Pencil Sketching, Second Edition

For a quarter century, artists, architects, designers, and dabblers in the graphic arts have turned to Thomas Wang's bestselling classic (100,000 copies sold) for their basic training in the art and science of pencil sketching. That's because no other book covers so thoroughly, or with such clarity, economy, and grace the full spectrum of rudimentary and advanced pencil sketching techniques, from the basics of how to hold a pencil to the elements of composition, texture, line weight, and shading.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists

Based on the highly praised Oxford Dictionary of Art, this is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present day. Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains a careful balance between fact and appraisal. In its pages, we encounter artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Andy Warhol, with entries on younger contemporary artists, such as, Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, and Rachel Whiteread. Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, Impressionism, the Ashcan School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing.

How to Buy and Sell Art

Never bought a painting or a sculpture? This guide has all the answers for those who want to start collecting art but don't know where to begin.

The CAD Guidebook

With an extensive glossary of key terms and concepts, this volume presents fundamental principles and theories in the function, application, managment and design of 2 and 3D CAD systems. It also provides useful end-of-chapter review questions.

Building Interactive Worlds in 3D

Gauthier offers a tutorial-based, step-by-step book containing sophisticated, professional-level tips and tricks to help designers, programmers, and 3D artists create simple 3D interactive environments and virtual sets relevant to film and computer games direction, and animation and web development.

Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism

Harrison's study examines the critical reception of Pop Art, comparing the ideas of its New York-based critics with the strikingly similar body of thought now associated with deconstructive post-modernism. Pop Art thus spawned not only visual commentary on post-war society, but also the subversive critical consciousness now dominant in academe.

Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

This introduction to design and graphic techniques will help the designer increase his or her understanding of buildings and places through drawing.