Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.
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Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Unearthing the Masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo... |
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Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)Visit our website for sample chapters!... |
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Felix Gonzalez-TorresIn April 2006, the Department of State announced that the late Cuban-born conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres would represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale (June 1-November 21). This much sought-after and long-out-of-print volume, reissued by the Guggenheim Museum for the occasion, was originally published to accompany the artist's solo exhibition at the Museum in 1995, one year before his untimely death at the age of 38. Gonzalez-Torres wanted a readable book, not a catalogu... |
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Memory And Vision: Arts, Cultures, And Lives of Plains Indian PeoplesThe story of the Native peoples of the Great Plains is a cornerstone in the history and heritage of the American West. From the Arapaho to the Cheyenne, Lakota, Shoshone, Blackfeet, Comanche, Pawnee, Arikara, Gros Ventre, Hidatsa, and Crow tribes, these buffalo hunters and pastoral farmers once dominated the vast landscape from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from present-day Canada to Texas. In Memory and Vision, Emma I. Hansen and distinguished members of the Plains Indian com... |
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Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE 1960-2007 (Whitney Museum of American Art)... |
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A New World: England's First View of AmericaThis beautifully illustrated book reproduces in full the famous and rarely seen British Museum collection of drawings and watercolors made by John White, who in 1585 accompanied a group of English settlers sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to found a colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Sloan's introduction is followed by three specially commissioned essays covering John White himself, the indigenous inhabitants he depicted, and the historical context of his visit. The book explores John White's r... |
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The McGraw-Hill Museum-Goer's GuideDesigned as a primer for the museum or gallery visit required in many introductory art courses, this book is a combination reference, workbook, directory, and notepad. It is available in a discount package with McGraw-Hill art textbooks or separately.... |
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The Portable Magritte (Portables)The Portable Magritte represents a new approach to the enjoyment and study of art in book form. With more than 400 color reproductions and a compact handheld size, this book manages to be affordable and comprehensive. It's like a catalogue raisonné that fits in a backpack. This accessible format is a perfect match for the paintings of René Magritte-one of the few twentieth-century painters whose works are immediately approachable and who has an enduring cultlike following. His surrealistic and... |
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The Glamour Girls of Bill WardThe best of the 1950s pin-up king.Renowned pin-up artist Bill Ward gets the full coffee-table treatment in this lavish oversized full-color paperback edition of the acclaimed 2003 hardcover featuring Ward's most polished, fully-realized portraits of the 1950s.Imagine, if you will, an innocent but stunning young woman boasting the most unlikely Barbie-like proportions—and then some—poured into a wisp of lingerie or clingy cocktail dress, silky opera-length gloves, and sheer thigh-high s... |
