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Artful Lives

Author : Beth Gates Warren

Publisher : Getty Publications

Page : 396 pages

File Size : 15,59 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Art

ISBN : 1606060708

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This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.



Leading the Artful Life

Author : Vitta Poplar

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 44,52 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Interior decoration

ISBN : 0740709976

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The high-style abodes in this book are the artist's all-time favorites from her continuing quest to discover fresh and different designs and schemes. From new traditionalist styles to minimalist motifs, this work will inspire readers to establish an artful life at their own address.



John Dewey and the Artful Life

Author : Scott R. Stroud

Publisher : Penn State Press

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 36,97 MB

Release : 2015-09-10

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0271056878

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Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object.



CreativeGIRL

Author : Danielle Donaldson

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 16,89 MB

Release : 2015-06-18

Category : Art

ISBN : 1440340188

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Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers! CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration with simple fixes. You'll learn how to paint with watercolor, tell visual stories with and without words and add depth with layers using mixed-media techniques and little details--all while finding inspiration and gaining confidence in your own artistic style. Draw, paint, layer and create! • More than 30 techniques and projects including drawing, painting and adding layers for artists and aspiring artists of all levels. • Learn how do draw and paint figures such as creativeGIRL, busyGIRL and tutuGIRL. Then create your own girl to channel your story. • Find even more inspiration in a gallery filled with extraLOVE from the artist.



Artful Players

Author : Birgitta Hjalmarson

Publisher : Balcony Press

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 15,27 MB

Release : 1999-03

Category : Art

ISBN :

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Birgitta Hjalmarson deftly brings these artists back to life, partly because their story is long overdue, partly because it is such a rollicking good one.



The Artful Parent

Author : Jean Van't Hul

Publisher : Shambhala Publications

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 35,82 MB

Release : 2019-06-11

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1611807204

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Bring out your child’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage creative activities for ages one to eight. From setting up a studio space in your home to finding the best art materials for children, this book gives you all the information you need to get started. You’ll learn how to: * Pick the best materials for your child’s age and learn to make your very own * Prepare art activities to ease children through transitions, engage the most energetic of kids, entertain small groups, and more * Encourage artful living through everyday activities * Foster a love of creativity in your family



Artful

Author : Ali Smith

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 27,14 MB

Release : 2012-11-01

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0241959586

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A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful and audacious' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, Artful slips slyly between fiction and essay, guiding the reader thrillingly through a sequence of ideas on art and literature. With Smith's trademark humour, inventiveness, poignancy and critical insight, this is unique experiment in form, style, life, love, death, immortality and what art can mean. Based on four electrifying lectures given by the author at Oxford University, and exploring the explosive connections between art, story, memory and grief - Artful is a tidal wave of ideas to blast away the cobwebs and change how you see the world. ***** 'Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . makes you glad to be alive' Jackie Kay 'Powerful and moving' London Review of Books 'Blending of criticism and fiction, Artful belongs in a genre of its own . . . Joyful for anyone interested in the art of writing, and living, well' Anita Sethi, New Statesman



Painting with Wool

Author : Dani Ives

Publisher : Abrams

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 11,73 MB

Release : 2019-03-26

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1683355156

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Learn how to needle felt and create stunning works of fiber art to wear, hang on the wall, and more with this guide and collection of sixteen projects. Painting with Wool is the introductory and must-have text for fiber artists and other crafters looking for a new and exciting art form to explore. Increasingly popular, Dani Ives’s style of needle felting uses wool fibers and a felting needle to layer and “paint” embellishments for pieces that are bursting with texture and depth. Whether you want to decorate a tote or garment, or create frameable artwork, Painting with Wool is the guide to everything you need to know—including the tools required, the basic techniques, and how to get started. For fiber lovers who want to broaden their skills, needle felting is an easy, therapeutic form of self-expression that offers beautiful, unique results. Ives is a pioneer in this art form and a skilled instructor who makes learning this craft fun and approachable for all.



Art Is Life

Author : Tami Lewis Brown

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Page : 48 pages

File Size : 17,2 MB

Release : 2020-12-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780374304249

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Writer Tami Lewis Brown and illustrator Keith Negley present a joyful picture book biography of modern art icon Keith Haring, celebrating the ways his life embodied the message: art is for everyone. Art is life... and life is art. Keith Haring believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone. When Keith first moved to New York City, he rode the subway and noticed how the crowds were bored and brusque, and that the subways were decayed and dreary. He thought the people of New York needed liberating, illuminating, and radiating art. So he bought a stick of white chalk and started drawing...



The Artful Life of R. Vijay

Author : Annapurna Garimella

Publisher :

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 38,86 MB

Release : 2016-03-17

Category :

ISBN : 9781932476774

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Beautiful, detailed and contemporary: a stunning introduction to the living tradition of Rajasthani miniature painting of Rakesh Vijay in collaboration with Waswo X. Waswo. This book is a beautiful testimony to the traditional skills of an amazing artist plucked from obscurity by a visionary photographer-poet whose commission has expiated his insecurity over his own presence in India while briging R. Vijay to the world.