西奥多·考茨基(Theodore Kautzky)是美国建筑界的知名画家，他的铅笔画真实生动，在艺术和表现技法上有独到之处。在这册图集中，作者根据自己的丰富经验，比较系统地介绍了铅笔画方法，并以讲课方式作了具体说明，附有丰富的图例，便于初学者参考学习。

日本画家。1927年9月24日生于京都。幼年随父学画 。先后就读于京都美术工艺学校和东京美术学校日本画科。曾经是新创协会、创画会的成员，还担任过东京艺术大学日本画科教授。绘画勇于创新，先后尝试过洞窟壁画、浪漫主义、超现实主义、表现主义、立体主义手法。其作品在有破有立中逐渐完善。代表作有《冬》、《雪·月·花》、《月光波涛》等。70年代后，又创作了大量人体画，显示了他高度的造型概括能力。1973年和1980年先后获艺术大奖和文部大臣奖。曾多次访问中国。1983年和1987年两次应邀在中国中央美术学院讲学，并任中央美术学院名誉教授。

《黑白画理》无疑是一部囊括绘画规律和原则的学术力作。它始于从远古迈入，终于向未来走去。深刻、透彻，深入浅出的精练文字，进行理论概述。并在每一段文字之后又精选有说服力的，形象鲜明的，生动完美的图画为范例加以配合。

《故宫博物院藏古玺印选》是现代罗福颐、故宫博物院古玺印选编组编著的一本工具书。该书收集战国至元明历代官私玺印645方，入选之作都是故宫博物院藏品的精华。

《钢笔画技法》介绍了针管笔的笔尖是管式的，墨水是专用墨汁。其笔尖构造不同于羽笔那种传统的固定笔尖样式－－这种传统样式的笔尖，由于国家用力不均匀，所画出的线型会宽度不一。而流畅的、可更换笔尖的针管笔却能连续画出某一特定宽度的线形，而且无论纸面纹理方向怎样，这种小的管式金属笔尖都能保持线宽一致。

1958年夏，蓝犁在书店发现了一本新书：美国画家赓·赫尔脱格仑的《动物画技法》。他爱不释手，但家里一贫如洗。12岁的他就在重庆北碚嘉陵江边挑铁矿，个头小，又没有锻炼过，加上百级青石板路！肩膀被扁担压磨出血泡，脚板被铁矿渣刺破，血肉模糊，但一个多星期后，这本影响了中国画坛几十年，影响了蓝犁人生道路的书，终于拿到了手上。母亲猜疑书款来路不对，又急又气又心酸，当看到蓝犁的肩膀与脚板时，母子抱头痛哭！这是多少有点惨重与悲壮的艺术启程啊！

时间掌握在动画创作中似乎是不可捉摸的，但它是影片成败的重要因素。时间对动画家来说是可塑的，既可压缩，也可扩张。控制和处理时间在造成特殊效果和气氛方面存在着无穷的可能性。本书作者探索了时间掌握艺术在动画影片中的作用，回答了关于时间的许多难点和关键课题。时间掌握不仅关系到如何确定动画的间距、张数和画稿在银幕上持续多久才能获得最佳效果，而且关系到影片情节展开的节奏、速度和情调。它与观众反应有紧密的联系。作者还着重谈到物体运动中质量、惯性、韧性以及怎样才能有效地完成有关力的表现等。

本书文字简明精当，插图丰富生动，使难于捉摸的课题有了明晰的回答，它不仅对从事动画技巧基础训练的人是一本极有实用价值的书，而且对从事动画专业的同志也会有所启发与帮助。

本书被北京电影学院列为动画专业教材。

1989年，35歲的中國攝影師徐勇在北京街頭與天安門廣場拍攝了近代中國最大規模的民主運動，然而由於政治禁忌，這批底片從未公開。數十年後，徐勇決定將這些影像以負片形式發表，並留下了因歲月封存而造成的底片氧化變貌。

2014年，徐勇的攝影集《底片》（Negatives）由香港新世紀出版社出版，書中收錄了1989年拍攝的民主運動畫面共計64張底片。由於攝影集作品以底片構成，讀者需要打開手機內建的「反相顏色」按鈕，然後開啟相機功能，用照相方式觀看，才能將書中影像的色彩反轉再現出來。徐勇亦是希望透過這種視角來提醒讀者影像、歷史與真實之間的關係：「對中國或世界來說，天安門事件並沒有結束。」

攝影集出版後，徐勇曾因接受《紐約時報》關於新書的訪談而受到當局施壓。在《底片》出版五年後，徐勇另一部攝影集《底片：掃描》（Negatives: Scans）於2019年由Distanz出版，書中收錄了作者於八九民運期間留存下來的另一批負相系列。《底片：掃描》中的相片保留了底片原本的齒孔，以及因底片掃描所產生的液體痕跡。

如果您希望與這本畫冊的底片作品互動，請使用iPhone或iPad，在設置的「通用」欄中找到「輔助功能」項，打開其中「反轉顏色」功能按鈕，再用照相方式觀看， 您將獲得底片作品的正像信息。其他手持設備有類似 「色彩反轉」功能。 To interact with the works in Negatives with your iPhone or iPad, go to “Settings” “General” “Accessibility” and turn on “Invert Colors”. Then use the camera to reveal the positive images of the negative works. Other devices have similar functions, such as camera setting “Color Effect - Negative”.

Mary Ellen Mark has worked on over a hundred film sets since 1968, including such legendary productions as Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Gandhi, as well as recent Oscar-winning productions such as Moulin Rouge, Babel and Sweeney Todd, among many others. Mark's film photographs are a rare archive as she is afforded unprecedented access to the actors and the set permitted for weeks at a time to roam freely. Mark is one of the most talented photojournalists working today and her unique ability to capture gesture and expression enables her to fully reveal the story of life on set. In photographs that range from dramatic moments of Federico Fellini at work on on Satyricon, to the well-known pranksters Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman fooling around on set, from Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt rehearsing on set in Morocco for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, to Johnny Depp in make-up for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, we are given access to unguarded moments in film-making and to this rarely-seen world. Some of the film industry's best-known figures have also contributed their own anecdotes of life on set including tales of growing up on set by Sofia Coppola, of the disconcerting experience of night shoots by Helen Mirren, and the work that goes into 'getting that take' from Catch 22 director Mike Nichols. This is a backstage pass to the most famous film sets in history through the lens of an iconic photographer, sure to appeal to film and photography enthusiasts, or to anyone who ever wondered just what happens behind the scenes.

From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. For mathematicians and scientists, Escher is a mastermind. For hippies, he was the pioneer of psychedelic art.Born in Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands in 1898, Escher’s early works focused on nature and landscapes, with regular exhibitions in Holland, and some international recognition. It was on a trip to the Alhambra Palace in Spain in the 1920s, however, that Escher found his niche. Sketching the patterns of the palace’s Moorish architecture, Escher became captivated by the codependency of forms within and next to each other.Working mainly with lithographs and woodcuts, Escher went on to explore the relationships among shapes, figures, and space with a near-obsessive delight. He reveled in quirky vantage points, multiple perspectives, the transition from paper flatness to illusory volume, and intricate mathematical puzzles such as the Möbius strip, a seemingly infinite loop which twists and recoils on itself in a contortion of apparent physical impossibility.This introductory book from TASCHEN Basic Art 2.0 taps into Escher’s brilliant mind with key works from his restless investigation of image and perception. Along the way, you’ll find fish morphing into birds, lizards crawling off the page, masterful reflections, infinite mazes, and some of the most mind-bending images of 20th-century art.

Concise and beautifully illustrated, this guide provides invaluable instruction on the art of pencil drawing. It covers the basics of holding the pencil, applying different strokes, shading, perspective, and the rendering of different textures, as well as the finer points of pictorial composition and drawing from nature.
Based on the author's years of experience teaching art students at all levels, this book is ideal for home or class use. Its thirty-six evocative sketches range from English castles to American bridges, with a few detailed close-ups showing how to surmount some of the problems of depicting rocks, roofs, standing water, or leafy tree branches. The accompanying text describes how artists at every level of experience can develop their own pencil technique by employing fundamental rules.

The world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta teams with J. David Spurlock, the bestselling author of How to Draw Chiller Monsters Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies for the all-new art collection entitled, The Frazetta Sketchbook. In the revolutionary artist's extensive, May 10, 2010 obituary, The New York Times said, "Frazetta helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels" Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potentcy, but rendered his works with a panache seldom seen outside of Fine Art. Despite his sword-and-sorcery, science-fiction and fantasy subject matter, the quality of the work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, J. Allen St.John, and Joseph Clement Coll but even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo and major Frazetta works sell for over $1,000,000. The November 24, 2003 Forbes magazine article Schwarzenegger's Sargent led with the line, "Which artist helped make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians." Vanguard created the comics and fantasy artist sketchbook boom with editions on Al Williamson, Neal Adams, Wally Wood, Jeffrey Jones, John Buscema, John Romita and Alex Horley. Vanguard continues both their original sketchbook series and the Vanguard Frazetta Classics series with The Frazetta Sketchbook which was planned shortly before the icon of fantastic art's passing. The collection is brimming with rare and previously unpublished drawings and painting preliminaries of the subjects Frazetta is best remembered for including barbarians, wild beasts, Tarzan, buxom beauties, monsters and Conan.

Caspar the black cat follows an underground route to find the Secret Kingdom of the Cats, where his encounter with a huge dragon promises to release the feline inhabitants from being frozen in eternal winter.

This is the 30th Anniversary Edition of a mega-bestseller, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and continues to sell well. It uses studies, step-by-step drawings and anatomical progressions to teach how to draw a variety of animals. Everyone loves to draw animals, whether hobbyist or professional, cartoonist or fine art painter. To draw an animal well, it is necessary to know and understand its personality and behaviour in order to express its individual features. "Drawing Animals" demonstrates, using a sequence of studies and step-by-step progressions, how to draw various types of animals - showing their similarities, differences and unique characteristics. All ten chapters are organised in the following manner: front, side and three-quarter view of fully drawn animals; form sketches; skeleton; musculature; surface anatomy; step-by-step demonstrations; typical actions and poses; the young; head views; and, forms of similar animals.