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Review your favorite art books, recent purchases, or books you would like to own. Does that recent retrospective of (INSERT ARTIST NAME HERE) deserve a spot on your nightstand or isn't it worth the paper it was printed on???

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One advantage of getting into art a little later in life is that my wife and I have steady, rather high paying, jobs and can afford a few guilty pleasures. For me it's art books. I buy one or two books every week and have a very nice collection going. Amazon loves me. Barnes and Noble welcomes me. Used book stores buy me a cappuccino and offer to carry my basket. You get the idea.

My favorite types of art books are large format retrospectives on certain artists and books on art theory. My intellectual side likes the art theory because it helps ease my feelings of inadequacy at not having an art related degree (I'm a food scientist). My carnal side likes the visual appeal of large print images and holding great works of art (well reproductions at least) in my hands. If I could touch the real artwork I would. I'm that guy who's always being asked to take a step back because my nose is a bit to close to the Van Gogh. Art books are my crutch that allow me to get close to the artwork I admire without getting a slap on the hand.

I'll post reviews of some of my books on this discussion board. I hope you'll do the same.

John Collier

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Lori Wakefield Comment by Lori Wakefield on November 20, 2011 at 12:30pm

Lori Wakefield deserves to be an art book on your table

Hermosa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Un mundo, un Humanidad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Rossello Damiano Comment by Rossello Damiano on March 15, 2011 at 7:11pm
INVITATION IN THIS BLOG OF ART. YOU CAN SHOW YOURS YOU WORK. YOU WILL FIND OTHER ARTISTS, GALLERIES AND CURATORI. FREE 

www.rossellodamiano.ning.com 

SEI INVITATO IN QUESTO BLOG D'ARTE GRATUITO. TROVERAI ARTISTI, GALLERIE E CURATORI 

www.rossellodamiano.ning.com
Art wall Comment by Art wall on February 27, 2011 at 5:27pm
New issue.click on the cover and take a look.Now artwallzine will be printed!www.artwallzine.com

Click on the cover to view this issue

Click on the cover to view this issue

Click on the cover to view this issue

Art wall Comment by Art wall on January 26, 2011 at 8:07pm

If you want to participate on our online magazine please go to http://network.artwallzine.com and make your page there.

 

N.S.VALLUVAN Comment by N.S.VALLUVAN on October 3, 2010 at 3:03pm
TRANSCENDENTOGRAPH
David Paul Downs Comment by David Paul Downs on June 27, 2010 at 4:15pm
New American Landscape discusses the social and environmental state of the United States of America through contemporary art. "NAL" is an 8" x 10", 162 page paperback collection of 27 international contemporary artists with 107 large images. The artwork and text Through interviews and artist statements, author David Downs fleshes out the significance of these artists into six chapters of critical discourse. Through painting, photography, sculpture, digital media, and more; these artists redefine how the United States and its people are represented in contemporary art.

Featured Artists:

Jun-Jun Sta. Ana
Leland Bourdages
Jenny Buffington
Allison Rae Butkus
Baltazar Castillo
Pamela Cook
David Paul Downs
Adam Evans
Tia Factor
Scott David Johnson
David Linnneweh
Nic Lyons
Ingrid Marrero
Joe Miller
Erin Morrison
Haley Nagy
Nicholas O'Brien
Lynnda Pardoe
Ahndraya Parlato
Michelle Peterson-Albandoz
Jorge Golgo Quintero
Jennifer Ray
Andy Resek
Clare Rosean
Grant William Thye
Jared Weiss
Melissa Wilkinson

Published in 2010 by Sprocketbox Entertainment.
Available on etsy, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
Hope you check it out!
David Hargreaves Comment by David Hargreaves on June 25, 2010 at 9:05pm
Four Season Cycle

Cycle is a collection of Photofusion artwork that captures, illustrates and portrays moments of natures great cycle - the 4 seasons. It is not a definitive collection and as with nature it will change and grow with future cycles.

Each artwork begins with a series of photographs, something random, something composed, something noticed, a moment captured in the cycle. After a lengthy selection process the most interesting photographs are separated and grouped together ready for the next stage .

Using photo editing software all of the selected images are filtered with paint effects. They are then blended and fused back with the originals. An evolutionary process of applying effects, blending and fusing continues until I feel I have the right images for the final art.

The last process and perhaps one of the most exciting is the application of symmetry whilst constructing each final artwork.


Four Season Cycle Art book is now available at the Blurb Bookstore - special price of £19.50 + p&p

http://www.blurb.com/user/artfusions

Thanks for looking
David

Sophia Louisa Comment by Sophia Louisa on June 8, 2008 at 4:16am
I'm looking for the book This is my Body, this is My Software by Orlan.... it was a short book written in both English & French in the 1990s. I haven't been able to find it anywhere, and am looking for any leads.

Many thanks! - Sophia
 

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