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Why Art Cannot be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students
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Include books by the same authorDrawing Words and Writing Pictures
Jessica Abel, Matt Madden · 304 pages
A course on comic creation--for college classes or for independent study--that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered--each complete with homework, extra-credit activities and supplementary reading suggestions--provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their ow
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick · 128 pages
Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
MaryAnn F. Kohl, Kim Solga · 152 pages
Featuring more than 150 activities, this guide teaches the styles, works, and techniques of the great masters—Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and more.
Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton · 200 pages
A new addition to our best selling series, Design Briefs, Thinking with Type is a straightforward primer that presents practical information about typographic design that can be immediately applied within the context of design history and theory. It is divided into three sections - letter, text, grid - each accompanied by an essay explaining key concepts, and then a set of practical demonstrations
Comics and Sequential Art
Will Eisner · 158 pages
From the Publisher: A classic drawing textbook from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation. Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. In Comics and Sequential Art, Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the fr
Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Vol 1 (w/ArtStudy CD-ROM 2.1)
Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya · 472 pages
Volume I of of [Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15125444W/Gardner's_Art_Through_the_Ages)
The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Robert Henri · 275 pages
From 1915 to 1927, Henri was a popular and influential teacher at the Art Students League of New York. He provided for each student not a style so much as an attitude, an approach to art. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Henri's other students inclu
Film Art: An Introduction
David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson · 512 pages
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. In this new edition, the authors provide an introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, with images throughout the text collected from actual film frames, not from production stills or advertising photos.
A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series)
Sylvan Barnet · 400 pages
Graphic Design: The New Basics
Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips · 252 pages
The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
Richard Williams · 352 pages
Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) has written an incredible step-by-step guide that's great for beginners and and experts alike. Goes into great detail regarding many aspects of animation, including detailed sections covering walks, runs, dialogue, timing, acting, directing, and much more.
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Francis D.K. Ching · 446 pages
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
Lynda Barry · 200 pages
Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when she was figuring out how to teach a course on keeping creative notebooks. The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work ***What It Is***. She believes that *anyone can be a writer* and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry ha
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp · 656 pages
"Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction, 2nd edition covers a wide range of issues, topics, and paradigms that go beyond the traditional scope of human-computer interaction (HCI). Using state-of-the-art examples, it covers psychological and social aspects of users, interaction styles, user requirements, design approaches, usability and evaluation, traditional and future interface pa
Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang · 96 pages
"Everyone knows that a picture tells a thousand words. But what about the elements that make up a picture? Using the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an example, Molly Bang uses boldly graphic artwork to explain how images--and their individual components--work to tell a story that engages the emotions: Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold?
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
Art History, Volume 1 (MyArtsLab Series)
Marilyn Stokstad, Michael Cothren · 648 pages
The Natural Way to Draw
Kimon Nicolaides · 221 pages
An approach to drawing technique based on observation covering contour and gesture, model drawing, memory in ink and watercolor; anatomy study, drapery, shade, structure, and other topics in drawing.
A Kid's Guide to Sewing: 16 Fun Projects You'll Love To Make & Use
Sophie Kerr · 368 pages
Art Through the Ages
Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya · 922 pages
Contains: - Volume I: [Ancient, Medieval, and Non-European Art](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18151172W/Ancient_Medieval_and_Non-European_Art) - Volume II: [Renaissance and Modern Art](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15125458W/Renaissance_and_Modern_Art) - Book B: [The Middle Ages](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17551781W/The_Middle_Ages) - Book D: [Renaissance and Baroque](https://op
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers · 81 pages
Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers' unique ideas of colour experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edi