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Art deco 1910-1939 / by Benton, Charlotte.(CARDINAL)335631; Benton, Tim,1945-(CARDINAL)334596; Wood, Ghislaine.(CARDINAL)335652; Victoria and Albert Museum.(CARDINAL)143050;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-449) and indexes.Art Deco - the style redolent of the flapper girl, the luxury ocean liner, Hollywood film and the skyscraper - came to epitomize the glamour, luxury and hedonism of the Jazz Age. It burst on to the world stage at the 1925 Exposition internationale des art decoratifs et industriels modernes, in Paris and quickly swept across the globe. Its influence was felt everywhere, from the skylines of New York and Shanghai to the design of fashionable eveningwear and plastic radios. Above all, it became the signature style of the pleasure palaces of the age - hotels, cocktail bars, nightclubs and cinemas. This authoritative publication brings together leading experts to explore the sources, varied forms of expression, distinct visual language and global reach of Art Deco"--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art deco; Art, Modern;

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Bead-making lab : 52 explorations for crafting beads from polymer clay, plastic, paper, stone, wood, fiber, and wire / by Powers, Heather,author.(CARDINAL)598432;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Clay -- Paper and cork -- Plastics -- Backyard -- Fiber and textiles -- Wire.Bead-Making Lab is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead design make the book simple to use. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Choose from traditional materials like paper mache and polymer clay, or opt for new materials such as resins and shrink plastic. Once you've selected your medium, follow the lab instructions for the bead-making technique of your choice. Try a new technique each week! With how-tos including molding, carving, painting, gluing, drilling beach glass and pebbles, and creating fiber-art beads with felting and embroidery, you'll have a year of unique projects ahead of you. Bead-Making Lab also offers ideas on how to turn your beads into jewelry and gives you a sneak peek at some contemporary bead artisans' best work.

Subjects: Beads.; Beadwork.;

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The process of sculpture / by Padovano, Anthony.(CARDINAL)156077;

Bibliography: pages 309-312.Clay sculpturing -- Gallery of clay sculpture -- Wood carving and construction -- Gallery of wood sculpture -- Stone carving -- Gallery of stone sculpture -- Metal working -- Gallery of metal sculpture -- Bronze casting -- Gallery of bronze sculpture -- Plastics -- Gallery of plastic sculpture."Sculpture has been a form of human expression from the days of the prehistoric men who chipped and carved soft stone or fashioned figurines out of damp clay, to the present, when artists working with the tools of industrial technology create constructions of welded steel and complex plastics. Sculpture is as vital today as it ever has been, with artists working both in traditional styles and in avant-garde modes that challenge the imagination and the limits of technique. The Process of Sculpture is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of this age-old art. Author Tony Padovano, one of America's foremost sculptors, has worked in every medium under such teachers as Jacques Lipchitz, Meyer Schapiro, and Theodore Roszak. In this outstanding book he communicates his excitement and his enthusiasm with his expertise. Each of the sculptor's materials--clay, stone, wood, metal, plastic--is discussed in depth: its history, its present applications, the tools and techniques it requires, its drawbacks, and its potential are explored. Hundreds of illustrations show works in progress and portfolios of the work of famous sculptors, as well as the most efficient and effective methods to use. A reference section tells the aspiring sculptor where to find suppliers to meet all of his or her needs and offers a list of further reading on specific subjects The Process of Sculpture emphasizes the possibilities of this expressive art form, combining technical instruction with the firm belief that modern technology remains only a tool for the imagination, not an end in itself. This book is a must for anyone who intends to take up sculpture; it will also inform and fascinate anyone interested in one of man's oldest artistic endeavors." -- Publisher's descriptionDiscusses how to work with clay, stone, wood, metal, and plastic, surveys the modern tools and techniques of sculpture, and shows artists at work.

Subjects: Sculpture;

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Margaret and Christine Wertheim : value and transformation of corals / by Kittelmann, Udo,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)382299; Davis, Heather M.(Heather Margaret),contributor.(CARDINAL)856421; Deshpande, Amita,contributor.; Haraway, Donna Jeanne,contributor.(CARDINAL)775547; Harvey, Doug,1961-contributor.(CARDINAL)274154; Irrgang, Judith,compiler.; Perkov, Kayleigh,contributor.(CARDINAL)856422; Riechelmann, Cord,contributor.(CARDINAL)856420; Wertheim, Christine,artist,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)856423; Wertheim, Margaret,artist,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)781608; Sammlung Frieder Burda (Museum),issuing body,host institution.(CARDINAL)856419; Wienand,publisher.;

Includes bibliographical references.Coral reefs, with their brilliant colours, their interwoven and tangled forms and their curving and rippling surfaces, are the central theme of the Australian sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim. As scientists, they analyse the aesthetic of mathematical theories and biological phenomena. The Institute for Figuring? (IFF), which they founded in Los Angeles in 2005, aims to promote public understanding for the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and technology and to simultaneously draw attention to matters involving nature and the environment. The sisters combine the methods of the traditional needlework technique of crocheting with the beauties of maritime ecosystems and their complex algorithmic structures. The result is a participatory, collective total work of art, which at the same time raises awareness for the endangered and hidden beauties of our oceans.00Exhibition: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (29.01. - 26.06.2022).

Subjects: Wertheim, Christine; Wertheim, Margaret; Coral reef conservation; Crocheting;

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Upcycling : create beautiful things with the stuff you already have / by Seo, Danny.(CARDINAL)642805; Lévy, Jennifer.(CARDINAL)767009;

Materials for recycling -- Upcycling ideas for decorating (Bear-"skin" oriental rug -- Birdcage chandelier -- Ceramic-dipped silk flowers and plastic fruit -- String outdoor seating -- Chinatown-tote-bag shower curtain -- Heaven-on-Earth bedroom clouds -- Fine-tooth-comb bookshelf -- Wine-cork bath mat -- Gemstone cabinet knobs -- Painter's-tape privacy screen -- Glittering bad artwork -- Gold-"dipped" plates -- Necktie wreath -- Plastic-bottle hourglasses -- CD-jewel-case frames -- Cassette-tape tissue box -- Stenciled cabinet -- Cast-iron-pipe hooks and towel rack -- Leather-belt doormat -- Starry-sky artwork -- Cork-covered lampshades -- Holiday-string-light neon artwork -- Carpet-sample patchwork rug -- Plastic-banana fruit bowl -- Cozy scarf-blanket -- Reupholstered pet stairs -- Safety-pin sequined pillow -- Sharpie-tie-dyed bedding and napkins -- Fallen-branch shelves -- Button-silhouette artwork -- Tarnished-silver-tray table -- Floating silk-flower arrangements -- Cork-tin-can organizers -- Glowing rock-salt lights -- Electronic-cord organizer -- Zip-tie vines -- Wallpaper-swatch-book quilted wall)Upcycling ideas for entertaining (Laminate-countertop grouted tray -- River-rock-handled jar mugs -- Hotel-key-card breakfast-in-bed tray -- Carpet-sample placemats -- Chinatown-tote-bag floor cushions -- Chinese-food-takeout-chopstick trivet -- Christmas-light hanging pendant -- Men's-shirt pennants -- Rubber-dipped utensils -- Flocked "ceramic" cans -- Jar-lid dining table -- Mini-liquor-bottle bud vase collection -- Paint-stirrer lanterns -- Patrón-tequila oil lights -- Potato-chip-bag "silver leafed" mirror -- Frosted-"cookie" cookbook weight -- Tiered trays)Upcycling ideas for giving (Book vases -- String scented diffusers -- Button monogrammed journals -- Upcycled cashmere sweater accessories -- Keyboard journals -- Concrete water bottles -- Sweater-dryer balls -- CD dumbbells -- Newspaper fire logs -- Hotel soap on a rope -- Sock-shoe forms -- Spare-change catchall tray -- Soda-can sequined tote bag -- Valentine's Day love bottle -- Wood-grain journals -- Scrap-wood postcard)Upcycling ideas for kids (3-D globes -- Found alphabet art -- Coffee-sleeve crowns -- Crayon vases -- Furniture stag heads -- Blown-up kid's artwork -- Kid's T-shirt artwork -- Lego journals -- Lipstick-case crayons -- Pots-and-pans robots -- Plastic-water-bottle flowers)Upcycling the great outdoors (Bamboo pens -- Preserved botanicals -- Flocked, reusable tote bags -- Twig crafting stamps -- Leaf-silhouette artwork -- Beach-finds clock -- Rock frames -- Spiderweb artwork -- Spoon-plant ID markers -- Tennis-ball swing -- Bathroom-towel picnic blanket).Presents over one hundred projects for creative "upcycling"--using used and recycled products to create decorative items in the home, including leather belt doormats, bathroom towel picnic baskets, and a jar lid dining table --

Subjects: Refuse as art material.; Handicraft.; Recycling (Waste, etc.);

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Sew wild : creating with stitch and mixed media / by Burke, Alisa.(CARDINAL)489395;

Includes bibliographical references (page 142) and index.Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Materials and Tools -- Color and Pattern -- Finding Inspiration -- Surface Design Techniques -- Doodling and Drawing -- Freewriting, Lettering, and Text -- Graffiti-Style Lettering -- Building Layers of Color with Paint -- Wet-on-Wet Painting -- Woodblock Printing -- Creating Pattern with Glue Resist -- Discharging with Bleach and Adding Color -- Monotype -- Easy Screen Printing with Embroidery Hoop or Picture Frame -- Stenciling -- Masking -- Fusing Plastic -- Stitching Techniques -- Messy Stitching -- Free-Motion Stitching -- Stitching Over Patterned and Painted Surfaces -- Establishing Line, Contrast, and Color with Machine Stitching -- Journaling and Writing with Machine Stitching -- Freehand and Expressive Drawing -- Sewing with Alternative Materials -- Building Stitched Layers -- Graffiti Quilting Projects -- Rosette Pillow -- Smart + Wild Laptop Case and Phone Case -- Obi-Style Wrap Belt -- Romantic Ruffle Apron -- Improvisational Art Quilt -- Wonder Woman Cuff Bracelet -- + Flower Strap Bracelet -- Fabulous Fusion Tote Bag -- Graffiti Pillow -- Graffiti Zipper Bag -- Flower Fabric Wreath -- Cozy Jersey Scarf -- Messy Bucket Hat -- Resources -- Recommended Reading -- Index -- DVD -- Putting It All Together: Surface Design and Stitching Techniques -- Bonus Project: Fiber Flags -- Bonus Technique: Fabric Flowers."Sew Wild liberates you! Enjoy unlimited freedom to color, pattern, and customize your own fabric with fun, spectacular results. Get wild with printing, painting, drawing, stenciling, and other surface design methods and unique materials such as plastic bags, photographs, and cardboard. Dive into 12 simple sewing projects to make colorful, wearable, and hip designs, including a stunning wall quilt, adorable hats for kids or adults, a pretty wreath, cuff bracelets, and a modern ruffled apron. Artist Alisa Burke demonstrates many of the techniques and essentials of surface design and sewing on an included DVD. In addition to the in-depth video instruction, you'll get a bonus project exclusively on the DVD. Whether you're already a rule-breaker or you're looking to improvise, Sew Wild shows you how to create fabric and designs that explode with color, pattern, and soul"--

Subjects: Textile crafts.;

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Oil. by Farndon, John.(CARDINAL)178435;

Provides information about oil and other petroleum products, explaining what they are and how they are used; discussing oil exploration, drilling, and refining; and looking at the problem of pollution and alternatives to oil as a fuel source. Includes clip-art CD-ROM and wall chart..Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Petroleum; Petroleum.;

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The natural house / by Wright, Frank Lloyd,1867-1959.(CARDINAL)139843;

Organic architecture -- Building the new house -- Simplicity -- Plasticity -- In the nature of materials: a philosophy -- A new reality: glass -- Another reality: continuity -- Materials for their own sake -- The new integrity -- Integral ornament at last -- Great power -- The Usonian House I -- The Usonian House II -- Gravity heat -- Concerning the Usonian House -- Integrity: in a house as in an individual -- From the ground up -- Where to build -- What kind of land -- A suitable foundation -- Advantages of the berm-type -- How to light the house -- The great luminary -- Steel and glass -- The basement -- Insulation and heating -- The kind of roof -- The attic -- Size of kitchen -- The client and the house -- Expanding for the growing family -- Children's rooms -- Furnishings -- Chairs -- Paint -- Air conditioning? -- The contractor -- Grammar: the house as a work of art -- The architect of the future -- It is valiant to be simple -- The Usonian Automatic -- Reducing the costs -- How the "Usonian Automatic" is built -- Organic architecture and the Orient -- The philosophy and the deed.

Subjects: Architectural drawings.; Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture;

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Alison Weld / by Weld, Alison G.,artist.(CARDINAL)881322; Jones, Rachel Elizabeth,writer of essay.; Luebbers, Leslie,writer of essay.(CARDINAL)283323; Ricco/Maresca Gallery,publisher.(CARDINAL)877651;

Surface Tension: The Generative Contrasts of Alison Weld / Rachel Elizabeth Jones -- Sacra Conversazione / Leslie L. Luebbers -- Plates -- Alison Weld CV."Alison Weld has been an abstract painter for more than 30 years. She believes that her work is a visual diary; revealing responses to both the natural and social worlds. Weld looks to abstraction--either creating her works or contemplating those of others--for evidence of a passionate response to life. Searching out the abstract present in all artworks, the artist takes in thoughts of color and line, movement and proportion, surface and scale, ultimately asserting that abstraction is visual philosophy--however intuitive and silent it may appear. She employs both density as well as openness in her works on paper. In these works, she embraces either a state of a fully-worked ground or welcomes the simplicity and sparseness of the paper itself. Many of these works on paper relate to her painting diptychs, such as Home Economics, 1994-2002, through their juxtapositions of an overlay of dots, color, line and form. The works are metaphors for contrast and dichotomy, male and female, external and internal forces, themes central to all her art." -- From publisher's website."My body of work reflects my identity as a woman artist born in 1953, at a time when women were still marginalized. I see my works as autobiographies of a woman. My early "Shower Curtain" series (1980 - 1983) incorporated domestic materials often associated with women, like using plastic shower curtains as a painting support. These feminist works were followed later by diptychs consisting of an oil painting juxtaposed with a panel of upholstery fabric or fake fur, a series entitled "The Home Economics" (1994-2002). "The Flower Juxtapositions" (2003-2006), diptychs comparing a panel of painted artificial flowers to an oil painting, continues to talk about the personal and the external using material contrast and dichotomy to discuss in part the female condition, my condition. My current series, "Ordinary Lives" (begun 2008), employs an intimate scale to speak of the domestic realm and the familial history of women. I had begun to work small in 2007, creating works on maple panels which were soon followed by the gesso boards. My concurrent series of sculptural juxtapositions continue my gender-based creation as well as evoke the natural world, the home, my youth, and the female gender. I see the works as visual poetry. My colors are my words. I see abstraction as visual philosophy. I believe my painting's surface to be a film of consciousness. Reflecting on my experiences over three decades, I wrote "Ghost Letters," a series of letters addressed to deceased artists--male and female--offering my perspective on being a woman artist and on the women artists before me and my contemporaries. I placed the text on my website as a juxtaposition to the body of works which record my life as an artist. " -- Feminist Artist Statement from:"Born in 1953, I was raised in upstate New York. I knew from an early age that I wanted to be an artist. I received a BFA from the College of Art and Design at Alfred University and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, then I moved to New York City. I have been working more than three decades. As an artist, I look to the past as well as to the moment and believe I am part of the continuum. It has been important to have had the stimulus of New York City's museums and galleries for thirty years. I was also fortunate to be a soul mate of the late Stella Waitzkin, the aesthetic mother of my choice whom I knew well for almost twenty years. For twenty years I was also a soul mate of Miriam Beerman, a painter thirty years my senior who received the first woman show here at the Brooklyn Museum. I regard my body of work as my family. My paintings, drawings and sculptural juxtapositions are my children and grand children. My various series and my exhibition history are my genealogy. In 2010, I had a thirty year retrospective at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, "Art Is My Natural World: Alison Weld, 1980-2009" and previously in 2006 a mid-career survey, "Allegories of Strife, The Diptychs of Alison Weld," held at the Springfield Museum of Art in Ohio. I have had more than twenty solo shows. My work is in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, Kresge Art Museum, Radford University Art Museum, New Mexico State University, William Paterson University, Rider University and Rutgers University Newark, the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, among other public collections. " Biography from:

Subjects: Catalogs.; Weld, Alison G.; Abstract expressionism.; Abstraction.; Art, Abstract.; Art, Modern.; Women artists.;

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Made in Los Angeles : materials, processes, and the birth of West Coast Minimalism / by Rivenc, Rachel,author.(CARDINAL)337250; Getty Conservation Institute,issuing body.(CARDINAL)183859;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index."In the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles artists fashioned a body of work that has come to be known as the "LA Look" or West Coast Minimalism. Its distinct aesthetic is characterized by clean lines, simple shapes, and pristine reflective or translucent surfaces, and often by the use of bright, seductive colors. This volume, the first to provide a detailed study of the role of materials and processes in the advent of these truly indigenous Los Angeles art forms, focuses on four pioneering artists whose approach, often borrowed from other industries, featured the use of synthetic paints and resins as well as industrial processes to create objects that are both painting and sculpture. The author uses the methods of technical art history to inform her investigation of conservation issues associated with their work, thereby illuminating challenges facing the conservation of contemporary art in general"--Back cover.

Subjects: Art, American; Art; Art; Artists' materials; Minimal art;

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