Art, Science and the Spiritual Exploring the InvisibleArt, Science and the SpiritualBy Lynn GamwellPrinceton University Press, 2002ISBN: 0 691 08972 8 This book looks at the impact of science on modern art. It focuses on how the way that science has opened up previously invisible worlds has inspired artists since the mid-nineteenth century. This 345-page [...]

Artist profile book of this interesting, contemporary artist who works in photography and video. Wolfgang TillmansBy Jan Verwoert, Peter Halley and Midori MatsuiPhaidon Press, 2002ISBN: 0 7148 4192 7 Wolfgang Tillmans is an artist who works in photographic and video forms. Much of his work is quite confrontational. This book includes an interview with Tillman, [...]

A great book of photographs of nudes for use as inspiration for drawing, painting and sculpting/ Art ModelsLife Nudes for Drawing Painting and SculptingBy Maureen and Douglas JohnsonLive Model Books, 2006Various ISBNs This book is, simply, a book of nude pictures. Various male and female models are shown in a wide variety of poses, each [...]

Phaidon Themes and Movements book covering the role of photography in the visual arts. Art and PhotographyEdited by David CampanyPhaidon Themes and Movements Series, 2003ISBN 0 7148 4286 9 Phaidon’s Themes and Movements series is one of the really great series of art books in the publishing world. They combine great editorial insights, great art [...]

Phaidon Themes and Movements book covering this often difficult area of conceptual art Conceptual ArtEdited by Peter OsbornePhaidon Themes and Movements Series, 2002ISBN 0 7148 3930 2 Yet another in Phaidon’s Themes and Movements series, this one looks at the redefinition of art to be focused on ideas. As in all the books in the [...]

Phaidon’s Themes and Movements series is one of the really great series of art books in the publishing world. This book continues that and does a great job of covering the minimal art movement. MinimalismEdited by James MeyerPhaidon Themes and Movements Series, 2000ISBN 0 7148 3460 2 Phaidon’s Themes and Movements series is one of [...]

Music and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century That Divine OrderMusic and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Eighteenth CenturyBy Peter VergoPhaidon Press, 2005ISBN 0 7148 4351 2 The links between the visual and music arts has always been a strong one. This can be at the inspirational level, the structural [...]

A great book relevant to all traditional media artists and to digital artists who add traditional media to their digital works. The Painter’s Handbook, 2nd EditionRevised and ExpandedBy Mark David GottsegenWatson-Guptill Publications, 2006ISBN 0-8230-3496-8 Written by a professor of art at the University of North Carolina and closely involved with the international standards committee that [...]

The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists Going DIGITALThe Practice and Vision of Digital ArtistsBy Joseph Nalvern and JD JarvisPublished by Thomson Course Technology, 2005ISBN 1-59200-918-2 This is a book that I have actually been loath to review, both becauseI know the authors and many of the artists involved and because of themisunderstandings that this [...]

This fascinating book looks at art since 1960 up to the present. Art TodayBy Edward Lucie-SmithPhaidon PressISBN: 0714838888 Thisfascinating book looks at art since 1960 up to the present. Very wellwritten as well asbeautifully illustrated, the book has a good,in-depth look at art in the post-modernist era.Through eighteenchapters we are offered insight into the processes [...]