For anyone with manga mania, this guided sketchbook will be an endless source of instruction and inspiration. In easy-to-follow lessons interspersed with high-quality pages for hands-on practice, bestselling author Hart shows how to bring mangas faeries, warriors, villains, sci-fi figures, and monsters to life. The pad encourages students to sketch right along with Hart, mastering the skills to draw characters heads, expressions, bodies, outfits, and dynamic action poses.
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” This monograph―the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career―tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the...
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You'll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he...
Amazingly detailed and gracefully beautiful, Alasia''s tempera-on-papyrus paintings meld the stunning style of ancient Egyptian art with the mysteries of the Tarot. To shape the interpretations, Alasia relied on the conceptions of Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who linked the Tarot tradition to...
Philadelphia on Stone is the first work in over fifty years to examine the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. The capstone to the Library Company of Philadelphia’s multifaceted Philadelphia on Stone project, this heavily illustrated volume of thematic...
A fresh look at the British Museum’s celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand yearsPharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt introduces readers to three thousand years of Egypt’s ancient history by unveiling its famous rulers—the pharaohs—using some of the finest...
Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City(September 6, 2019–January 26, 2020)Peabody Essex Museum, Salem(April 4, 2020–July 12, 2020)Yale University Art Gallery(August 28–November 29, 2020)A fresh, comprehensive, and critical look at the California gold rush through the lens of...