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More artists make necklaces than any other form of jewelry—and these pieces are among the most exquisite ever created. Selected from over 5,000 entries, they range from unique chokers to artful collars. Some showcase precious metals and gems, while others use more unusual materials, including plastic, wood, paper, and glass. They're forged, cast, and woven, and have surface embellishments that run the gamut from inlay to enameling. And the variety is simply astonishing: Classic bejeweled chains appear next to avant-garde felted wool constructions. Some of the eye-catching, full-color images feature enlightening quotes from the creators themselves. Jewelers, students, collectors, and anyone who loves beautiful objects will treasure this extensive collection—the largest of its kind.

It's an absolutely unequalled photographic gallery: no other book has ever presented such a varied, captivating collection of contemporary ceramics based on the human form. The works range from representational to abstract, from artful realism to provocative surrealism, and many of them come from leaders in the field such as Judy Fox, Kurt Weiser, and Andy Nasisse. Kay Yourist has produced female forms that are smooth, minimalist vessels with only the slightest hint of breasts and belly. The simple, rounded features of Diane Lublinski's black-and-white figures possess a fun, clown-like whimsy. Michael A. Prather's mournful ceramic portraits have frowning faces and pointed dunce-like heads in a muted color palette. Many of the ceramics come with detail images and illuminating artist's commentary.

As four-yearly snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of our world - a lens through which we can explore links between sport and art, politics and place, commerce and culture. They offer an intensely visual representation of the modern Games, sometimes heralded as the ''Greatest Sporting Show on Earth''. "A Century of Olympic Games Posters" draws largely on the V&A''s poster collection and shows the evolution of the Olympic Games poster, from the first official poster for Stockholm in 1912, right up to the present. This diverse collection of images includes official posters for the Summer and Winter Games set in their historical context, and linked to pervading themes such as politics, commerce, the Olympic symbols, cultural and physical diversity, and urban regeneration. It accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Childhood.

Handbuilding with clay offers a unique opportunity to experiment, requiring few tools, and allowing intuition and imagination to come to the fore. In this overview of a fast-developing practice, artist Claire Loder explains time-honored methods of handbuilding, as well as introducing the fascinating new approaches of contemporary ceramicists.The basic techniques, from coiling and pinching to working with slabs, are explained with practical instructions and helpful accompanying images. Equipment, clay bodies and studio advice are thoroughly covered. Through the work of today''s makers, the book then looks at new methods of building by hand, including mixed media work, sculptural methods, vessels and surface decoration, illuminating a wide variety of forms and styles.Sculpting and Handbuilding is an essential guide for any ceramic artist or student wishing to learn the basics of handbuilding, or seeking inspiration to integrate and adapt conventional methods.

PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books contain 16 sheets (25 x 34.5 cm) of superior acid-free drawing paper, printed with exceptional designs in very light lines. The printing is done in such a way that, depending on the techniques used, the original outline will be hardly visible after colouring. The 180 gsm drawing paper is made to our specifications by one of the best paper mills in Europe and is suitable for a wide range of colouring applications, including pencil, crayon, pastel, felt marker, gouache, etc. Also water colours and liquid inks can be used. Our first-rate paper has a long life and coloured sheets can be framed and displayed without the risk of rapid deterioration. PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books match the quality of the finest artists' pads. They are perfectly suited to practice your colouring skills and create beautiful pieces at the same time. In order to get the best results, we recommend you use high-quality colouring materials.

PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books contain 16 sheets (25 x 34.5 cm) of superior acid-free drawing paper, printed with exceptional designs in very light lines. The printing is done in such a way that, depending on the techniques used, the original outline will be hardly visible after colouring. The 180 gsm drawing paper is made to our specifications by one of the best paper mills in Europe and is suitable for a wide range of colouring applications, including pencil, crayon, pastel, felt marker, gouache, etc. Also water colours and liquid inks can be used. Our first-rate paper has a long life and coloured sheets can be framed and displayed without the risk of rapid deterioration. PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books match the quality of the finest artists' pads. They are perfectly suited to practice your colouring skills and create beautiful pieces at the same time. In order to get the best results, we recommend you use high-quality colouring materials.

PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books contain 16 sheets (25 x 34.5 cm) of superior acid-free drawing paper, printed with exceptional designs in very light lines. The printing is done in such a way that, depending on the techniques used, the original outline will be hardly visible after colouring. The 180 gsm drawing paper is made to our specifications by one of the best paper mills in Europe and is suitable for a wide range of colouring applications, including pencil, crayon, pastel, felt marker, gouache, etc. Also water colours and liquid inks can be used. Our first-rate paper has a long life and coloured sheets can be framed and displayed without the risk of rapid deterioration. PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books match the quality of the finest artists' pads. They are perfectly suited to practice your colouring skills and create beautiful pieces at the same time. In order to get the best results, we recommend you use high-quality colouring materials.

PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books contain 16 sheets (25 x 34.5 cm) of superior acid-free drawing paper, printed with exceptional designs in very light lines. The printing is done in such a way that, depending on the techniques used, the original outline will be hardly visible after colouring. The 180 gsm drawing paper is made to our specifications by one of the best paper mills in Europe and is suitable for a wide range of colouring applications, including pencil, crayon, pastel, felt marker, gouache, etc. Also water colours and liquid inks can be used. Our first-rate paper has a long life and coloured sheets can be framed and displayed without the risk of rapid deterioration. PEPIN Artists' Colouring Books match the quality of the finest artists' pads. They are perfectly suited to practice your colouring skills and create beautiful pieces at the same time. In order to get the best results, we recommend you use high-quality colouring materials.

New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation.The definitive book on contemporary sculpture and installation art from around the world.Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation is an up-to-the-minute survey of current global developments in contemporary sculpture and its close relative, installation. This vast medium of sculpture continues to be a central pillar of artistic practice, and Vitamin 3-D presents the outstanding artists who are engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium.Vitamin 3-D follows the success of Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing and Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, presenting a cross-generational survey of contemporary artists from 27 countries. Chosen from more than 500 nominations by significant international critics, curators, art historians and creative writers, Vitamin 3-Ds 117 established and emerging artists were selected on the basis that they have made a significant contribution to sculpture and installation (in their broadest sense) in the last five years.Vitamin 3-D allows the reader to look at the medium in detail, to study sculptures unique properties in relation to itself, in relation to contemporary art and in relation to the world at large. An ongoing fascination with the key issues of modern sculpture, from the readymade to the specific object, today drives many artists to return to those issues again and again, with fresh and often surprising results.In her evocative introductory essay for Vitamin 3-D, Anne Ellegood uses Rosalind Krausss landmark 1978 essay Sculpture in the Expanded Field as the basis to explore the wildly inclusive breadth and depth of work that the term sculpture can now be applied to within contemporary practice and the key historical moments that serve as the precedents for what we now understand as both sculpture and installation.Sculpture continues to strike out into new territory, harnessing the medium to confront todays commodity world in its own materials or conjuring visionary new objects and environments like nothing seen before. Vitamin 3-D contributes to these international debates on contemporary sculpture and installation while providing an accessible overview and a concise reference book in an innovative design that embodies the materiality of its subject.

Los materiales empleados en la conservación y restauración del patrimonio, al igual que la disciplina misma, han evolucionado de manera vertiginosa en los últimos años: en la actualidad, el número y variedad de estos productos es a menudo desbordante. En este diccionario, los autores han recopilado, revisado y puesto al dia la informacion mas importante sobre estos materiales, poniendola a disposicion del lector en una comoda fuente de consulta con cerca de 1.400 voces, complementadas por un gran numero de ilustraciones, tablas y apendices, ademas de un valioso indice tematico.Esta obra destaca por su amplitud, fruto de un importante esfuerzo de investigacion y busqueda, y, sobre todo, por su accesibilidad y claridad expositiva. Asi, en el caso de los terminos de fisica y quimica empleados en restauracion, junto a sustancias, productos e instrumentos, se han incluido una serie de nociones auxiliares fundamentales que facilitan su comprension. Por otro lado, en buena parte de los materiales de uso frecuente, los autores han reflejado los aspectos mas utiles para la practica de la conservacion y restauracion de obras de arte, tales como su formulacion o su modo de aplicacion. Todo ello hace del Diccionario de materiales de la restauracion una obra de referencia imprescindible para estudiosos y profesionales de la restauracion, asi como una inestimable fuente de informacion para cualquier persona interesada por esta fascinante disciplina.

Peter Carl Faberge, court jeweler to the czars, is a name synonymous with beauty, craftsmanship, and sumptuous excess. This exciting book features some of the best photographs ever made of Faberge objects. Over 350 illustrations, 80 in full color.