards primed with white clay and black ink—for his autobiography, Horizon Bound on a Bicycle. In addition to his multimedia experiments, Earle painted dazzling oil works of the natural world, capturing the rolling hills, lacy and voluminous trees, and crashing blue waves of California in a nearly transcendental light. A moving and lyrical writer, he often accompanied his mesmerizing landscapes with equally meditative and intriguing poems. After a long and esteemed career, Earle passed away in 2000 in Carmel-y-the-Sea, California, leaving behind a formidable legacy in animation and fine art. Today, his work is in the permanent collections of several prominent museums (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), while his memory continues to inspire new generations of aspiring creatives around the globe.




Beauty and the End of Art


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Beauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink art, beauty and their relationship. By arguing that Wittgenstein's later work and contemporary theory of perception offer just what we need for a unified approach to art and beauty, Sonia Sedivy provides new answers to these contemporary challenges. These new accounts also provide support for the Wittgensteinian realism and theory of perception that make them possible. Wittgenstein's subtle form of realism explains artworks in terms of norm governed practices that have their own varied constitutive norms and values. Wittgensteinian realism also suggests that diverse beauties become available and compelling in different cultural eras and bring a shared 'higher-order' value into view. With this framework in place, Sedivy argues that perception is a form of engagement with the world that draws on our conceptual capacities. This approach explains how perceptual experience and the perceptible presence of the world are of value, helping to account for the diversity of beauties that are available in different historical contexts and why the many faces of beauty allow us to experience the value of the world's perceptible presence. Carefully examining contemporary debates about art, aesthetics and perception, Beauty and the End of Art presents an original approach. Insights from such diverse thinkers as Immanuel Kant, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Arthur Danto, Alexander Nehamas, Elaine Scarry and Dave Hickey are woven together to reveal how they make good sense if we bring contemporary theory of perception and Wittgensteinian realism into the conversation.




A LOOK AT CONCEPTUAL ART


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1.INTRODUCTION Imagine a profession that is thought to have no limits, but the job itself can set its limits. Whether the field of this profession is human and everything that belongs to human beings, you have in your hands your self and the fact that you live in the world. Let these seemingly small facts be interpreted by being shaped, and now I ask, are there not explicit or hidden symbols in the thought you have formed? Here, in Conceptual Art, he tells us that we can apply art and the symbols in the work to everything, anywhere. However, it should be known that if you are going to make Conceptual Art, your infrastructure must be ready. Where do we find the factors that make up thought that has been transformed into a form that we can apply everywhere? Isn't it the symbols that are involved in the work done voluntarily or involuntarily? The events we experience form the final state of our psychology. When the artist puts aside the "concern about where and how" and only makes form, this form will be nothing at first, but then it will turn into many things, this process can even make us someone else later on. People can find the latest state of their psychology in every action they take to get rid of the troubles of life. We can find ourselves in every movie we watch in every article we read. It's about how we look. Art does this to us, and when we go outside, it places many facts that we think are nothing. So why should the artist be stuck with dogmas during the production and transmission of his work? The artist can see his wish to transfer in a tree stump. Isn't it natural to consider the ceremony of throwing out a garbage disposal as an act of getting rid of the excess in our lives and presenting it to the audience as a work of art? Well, wouldn't the artist displaying this interpretation offer us symbols at some point? Although the artist hides this, maybe not in the first reading, but after that he will definitely give it away. Is the artist's most natural state his primitive state? Everything is hidden in primitiveness. The foundations of many formations that we consider new today are hidden in the "Cro-Magnon", the first race of the "Homo Sapiens" subspecies. Maybe it was magic, maybe it was the ingredients of the magic, maybe it was the ceremony. Regardless of how these ceremonies are, they are the factors that naturally make up the theater. Doesn't it point to the earth's art that they have made on the mountain, the stone and the soil? Of course, there are many effects. Let's take a subject, the first invention of primitive man was a needle. Let's say you make your clothes with this invention. Doesn't the position of the person that they think while making this dress affect the dress they have seen and experienced until that day? Is it not possible to place images that distinguish the owner of the relevant dress from other people? Yes, it is possible and very normal action. Now, let's fictionalize this person superficially, there is a tribe and the owner of the dress is the leader of the tribe, and the person who makes the dress is the man he loves, the father of the children he has given birth to. The only woman of the tribe who sews a dress will inevitably place images that distinguish it from the other men of the tribe. We can even find the distinguishing feature in the differences in the seams hidden in the dress. This has influenced fashion, painting and many other branches of art. He disciplined all the arts within himself. Of course, his thoughts and dreams during production are scenarios. It is fiction and he is a screenwriter himself. Dreaming is the most natural impulse and often a life support unit that cannot be inhibited. It has been scientifically proven that even animals dream. The dream is a fiction. The human being, who is more developed than the animal, knows the way of conveying this fiction. The "must have" is the type of person who sets the rules. So it is human who can lift it. Let him choose his own presentation as he constructs and shapes what he imagines. Whatever the material is, let him do it just for art, for himself or to give a message to people, without worrying about color and balance. The artist, who makes conceptual art, contains his own truth that hides all the elements, no matter where he conveys and expresses. This truth is hidden in icons. The purpose of this research is to convey the existence of this fact to the reader.




Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination


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This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant’s theory of taste, which was put forward in part one of the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The book explores the possibility of incorporating ugliness, a negative aesthetic concept, into the overall Kantian aesthetic picture. It addresses a debate of the last two decades over whether Kant's aesthetics should allow for a pure aesthetic judgment of ugliness. The book critically reviews the main interpretations of Kant’s central notion of the free play of imagination and understanding and offers a new interpretation of free play, one that allows for the possibility of a disharmonious state of mind and ugliness. In addition, the book also applies an interpretation of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetics to resolve certain issues that have been raised in contemporary aesthetics, namely the possibility of appreciating artistic and natural ugliness and the role of disgust in artistic representation. Offering a theoretical and practical analysis of different kinds of negative aesthetic experiences, this book will help readers acquire a better understanding of his or her own evaluative processes, which may be helpful in coping with complex aesthetic experiences. Readers will gain unique insight into how ugliness can be offensive, yet, at the same time, fascinating, interesting and captivating.




Not Built in a Day


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Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of Rome is a unique, unconventional guide and a deeply felt homage to Rome and its extraordinary 2,500-year history. Moving beyond the names, dates, and statistics of ordinary guidebooks, George Sullivan's eye-opening essays celebrate the special character of Rome's buildings, fountains, piazzas, streets, and ruins. From the largest landmark down to the smallest hidden gem, Not Built in a Day explores the city in comprehensive detail, offering detailed visual and historical analyses that enable readers to see and understand exactly what makes the architecture of Rome so important, influential, and fascinating. Not Built in a Day is supported by a companion website (NotBuiltInADay.com) that offers, among other features, detailed illustrative photographs for readers who want to experience the book's walking tours at home and large printable maps for readers using small electronic devices on-site in Rome.




Conquered Conquerors


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The first comprehensive study of the Song of Songs' use of military metaphors Although love transcends historical and cultural boundaries, its conceptualizations, linguistic expressions, and literary representations vary from culture to culture. In this study, Danilo Verde examines love through the military imagery found throughout the Song’s eight chapters. Verde approaches the military metaphors, similes, and scenes of the Song using cognitive metaphor theory to explore the overlooked representation of love as war. Additionally, this book investigates how the Song conceptualizes both the male and the female characters, showing that the concepts of masculinity and femininity are tightly interconnected in the poem. Conquered Conquerors provides fresh insights into the Song's figurative language and the conceptualization of gender in biblical literature.