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Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin

Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin
Louis Stern Fine Arts | 2007 | 0974942170 | 128 pages | PDF | 6 Mb

When Karl Benjamin was a kid, he lived in Pacific Palisades in a house that hung off the cliff overlooking the Pacific. Eventually, years later, that house would slide down onto the PCH, but he were long gone by then. During those years, he wanted to surf, that was it. I wanted to haul his clunky board up and down the concrete steps leading to the beach, sometimes, out of sheer exhaustion, sliding his board on the stair-rails. his Dad wanted me to listen to jazz or, more precisely, he didn’t want Karl Benjamin to bother him while he listened to jazz. he didn’t mind this. he would even ride with him down to Hermosa Beach to the Lighthouse where one could listen to jazz in one’s wet bathing trunks. his Mom wanted me to ride all over Los Angeles with her looking for art, up to Hollywood, out to Pasadena, to San Marino, and over to Claremont. When we found some art (usually hanging on white pegboard wall with an adjacent rubber plant), we would look at it. he resisted these trips mightily but, as it turned out, he was never more than a B- surfer and at best a B+ musician. he was, however, an A+ looker at art.

So, even then, as unwilling as I was to traipse around, I still had my favorites. I liked the hardedge stuff by Fred Hammersley, Karl Benjamin, and John McLaughlin. It reminded me, somehow, in its apparent effortlessness, of the claritas of surfing where one must never be seen to be trying very hard. My Mom, who had a darker vision of the world, liked Rico LeBrun and other artists whose work looked like it hurt to make. She said I would learn when I grew up but I never did. Even so, I have to thank her here for the privilege I have today, of writing in my maturity, about the first art I liked as a feckless youth, especially for the pleasure of visiting a career that has paralleled my own at one remove. Not many of one’s youthful enthusiasm survive with us into adulthood, of course, so I am embarrassed to this day about Colin Wilson, Herman Hesse and George Battaile. On the Road, however, is still a great book and Karl Benjamin is still a great painter, not just a neglected local, not just a victim of fashion’s whim, but a genuine world class practitioner who has, as they say in Georgia, hoed his own row.

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Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age

Margot Lovejoy "Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age"
Routledge | 2004-05-10 | ISBN: 0415307813 | 304 pages | PDF | 19,6 MB

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator. Just as the rise of photographic techniques in the mid 1800s shattered traditional views about representation, so too have contemporary electronic tools catalyzed new perspectives on art, affecting the way artists see, think, and work, and the ways in which their productions are distributed and communicated.
Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for art making - video, computer, the internet - in the new edition of this richly illustrated book. She provides a context for the works of major artists in each media, describes their projects, and discusses the issues and theoretical implications of each to create a foundation for understanding this developing field.
Digital Currents fills a major gap in our understanding of the relationship between artand technology, and the exciting new cultural conditions we are experiencing.

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Geometry for Computer Graphics: Formulae, Examples and Proofs by John Vince

Geometry for Computer Graphics: Formulae, Examples and Proofs by John Vince
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 19, 2004) | ISBN-10: 1852338342 | PDF | 4 Mb | 342 pages

Geometry is the cornerstone of computer graphics and computer animation, and provides the framework and tools for solving problems in two and three dimensions. This may be in the form of describing simple shapes such as a circle, ellipse, or parabola, or complex problems such as rotating 3D objects about an arbitrary axis.
Geometry for Computer Graphics draws together a wide variety of geometric information that will provide a sourcebook of facts, examples, and proofs for students, academics, researchers, and professional practitioners.
The book is divided into 4 sections: the first summarizes hundreds of formulae used to solve 2D and 3D geometric problems. The second section places these formulae in context in the form of worked examples. The third provides the origin and proofs of these formulae, and communicates mathematical strategies for solving geometric problems. The last section is a glossary of terms used in geometry.

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Kompendium Informationsdesign

Wibke Weber “Kompendium Informationsdesign"
Springer | 2007-11 | ISBN: 3540698175 | 556 pages | PDF | 17,4 MB

Was ist Informationsdesign? Welche Designdisziplinen spielen dabei eine Rolle? Und wo liegen Schnittstellen zu anderen Disziplinen wie Usability-Engineering und Informationsarchitektur? Das Kompendium bietet eine umfassende Einführung in theoretische und gestalterische Grundlagen, in Geschichte und Praxis des Informationsdesigns. Verständlich und anschaulich beschreiben die Autoren Teildisziplinen und Aufgabenfelder des Informationsdesigns: von Interaktionsdesign, Ausstellungsdesign und Signaletik über Corporate Design, Textdesign und Sounddesign bis hin zu Informationsdidaktik und Informationspsychologie. Begriffsdefinitionen, Tipps sowie Beispiele aus der Praxis machen das Kompendium Informationsdesign zu einem Handbuch für Studierende, Dozenten und Praktiker.

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Van Gogh: Masters of world painting

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Comics

Dietrich Grünewald “Comics"
Niemeyer, Tübingen | 2000-10-01 | ISBN: 3484371080 | 106 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

Der vorliegende Band definiert Comics im Rahmen des Prinzips Bildgeschichte als eigenständige Kunstform und versucht auf der Basis exemplarisch-anschaulicher Analyse Theorie und Ästhetik des Comics zu entwickeln. Er bietet einen Einblick in die interdisziplinäre Comic-Forschung, seine Geschichte, seine Produktion und Distribution. Bezogen auf die differenzierten Erzähl- und Gestaltungsweisen werden seine spezifischen ezeptionsanforderungen aufgezeigt. Die Comic-Kritik will dazu beitragen, den kulturellen Stellenwert der Comics zu bestimmen. Der Band wird abgeschlossen durch ein umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis.

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Web Site Design Is Communication Design

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Design Basics. Joyce Rutter Kaye

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Dutch type

"Dutch type" by Jan Middendorp
010 publishers; (2004) | ISBN: 9789064504600 | PDF | 60 Mb | 320 pages

There is probably no other country that boasts a type design culture as dense as the Netherlands. Considering the small geographical size of the country the contribution of the Dutch to the development of type and typography has been phenomenal.
In Dutch Type Jan Middendorp presents a comprehensive overview of today's and yesterday's type design in the Netherlands, tracing back its origins to the groundbreaking work by punchcutters, type designers and lettering artists from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Partly based on dozens of interviews the book aims to give insight into the motives and methods of the current type design community, showing published and unpublished typefaces as wel as sketches, studies and samples of unkown lettering work.
Since its emergence less than fifteen years ago the digital type scene in the Netherlands has become even more complex and more varied; but the relentless quest for quality and innovation has remained constant..

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