Art and Illustration Books

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	Gerhard Richter: Forty Years Of Painting Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the "natural" evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, c...
	Legal Guide for the Visual Artist This highly acclaimed reference book presents a comprehensive overview of the legal issues faced by anyone working in the visual arts. The narrative text is arranged into twenty-four chapters covering: copyright, contracts, censorship, moral rights, sales (by artist, gallery, or agent), taxation, estate planning, museums, collecting, and grants. The book suggests basic strategies, gives information to help with further action, and contains many sample legal forms and contracts. This ed...
	Soviet Posters: The Sergo Grigorian Collection This massive book of Soviet propaganda posters, many rare and never before published, is at once a revealing historical document and a sublime example of graphic art at its best. Dating from 1917 to the beginning of the Cold War, the posters in this book feature the work of such major Russian ground-breaking avant-garde designers as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko as well as extraordinary works by anonymous artists. Presented in full color, the 250 posters gathered here range...
	Legacy: Paintings and Drawings by Frank Frazetta Frank Frazetta's paintings and illustrations have set the standard for fantasy artists for the past 50 years. This collection focuses on his influence in a variety of media and genres and on his place in 20th century art history. Coedited by Hugo Award-winning editor Arnie Fenner, it includes many of Frazetta's most memorable paintings as well as revised works. The art is accompanied by the artist's own observations and commentary by a number of his contemporaries....
	I Bought Andy Warhol In 1987, Richard Polsky put aside $100,000 to buy a Warhol painting, a dream that took twelve years to realize. In a book that spans the years from the wild speculation of the late 1980s to the recession of the 1990s, Polsky, himself a private dealer, takes his readers on a funny, fast-paced tour through an industry characterized by humor, hypocrisy, greed, and gossip. ...
	Guide to Getting Arts Grants More than 66,000 groups give grants--this book helps artists get them! * The only book to show artists how to get grants * Unique exercises from an insider, plus upbeat, positive approach * Focus on personal preparation for applying for and getting a grant Get that arts grant and be more independent! In this book, artists and arts groups will find all they need to know to support themselves through grants and special projects. This expert guide, written by an insider who has been on bot...
	Mitch O'connell: Tattoos The book contains 250 tattoo designs, the best of O’Connell's 3 sets of tattoo flash titled Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed (2001), Done While Drunk (2002), and From the Bottom of the Barrel (2006). Each limited edition set sold for $100, and is now out of print, and this volume collects all the images in one easy-to-flip-through book. Mitch O'Connell's art is reminiscent of the Old School tattoo art, from masters such as Sailor Jerry Collins and Don Ed Hardy, but uses more contemporary themes ...
	Yinka Shonibare, MBE Shonibare employs a wide range of media sculpture, painting,photography, video, and installation pieces to explorematters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. The artist isbest-known for his use of a Dutch-wax fabric, which, thoughlabeled as African, actually originated in Dutch Indonesia andwas introduced to Africa by British manufacturers via Dutchcolonizers in the nineteenth century. Incorporating the fabricinto Victorian dresses, covering sculptures of alien figures withit or stre...
	Art Office, Second Edition: 80+ business forms, charts, sample letters, legal documents & business plans (Art Office: 80+ Business Forms, Charts, Sample Letters, Legal) Artists will find forms to help them organize their office: a twelve-month planning calendar, financial statement, sales agreement, model release, Form VA, rental-lease agreement, artist-agent agreement, slide reference sheet, competition record, target market chart, monthly project status, show planner, sample letters to various art world professionals, pricing worksheet, bill of sale, and many more. Constance Smith began her career as an art rep in California. She has been assisting a...