Gingko press aug 2024 (2 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fundamental building block of how we perceive and react to the world around us, shapes make up our visual landscape. Whether geometric, abstract or figurative, they are able to convey a variety of feelings, emotions and connotations and through their representations of form. Designers make use of these relationships, incorporating shapes into their designs that appeal to our innate sense of pattern memory while creating something graphically pleasing. Beginning with a historical perspective on the development of pictorial graphics from ancient times to the present, Shape Up! explores their modern expression through countless examples and interviews with designers on inspiration and designing with shapes.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The densely packed paintings found in Alex Gross' latest monograph Prison of the Mind extend the ideas he'd developed in the prior decade while turning the pop culture references up to eleven. Fresh themes and settings find his flawless oil paintings skating to the outer limits of the absurd. Finely rendered Darth Skater at the skate park and Cersei and Jaime Lannister, the villains from 'Game of Thrones,' sharing Tic-Tacs simultaneously amaze and amuse. Mr. Gross has been kept busy creating his stream-of-consciousness fine oil paintings for the past decade, but also continues to create his modified 'cabinet card' paintings. An entire new body of work created on these archival photographs is also featured in Prison of the Mind. A revealing interview with writer and curator John Seed lets the reader into the inner-workings of this fascinating artist's mind.…