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Since its discovery in 1968, the painting of a diver on a tomb in Paestum, originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy, has left viewers spellbound. It depicts a beautiful and enigmatic scene: a young man dives headfirst into the water from a cliff or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-09-03
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Beauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose genius they embody? To the enlightened collectors who saw their value and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-09-03
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The bestselling graphic design reference, restructured by themes to represent motivations for visual communication over time Graphic designers must have a thorough understanding of the field’s rich history in order to inspire and inform their work. Meggs’ History of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2025-09-03
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This book explores the intersection of art, design, and technology, revealing how new technological innovations are transforming creative practices and opening up new artistic expressions. The book offers a broad context of the ethical and social ramifications of...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-27
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This is an open access book.
The so-called artistic design is an integration of aesthetic sensibilities from art into designs that are intricately linked to our daily lives.This ensures that such designs possess not just aesthetic qualities but also practical...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-08-11
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This book explores Chinese calligraphy and painting from an aesthetic perspective, using modern visual theory to analyze the theoretical implications of the relationship between ancient Chinese literati painting and calligraphy, in contrast to Western aesthetic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-01
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This is an open access book.Religion produced noteworthy architectures from the beginning of humanity. Religion gives meaning and direction to human life, and in the process unites and empowers human beings to direct their aspirations and resources to build spectacular...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-06-26
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Neo-Gothic architecture is a global phenomenon observed in Mexico from the 1850s to the mid-20th century, even with current examples. In Mexico there are more than 500 buildings with some neo-Gothic element: new parishes and churches, large temples, examples of exterior...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-06-02
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Dieses, zusammen mit dem Architekten Christian Heuchel, verfasste Buch mit dem Titel "Bauen im Kopf - Architektur und Neurowissenschaften erörtert die Bedeutung aktueller Erkenntnisse der Neurowissenschaften und der Psychologie für Perspektiven der Architektur wie...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-05-21
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Today’s business world relies on effective use of color to promote its products, both tangible goods and images. Understanding Color has long stood as an indispensable introduction to the effective use of color for design applications, with detailed treatment of the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2025-03-21
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Discover the vividly colourful world of James Ensor! This new monograph takes you on a captivating journey through the artistry of one of Belgium’s foremost painters. Ensor, with his distinctive style and audacity, presented a realm teeming with masks, skeletons, and...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This open-access book expounds on how service design has been adopted and practiced in Asia, and how it has impacted especially the East and Southeast Asian countries. As service design is a socio-technical practice that is co-produced in context, the contributors...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-05
Collection :
Design Research Foundations
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This book offers a thorough examination of CAD-based programming in the context of design and manufacturing, structured across five key chapters. Readers will explore topics such as automated design, geometry feature recognition, and system assembly, as well as the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-02
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The essential guide to the popular, beginner-friendly graphic design platform Canva For Dummies is a beautiful full-color reference, covering everything you need to create dazzling visual materials in Canva Free and Pro versions. Discover all tools, templates, and...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2024-12-20
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The complete, full-color graphic design guide for beginnersThe field of graphic design is constantly evolving, with new design tools, methods, technology, and modes of expression being introduced all the time. Graphic Design For Dummies will teach you how to get...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2024-12-03
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Get started with the powerful visual language and storytelling medium that is manga Manga is a unique style of drawing. It's also a great way to make topics like history and politics appealing to a wide audience. Manga For Dummies teaches you the basics of drawing in...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2024-11-13
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No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature. He inspired Samuel Beckett to write Waiting for Godot and Walt Disney to create Bambi. Goethe,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-11-11
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This book is an edited collection of key lectures and foundational publications by Professor Nigel Cross on creative design thinking.This is an expanded and updated new edition of the previous version, with three additional chapters. The book investigates and explains...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-29
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This book studies the development of modern and contemporary design art in China since 1978. Starting with the design enlightenment, and closely following the evolution of the visual and material forms in three levels of “individual”, “group”, and “country” since the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Old-fashioned fans are today mostly appreciated for the craftsmanship and delicacy with which they were produced. But in former times they had their own special function in the hands of women in certain ranks of society. Not just useful articles, they were powerful...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
Parution :
2024-10-20
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