Arthur Zarr is a quiet man who lives alone. When he gets a creative idea to add everyday objects to his car's plain exterior, Arthur gets noticed for the first time around town. Neighbors and other bystanders add their own artistic flair to the car, too. What happens when Arthur enters his bedazzled art car in the town's parade? In this whimsical story about an art car, children learn about recycling, community, friendship building, and the power of imagination.
Arthur Zarr is a quiet man who lives alone. When he gets a creative idea to add everyday objects to his car's plain exterior, Arthur gets noticed for the first time around town. Neighbors and other bystanders add their own artistic flair to the car, too. What happens when Arthur enters his bedazzled art car in the town's parade? In this whimsical story about an art car, children learn about recycling, community, friendship building, and the power of imagination.
Yazzy loves yarn. And she loves to knit.Her neighborhood park is dull and rusty, but Yazzy has a grand plan. With a little help from her friends, she transforms Penny Park into a fuzzy rainbow of warmth and color. What yarn-tastic idea will Yazzy think of next?The book includes a "History of Yarn Bombing" page in the back for readers who are not familiar with this creative and whimsical art.
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft
Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors—John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra—changed World War II, and how, in turn, the war changed them. In a move unheard of at the time, the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood, allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of America’s war, shaping the public’s collective consciousness of what we’ve now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back. “Five Came Back . . . is one of the great works of film history of the decade.” --Slate “A tough-minded, information-packed and irresistibly readable work of movie-minded cultural criticism. Like the best World War II films, it highlights marquee names in a familiar plot to explore some serious issues: the human cost of military service, the hypnotic power of cinema and the tension between artistic integrity and the exigencies of war.” --The New York Times
This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.
Written clearly and passionately by award-winning theatre director Anne Bogart this book contains eight new essays on art, theatre and the collaborative creative process, where Bogart argues that art is more necessary and powerful than ever.
