Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489920Description: A visual collection of ATCs created by quilters, mixed-media and collage artists, doll makers, and more.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489920http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490602Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490602http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496542Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496542http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496572Description: From the Publisher: Brand new in Barron's Aspire Series for students of various arts, this book offers expert guidance in the principles, practice, and techniques of filmmaking. Author and filmmaker Elliot Grove introduces students to the craft of making movies by explaining simple techniques and advising on use of readily available, low-budget equipment and software. He devotes special attention to: The lingo: film industry vocabulary and money-raising techniques; Getting organized: necessary equipment and how to get it; The shoot: cameras, lighting, sound, storyboards, and more; Looking good: makeup, stunts, special effects, and more; Post production: the editor's role, and much more. Additional chapters describe the role of directors and advise students on how to publicize, market, and distribute a film, how to choose a formal film course, and how to turn film training into a professional career. More than 250 color photos and illustrations.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496572http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490236Description: Presents one-of-a-kind pieces selected by prominent and influential jewelers and includes expert commentary from leading jewelers, curators, collectors, and gallery owners.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490236http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504520Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504520http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490601Description: A handbook, source of inspiration and comprehensive showcase which focuses solely on three-dimensional experimental letterforms, this book describes sculptural, shape-shifting letters, tactile experiences and surprising and inventive ways to interpret the alphabet.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490601http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496573Description: From the Publisher: No other volume has ever presented such a diverse and captivating collection of contemporary animal-themed ceramics. Juried by distinguished artist and educator Joe Bova, this magnificent gallery includes pieces from an international group of artists; the beautifully crafted works range from the representational to the abstract, from artful realism to provocative surrealism (including animal-human hybrids). Ann Marais' image of a waterfowl painted onto a porcelain dish has a restrained, Asian quality. Sharkus' painted and smoke-fired stoneware turtle could easily be mistaken for the living creature. Bova provides astute and illuminating commentary overall, with selected artists' notes.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496573http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489921Description: In the hands of an expert ceramist, the once-simple cup can become an extraordinary work of art, as these 500 magnificent examples so beautifully prove.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489921http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490235Description: Presents a collection of jewelry pieces from a variety of contemporary designers.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490235http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496574Description: A showcase of handmade dolls ranging from representational to abstract, from skillful realism to provocative surrealism--and they're made from every conceivable material, including beads, gourds and polymer clay. Features the fabric dolls of Akira Blount, the porcelain designs of Marlaine Verhelst, and the strange and scary figures of Chris Chomick.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496574http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490234Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490234http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490233Description: Presents an intoxicatingly vibrant and technically diverse collection of contemporary jewelry by talented artists such as Jantje Fleischhut, Lisa and Scott Cylinder, Adam Paxon, Felieke van der Leest, Ted Noten, Svenja John, Pavel Herynek, Karin Seufert, and Margaux Lange.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490233http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490232Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490232http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490231Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490231http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507131Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507131http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507387Description: "Adobe After Effects CS6 Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe After Effects and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program"--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507387http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507389Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507389http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507390Description: Covers the basics of learning Adobe Flash Professional and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. The DVD includes two hours of tutorials.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507390http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507391Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507391http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507188Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507188http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490620Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490620http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490619Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490619http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491065Description: This volume highlights more than 100 of the Art Institute of Chicago's masterpieces, from the bold works of âEdouard Manet, an important figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, to Claude Monet's light-filled paintings, and Paul Câezanne's influential Post-Impressionist canvases. Each reproduced work is situated in terms of the era in which it was created, and collectively they exemplify the diversity of ideas and wealth of talent at work during the Impressionist period. The publication also features a chronology -- illustrated with color reproductions, archival photographs, and exhibition shots -- that documents the history and formation of the Art Institute of Chicago's collection.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491065http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475551Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475551http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489919Description: A comprehensive overview to painting techniques for watercolor, oil, acrylic and pastel. Features 45 painting techniques step-by-step and how to apply these techniques to subjects of particular difficulty, including landscapes, animals, portraits, still lifes, and more.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489919http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493366Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493366http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496555Description: This catalogue is the first publication of the Barnes Foundation's collection of over three hundred American works of art, including a treasury of important early-twentieth-century paintings by William J. Glackens, Maurice and Charles Prendergast, Charles Demuth, Alfred H. Maurer, Ernest Lawson, Horace Pippin, Marsden Hartley, Jules Pascin, and many others. Rich with compelling, firsthand accounts of the collector's methods and purpose, this definitive scholarly examination of the American paintings and works on paper assembled by Dr. Albert C. Barnes offers a long overdue exploration of his exceptional achievement.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496555http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493376Description: This photographed book covers the historical panorama of quiltmaking in the United States, from the quintessential patterns to their cultural significance.--[Book jacket.]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493376http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504878Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504878http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508154Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508154http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490618Description: "This expanded update of Graham Webb's The Animated Film Encyclopedia: 1900-1979 (McFarland, 2000) is a compehensive listing of theatrical animated cartoons through the end of the 20th century. An introduction explains the early days through the advent of computer graphics imagery. Each of the entries includes production, dates, time, and synopsis"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490618http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489918Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489918http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493491Description: Animation historian, Maureen Furniss, covers every aspect of production, from finding a concept, choosing a medium, and creating characters, all the way to getting the end result screened and distributed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493491http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492705Description: "[A] group of small-town kids find themselves bound together by geography, boredom, and a string of mysterious turtle mutilations. Years later, with Army tanks rolling through the streets of their hometown, these young adults are forced to confront painful questions of privilege, duty, betrayal, and courage"--Publisher's web site.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492705http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496312Description: "Born in Turkey around 1900. Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to watch his mother die of starvation and his family scatter in their flight from the Turks. Arriving in America in 1920, Adoian invented the pseudonym Arshile Gorky - and obliterated his past. Claiming to be a distant cousin of the novelist Maxim Gorky, he found work as an art teacher in Boston, then New York, and undertook a program of rigorous study, schooling himself in the modern painters he most admired, especially Cezanne and Picasso." "By the 1940s, Gorky had developed a style that is seen as the link between European modernism and American abstract expressionism. His masterpieces influenced the great generations of American painters who came of age after World War II, even as Gorky faced a series of personal catastrophes: a studio fire that destroyed dozens of his paintings, a wasting battle with cancer, and a car accident that temporarily paralyzed his painting arm. Further demoralized by the dissolution of his seven-year marriage, Gorky hanged himself in 1948."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496312http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489922Description: "[Contains] 13 neighborhood guides with maps; 9 ... profiles of major artists: Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Yoko Ono, Donald Judd, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Koons; [and a] comprehensive guide to 11 artistic styles"--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489922http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503091Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503091http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491064Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491064http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493367Description: The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling-- and so much fun. Mould has been successful in uncovering buried treasures, and he shows us how he tracks down clues and follows hunches until the truth is revealed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493367http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493377Description: This text presents an examination of the aesthetics of animation. It provides an overview of the relationship between animation studes and media studies, then focuses on issues concerning flat and dimensional, and limited and full animation. It then looks at specific topics such as gender issues and adaption.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493377http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508155Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508155http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493378Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493378http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489917Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489917http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491063Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491063http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493379Description: Looks at over two hundred color palettes for beaded jewelry based on a variety of themes, features instructions for twenty bead jewelry projects, and includes a gallery of finished work.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493379http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491062Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491062http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490617Description: "This User Friendly Guide Offers a clear and comprehensive review of the types of careers available to today's graphic and new media designers. Drawing on years of experience at the top of the field, Steven Hellet covers the major design industries--web, television, film, and publishing--as well as advertising, corporate, editorial, and other key design disciplines. This Fourth Edition has been fully updated and newly designed to include contemporary coverage on the digital revolution, as well as on new approaches to book design information design, packaging design, design management enterpreneurship, and educational options. Complete with dozens of Interviews with leading graphic designers and hundreds of striking illustration. Becoming a Graphic Designer, Fourth Edition cotinues to be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in launching--or revitalizing--a graphic design career." "Becoming a Graphic Designer, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive survey of the graphic design market, including complete coverage of print and electronic media and the evolving digital design disciplines that offer today's most sought-after jobs. This visual guide has hundreds of stunning illustrations and features the latest material on interactive design, information design, motion, and more." "Drawing on years of experience in the industry, veteran designers Steven Heller and Teresa Fernandes cover everything from education and training, design specialties, and work settings to preparing an effective portfolio and finding a job. They profile major industries employing graphic designers and explore advertising, corporate, editorial, and other key design disciplines." "The major industries covered here include architecture, interactive design, television and film design, publishing, and more. Dozens of up-front interviews with leading graphic designers let you see how companies such as Urban Outfitters, The New York Times Company, and Bloomberg Media hire and work with employees. These inside perspectives offer invaluable real-world insights on what different industries and positions are really like. A resource guide to design publications and organizations points the way to further information and guidance." "Complete with easy-to-use, compact sections, useful sidebars, and sample design pieces, this outstanding guide is invaluable for anyone interested in launching or developing a career in graphic design."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490617http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490226Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490226http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489916Description: "Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs, from the ambrotype of three children found clasped in the hands of an unknown soldier at Gettysburg to the indelible portraits of the WPA photography project. Each essay in the book presents the reader with a conundrum and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record. During the Crimean War, Roger Fenton took two nearly identical photographs of the Valley of the Shadow of Death-one of a road covered with cannonballs, the other of the same road without cannonballs. Susan Sontag later claimed that Fenton posed the first photograph, prompting Morris to return to Crimea to investigate. Can we recover the truth behind Fenton's intentions in a photograph taken 150 years ago? In the midst of the Great Depression and one of the worst droughts on record, FDR's Farm Service Administration sent several photographers, including Arthur Rothstein, Dorothea Lange, and Walker Evans, to document rural poverty. When Rothstein was discovered to have moved the cow skull in his now-iconic photograph, fiscal conservatives-furious over taxpayer money funding an artistic project-claimed the photographs were liberal propaganda. What is the difference between journalistic evidence, fine art, and staged propaganda? During the Israeli-Lebanese war in 2006, no fewer than four different photojournalists took photographs in Beirut of toys lying in the rubble of bombings, provoking accusations of posing and anti-Israeli bias at the news organizations. Why were there so many similar photographs? And were the accusers objecting to the photos themselves or to the conclusions readers drew from them? With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris reveals in these and many other investigations how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Part detective story, part philosophical meditation, Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception from one of America's most provocative observers"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489916http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491109Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491109http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493204Description: With nostalgic glances to the past and visionary gazes into the future, Lynne Perrella and the contributing artists follow inspiration rather than tradition to present dolls that are charismatic, colorful and full of surprises. Technique related details are provided in each chapter's details dossier, where we are invited to go behind the scenes, into the artists studios. Take an up close and personal look to get the inside story on how the artists used paper and other exciting mediums to create their dolls. Artists include Nina Bagley, Lesley Riley, Judi Riesch, Lynn Whipple, Teesha Moore, Karen Michel, Jane Cather, Akira Blount, Laurel Hall and Maria Moya who expolore the human form to create paper personas that are expressive, innovative and insightful.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493204http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493380Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493380http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493381Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493381http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492558Description: A record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, David Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492558http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496313Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496313http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507133Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507133http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493382Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493382http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492559Description: "The boundaries between art, design and illustration are blurring, and with all the new opprtunities for visual creatives, now is the perfect time to unleash your talent on the world! 'Breaking Into Freelance Illustration' provides a step-by-step roadmap for promoting yourself and running your creative business. You'll find up-to-date advice about best business practices, ideas for new promotional tools, answers to common questions and words of wisdom and inspiration from top illustrators." --Cover, p. 4.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492559http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508159Description: Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other, and an elderly landlady --http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508159http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493205Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493205http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492560Description: Here is a study of the Cajun Mardi Gras tradition and its manifestation in the work of six of the most creative and popular folk artists in two rural communities. Potic Rider and the Moreau and LeBlue families represent the largely male maskmaking traditions of Basile, Louisiana. Suson Launey, Renee Fruge, and Jackie Miller are the female counterparts in festivities held in Tee Mamou. As the communities celebrate, their masks become an intrinsic ingredient in the annual rites. This book introudces the artists, the performances, and processes of creating the fantastical masks.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492560http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492706Description: Provides lessons on the art of cartooning along with information on terminology, tools, techniques, and theory.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492706http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507055Description: Ten years after the case was closed by the FBI, Ken Perenyi, an artist with an uncanny ability to mimic the work of the old masters, confesses and describes his thirty-year career as a professional art forger.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507055http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493368Description: From the Publisher: This third installment in Larks' Ceramics for Beginners series is the best beginners' workshop to surface work: emerging potters learn skills step-by-step, including stamping, sgraffito, brushwork with underglazes and oxides, majolica, and other techniques. How-to photos demystify the process, and there are scores of ideas for experimentation.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493368http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496558Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496558http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493383Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493383http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491061Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491061http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508160Description: "For more than thirty years now, Cindy Sherman has been visualizing a whole gamut of role models and female identities. ... Contrary to popular belief, the famous Untitled Film Stills (1978-80) are not her earliest works, but rather those photographs she took as a student in Buffalo between 1975 and 1977. During those years, Sherman made playing with disguises her artistic concept, producing numerous previously unknown photographs that unite a striking number of theatrical elements. Using a variety of wigs, make-up, mimicry, gestures, expressions, and costumes, Sherman reveals different social identities by playing different roles. Gabriele Schor, director of the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, has performed a scholarly assessment of the conceptual beginnings of her oeuvre and is now publishing a catalogue raisonnâe of her early work."--Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508160http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496560Description: During its 20th century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular film factory, exporting cinematic dreams with multinational casts to the world, ranging across multiple genres. This is a comprehensive discussion of Italian cinema, both popular and arthouse.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496560http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493384Description: Guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares the inspirational work of several well-known doll artists who have created their own versions of each project. Complete patterns and templates are included.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493384http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504523Description: Book Description: A complete guide to achieving a fantastic spectrum of colorful glazes for the studio potter, Colour in Glazes looks at the full range of materials and options for creating new colors in glazes. Packed full of glaze recipes, the book is illustrated with a wealth of finished work as well as an extensive collection of sample test tiles to show the variety of colors possible. Types of base glazes and the fluxes used to make them are discussed in relation to color response.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504523http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508161Description: Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing figures for comics and graphic novels, detailing how to sketch heads and facial features, bodies, and clothing, as well as how to draw backgrounds and compose panels.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508161http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489860Description: "With recipes for mixing, testing, applying, and firing hundreds of high-fire glazes, this fully illustrated reference will help all ceramists gain a better understanding of glazes and the factors that make them work."--[book cover]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489860http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489649Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489649http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491060Description: With more than 1,700 entries, The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms is an accessible and comprehensive A-Z guide covering a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including periods, styles, materials, well-known schools, techniques, and much more. In this new edition, the text has been fully revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, and has been expanded with more than 100 new entries, focusing primarily on modern and contemporary art materials and techniques.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491060http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489915Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489915http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490616Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490616http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489914Description: "This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of war between East and West, of technological and industrial revolution, social modernisation, colonialism and slavery. And yet cotton remains one of the most significant mass commodities today. Cotton's history and track record on labour conditions and the environment have tarnished its history and reputation, even as cotton clothes have become the mark of modern industrialised society. Yet cottons also take other cultural forms and cotton textiles and artifacts are part of a vibrant craft tradition in many parts of the world. This book explores the history, impact and ongoing life of this hugely influential textile"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489914http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507395Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507395http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489913Description: Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of important works--many of which deliberately challenge these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel, the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch--in crafting a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in its scope and ambition. In these lavishly illustrated pages, some of which feature images never before published, we learn of the efforts of Elizabeth Keckley, fashion designer to Mary Todd Lincoln; the acclaimed sculptor Edmonia Lewis, internationally renowned for her neoclassical works in marble; and the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and her innovative teaching techniques. We meet Laura Wheeler Waring who portrayed women of color as members of a socially elite class in stark contrast to the prevalent images of compliant maids, impoverished malcontents, and exotics "others" that proliferated in the inter-war period. We read of the painter Barbara Jones-Hogu's collaboration on the famed Wall of Respect, even as we view a rare photograph of Hogu in the process of painting the mural. Farrington expertly guides us through the fertile period of the Harlem Renaissance and the "New Negro Movement," which produced an entirely new crop of artists who consciously imbued their work with a social and political agenda, and through the tumultuous, explosive years of the civil rights movement.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489913http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490229Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490229http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496576Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496576http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496562Description: This book provides a broad and challenging source of information on the most exciting cutting-edge developments in international printmaking. It showcases the diverse work of fifty-two artists from twenty-eight countries, exploring the mediums used by these artists--from new variations on traditional intaglio and relief techniques to extreme forms of digital techniques, including time-based forms such as film and multimedia presentation. Printmaking continues to evolve, and artists develop traditional techniques while experimenting with new methods and materials. Critical Mass also explores how their craft is evolving the role and function of art in an increasingly technological global society as the boundaries between the distinct fields of the visual arts have become blurred, and growing numbers of artists now incorporate printmaking techniques within their practice.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496562http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504678Description: "A unique book which presents the most recent local, international, controversial, sometimes inward-looking, and unknown contemporary art from Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles."--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504678http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504679Description: Teaches readers how to organize and edit footage and see their project to completion. It's both a comprehensive guidebook and a friendly, dependable companion for anyone taking the editor's path or wishing to better understand it. --from publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504679http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504524Description: Journalist and storyteller Toby Lester brings Vitruvian Man to life, resurrecting the ghost of an unknown Leonardo. Populated by a colorful cast of characters, including Brunelleschi of the famous Dome, "Da Vinci's Ghost" opens up a surprising window onto the artist and philosopher himself and the tumultuous intellectual and cultural transformations he bridged.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504524http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492561Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492561http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507191Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507191http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496563Description: In this illustrated study of intellectual and art history, the author explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth. Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gerard, Ingres, and Delacroix and sculptors such as Houdon and Pajou, this book reveals how these artists offered innovative reinterpretations of myth while incorporating contemporaneous and revolutionary discoveries in the disciplines of anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology, and medicine. The interplay among these disciplines, the author argues, led to a re-examination by visual artists of the historical and intellectual structures of myth, its social and psychological dimensions, and its construction as a vital means of understanding the self and the individual's role in society. This confluence is studied here, and each chapter includes examples chosen from the vast number of mythological representations of the period. While focused on mythical subjects, French Romantic artists, the author argues, were creating increasingly modern modes of interpreting and meditating on culture and the human condition.-- From publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496563http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492707Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492707http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504525Description: Annotationhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504525http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503477Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503477http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490615Description: This book introduces readers to the use of design methodology in the creation of photographic images. In an age oversaturated with photographic imagery, this book demonstrates how design awareness can add a new level of depth to images. It guides readers through a comprehensive range of principles traditionally associated with design, including the use of line, shape, colour, space, texture and light, and demonstrates how these can be applied to photography. It introduces readers to a more considered approach that can add dynamism and impact to photography, whatever the style or genre. It discusses the application of design principles in the creation of original and impactful photography. Introduces readers to a more precise and formal approach to photography, that can give images a vital competitive edge. It includes activities, guides, glossaries and resource directories that can be used by both students and educators. And also features a wide range of illustrative photography from professionals, amateurs and students. Featured topics include basic design theory; the use of space; positional decisions; the elements of design; line; shape or form; space; texture; light; colour; pattern; rhythm; contrast; scale and proportion; abstraction; movement and flow; containment; emphasis and emotion; juxtaposition; incongruity; mood and emotion.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490615http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507396Description: "Professional modeling is the foundation of every aspect of the 3D production pipeline and is essential to the success of any 3D computer graphics project. [Digital] Modeling is unlike any other modeling book you've seen--it gets to the core of what it takes to create efficient production-ready models and demystifies the process of producing realistic and jaw-dropping graphics. Taking a software-neutral approach, it teaches you the essential skills and concepts that you can apply to modeling in any industry 3D software, such as 3ds Max, LightWave 3D, Maya, Modo, Silo, XSI, ZBrush and other leading programs. Modelers, animators, texture artists, and technical directors can all benefit from the valuable information covered in this jam-packed guide containing years of industry knowledge. Simply put, if you work in 3D, you must have this book."--Publisher's presentation.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507396http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507397Description: Teaches the techniques of digital painting, looking at fundamentals and more advanced procedures as well.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507397http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492562Description: "A complete guide to all phases of documentary production, this is an essential handbook for student filmmakers and professional documentarians alike. Written in concise language and easy reference, the text provides a progression of real-world learning skills, including organization and design. Also itemized is the necessary equipment, with technical information for universal comprehension of equipment and application"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492562http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496564Description: Best known for his wry and incisive takes on American life and politics, Garry Trudeau is among the world's most widely read cartoonists. Trudeau began shaping Doonesbury as an undergraduate contributor to the Yale Daily News in 1968. Today, the strip is syndicated to a daily readership of nearly 100 million. Trudeau's work has been anthologized before, but this is the first book to assess the art of the comic strip and the ways that Trudeau's iconic style has evolved over the past four decades. The author, an expert on the history of comics, sheds light on Trudeau's early influences as well as on his creative process, from research to pencil layouts to finished artwork. In addition to revealing how Doonesbury is crafted each week, the book also examines Trudeau's magazine illustrations, animation drawings, posters, and product designs, as well as rare and previously unpublished works. The author's historical text is complemented by insightful commentary by Trudeau and his collaborators, Don Carleton, George Corsillo, and David Stanford, making this book appealing not only to Doonesbury's many fans but also to those looking for an approach to the work of a master comic strip artist.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496564http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508255Description: "Illustrator by day, surrealist by night, Ted Geisel created a body of previously little-known work during his leisure hours that he called his 'Midnight Paintings,' and which is now known as 'The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.' This irrepressible and soulful collection redefines Ted Geisel as an iconic American artist. For sixty years, his 'Secret Art' allowed Geisel to expand his artistic boundaries without the confines and pressures of commercial deadlines and influences. These paintings afforded the peaceful distraction that he craved, and through this work, the tenets of surrealism--surprise and juxtaposition--energized his sensibilities. This volume exuberantly juxtaposes Geisel's 'Midnight Paintings' with his best-loved children's books because this was how Dr. Seuss constructed his creative life--his days devoted to literature for children, his nights to letting his mind and palette wander to even stranger shores. Inevitably, Geisel created images in his private artworks that would find their way into his literary projects. Though he fiercely protected his 'Secret Art' from criticism during his lifetime, his intention all along was for these works to be seen when he was gone."--from publisher's descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508255http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504685Description: Using graphite, pen and ink, and charcoal, Carole Massey demystifies the drawing process with a complete drawing course. Included are chapters on structure, proportions and features as well as valuable information on perspective, light and shade, composition and working with models.--Publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504685http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507399Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507399http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496314Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496314http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490614Description: Jake Gallo, an intelligent chicken, returns to the farm where his father, Elmer, one of the first sentient chickens, is dying, where he reads Elmer's diary and talks to the man who protected his parents before chickens were declared human.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490614http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489912Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489912http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493369Description: This work is a reference book compiled about the rich and enduring genre of comic books and graphic novels, from their emergence in the 1930s to their late-century breakout into the mainstream. Comic books have captivated readers since the Famous Funnies of 1930s and have remained popular ever since, even through the censorious 1950s when they were considered to be corrupting the nation's youth. But with the advent of the graphic novel in the late 1970s, such as Will Eisner's early classic, A Contract with God, his form of reading entertainment truly came of age as a revealing literature of our culture. At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment, This volume serves as an exploration of the genre's history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. It focuses on English-language comics, plus a small selection of influential Japanese and European works available in English, with special emphasis on the new graphic novel format that emerged in the 1970s. Entries cover influential comic artists and writers such as Will Eisner, Alan Moore, and Grant Morrison, major genres and themes, and specific characters, comic book imprints, and landmark titles, including the pulp noir 100 Bullets, the post-apocalyptic Y: The Last Man, the revisionist superhero drama, Identity Crisis, and more. Key franchises such as Superman and Batman are the center of a constellation of related entries that include graphic novels and other imprints featuring the same characters or material.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493369http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507057Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507057http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492580Description: In this volume, which includes over 350 illustrations, John Goodall brings to life the history of the English castle over six centuries. In it he explores the varied architecture of these buildings and describes their changing role in warfare, politics, domestic living, and governance. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492580http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496549Description: "A wide-ranging compilation of Art Deco graphics from six European countries, Euro Deco assembles a wealth of alluring and sophisticated design. Collecting the best of their popular and inspirational series on international Deco (also known as Art Moderne), Steven Heller and Louise Fili gather thousands of exemplary samples of design and illustration from posters, packaging, magazines, advertisements, menus, and many more sources. With sections featuring more than 2000 samples of graphic ephemera from France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the Netherlands, Euro Deco is a key reference work for designers and aesthetes alike."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496549http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496575Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496575http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491059Description: Documents the history and significance of mummies, both natural and man-made, and describes the principles and ceremonies associated with them.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491059http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496315Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496315http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489911Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489911http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490613Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490613http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490228Description: This is the only book that combines conceptual and practical instruction on creating polished and eloquent images for film and video with the technical know-how to achieve them. Loaded with hundreds of full-color examples, "The Filmmaker's Eye" is a focused, easy-to-reference guide that shows you how to become a strong visual storyteller through smart, effective choices for your shots. This book has struck a chord worldwide and is being translated into several languages After a short introduction to basic principles, a variety of shots are deconstructed in the following format: - Why It Works: an introduction to a particular type of shot - How It Works: callouts point out exactly how the shot works the way it does--the visual rules and technical aspects in action - Technical Considerations: the equipment and techniques needed to get the shot. - Breaking the Rules: examples where the "rules" are brilliant subverted. this book hels you make smart visual choices with this quick, focused, and visual guide to cinematic composition, shows you how to master the rules, then break them. * Includes examples and discussions from a range of international films.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490228http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508557Description: "The authoritative guide to producing, directing, shooting, editing, and distributing your video or film. Widely acknowledged as the 'bible' of video and film production, and used in courses around the world, The filmmaker's handbook is now updated with the latest advances in HD and new digital formats. For students and teachers, professionals and novices, this indispensable handbook covers all aspects of moviemaking"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508557http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492708Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492708http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493370Description: Annotationhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493370http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508257Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508257http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490925Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490925http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503096Description: This major monograph accompanies an exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery to be held in autumn 2011, the first comprehensive showing of Ford Madox Brown's work since 1964. All the artist's important paintings are illustrated and discussed in an authoritative but accessible style, and the book also contains a chronology of his career and four essays: a general introduction to Brown's art by Julian Treuherz, who also contributes an account of Brown's Manchester period; a character study of the artist by Angela Thirlwell; and an analysis of Brown's humour by Kenneth Bendiner.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503096http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504526Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504526http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490612Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490612http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507059Description: "The topics explored include the varying types of games, vital preliminaries of making a game, the nuts and bolts of devising a game, creating a prototype, testing, designing levels, technical aspects, and assessing nature of the audience. With practice challenges, a list of resources for further exploration, and a glossary of industry terms, this manual is essential"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507059http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489910Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489910http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490924Description: This volume draws from the Museum of Modern Art's outstanding holdings of expressionist prints, enhanced by selected drawings, paintings and sculptures from the collection, to explore the importance of printmaking in German expressionism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490924http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508259Description: An enthralling journey through Western art's defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas's volcano planet duel in "Revenge of the Sith."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508259http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496565Description: The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes. As a traveler's companion or a rich source of knowledge for the armchair enthusiast, The Gothic Enterprise helps us understand how ordinary people managed such tremendous feats of physical and creative energy at a time when technology was rudimentary, famine and disease were rampant, the climate was often harsh, and communal life was unstable and incessantly violent.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496565http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493385Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493385http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508558Description: "The Grand Medieval Bestiary: Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts is a splendid pageant of the animal kingdom as the Middle Ages saw it, illustrated with miniatures of every period and style, many never before published. Noted art historian Christian Heck explains that the prevalence of animals in illuminated manuscripts reflects their importance in medieval thought, an importance due in part to the agricultural society of that age, in which a variety of species--and not just docile pets--were the daily companions of man. The main part of the book explores the complex and fascinating iconography of the individual creatures most frequently depicted by medieval miniaturists. It is arranged in the manner of a proper bestiary, with essays on one hundred animals alphabetized by their Latin names. The selection includes a number of creatures that would now be considered fantastic, including the griffin, the manticore, and of course the fabled unicorn, tamable only by a gentle maiden"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508558http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504527Description: This 2nd edition of the history of graphic design explores its evolution from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the book illuminates the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, as well as the influence of technology, social change, and commercial forces on the course of design history. The layout of each chapter reflects the style of the period it describes, and more than 550 illustrations throughout the volume provide a visual record of over one hundred years of creative achievement in the field. This edition includes a new chapter on nineteenth-century design, and expanded sections on Swiss Style, Postmodernism, and contemporary design.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504527http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493386Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493386http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504682Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504682http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490611Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490611http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489909Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489909http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489908Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489908http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507193Description: "Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this handbook provides a complete overview of art therapy, from theory and research to practical applications. Leading practitioners demonstrate the nuts and bolts of arts-based intervention with children, adults, families, couples, and groups dealing with a wide range of clinical issues. Rich with illustrative case material, the volume features 110 sample drawings and other artwork. The inclusion of diverse theoretical approaches and practice settings makes the Handbook eminently useful for all mental health professionals interested in using art in evaluation and treatment. New to This Edition *Incorporates the latest clinical applications, methods, and research. *Chapter on art materials and media (including uses of new technologies). *Chapters on intervening with domestic violence survivors, bereaved children, and military personnel. *Expanded coverage of neuroscience, cultural diversity, and ethics"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507193http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492582Description: Here is a lavish and personal look at the entire film-making process that turned the world's bestselling fiction series into a blockbuster movie franchise. From the acquisition of the film rights to the casting and the assembly of the creative team, the book is a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of the most popular film series in cinema history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492582http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492583Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492583http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503479Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503479http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503098Description: Over the centuries, artists across sub-Saharan Africa have memorialized eminent figures in their societies using an astonishingly diverse repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural idioms. Adopting complex aesthetic fromulations, they idealized their subjects but also added specific details--such as emblems of rank, scarification patterns, and elaborate coiffures--in order to evoke the individuals represented. Imbued with the essence of their formidable subjects, these works played an essential role in reifying ties with important ancestors at critical moments of transition. Often their transfer from one generation to the next was a prerequisite for conferring legitimacy upon the leaders who followed. The arrival of Europeans as traders, then as colonizers, led to the dislocation of many of these sculptures from their original sites, as well as from the contexts in which they were conceived; thus, today, they are seen primarily as timeless representations of generic archetypes. "Heroic Africans" reexamines the sculptures in terms of the individuals who inspired them and the cultural values that informed them, providing insight into the hidden meaning and inspiration behind these great artistic achievements.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503098http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490610Description: This compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was six years old when on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb. His gritty and stunning account of the horrific aftermath is powerfully told through the eyes of a child who lost most of his family and neighbors. In eminently readable and beautifully translated prose, the narrative continues through the brutally difficult years immediately after the war, his art apprenticeship in Tokyo, his pioneering "atomic-bomb" manga, and the creation of Barefool Gen, the classic graphic novel based on Nakazawa's experiences before, during, and after the bomb. --http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490610http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489907Description: The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute. By focusing on a select group of films that represent the epitome of these collaborations, Monaco provides an essential history of one of the modern world's most complex and successful cultural institutions: Hollywood. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489907http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492584Description: In this landmark volume, Rosenblum (A World History of Photography) examines sympathetically the achievements of women in photography since its invention in 1839, and highlights society's failure to give them appropriate recognition. One research obstacle the author encountered was the 19th-century practice of men taking credit for work done by women. Here is work from 250 female camera artists, from Julia Margaret Cameron (b. 1815) to Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949), who, despite strong cultural resistance, mastered everything from early wet-plate views and portraits to 35 millimeter photojournalism, often initiating aesthetic and commercial improvements. Her chronicle of women's part in each era's artistic movements and media transitions, plus capsule biographies with an in-depth bibliography and index, make this a seminal reference work. The author's choice of 263 photographs seems to favor the esoteric, bringing to light a largely unknown world in vivid originality and broad archival conception.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492584http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496551Description: A fresh and irresistible history of gargoyles-a society of stone creatures perched high above the workaday world. Includes an invaluable guide to gargoyle sites throughout western Europe.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496551http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492585Description: From the Publisher: At last! Here is true practical help for budding freelance illustrators. This book helps you avoid the pitfalls that can ruin a career, with advice on crucial first impressions, how to create a portfolio and approach clients, how to negotiate contracts, and how to handle, deliver, and bill the first job. It discusses how to set up a studio, maintain a steady flow of work, and manage time and money. In addition, it provides information on successful self-promotion, self-publishing, and the pros and cons of agents. Packed with useful tips gleaned from the author's own career and his work as an agent handling major artists in the US and UK, the book includes interviews with nine big-name illustrators. The reader benefits from their experience of starting out; what they learned during the metamorphosis from student to professional; what their expectations and experiences have been. In addition, art directors and commissioners describe the ways they like to be approached and the ways they really dislike.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492585http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493371Description: Zuffi reveals the world of the Renaissance masters in a new and rich light. Each spread uses an important painting as a way to explain a key concept. Includes brief biographies of the major artists, provided an accessible introduction to the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493371http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489906Description: Posthumously-published short narratives about characters encountered by Pekar on his way to West Virginia.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489906http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493387Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493387http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503499Description: "From Leonardo's drawings of grotesque heads to contemporary prints lampooning American politicians, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a vast but largely unknown collection of caricatures and other satirical works. This handsome book offers 165 examples, dating from about 1500 to the present, that reflect the age-old tradition of using exaggeration and humor to convey personal, social, or political meaning. The selection of images is notably broad, ranging from the elevated to the rudely humorous: renowned writers and decidedly unhygienic cooks; elegantly dressed noblemen and victims of outrageous fashion fads; Napoleon as a tidy Lilliputian and Boss Tweed as a bloated Roman emperor. Stressing the continuity of certain artistic approaches, Infinite Jest traces the development of the genre across centuries and cultures. The essential visual components of caricature are discussed and illustrated, as are recurring motifs, including exaggerated faces and bodies, people depicted as animals or objects, and processions of bizarre figures. One section is devoted to social satire (eating and drinking, gambling, fashion, several of the Seven Deadly Sins), another to various aspects of political life (British, French, Mexican, and American). Artists as diverse as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, William Hogarth, Francisco de Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, Eugáene Delacroix, Honorâe Daumier, and Al Hirschfeld contribute their distinctive talents to this fascinating, informative, and very amusing volume."--book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503499http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492586Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492586http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489905Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489905http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507194Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507194http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507403Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507403http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492632Description: In "Introducing pottery", international potter and teacher Dan Rhode shares more than twenty years of experience in a well-organized, fully illustrated volume. Rhode's comprehensive overview of the methods, techniques, equipment, and theory allows novice and more advanced clay artists to solve problems as they develop and to keep improving. "Introducing pottery" begins with a brief history of world ceramics and a practical discussion of the fundamentals of clay chemistry and composition. The guide quickly moves into step-by-step instructions for working in clay. It covers throwing and handbuilding methods, and even shows how to set up a clay studio. "Introducing pottery" includes an in-depth look at glaze making, formulation, and application that goes beyond mainstream glazes and allows artists to express their own aesthetic.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492632http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490609Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490609http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493388Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493388http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503501Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503501http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493372Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493372http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492581Description: The authors show you how to transform metal, glass, plastic, and found objects-- items you might otherwise recycle or throw away-- into fun and exciting jewelry designs.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492581http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490608Description: A romp through the history of fonts and the lives of the great typographers, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490608http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480449Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480449http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489643Description: Illustrations by: Ryan Bubnis, Josh Cochran, Dabs Myla, Ericailcane, Evah Fan, Charles Glaubitz, Jason Holley, Rich Jacobs, Ian Johnson, Timothy Karpinski, Mike Kershnar, Josh Keyes, Koralie, Daniel Lim, Alexis Anne Mackenzie, Jacob Magraw, James Marshall (Dalek), Fumi Mini Nakamura, Johnny Ryan, Kustaa Saksi, J. Otto Seibold, Rachell Sumpter, Gary Taxali, Aiyana Udesen.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489643http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496316Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496316http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496566Description: Presents simple instructions and illustrations to help beginners learn to knit, with patterns for sixteen easy projects.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496566http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493373Description: With more than 150 full-color photographs of each project, showing along-the-way photos, important steps such as attaching arms and legs, and final photos of the completed piece, the 20 projects are organized according to ease and skill level.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493373http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492587Description: 'The Language of Graphic Design' provides graphic design students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of their language, what they are, why they are important and how to use them effectively.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492587http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489904Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489904http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503504Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503504http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493452Description: English and Japanese text explore the complexity of postwar Japanese art, focusing on the influence popular culture has had on Japanese art and tracing the development of the manga and anime genres.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493452http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496502Description: Comprehensive collection catalog of the paintings collection of the Louvre. Each entry includes artist's name, painting name, date, size, material, location in the museum, and the Louvre inventory number. The DVD-ROM includes all paintings in the book and is browsable by artist, collection, or location. The advanced search feature allows searching by title, date, material, location, and more.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496502http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507061Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507061http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503505Description: "Portraits were central to the work of Lucian Freud (1922-2011). Working only from life, the artist claimed, 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me.' This major retrospective catalogue surveys Freud's portraits across the seven decades of his career. Featuring the finest portraits from public and private collections around the world, the book explores the stylistic development and remarkable technical virtuosity of an artist regarded as one of the most innovative figurative painters the medium has known. Freud's chosen subjects were often his intimates--family members, friends, and artistic colleagues such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Leigh Bowery, and David Hockney. Freud was private man who rarely gave interviews, and his thoughts on the complex relationship between artist and sitter and the challenges of painting nudes and self-portraits are published here for the first time, documented in a series of interviews with Michael Auping, conducted between May 2009 and January 2011. An illustrated chronology of the artist's life provides fascinating insights into Freud's background as a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and his unorthodox artistic education. An essential book for every personal art library, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates the work and career of an artist who overturned traditional portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art."--Publisher's website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503505http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493441Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493441http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499571Description: "If you're looking for a way to add color to your surfaces, nothing beats majolica. Linda Arbuckle had dedicated years to the study and perfection of this historic technique, and brings the process into the 21st century. In this DVD, you'll learn about the materials, tools, and techniques you need to get started. And through a series of easy-to-follow demonstrations, Linda will guide you step-by-step through the entire decoration process. If you want to really understand the majolica process, Linda Arbuckle is ready to teach you everything you need to know to become proficient -- just add practice."--Containerhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499571http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490227Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490227http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508266Description: Covers the basics of creating hand-carved stamps, painting and inking, collage, and more. Features twenty projects--including a tote, journal, pillows, and gift tags--and includes fifty of the author's signature motifs, providing instruction for stamping on paper, fabric, terracotta, and other surfaces.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508266http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489903Description: In the digital world, books may seem like an endangered species, but bookmaking is more popular than ever. Thanks to the 100 ideas in this volume, the craft is now available to everyone. In as little as an afternoon, beginners will be on their way to folding, gluing, and sewing handmade books in a variety of shapes and styles, from rolled scrolls to Jacob's ladders, folded flexagons to case bindings. Complete with photographs of the author's own master books and statements by more than 40 established book artists.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489903http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490606Description: American artist Man Ray spend the most productive years of his career, during the 1920s and 1930s, in Paris.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490606http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493389Description: Celebrate 70 years of Marvel Comics with "The Marvel Encyclopedia." Fully updated with new images and text, this one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1,000 of Marvel's greatest.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493389http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503100Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503100http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503509Description: Basic instructions and examples teach skills for drawing manga.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503509http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493390Description: A satirical retelling of classic stories from literature using modern comic book characters.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493390http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493442Description: "In addition to classic topics such as the invention of writing and alphabets, the origins of printing and typography, and postmodern design, the new Fifth Edition presents new information on current trends and technologies sweeping the graphic design landscape, such as the web, multimedia, interactive design, and private presses, ..."--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493442http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490923Description: The New York cartoonist traces the creative process that went into drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, revealing the sources of his inspiration and describing his parents' emotional struggles as Holocaust survivors after the end of World War II.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490923http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507198Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507198http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507062Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507062http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496317Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496317http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504528Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504528http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504701Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504701http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496567Description: This work proposes a bold new look at the art of the Americas by viewing it through its intersections and relationships with the world at large. Taking the vast geography and staggering cultural diversity of the North and South American continents as its starting point, the book introduces the ways in which American art, broadly defined, has been shaped both by its encounters with cultures around the globe and by its own past, from the ancient and native populations that first inhabited these territories to the European, Asian, Scandinavian and Latino emigres who settled here. But beyond actual immigration, foreign cultures, especially the strikingly different cultures of Asia and the Islamic world, have also impacted our own in purely imaginary ways, as American artists projected their fantasies and preconceptions on these far off lands and "imported" their motifs, infusing their work with a rich, wholly invented and thoroughly American vision of the "other." Discussing over 200 artworks, from incense burners and painted drinking vessels to some of this country's most celebrated paintings and sculptures, and coinciding with the opening of MFA Boston's new Art of the Americas wing, this work offers an alternate history of the Americas through the diverse inspirations and interactions through which its art has been fashioned. -- From book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496567http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493391Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493391http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508270Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508270http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492588Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492588http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489902Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489902http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507201Description: Covers the entire compositing process to create a variety of realistic photographs, with details on such topics as lighting, camera setup, background color, shadowing, and special effects.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507201http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492589Description: "Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. "That's when I started making lists," she says. She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin in the English countryside and Sigmund Freud's final home, in London, but most of the places on the lists were American. The work became more ambitious as Leibovitz discovered that she wanted to photograph objects as well as rooms and landscapes. She began to use more sophisticated cameras and a tripod and to travel with an assistant, but the project remained personal. Leibovitz went to Concord to photograph the site of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Once she got there, she was drawn into the wider world of the Concord writers. Ralph Waldo Emerson's home and Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott and her family lived and worked, became subjects. The Massachusetts studio of the Beaux Arts sculptor Daniel Chester French, who made the seated statue in the Lincoln Memorial, became the touchstone for trips to Gettysburg and to the archives where the glass negatives of Lincoln's portraits have been saved. Lincoln's portraitists--principally Alexander Gardner and the photographers in Mathew Brady's studio--were also the men whose work at the Gettysburg battlefield established the foundation for war photography. At almost exactly the same time, in a remote, primitive studio on the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron was developing her own ultimately influential style of portraiture. Leibovitz made two trips to the Isle of Wight and, in an homage to the other photographer on her list, Ansel Adams, she explored the trails above the Yosemite Valley, where Adams worked for fifty years. The final list of subjects is perhaps a bit eccentric. Georgia O'Keeffe and Eleanor Roosevelt but also Elvis Presley and Annie Oakley, among others. Figurative imagery gives way to the abstractions of Old Faithful and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. Pilgrimage was a restorative project for Leibovitz, and the arc of the narrative is her own. "From the beginning, when I was watching my children stand mesmerized over Niagara Falls, it was an exercise in renewal," she says. "It taught me to see again.""--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492589http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490605Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490605http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489857Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489857http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492590Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492590http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489901Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489901http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493392Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493392http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503512Description: An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Durer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and, Hendrick Goltzius' depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. "Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical 'flap' prints; and, paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the 'do-it-yourself' paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble. -- Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503512http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490876Description: Project 798 is a documentary about the Chinese contemporary art scene, filmed on loaction in '798', Beijing's unique art district.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503513Description: "Artists in the Photo League, active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life. Their focus centered on New York City and its vibrant streets--a newsboy at work, a brass band on a bustling corner, a crowded beach at Coney Island. Though beautiful, the images harbor strong social commentary on issues of class, child labor, and opportunity. The Radical Camera explores the fascinating blend of aesthetics and social activism at the heart of the Photo League, tracing the group's left-leaning roots and idealism to the worker-photography movement in Europe. Influenced by mentors Lewis Hine, Berenice Abbott, and Paul Strand, artists in the Photo League worked within a unique complex comprising a school, a darkroom, a gallery, and a salon, in which photography was discussed as both a means for social change and an art form. The influence of the Photo League artists on modern photography was enormous, ushering in the New York School. Presenting 150 works of the members of the Photo League alongside complementary essays that offer new interpretations of the League's work, ideas, and pedagogy, this beautifully illustrated book features artists including Margaret Bourke-White, Sid Grossman, Morris Engel, Lisette Model, Ruth Orkin, Walter Rosenblum, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, and Weegee, among many others"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503513http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493374Description: Diehn shows you how to design and create a custom-made journal that will both inspire you and enhance the experience you're documenting.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493374http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493393Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493393http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493447Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493447http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504686Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504686http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496505Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496505http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496570Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496570http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492709Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492709http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496319Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496319http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496571Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496571http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489855Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489855http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493394Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493394http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493375Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493375http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504689Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504689http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504530Description: The Simpsons are once again in the global spotlight due to many misadventures including Bart and Lisa, who, while corresponding with their pen pals, cause an international incident.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504530http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492710Description: This version of the The Ramayana is told from the perspective of Sita, the queen. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it has had great influence on Indian life and culture over the centuries.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492710http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491051Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491051http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489638Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489638http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496320Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496320http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492591Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492591http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504537Description: Book Description: Surface, Glaze and Form: Pottery Techniques covers three of the most critical aspects of the ceramic process. The thirty artists represented here discuss the techniques they use to create unique forms and the methods they use to glaze and decorate their work. All types of forming methods, from handbuilding to slipcasting, are illustrated in detailed step-by-step photo sequences, along with surface techniques that cover a wide range of decorative possibilities. Many of the techniques in this book revolve around making complete projects from forming through decoration so you get a variety of techniques from a single artist. Surface, Glaze & Form: Pottery Techniques provides enough ideas and techniques to keep you excited for the rest of your life. Every new technique you learn can alter the way you currently work or even take you off on a whole different adventure. This book is indeed an atlas of possibilities. Where will you go?http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504537http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490604Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490604http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489900Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489900http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496512Description: Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496512http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504690Description: 'This will have been: art, love & politics in the 1980s' covers the period from 1979 to 1992. During this era, the political sphere was dominated by the ideas of former US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the music scene was transformed by punk and the birth of hip-hop, and our everyday lives were radically altered by a host of technological developments, from the Sony Walkman and the ATM to the appearance of MTV and the first personal computers. In the United States, the decade opened with an enormous anti-nuclear protest in New York's Central Park and closed with mass demonstrations against the government's slow response to the AIDS crisis. This exhibition attempts to make sense of what happened to the visual arts in the United States during this tumultuous period. The artists represented in This Will Have Been belong to the first generation of artists to grow up with a television in the home. They came of age in a culture saturated with images designed to promote desire - desire for objects, for lifestyles, for fame, for conformity, for anti-conformity. So too the majority of these artists lived through the heady days of the 1970s feminist movement and witnessed that broad-based social movement's demands for equality in all areas of life - work, family, and intimate relationships. It became the task of the 1980s to assimilate these powerful social forces - the rise of television and movements for social justice - as they converged. For many of the artists represented in this exhibition that meant grappling with complex questions: In a world increasingly filled with mass-media images, what is the role of the visual arts? How can artists make images that either compete with or counter the powerful images produced by advertising and Hollywood? In a society struggling for increased equality, how do historically marginalized people - women, people of color, and gays and lesbians - find their public voice? Toward the end of the decade, as the rise of HIV/AIDS created a growing political and medical crisis in the United States, these questions increased in urgency. This Will Have Been features a wide range of artworks, made by a diverse group of nearly one hundred artists, demonstrating the decade's moments of contentious debate, raucous dialogue, erudite opinions, and joyful expression - all in the name of an expanded idea of freedom, long the promise of democratic societies--MOCA website.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504690http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491049Description: An anthology on American artist Thomas Kincaid, exploring his work and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491049http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507063Description: This text is the first international survey of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists who are transforming the global challenges facing humanity and the Earth's diverse living systems. Their pioneering explorations are situated at today's cultural, scientific, economic, spiritual, and ethical frontiers.--Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507063http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489852Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489852http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496321Description: Explores the impact of Islam on the cultural heritage of diverse communities around the world, focusing on how works of art and architecture have been influenced and inspired by Islamic traditions, beliefs, and practices.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496321http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492592Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492592http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503108Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503108http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496322Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496322http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489899Description: Rick is on edge despite the fact that life in the community is as near to normal as the group can ever hope it to be, and some fear that his anxiety will be the group's downfall.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489899http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493395Description: "The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to 'come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually' - to teach us how to understand the architecture that surrounds us every day."-inside jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493395http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493451Description: "This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick's survey reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her discussion of feminism and its influence on such a reappraisal, the author also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This expanded edition incorporates recent developments in contemporary art. Chadwick addresses the turn toward autobiography in much recent women's art. She considers issues such as the personal versus the political and the private versus the public, and analyzes the differences between women's art today and the seminal feminist work of the 1970s and 1980s."--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493451http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504700Description: "This vividly illustrated publication features 110 works by many of the most eminent painters in the history of Indian art. These remarkable paintings, dating from 1100 to 1900, were selected according to identifiable artists, and they refute the long-held view of anonymous authorship in Indian art. Traditionally, Indian paintings have been classified by regional styles or dynastic periods, with an emphasis on subject matter. Stressing the combined tools of connoisseurship and inscriptional evidence, the pioneering research reflected in this book has identified individual artists and their oeuvres through the analysis of style."--book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504700http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492593Description: "Wood finishing doesn't have to be complicated or confusing...Inside, you'll find specific instructions on how to finish common woods using widely-available finishing materials--the kind of wood, stains and finish coats every home center, paint store or hardware store carries. Just match the wood to the final color and result you want. Then follow the step-by-step instructions and eliminate the guesswork."--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492593http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490603Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490603http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490225Description: This attractive and sturdy volume showcases more than 1,200 bracelets from the Ghysels Collection of ethnic jewelry. Most of the pieces are presented here for the first time. The main part of the volume consists of full-page, highly detailed color photographs of the bracelets by Mauro Magliani. Van Cutsem's commentary opens each of four sections covering Africa, Asia, Oceania, and America.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490225http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507066Description: Highlights from all nine volumes of the highly successful 'Fabric Folios' series to create the essential single-volume textile and design sourcebook.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507066http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498868Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498868http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493396Description: From the Publisher: Get that story out of your head and onto paper! A guide to creating graphic novels-presented in the form of a graphic novel-from a veteran in the field! In You Can Do a Graphic Novel, Barbara Slate guides aspiring graphic novelists through the same process she learned in her early days working for Marvel and DC Comics-a process she has simplified for the classes she teaches and for the syndicated column she writes. Written in the form of a graphic novel itself, the book covers all the components and shows readers how to: Find their own drawing style regardless of ability; Create memorable characters, compelling plots and subplots, and engaging dialog; Traverse the graphic novel business.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493396http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490922Description: "Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What's keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his mother, who refuses to surrender her son to fate, and the tenacity of his brother, a blogger, who fuses tradition and technology to explore and explode the void in which Mehdi has vanished" -- form publisher's web site.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490922