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Intuitive Light:An Emotional Approach to Capturing the Illusion of Value,Form,Color,and Space.......2006-12-19
An inside look at a true masters approach. Easy to follow, great pictures, great information for all levels.
Aptly named: intuitive.......2006-07-11
As most pastel artists know Handell is a master of the medium.
This publication is wonderful
wonderful.......2005-12-05
This book is a winner. Alfres Handell is a master painter. Intuitive Light is the most elusive and the Most Important aspect of painting. Using his own work to illustrate his instruction gives the book strengh, clarity and depth.
I recommend this book for any pastelist who can't attend one of Mr Handell's workshops, and for anyone who has. This book sums, illustrates, and reinforces what Mr Handell teaches.
I took a workshop from Alfred two years ago. He helped me to "see" and to develop and strenghen my own style and my work. I didn't grasp everything he taught in the workshop so this book is a useful extention of the workshop.
The workshop participants were rapt as he explained his techniques while he demonstrated. He seems to see what he paints with magical eyes. And how he translates what he sees with deft strokes also magic. By reading his commentary and studying his illustrations in the book, one can make progress in learning to see and to translate that vision onto pastel board.
Alfred is a sweet gruff. His lovely wife, Louise, also an accomplished artist, accompanies him on workshops. The love and respect they have for each other is reflected in the calm and respectful atmosphere of their workshops. In turn, the workshop participants are respectful of each other; encouraging rather than competitive. I can "hear" Aflred talking in his Brooklyn accent as I'm reading the book. Alfred, through this and his other books, will help you improve your work.
We can do it!.......2005-08-06
A great book by a great pastelist. This book should be encouragement to all newcomers to pastel use.
The Best.......2002-03-11
I have always wanted to attend a seminar given by Mr.Handell, however due to allergys, it has not been possible. I am so pleased that his book is available and it is all that I had hoped for and a treasure to review again and again.
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Light and Space Modern Architecture
Yukio Futagawa
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If you are working in theater involved in set creation, lighting or costume design this book will inspire you to reach the heights of the masters as you learn how they succeeded.
To move a world from text to stage requires unique and considered design. Sculpting Space in the Theater reveals the philosophy and process of the most influential set, costume and lighting designers working in theater today. The designers profiled in this book - all of whom have established a visible signature and particular design process - have had a remarkable impact in the field of theater design worldwide.
Interviews, illustrated with photographs and working sketches, reveal the vision behind designs, and personal anecdotes reveal lessons learnt, providing a practical insight into how designers approach their work, and achieve the effects they want.
Theater professionals and students will learn from this unique guide how best to move a world from text to stage.
The most influential theater designers gathered together in one book to share the secrets of their craft.
Over 500 color illustrations detail each stage of the process to inspire theater designers to improve their art.
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Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughout history. Provicative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science––and an exhilarating history of ideas.
Customer Reviews:
Art & Physics:Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light.......2007-06-14
I thought this was a wonderful book. Tying the evolution of art to the evolution of thinking and science gave me a more holistic way to look at art. From the ancient Greeks through the Dark and Middle Ages, the Impressionists, and into modern times the parallels of physics to art are simply amazing. Perfect for us "left-brained" types.
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Wonderful Book!.......2001-12-09
I browsed this book in the bookstore many times before I actually purchased it, and I'm glad I did. The simplistic approach the artist takes with her paintings captivate me; the light lights contrasted with the dark darks are breathtaking, and yet everything seems so soft and pastel-looking. I have learned a lot about value because of this book. It's wonderful. Buy it.
Wow and wow again! A visual treat, inspiring and helpful.......2001-01-29
If you love watercolor (just to look or also to paint them) you may possibly adore this book as much as I do.
Lucy Willis is immensely talented. Her feeling for light and how to handle it with watercolor is nothing short of amazing. She does many of the paintings in this book "a la prima" or without pencil drawing first. This fact alone astonished me as her rendering is draftsman-accurate with a brush. She also has a nice section on painting interior scenes. I hope she writes another book, so I can see more of her delightful work.
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Designing With Light: Public Places : Lighting Solutions for Exhibitions, Museums and Historic Spaces (Designing With Light Series)
Janet Turner
Manufacturer: Rotovision
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Designing With Light: Retail Spaces : Lighting Solutions for Shops, Malls and Markets (Designing With Light)
Janet Turner
Manufacturer: RotoVision
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sensitive material.......1999-11-28
THE ENVIROMENT SIDES OF STREET LIGHTIN
Book Description
Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings--making the two realms seem completely opposed. But in Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions.
From teh classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, aritsts have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Money and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughtout history.
Provacative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science...and exhilarating history of ideas.
Customer Reviews:
Glass half empty or half full?.......2007-06-22
I understand the criticism many people have had for this book. There is some fuzzy thinking here. There is a lot of repetition, a tendency to bend concepts to fit the narrative rather than letting the art and physics shape the argument. Dr. Shlain overreaches here, perhaps trying to say too much about subjects he does not have an adequate grasp of. There is room out there for a more scholarly work approaching the subject of the intersection of art and physics. I'd like to see someone go into more detail about what artists' real grasp of physics has been at any given time, I'd like to see the zeitgeist of the periods discussed better analyzed to truly reveal the larger cultural trends at work and how they relate to both artistic innovation as well as scientific discovery. I think there are profound weaknesses in Dr. Shlain's book.
All of that being said, I got a lot from this book. It provoked a curiosity in me for a large variety of subjects. Dr. Shlain's enthusiasm and curiosity is apparent, and also catching: I went to this site specifically to see what other books on the subject might be around, and what other people had to say and recommend on the subject. I think that is very positive and not to be dismissed. The book is certainly engaging, filled with interesting ideas (even if they are not all correct or entirely logical) and compelling: the basic premise is certainly worth considering, even if it is unclear on what level or to what degree an artistic "precognition" of scientific discovery is happening.
So, would I recommend this? Yes, I would, with the caveat that one should tread carefully and be skeptical...which is good advice for just about anything you read.
Fuzzy Thinking.......2006-02-24
I was hoping this book would be at the level of Louis Menand's "The Metaphysical Club." It's not. The core ideas grab the reader, but the writing is fuzzy and sometimes plain wrong. For example, on page 180-81 what begins as a fascinating insight into the "primitive" color words, black / white / red, quickly bogs down in error. Shlain claims that "only in the most mature languages... does a separate word for the color blue make an appearance..." Possibly technically correct, but conceptually wrong. "Indigo" has been around since at least Herodotus (450 BC.) I suspect Dr. Shlain is a delightful generalist who has written a book far beyond his knowledge.
From one neophyte to another.......2006-02-16
Being that my day to day occupation involves no thinking about physics in any complex way, or composition of music, literature, sculpting or painting, I feel in some ways disqualified from making certain kinds of assessments about Shlain's book.
I cannot find fault with his understanding of the Theory of Relativity because, quite frankly, I am a physics neophyte. Similarly, I cannot fault his understanding of certain works of art or periods in art history because I am not a specialist in that field either. Some discontents will point out that this makes it possible for me to be hoodwinked into believing something because of my lack of expertise and, more importantly, given that Shlain is also a novice in either field, should automatically disqualify him from talking about something he knows very little about.
If that was all there was to the story, I would agree and I would lambast the book, but this is not the only thing that is at play here.
Many people take umbrage with Shlain for trying to make connections where they seemingly don't exist. Why should anyone believe that H.G. Welles stumbled upon the theory of relativity before Einstein? Why should anyone concede that the rediscovery of perspective in art would bring about revolutionary scientific and social movements? Why on earth should we buy into the idea that Duchamp's famous "Nude Descending Down a Staircase" presaged the advancements made by Feynman? Making connections of this sort is unconscionable, cries the critic, but is it really?
The book is a work of fancy and curiosity. Right off the bat Shlain professes his lack of expertise. You know you're dealing with one man's inquiry into what interest him. Simply put, Shlain is open to wonder. "Is there a connection?" he asks and then he goes on to try to find one. Instead of complaining about him playing a questionable game of connect the dots, why not stop and consider what he is asking instead of what he knows?
Is it not possible at all that the curious and gifted human artist wonders about the things that surround him in the world? Does the curious and gifted artist not question his own place in the universe? And what makes the universe work as it does? Is it really that hard to believe that the rediscovery of perspective (if not brought about) at least presaged the coming of the renaissance? Can we find no proof at all in the world that the rediscovery of perspective in Europe influenced and changed the makeup of the continent? When Shakespeare wonders about the "orbs from whom we are and cease to be" he is not giving a kind of consideration that will also interest other philosophers, scientists and artists? Is it not at all possible that the discovery of the number 0 came directly as a result of a need to represent nothingness or void by writers and artists?
It said that the great books of mankind often talk to one another. This is very true. Every important book talks to Plato's books. All of Shakespeare's works talk to Dostoyevsky's. And every person who's ever wondered about anything at all will find their way into the conversation and discover this vast river of knowledge. Are we so proud as to say that man is nothing but an island? Is one field of inquiry so abstract and one so precise that they are mutually exclusive and therefore one could not have influenced the other? I find that very hard to believe.
And even if Shlain is wrong to conclude that developments in art presaged those in science what he has done here is important for a number of reasons. For one, Shlain makes his arguments gently and the reader is never bullied into believing something he does not want to believe. Secondly, he has written a book for the masses and in this day and age, when most intellectuals write books for each other, that is an important achievement. And lastly, it is a book that raises questions every person should give consideration to.
I, for one, enjoyed the book tremendously and have used it as a springboard or a torch light that is leading me to other artists, scientists and ideas. I hope that you give it a chance and should you find yourself in disagreement with it, be thankful that it at least dares to wonder and challenge.
Oblivious........2005-08-29
"Dr." Shlain's work is little more than mental masturbation. Here's a clue Einstien: People live in the same world! There's NO way they could hear things from one another, is there? (sarcasm folks)
This psuedo-analytical babble is written under the false construct that people are isolated in history and spacetime.
Shlain should have thought that... Maybe Plank's revolutionary ideas sparked ideas in both art and physics helping lead to the Impessionist and later Cubist movements as well as Bohr's understanding of sub-atomic particle makeup and Einstein's theory of gravity.
Plus one could take a second, literally a second, and realize that artists were hearing of scientific breakthroughs and vice versa not to mention from the myriad of other human endeavors. Einstein's celebrity helped form the concepts of Italian Futurism and Marcell Duchamp's breaking of the then artistic "rules" led Feynman to establish his QED diagrams.
No doubt current breakthroughs will inspire future artists and scientists to achieve greatness in the same or different times. If the war in Iraq of today inspires an artist to write a play or paint an oil, then some engineer ten years from now is similarly inspired to create a quantum computer will Shlain use his same illogical reasoning to make another misguided and uneducated link between the two and show NO concept of the true historical context or common source(s)???
Nothing is mutually exclusive and many people can garner different ideas from a common source. Obviously Shlain is oblivious to this fact and this sophmoric literary attempt is just psdueo-intellectual tripe, a mental abortion if you will. Please, use your brain and read some history. Nothing is exclusive. I'm sure Kurt Vonnegutt and Stephen Hawkings both read the Iliad and both consciously or not have been influenced by it. Should I write a book on such a contrived piece of fiction linking Slaughterhouse 5 to A Brief History of Time? Hmmm.....
An Interesting Concept Confused.......2005-06-23
I was prepared to like "Art and Physics: Parallel Visions" by Leonard Shlain. After all I have noted through my reading some parallels between the two in the development of perspective, use of space and other innovations in art. The art of the Renaissance and into the Classic periods can be shown to have acquired (and in some cases predated) physical knowledge. Indeed, Shlain does present some very interesting material and certainly offers some food for thought. However I think he fails to make a really cogent connection between modern art (from Impressionism to the most modern art, except perhaps for Surrealism) and modern physics. In fact many of his connections seem to me tenuous at best and in some cases a very big stretch. As one reviewer said, I'm not sure how much the author really understands of either relativity or quantum theory. How physics plays into the revolutions of Impressionism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism or Cubism is a little hard to see, although obviously there are parallels in surrealism (especially with Relativity Theory.) A more skilled and knowledgeable writer may have constructed a better argument, but I suspect it would also have been a much shorter book.
I had serious difficulties in following some of the comparisons and many side trips seemed to lead nowhere, as in his discourse on Manet's paintings and physics. I also do not know how seriously the reader can take the right brain/left brain dichotomies he discusses, as I believe the concept is way too simplistic. Brain functions are more complex and difficult to separate than that and the right brain/left brain separation is more a pop culture myth than a scientific idea.
If you wish you can read this book as a source of interesting ideas about art and physics, but do not take it too seriously in regard to absolute relationships between the two.
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Keith Sonnier: Sculpture Light Space
Susanne Ehrenfried ,
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Since the 1960s Keith Sonnier's work has centered around artificial light, evoking through its materials a variety of associations with the aesthetics of advertisement and everyday life. Sculpture Light Space explores the artist's innovative way of blending light and architecture by means of two recent installations: one for a subterranean passage in the Mnchner Rck insurance company headquarters, another for a parish church in Upper Austria.
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