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Jesse Schell
Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows ... (Description from external book data)
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Stefan Sagmeister
This book began as a list designer Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far and transformed thes... (Description from external book data)
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Tim Lapetino
Since its formation in 1972, the company pioneered hundreds of iconic titles including Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command. In additio... (Description from external book data)
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Albert Oehlen
This volume takes up the concept of one of Oehlen's recent installations, in which he juxtaposed paintings from 2008 with his "post-non-figu... (Description from external book data)
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Bob Ashley
What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our d... (Description from external book data)
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Tanya Lapointe
Immerse yourself in the world of Denis Villeneuve s Dune and discover the incredible creative journey that brought Frank Herbert s iconic ... (Description from external book data)
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Henry Jenkins
Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both o... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Betancourt
José Parlá (born 1973) derives his art from the accretions and damage of city walls, and the record they supply of neighborhood character an... (Description from external book data)
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Craig Harbison
Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certificati... (Description from external book data)
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Ross King
For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 't... (Description from external book data)
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Oliver Grau
Although many people view virtual reality as a modern phenomenon, it has its foundations in a history of immersive images. The search for il... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Betancourt
In his latest book, Michael Betancourt explores the nature and role of typography in motion graphics as a way to consider its distinction fr... (Description from external book data)
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Aubrey Anable
Provides an up-to-date overview of the present state Visual Cultural Studies, featuring new original content, topics, and methods The Wiley ... (Description from external book data)
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A. Joan Saab
Provides an up-to-date overview of the present state Visual Cultural Studies, featuring new original content, topics, and methods The Wiley ... (Description from external book data)
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Modris Eksteins
Main description: In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of ... (Description from external book data)
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Jane Fejfer
Despite its size and importance, the Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture has never been completely catalogued or published. Part... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Betancourt
In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an analysis of the r... (Description from external book data)
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Florence S. Boos
William Morris (1834 “96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theo... (Description from external book data)
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Chris Legaspi
A comprehensive human anatomy guide for today's 3D artist, offering fundamental, theoretical and practical skills in anatomy and proportion. (Description from external book data)
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Dawn Ades
This authoritative and beautiful book presents the first continuous narrative history of Latin American art from the years of the Independen... (Description from external book data)
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May Morris
A tireless champion of her father William, and a gifted designer and craftswoman in her own right, Mary (May) Morris (1862-1938) had a uniqu... (Description from external book data)
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Thomas Kren
This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch ... (Description from external book data)
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Sara Brady
Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes c... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Betancourt
Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology ... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Betancourt
This book explores the question of realism in motion pictures. Specifically, it explores how understanding the role of realism in the histor... (Description from external book data)
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Ross King
Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were... (Description from external book data)
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Amy Golahny
Gathered in honor of John Michael Montias (1928 “2005), the foremost scholar on Johannes Vermeer and a pioneer in the study of the socioecon... (Description from external book data)
