Clara Wieck's sincerest wish was that her future husband, Robert Schumann, turn his extraordinary genius toward the larger and more challenging task of composing orchestral music. Confiding in her diary in 1839, just one year before her marriage, she explained that "it would be best if he composed for orchestra; his imagination cannot find sufficient scope in the piano " In the years that followed their marriage Robert continued to devote much of his attention to piano music, but he also found time to comply with his beloved Clara's wish by cre-ating a number of musical pieces composed specifically for piano and orchestra. Although Schumann's genius is most in evidence in his masterful solo piano compositions and superb lieder, his lively and provocative imagination manifests itself with equal aplomb in the works composed for piano and orchestra. The same compelling romantic and lyrical qualities that captivate lovers of Schumann's piano music are evident in these compositions. Three of his finest are pr

The heart of Painters Wild Workshop is the presentation oftwelve gifted artists who take an unusual approach to their art.Readers are invited to workshop demonstrations, lecture sessions,and private lessons that encourage creative experimentation.Whether you are an accomplished artist, an aspiring artist, or anundiscovered artist, you will profit from the wealth of diverseexperiences, materials, and inspirations offered through thesewonderfully wild and creative methods. This is a book for painters,artists, and creative people of all types; its goal is to helpworking painters open up creativity, eliminate self-consciousness,and encourage true artistryeither in their current, chosen medium,or a completely new art medium.

Unique and comprehensive, this collection features a tremendous variety of slow movements for keyboard players. Highlights include selections from the sonatas of Haydn and Mozart, Chopin preludes, and classics such as the opening movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, Bach's Sinfonia in F Minor, and Debussy's Claire de Lune.

Celebrity model Inès de la Fressange shares the well-keptsecrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and atimeless allure. Inès de la Fressange—France’s icon of chic—sharesher personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned fromdecades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers onhow to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordablebasics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize. Herstep-by-step do’s and don’ts are accompanied by fashionphotography, and the book is personalized with her charmingdrawings. Inès also shares how to bring Parisian chic into yourhome, and how to insert your signature style into any space—eventhe office. The ultrachic volume is wrapped with athree-quarter-height removable jacket and features offset aquarellepaper and a ribbon page marker. Complete with her favoriteaddresses for finding the ultimate fashion and decorating items,this is a must-have for any woman who wants to add a touch of Paristo her own style.

A kaleidoscopic, colorful, and dazzlingly illustrated historyof Bulgari jewelry, this engaging book showcases more than threehundred objects from the late-nineteenth century to the presentday. The color illustrations are of such high fidelity that one canalmost caress the pieces that for more than one hundred years haveemerged from the firm’s design workshops. The catalogue highlightsBulgari’s signature use of gold coins and serpent motifs. And anentire section is devoted to Bulgari and the film industry of thefifties and sixties. Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren are amongthe house’s star-studded list of fans. Entertaining and didacticalat the same time, this book is the essential complement to anyjewelry lover’s collection.

A comprehensive visual journey through all the styles andtrends of modern urban art. 500 colour photographs show street artmasterpieces in dozens of cities around the world in many differentstyles: realistic, 3D, wild style and graphic.

Pattern Magic is the cult pattern-cutting book from Japan. Taking inspiration from nature, from geometric shapes and from the street, this book harnesses the sheer joy of making and sculpting clothes. The book takes a creative approach to pattern cutting, with step-by-step projects for fashion designers and dressmakers to enjoy. All the basic information you need to start pattern cutting is included, from the basic block to measurements and scaling. Each project is beautifully illustrated with clear diagrams and photographs showing the stages of construction, the toiles and the finished garments. These simple illustrations and detailed instructions make it easy to create stunning, sculptural clothes with a couture look.

This book is a study of the figures and landscapes thatSargent painted from 1900 (after he was well established as one ofthe foremost portraitists of the age) through 1914 (and the arrivalof the Second World War).

As minimalism in interior design becomes more prevalent, a newcounter-movement has arisen.Eschewing the clean, precise, emptyspaces minimalist themes promote, some homeowners and designers areadopting a resplendent, grand, baroque, look to their spaces. As areaction against minimalism, this movement could only have onename: maximalism. This new movement is explored throughexquisite photography of lush projects drawn from across theworld.

The world of the fashionista is brought to vivid life with 101introductory lessons on such topics as how a designer anticipatescultural trends and "sees" the fashion consumer, the workings ofthe fashion calendar, the ways a designer collection is conceived,the manufacture of fabric, fashion illustration, and more. Illustrated in the distinctly unique packaged style of thebestselling101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, this newbook on fashion design will be a perfect book for any fashionschool wannabe, a recent graduate, or even a seasonedprofessional.

From magazines and newspapers to ads, websites, album covers, and even mobile phone wallpaper, illustration is a crucial element in visual communication today. With unlimited creative possibilities, illustration is as unbound as imagination itself; whether it's a simple pencil drawing, an ornate airbrushed painting, or a computer-generated image, an illustration speaks the international language of ideas.This guide showcases 96 of today's best commercial and editorial illustrators from 13 countries; each entry highlights examples of recent work and includes the artist's contact information, favorite media, awards, clients, and work philosophy. Look no further for what works and who's who in the world of illustration: it's all here.

The most popular religious songs of the past 250 years. Two versions of Ave Maria are featured as are O Holy Night, Kol Nidre, Fauré's Pie Jesu (from his Requiem), Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, Sullivan's The Lost Chord, and many other favorites. Attractive vocal accompaniment is provided for either organ manuals or piano.

Ideally (though not exclusively) suited for designers, graphic designers, illustrators, art directors and anyone working within the creative industries, or studying these disciplines, or simply interested in exploring his or her creativity. Artists have always relied on their sketchbooks. But art has changed: new visual styles tend to be not exclusively the product of painting and drawing but will often come out of illustration, graphics, film and animation, fashion, advertising, art direction and a number of creative activities. This new line addresses the needs of contemporary practitioners, trying to update that format. Helpful and user-friendly, these sketchbooks tread that fine line between giving users practical tools and information while not interfering with their creative freedom. As part of this updating process, this sketchbook has been made entirely out of eco-friendly materials.

Charming and fitting homage to pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, with a piano part appropriate to Rubinstein's genius, and also blended well with violin and cello accompaniment. Distinctively Russian in character, with overtones of regional folk music and dance, it alternates between moods of triumph and melancholy for evocative effects. Authoritative edition.

How to use this book: Enter Color Harmony Workbook, a tooldesigned to end this frustration and lend ongoing inspiration andsupport to anyone who needs a precise command of color in all itsdelicious variety and moods. Color Harmony Workbook includes:

Jean-Jacques Sempé is one of the most successful and best-loved cartoonists in the world, best known from his cartoons that have graced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for decades. Sempé has published numerous collections of his work in his native France, but never before have they been translated into English. Phaidon Press is delighted to present the first English translated publication of MIXED MESSAGES by Jean-Jacques Sempé, one of four witty and beautifully illustrated collections from this notorious and widely adored cartoonist. The most recent collection of Sempé's work, MIXED MESSAGES was originally published in France in 2003. Here Sempé turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, from cell phones to designer water, and revisits some of his favorite subjects, such as struggling artists, a look psychiatrists and unhappy couples. One image portrays two business men in conversation, traveling down a cit street aboard personal scooters, ironically wondering about the kin

Famed for his focused observation of nature, Flemish painterJan van Eyck (c. 1395–1441) studied fauna and flora in theirnatural environment and under carefully chosen lighting conditions,and then achieved a breathtaking and convincing realism in hispaintings. Each panel is a collection of minuscule details renderedwith superb clarity from foreground to background—or at least thatis the impression at first glance. As this book reveals, that isprecisely where Van Eyck’s exceptional talent lay: He understoodthat the human brain is able to supplement visual perception wherenecessary. Here, details from Van Eyck’s paintings are organized bysuch themes as nature, architecture, daily life, fabrics, glass,jewelry and mirrors, and portraits. This is an unprecedented lookat the work of a popular master.

Some 100 painted works by the preeminentImpressionist masters depicting Rouen and its surroundings. Rouenplayed a major role in the history of late 19th-century art. Whilenever ceasing to be a landmark for artists since Renaissance times,during the Impressionist period, the city's blossoming industry,beautifully intact architectural heritage and spectacular settingall combined to bring Rouen to the apex of its allure. From thistime on, the city that Pissarro deemed "as beautiful as Venice"became one of the most emblematic settings in modern painting.Masterpieces of Monet, Gauguin, Pissarro, Sisley and otherluminaries of late 19th century painting are assembled in thisvolume, which explores one of the last great themes in the story ofImpressionism, one that has yet to be the object of an exhibitionor a book: this Norman city as a workshop for the new frontier inpainting, with its urban ferment and pastoral beauty, itstime-honored stones and booming industry, all vibrantly reflectedin the waters of the Seine.

A spotlight on French landscape painters of the first half of the 20th century which is a true hymn to nature Eight French painters born after 1870 are brought together for the first time in an exhibition that highlights their mutual affinities and charts their respective influences and evolutions. Aside from Gaston Balande (1880-1971), who is well known for his art deco wall murals designed for transatlantic ships, and Paul Deltombe (1878-1971), who benefited from a retrospective exhibition in 1970, the work of the other painters collected here has remained uncelebrated for far too long. The present exhibition and its catalogue aim to repair this oversight, as well as to reignite the study of this generation of French painters who, without turning their back on the avant-gardists, concentrated primarily on the traditional genre of landscape, and to a lesser degree on still-lifes. The 80 works of art, mainly painted between the wars, are at the crossroads of the many influences of this creative period,

You hold in your hands the firstin-world exptoration of Christopher Nol.an's Batman. Thisfascinating manual, contains key sketches, diagrams, notes, casefiles, and other top-secret documents gathered by Bruce Wayne as hecame to embody and serve as Gotham's Oark Knight. Every definingmoment is detaited here, from his collborations with Lucius Fox, tohis affiance with James Gordon at the GPD, to his handwritten memosto and from faithful, butl,er Al,fred Pennyworth. Featured are more than two dozen removabledocuments, inctuding the design and capabitities of thefamedBatsuit, btueprints reveating the inner workings of theBatcave, the specifications for Batman's amazing arsenal.ofweapon.s and gadgets, and much more. Look for hidden bonus contentand excl,usive images from the finalfilim in Notan's The DarkKnight Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises.

Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period (16151868) were the products of a highly commercialised and competitive publishing industry. Their content was inspired by the vibrant popular culture that flourished in Edo (Tokyo). At any given time scores of publishers competed for the services of the leading artists of the day. Publishers and artists displayed tremendous ingenuity in finding ways to sustain demand for prints and to to circumvent the restrictions placed upon them by government censorship. Japanese woodblock prints have long been appreciated in the West for their graphic qualities but their content has not always been fully understood. In recent years, publications by scholars in Japan, Europe and the United States have made possible a more subtle appreciation of the imagery encountered in them. This book draws upon this recent scholarship to explain how those who first purchased these prints would have read them. Through stunning new photography of both well-known and rarely published work

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water-lily pond which he was to paint on huge canv