VISUAL ART BOOKS

Art and Visual Perception : A Psychology of the Creative Eye by
Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim is one of those rare and exceptional thinkers gifted in both the arts and science, in this case the science of psychology. This book is about the relation between psychology and art. Its value will be immediately recognized by artists, as well as by those who are interested in how the mind makes sense of the visual world.

Editorial Reviews Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism:
The clear, direct, flexible writing is powerfully reinforced by the numerous illustrations . . . not one of which is superfluous.

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The Visual Arts : A History by Hugh Honour, John Fleming

Editorial Reviews
John Russell, New York Times
"A delight to read . . . that makes us all just that much more alive and alert"

Ingram
Among the world's wild places, none remains so fascinating and historic as the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. Now, Katie Lee presents a treasury of charming paintings and illuminating text that capture the unique diversity of wildlife and plants on the islands

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PHOTO-ART BOOKS

Richard Kern : Model Release by Richard Kern (Photographer)

Editorial Reviews
Taboo Magazine, April 2001
Nothing is harder to achieve than the appearance of casual spontaneity, a trick Kern pulls off in shot after shot.

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Nude Body Nude by Howard Schatz (Photographer), Beverly J. Ornstein (Editor)

NudeBodyNude, Howard Schatz's eleventh book of photographs, is destined to become the classic body book. The images in NudeBodyNude are full-body studies of women and men, pairs and groups, models and dancers, from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. It also features exquisite close-up explorations as well as sensual and graphically arresting nude studies of couples, ranging from classically serious to fanciful and fun. This project is a unique artist's original and exciting vision of the human body

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Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson

Editorial Reviews
Ingram
Now revised, the second book in Freeman Patterson's classic photography series familiarizes readers with the traditional principles of composition and visual design. Patterson provides technique and exercises for breaking with traditional concepts of design, enabling the photographer to develop a keen sense of awareness of subject matter and a personal direction.

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SCI-FI BOOKS

RETROFITTING Blade Runner
by Judith Kerman

This second edition of Retrofitting Blade Runner contains a new essay by Leonard Heldreth, an addendum to the bibliography, and an essay by William Kolb, "Reconstructing the Director's Cut."

FUTURE NOIR : THE MAKING OF Blade Runner
by Paul M. Sammon

The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel

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