A self-taught artist in several mediums who became known for stippling, Leonard Chana captured the essence of the Tohono O'odham people. He incorporated subtle details of O'odham life into his art, and his images evoke the smells, sounds, textures, and tastes of the Sonoran desert—all the while depicting the values of his people. He began his career by creating cards and soon was lending his…
eDossier: una collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile e accessibile. Marino Marini (1901-1980) è tra gli interpreti più significativi della scultura italiana del Novecento. Questa pubblicazione ripercorre le tappe fondamentali della sua carriera: dalle opere degli esordi, in cui guarda alle proporzioni dei grandi…
What role do the visual arts play in the emerging commercial spaceflight industry, and vice versa? This book considers the relationship between art practice and space science, presenting new methodologies for art-sci collaboration informed by non-terrestrial contexts. Regarded widely as an irreverent luxury accessible to only a select few, commercial space exploration seems an unlikely setting…
Create ready-to-go, fun, and delicious meals inspired by My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, and more with this beautiful bento cookbook celebrating the imaginative worlds of Studio Ghibli! Make delicious bento lunches modeled after your favorite Studio Ghibli movie characters. The easy-to-follow recipes are fun to make and fun to eat! RECIPES FOR…
This book explores the unusual oeuvre of the American painter Lucien C. Kapp, who—largely under the radar of art history—forged a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and the twenty-first century. It discusses his three artistic "homes" of Illinois, Japan, and Styria in Austria, each of which in its own way fired the artist's imagination and inspired him to "condense the world." A recurrin…
This volume documents the life and works of the acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee. His first four plays were all produced Off Broadway from 1960-1961, creating buzz that he was an up-and-coming avant-garde playwright. But his most notable accomplishment came a year later with his first full-length play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His plays were linked with the philosophies of the Europea…
Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890-1916) è, assieme a Fernando Pessoa, uno dei massimi esponenti del Primo Modernismo Portoghese. Poeta e scrittore dotato di grande sensibilità letteraria, è autore di una vasta opera in prosa, per quanto concentrata in un periodo di tempo estremamente limitato – quindici racconti e un romanzo breve in venticinque anni di vita ed essenzialmente in quattro di atti…
A concise illustrated history of one of art’s most important and elusive elements Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple processes such as corrosion and calcination until the Industrial Revolution introduced colors outside the sp…
Das Buch befasst sich mit dem ungewöhnlichen Werk des 90-jährigen amerikanischen Malers Lucien C. Kapp, der dem Abstrakten Expressionismus gewissermaßen unter dem Radar der Kunstgeschichte eine Brücke ins 21. Jahrhundert geschaffen hat. Es reflektiert seine drei künstlerischen "Heimaten": Illinois, Japan und die Steiermark, die auf unterschiedliche Weise die Fantasie des Künstlers zu eine…
Artists have always had a role in imagining a more socially just, inclusive world—many have devoted their lives to realizing this possibility. In a culture ever more embedded in performance and the visual, examining the role of arts in multicultural teaching for social justice is a timely focus. In Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy approaches to using activist art to teach a multicultur…