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The Arts and Crafts Computer shows you how to use your personal computer, scanner, digital camera and color printer as artist tools to create beautiful graphics and artful objects for your home, school and work. You'll learn how to:

• Understand the basics of digital image-editing, typesetting and graphic design.
• Gather the right tools, both digital and traditional.
• Use the new inkjet printing media including cloth, decals, stickers, magnets, transparencies and more.
• Work wi

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects--objects that are also actors and images of life.

The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity,

"As a sourcebok on an important collection of ancient jewelry, thisshould become a standard work for museum and university libraries." --Choice

Documents over 300 examples of ancient gold jewelry fromthe Bronze Age to Byzantium. An invaluable resource for studying and enjoying theart of ancient jewelry.

"Coming into being, the work of art, this very pot, creates relations --relations between nature and culture, between the individual and society, betweenutility and beauty. Governed by desire, the artist's work answers questions ofvalue. Is nature favored, or culture? Are individual needs or social needs moreimportant? Do utilitarian or aesthetic concerns dominate in the transformation ofnature?" -- from the Introduction

The Potter's Art discusses andillustrates the work of modern masters of traditiona

In the 1970s young artists "discovered" quilts and began experimentingwith contemporary styles. Today quilt art is a staple of art exhibits nationwide.This handsomely illustrated introduction provides a useful guide to the contemporaryart of quilting for quilters and collectors alike. The book illustrates the variousstyles of quilt art, introduces both established and emerging artists, and discussesaspects of their art as well as the process of quilt making. The reader will learnwhere to find the work of

Knitting has recently exploded in popularity. Professionals, punks, and feminists are embracing this ancient craft, an activity that was previously relegated to the realm of the traditional woman, the mother and homemaker. While knitting books featuring such hip projects as iPod cozies and yoga mat bags abound, few explore the subculture of knitting in any depth. Who are these people? Why knitting, why now? Wills takes the reader on a fascinating tour of this subculture, complete with lively anecdotes an

Mexican painter Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was one of the twentieth century's major artists and Mexico's greatest muralist. In addition to his acclaimed work in painting, Orozco was also a

In this book, avid knapper and professional anthrop