Best individual artist monographs according to redditors
We found 174 Reddit comments discussing the best individual artist monographs. We ranked the 70 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 174 Reddit comments discussing the best individual artist monographs. We ranked the 70 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
It's in the first few pages of his book, 'Wall and Piece'. You can see part of the paragraph in the preview.
As well as 'Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home' by Steve Wright.
Here in Gaza for example you can see the children are clearly stenciled, a hand painted white base with a black stencil over the top While the edges of the 'cracks' have running paint as if it was done too close by hand.
Old man You paint the wall, you make it look beautiful
Me Thanks
Old man We don't want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall, go home
From Banksy's Wall and Piece
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137864
It's a pretty good read!
Most of these are more Image than Text.
Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade
Rick Owens
Ann Demeulemeester
Dries Van Noten
Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been
Supreme
Raf Simons
KAWS
Hedi Slimane: Rock Diary
Undercover
Alexander McQueen: Savage Diary
Yves Saint Laurent
Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age
Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture
Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
Dior Couture
Tom Ford
Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko
Sneaker Tokyo vol.2 'Hiroshi Fujiwara'
Bape
Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment
The book in question
You can see the Banksy quote from the Amazon listing for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872/
I'm pretty sure an agent just called the MET, spoke to someone in their press department and then just printed whatever they said for comic effect.
If he doesn't like Wacom, I'm guessing he is one designer that loves the artcraft of something material and not digital.
Books! Hardcover offcourse.
http://www.amazon.com/Saul-Bass-Life-Film-Design/dp/1856697525
http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubrick-Archives-Alison-Castle/dp/3836508893
or other special books of people he likes.
Any kind of art by Alex Grey, like a calendar or framed poster or art book.
My several month old list: Fashion Podcasts and Interviews
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I've been collecting a few podcasts to listen to in my spare time and came across an enormous amount when searching both on /r/malefashionadvice, /r/malefashion and /r/femalefashionadvice.
I thought it'd be nice to share a few I've found which were interesting and which other people can enjoy.
I know my fashion interests can definitely skew to the boring, so if you have any more suggestions please comment below!
Podcasts & Youtube:
Others:
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Sources and thanks to:
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/u/setfiretoflames booklist Well Regarded Fashion Books: A Community List
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Hey, want to get a nice coffee table book? Let’s make a list of some of our favorites.
Note: I don’t own all of these, some are off friends’ recommendations, and some are for books that haven’t even come out yet. They are mostly in Amazon links for ease of use, but none of the links are affiliate ones (and any that are found in the thread will be removed).
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
Ann Demeulemeester
Blue Blooded
BEAMS: Beyond Tokyo
The Carhartt WIP Archives
Dries Van Noten 1-100
Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment
Maison Martin Margiela
Margiela: The Hermès Years
Martin Margiela: The Women’s Collections 1989-2009
Rei Kawakubo
Rick Owens
Rick Owens: Furniture
Take Ivy
Undercover
Vintage Menswear
Yamamoto & Yohji
Yohji Yamamoto
Here are a few books that will help, but are far from "definitive," there hasn't been a single book like that released for Eva as far as I'm aware (at least not in English).
And that's about it. There are interviews with Anno and such, and EvaGeeks has several of them archived. The mangas done by Sadamoto do feature production notes about changes he made from the show, and what his thoughts are on what Eva represents and such. So there's another 14 volumes, or you can get the omnibuses, of which there are 5.
Other than that, the only other production material I have is all from source material in Japanese - the Laserdiscs came with some really great stuff that I'm translating atm.
Hope this helps!
Learning art is a marathon, so here are some suggestions to help with motivation for the long haul:
More good reads that will help you learn why you want to draw and why you are having trouble being motivated:
Bonus Points:
Thanks, this looks like a great read!
For those looking it up: Hieronymus Bosch. the Complete Works.
ISBN 3836538350
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3836538350
He's advertising his new book:
https://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Donwood-There-Will-Quiet/dp/1419737244/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=there+will+be+no+quiet&qid=1569530879&sr=8-1
I had to research this in response to your question, because I didn't actually know, I was just reposting the image set.
Google image search points me to Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the Gulag.
It's all in his book Wall and Piece (it'll be the best purchase you've done all week). Wikipedia has some good background information about him too.
Cars
Photography
Comic Books 1, 2
Apple
LEGO's
American Football
PostSecret
Video Games
Vinyl
Warhol
Outdoors
Star Wars
Motorcycles
The Dark Knight
Paris
Interior Design
World Atlas
Banksy
Wes Anderson
Tribal Cultures
Playboy
Girls
Libraries
The Cosmos
The Beetles
Travel
Preppy
Steve McQueen
The Moon
For anyone that wants to buy his book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Simon-Beck-Snow-Art-Simone/dp/2356401237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425956117&sr=8-1&keywords=simon+beck
In case anyone else was wondering what this is (as I was) it's the back cover of Banksy's book, Wall and Piece.
I have this. Its got character concepts and some stuff from other Anno/Sadamoto works like Wings of the Hommeniase
Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion https://www.amazon.com/dp/1421507676/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_U22YBbD78C8QE
USSR also had gulags where 'Enemies of the people' were sent to die in the most horrific ways possible.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drawings-Gulag-Danzig-Baldaev/dp/0956356249
Although I haven't read Wildlife of Star Wars, I'd recommend Animals Real and Imagined. It's by the same author/artist, Terryl Whitlatch. It's not specifically of futuristic animals, but it is a good collection of drawings and paintings of real animals, imagined realistic animals and stylized characters. There are also some studies of animal anatomy, which I find quite interesting to see. My personal favourite animal from the book is Duncan the pug-o-pus!
More in this book. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137864
Banksy likes to juxtapose contrasting imagery, e.g anarchist throwing flowers rather than molotovs, war machines with bow ties, infantrymen painting peace symbols and so on.
Here's its original context http://imgur.com/h9F17RD
We perused this book for ideas http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872
Check out [Bargue's Drawing Course] (http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Jean-L%C3%A9on-G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-Ackerman/dp/2867702038) . The original course was put together by Charles Bargue and Jean Leon Gerome in the 19th century intended for training students at french academies / decorative arts schools. The book consists of many plates of lithographs made after famous greek/roman sculpture and drawings by various masters.
It teaches the artist how to begin a drawing such as this one by blocking in simple shapes and gradually refining those shapes, eventually into light and dark. The final drawings can be quite complex.
There is zero concern with perspective in this approach, which is entirely devoted to developing the artist's ability to draw from his or her visual field. Objects are not seen as 3 dimensional, but as a collection of 2 dimensional shapes that the artist must reproduce. The course is also concerned with instilling s classical taste in the student. It is also a great prelude to drawing a physical cast.
US Version
Its kind of expensive... a used version is more expensive for some reason
For a biography I suggest This one
you can find works here
and some more here.
If you like Liber Null I suggest picking up Frater U.'.D.'.'s book on sigils. Which can also be found here
Great collection! Might I suggest this: https://smile.amazon.com/David-Lynch-Someone-My-House/dp/3791384708/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+lynch+art+book&qid=1564155931&s=gateway&sr=8-
If you're interested Taschen recently published a H Bosch complete works art book.
It really is fantastic with fold out double page spreads of his artwork. Bought one on release day, link here
Design is much more a "why" rather than "how" sector.
People here will disagree with me, but they're wrong.
You're designing solely for a client, and it drops into so many things, Target market, competition analysis, colour theory. Especially if you want to go into UX, where the thought behind anything is just as important as the end product. We're problem solvers, we answer questions through design, colour and form.
If you're looking to learn the tools, you also need to learn the thought. The "why" behind the "how".
Being able to do a 5 minute job in illustrator because you know the tools doesn't really matter if you don't know why you're placing things and creating things.
If you're doing tutorials, make sure you're reading.
Logo Design Love
How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things...
A Smile In The Mind
I'd recommend these three, they're primarily logo and branding design books, but the fundamentals that they cover translate into every facet of Visual Communication.
The Bringhurst Bible
James Victore's book is amazing. It's a quick read but is packed with inspiration.
Envisioning Information is great for info design.
Megg's History of Graphic Design
The rest of these I haven't read yet, but here is a list of things I currently have on my amazon wish list:
Some People Can't Surf by Art Chantry
Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design by Jennifer Bass
Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut
Damn Good Advice by George Lois
How To Be A Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman
The Design of Dissent by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic
Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State by Steven Heller
If anyone is curious about the drawing book at 37:35, it's called Cours de Dessin (Drawing Course) by Charles Bargue
Edit: I got that book for Christmas after putting it on my Amazon Wishlist. It's fascinating!
On typography:
On grids:
On colour:
On usability:
On information design:
On inspiration:
On theory:
On history:
Monographs:
Hey there. You got a lot of recommendations for the channel but since you mentioned your love of Lynch I thought I would throw a couple films to that may interest you and reminded me a little about Lynch.
Under The Skin-is an incredible, somewhat minimalist sci-fi film. It doesn't have the wit of Lynch but the alien scenes have a little bit of an abstract, horror bent that reminded me of the more intense red room/bob scenes. In some ways I feed this is how Lynch would portray aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcR5KHjoc-0
Second is Holy Motors. This is a wonderful film that to me mixes the humour, bizarreness, and creativity I love in the best of Lynch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWu9WjEcdbk&list=PLCJeOyMTQAFiSgL22VKyOf1Ug22nZgIVI&index=17&t=0s
Finally if you love Lynch, I'd suggest exploring his art and writing. The recent book giving an overview of his work is wonderful and really a great price: https://www.amazon.com/David-Lynch-Someone-My-House/dp/3791384708/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=someone+is+in+my+house&qid=1566404356&s=gateway&sr=8-1
yes
And a book.
In the meantime, draw everything. Everything. EVERYTHING.
Keep a sketch book with you always! Draw people waiting for the bus, cars parked outside, city blocks, landscapes, trees, ideas, concepts, doodles, nonsense.
Take pictures of things and use them for reference. Constantly! Can't figure out how an arm looks like in a certain pose, get someone to pose the same way and take a shot with your phone. Its not "cheating" and most artists worth their salt will stare at you like you're insane if you told them to do a large scale project with no live or photo references.
Go to figure drawing meetups. There's usually some at art schools or in any big city. You will be terrible at first but drawing people is a good way to train your eye.
Copy your favorite artist. Not just draw from, but try to copy a whole piece of art, from start to finish, line for line, as closely as possible. Do this a lot! It will help you understand why they put this thing there, and put that thing here, and drew that thing like this.
Its the same reason musicians practice other people's work before they start composing their own!
Figure out who their influence are, and do the same thing with them.
If you're looking for books to get you started, here are some good ones.
Oh, I forgot! If you're interested in drawing people, get a copy of Bridgeman's Guide to Drawing from Life, and any other Bridgeman books you can get your hands on. He draws in a way that's very exaggerated and bizarre looking, but it's to emphasize subtleties that you wouldn't otherwise know to look for. Don't be fooled, he's a master at depicting the human figure in all its subtle glory. Definitely grab a copy; it's one of the few books it's worth dropping some money on as a beginner. Check around on ebay etc. or see if you can find a PDF somewhere (I think it's in the public domain). If you really want to hit your life drawing skills hard, pick up The Charles Bargue Drawing Course. It's co-authored by Gerome, and is the method that Van Gogh used to teach himself art. It's not much fun, though, and a bit difficult to do without direction, so you may want to take a year or two and see how serious you want to get about things.
EDIT: Also, be very selective with what you read and look at. There's a LOT of shitty art out there, and just because it's published doesn't mean it's good. Teach yourself to look for good art, and art that you want to emulate. Something like this may look good on its own, but it's not very proficient, which becomes noticeable when you compare it to this piece by my instructor. Don't be fooled, the fact that you're a beginner doesn't mean you shouldn't be selective about who you take advice from. Obviously hardcore expressive realism may not be your game, but find what you like, and then figure out what is the best stuff in that area and look at it as much as you can.
Regular edition ($40) :
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419737244/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1419737244&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Pre-order:
This is also a really great book, you can download a PDF too :)
You should read Drawings of the Gulag... by Danzig Baldaev, its his forth book, but they are all amazing.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drawings-Gulag-Damon-Murray/dp/0956356249/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1VYM0VFBHDRCSAPSMHN3
this book covers this event... its worth a read if you are interested.
In case anybody's interested
I'll copy some of my comment from a similar post.
There's Der Mond and Die Sterne, both artbooks of Evangelion.
As far as figures, the Soul of Chogokin line is absolutely marvelous. Unfortunately, most of them are hard or impossible to find. Rebuild EVA-00 is still available at original price. Original EVA-00 is available at a vastly increased price, and EVA-02 is even more expensive. If you find them anywhere else, the Spec XS line is preferable (original Evas 00-04 were released on the older GX line; less posable, coloring's a little too shiny). If you find EVA-01, look for the Renewal version (it fixes a manufacturing error; it's XS-01R instead of XS-01).
Edit: Looks like EVA-00 is back at its usual price on Amazon.
I just saw your pic on imgur and clicked into the reddit comments (I'm usually a not-logged-in-silent-lurker ;) Not too shabby! I was going to remain silent, per usual, but I'm also a classical painter (well neo-classical, I guess?) and the way you're describing wanting to start drawing is actually the way I draw. The craziest and most helpful advice I can think to tell you is to get blending paper stumps, and NEVER THROW THEM AWAY. The nastier they are, the better. I've had the same ones since college. Use them instead of trying to force pencils to do light shading. Basically you'll be shading with residue from all of your other drawings.
oh, and get a copy of this http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Jean-L%C3%83%C2%A9-G%C3%83%C2%A9r%C3%83me-Ackerman/dp/2867702038/ref=dp_ob_title_bk post haste
and good luck :)
Confirmed.
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475243948&sr=1-1&keywords=banksy+wall+and+piece
(Click the second thumbnail below the cover photo)
If you have the chance, pick up a copy of "The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss". http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Art-Dr-Seuss/dp/0679434488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330789269&sr=8-1 It has lots of his artwork that was never meant for his books, and shows the true, slightly twisted, spirit of Ted Geisel. The "Man-Trap" is naughtily excellent, and my favourite painting of his, "A Plethora of Cats", has a great back story.
Wow thanks for the answer. I'm amazed that I could get such advice from a simple post.
The stick approach is something I discovered looking at Matisse
I was always losing myself in details and never focusing on the whole. This helped immensely in my process. I also noticed a lot of people tackle this process with a projector and rendering it bit by bit. But I didn't feel this would learn me that much. I treated the enormous paper as a sketchbook page that needs enlarged tools to do so. Now it's very rewarding experience that I can draw portraits from people posing for me.
Interesting you write about adding and subtracting mass. I recently graduated in architecture but to learn to draw portrait I had to turn off all that spatial/constructional/sculptural thinking from model making to really see values, contours and negative space. I hope by adding it back in it will help me in future projects.
Hair is something where I have a real issue with. I always start off trying do it very detailed to then realise it sucks, erase it and go roughly about it with some tones. A lot of books and teachers say that the haircut is an extension of the face but it doesn't seem to stick with me. Maybe seeing it as shapes will help me.
The background I'm also not sold one entirely. I wanted something else but eventually defaulted to the strategy of adding a dark tone next to a light (hair).
Thanks for again for the advice. It always helps to get some kind words to keep going. For practising proportions I was interested in the Bargue excercises. But I don't know if it is really helpful to copy away for 200 pages.
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The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
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The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics
George Lois: On His Creation of the Big Idea
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
The elements of dynamic symmetry
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Corporate Diversity: Swiss graphic design and advertising
Book Design: a comprehensive guide
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
There are a lot of great suggestions here already, but I'd like to add fashion books. I'm talking like those big coffee table books on historical fashion or specific designers. Stuff like 19th Centry Fashion in Detail or Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. They can get a little pricey but I've found that there's a fair selection of those sorts of books at my local library.
For inspiration on trends, I like to go to fast fashion websites (large inventory, often refreshed) that do more full-outfit styling on their stock photos like ASOS and see what sorts of elements are recurring and how I feel about the styling.
As many people have mentioned already, Pinterest isn't great for up-to-date trend inspiration but I like to use it for more mood-based or non-fashion-based inspiration like botanical inspired fashion. I recommend keeping an entirely separate pinterest account for fashion stuff and using it frequently to get better recommendations. I also make sure to add my own pins to boards periodically from shop photos or instagram and that seems to help with getting more recent-looking pins.
For direct outfit inspiration on instagram I mostly just follow the #redditffa tag. I've yet to find any larger tags that are not completely polluted with referral links and shops.
I recommend just buying the latest edition of his art book:
http://www.amazon.com/Drew-Struzan-Oeuvre-Dylan/dp/0857685570
It's been recently updated (2011) and has almost everything he's ever done commercially, including many of his original pieces. It's one of my all-time favorites.
This looks like it was a study done following the methods laid out in the Charles Bargue Drawing Course.
Here's the book on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Drawing-Gerald-Ackerman/dp/2867702038
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I'm not sure of the exact terminology, but you'd basically do a simple lay-in (like a simplified version of the body), heavily measured from your reference. Then you go in and add or remove shapes making the forms more complex.
The process would be similar to this but on a larger scale: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0319/2345/files/bargue_2_large.jpg?589
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Hope that helps.
I just brought his book... it's amazing!
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.
Examples.
Which artists would you say you like most? Would you ever like to create artwork in a similar fashion?
I think you dodged a bullet by not getting into the design college. I know plenty of recent graduates who found it to be a waste of time and money, not to mention not finding any decent work.
If you can afford it, I would highly suggest buying the Drawing Course by Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme. It will give you great advances in drawing skills that you can apply to any sort of drawing. You could easily draw one plate once per day, or even week.
At the very least, you could devote 15 minutes per day, just sketching whatever catches your fancy. You got a new puppy, sketch him! Also, don't feel like you have to share your sketchbook with anyone. I found that by being very particular about who I show my sketches to, I can be more free to make necessary mistakes without worrying about scrutiny. Critiques are definitely overrated, especially if you can see what mistakes you've made. I know if what I drew was crappy, I don't need others to tell me.
Remember that you will have days where you draw really well and days where you draw like complete crap. You did a drawing, that's all that matters. The more practice you get, the better you'll be. Even artists who've been selling art for decades still need to practice often to keep their skills sharp.
A side note: Artwork that has agriculture and livestock as the subject tend to sell really well in certain markets. So if that's something that interests you, it may prove lucrative!
http://www.amazon.com/Net-Being-Alex-Grey/dp/159477384X
Net of Being is a great read. I've been wanting to check out Be Here Now by Ram Dass, and I'm waiting on my friend to come through town with his copy.
There's a documentary about him called Drew: The Man Behind the Posters. He also has a couple of nice books out showcasing his work.
Ooooo that's a good one. So far it's between that and an art book I found.
Wall and Piece by Banksy.
Yes, he did. One of my BiLs gave me his book a few years ago, and it's in there. One of my favorite parts of the book is the back cover. The following quote is on there:
"There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover" - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
ETA: Here's a link to the book, BTW. It's very good. http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872
I'm going to throw out a different idea than what's already been suggested: maybe get them a book related to the fashions they enjoy? Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is incredible, although it's a little on the pricey side. I'm sure you can find something cheaper, though.
'Wall and Piece by Banksy
Just pick the subjects you're most interested in, and buy the most beautiful books you can find on them. Depending on how open you are about your interests (say, some are too nerdy for regular people?), this can really be anything. I mean, I would proudly display this, had I a coffee table on which to display it, but were I more shy about my anime interests then I would probably go more towards this or this.
Really, all I can say is look for books that represent you. Unless you're hoping for one-night-stands, in which case look for books that represent the you you want other people to see. Even for that I wouldn't know what to suggest, you're being rather vague.
This is a pretty good beginning book: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Figure-Jack-Hamm/dp/0399507914
if you've very serious about this and want to do realistic renderings, I would try practicing with bargue plates for a while: https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Jean-L%C3%A9on-G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-Ackerman/dp/2867702038/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467062406&sr=1-1&keywords=barque
[Here you go.] (http://www.amazon.com/Der-Mond-Neon-Genesis-Evangelion/dp/1421507676/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406908227&sr=8-1&keywords=der+mond)
Link to book: http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872
How to By:Michael Bierut
The Vignelli Canon By: Massimo Vignelli (free PDF)
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His Wall and Piece book is great too
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ON0BK1SOYNYU&keywords=banksy+wall+and+piece&pldnSite=1&qid=1550583706&s=gateway&sa-no-redirect=1&sprefix=banksy+wa%2Caps%2C226&sr=8-1
Charles Bargue http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Bargue-Jean-L%C3%A9on-G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-Ackerman/dp/2867702038
Godfried Bammes "Die Gestalt Menschen" http://www.amazon.ca/Die-Gestalt-Menschen-Gottfried-Bammes/dp/3862300013 or Der nackte Mensch
There is a good biography Austin Osman Spare: The Occult Life of London's Legendary Artist by Phil Baker. I thought the most notable thing about him was that he seemed fascinated with his own imagination. Artists with exceptional access to the psyche run a great risk of becoming entranced by their own soul. It is possible to gain the creative powers of the dreaming mind but turning that into art isn't easy because you are trying to make use of a ability beyond conscious invention.
The only thing I can think of that had skeletons and musculature was "Animals Real and Imagined" by Terryl Whitlatch.
PS: It might help to scroll down and watch the video review, as there aren't any inside photos otherwise.
Best gift I've received: I am a bit of an Alexander McQueen (fashion designer) freak. About three years ago, I mentioned to my boyfriend that I wanted this book about his work. It is a rather expensive book, and I never splurged on it for myself. For my last birthday, my boyfriend gave it to me. He remembered that book for three years! I cried. :)
Best gift I've given: I think the best gift I've given was to my mother. She collects "old Santas" - not those little models or dolls you can find in Joann Fabrics, but old antique things with Santa on them. She has a Santa cake mold from the 1930s, for example. Once while browsing in Goodwill, I got extremely lucky and found a very old silver Santa music box. She loves it, and he's become the centerpiece of her collection!
It is helpful to make you more accurate. However most people dont spend the correct amount of time on them. They are suppose to take hours and hours and hours of refinement making them super accurate. The project book is here but it has slowly gotten more and more expensive it seems. or maybe it was always this expensive its just shocking me for the second time i look at it lol.
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Halfway through Michael Bierut's How To and really enjoying it. Lots of pictures, wide range of topics.
This is a fantastic book about de Kooning but it also goes into a lot of art history and shows why these guys were able to change the face of art.
de Kooning: An American Master https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375711163/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_DXJiybSN10009
It is not just a great biography, it's one of the best books I've ever read.
I was sad that it was sold out as well so I did a quick search and found it on Amazon. It's a presale, not out till October. I have a feeling it's going to be a different issue. Just a hardcover and not like the original limited edition issue shown on the vol site.
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https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1419737244/ref=pe_3034960_233709270_TE_item
Hopefully, sundogdayze can get some cheap prices from the printer. But if we go with Blurb my vote is on the 8" x 10" Portrait softcover.
In my head, I have this turning out sort of like Banksy's Wall and Piece.
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Austin Spare, often called the greatest magician who ever lived, supposedly could do anything he wanted, but ultimately didn't want much of anything. Even he said something to this effect when asked why he was such a great artist but peaked in his teens and languished in poverty and obscurity forever after. His answer was pretty much "perhaps this is what I want." The new biography forwarded by Alan Moore is definitely a good read.
if i put my kindle out on the table, nobody picks it up and sparks a conversation worth having. leave out Alex Grey's Net of Being and now you got a stew going baby!
Hey, Geisel liked and drew them himself. See? You should check out The Secret Art of Doctor Seuss.
Powerful imagery here. Much like his entire gallery!
Then again he has those few sprays that are lighthearted in nature.
Check this book out, Wall and Piece, for his legacy works! I have read it myself can review it with 5 stars eaasy. It sheds beautiful light on the underground art of graffiti.
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http://www.amazon.com/Danzig-Baldaev-Drawings-Damon-Murray/dp/0956356249