Art forms Books

Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed from the late 1960s to the present. Over the decades, artists have responded to...

Fun how to draw bugs drawing book for kids-5-minute lessons great for young artists, holiday gifts, birthday gifts, homeschool art lessons, and elementary art classes! Learn how to draw bugs in five...

The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza-also known as Benedict or Bento de Spinoza-spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his...

Create your own vibrant and sustainable botanical prints with 20 flower-pounding projects. Suitable for crafters of all levels. You can make beautiful, colorful and surprisingly delicate prints by...

The ultimate hands-on guide for printmakers of all levels. Experienced printmaker Jenny Mason-Gunning has created an illustrated 'recipe' book for printmakers. It is full of colourful explanatory...

An inspiring and practical guide to give you the confidence to draw like you. Drawing helps you see. The more you draw, the more you look, and the more your world opens up. Many of us feel we can't...

The purpose of this book is to dispel any concerns that many people have over kiln building and give them the confidence needed to build their own kilns, thus saving money and giving themselves great...

Wreck This Journal-style creativity challenge book from TikTok's favourite teacher and artist @TamaraMichael. FROM TIKTOK'S FAVOURITE ART TEACHER. Draw your worries away . . . - This book is...

A companion volume to the Art of Final Fantasy XVI, featuring illustrations and concept art for the DLC episodes Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide. A companion volume to the Art of Final...

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - told through her unique textile scrapbook. The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through...

This masterfully designed oversized hardcover art book invites the reader on a visual journey through the world of Assassin's Creed Mirage-a world defined by the dense and vibrant city of ninth...

This masterfully designed oversized hardcover art book invites the reader on a visual journey through the world of Assassin's Creed Mirage-a world defined by the dense and vibrant city of ninth...

A new, portrait pocket format + simpler, quick-to-colour escapist art to complete in short creative windows. From bestselling author Johanna Basford - a new pocket-sized colouring book of mini...

Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning...

Through a focused analysis of work made from textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass, this book explores how contemporary artists, designers, and practitioners identifying as LGBTQ+ use a...

Reading the Thread brings together artists, theorists and designers to explore the nature and use of cloth as a means of record and communication. Cloth is constructed from threads and, in...

One of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man...

A beautiful exploration of how plants have spread across the world, adapting to and shaping their environments From the earliest green shoots to dense tropical forests, discover how plants spread...

An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and...

As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more...

Beyond Virtual Production brings together a range of creative practice research projects that have been undertaken in The Void, an early-adopter university-based virtual production studio at Flinders...

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience of the beautiful. Throughout the book, the...

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different domains of design culture across the Nordic countries.Challenging the...

‘Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, The American Society for Aesthetics.’This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the...

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.This...

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in...

Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and...

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect,...

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect,...

The possibilities for creation are endless with 3D printing, sculpting, scanning, and milling, and new opportunities are popping up faster than artists can keep up with them. 3D Technology in Fine...

The Handbook of Gestalt-Theoretic Psychology of Art synthesizes contemporary research in the psychology of perception, cognition, language and hearing to reassess the Gestalt approach to studying the...

The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries in over a century.This volume comprises seventeen accessible, thoroughly...

Originally published in 1971. Nineteenth-century theatre in England has been greatly neglected, although serious study would reveal that the roots of much modern drama are to be found in the...

Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier...

This reissued third edition of A User’s Guide to View Camera introduces photographers to large-format cameras, covering their use with both film and digital capture. Readers will learn the anatomy of...

Analysis through Action for Actors and Directors is a comprehensive view of an innovative and exciting process for making new theatre.As well as an understanding of how Analysis through Action has...

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces...

Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies. Including contributions...

In this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter's popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft...

In this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter's popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft...

Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in non-language communication devoted to the study of universal gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime. Readers develop the...

Why do we readily dispose of some things, whereas we keep and maintain others for years, despite their obvious wear and tear? Can a greater understanding of aesthetic value lead to a more strategic...

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical...

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces...

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global...