In her digitally manipulated photographs and installations, German artist Claudia Rogge (born 1968) deconstructs social roles by dramatizing them. Taking such cliches as the innocent child, the grim executioner and the masked temptress, Rogge replicates their images ad nauseam until all meaning is drained from them.

Free Worldwide Delivery : See This Sound : Paperback : Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag : 9783865606839 : 3865606830 : 28 Feb 2010 : Edited by Cosima Rainer, Stella Rollig, Dieter Daniels, Manuela Ammer.

The latest adventure for the glamorous Roman sleuth Claudia Visiting her stepmother at the family estate in Tuscany, Claudia is concerned at the gaggle of hangers-on surrounding the old lady. And what of the series of recent local murders, and the mishaps that have befallen a number of people? Amidst the mysteries of the local religion, could the god Fufluns be working some plan; or even Veive, the god of revenge? Or are there even more sinister forces at work?

Got a yearning to pick up a pen and see what you can do? Go for it! But don't sketch alone—let popular artist and teacher Claudia Nice be your guide. She'll make your first steps fun and successful! In her trademark style—friendly and encouraging— Claudia will show you how to do a sketch of a subject that actually ends up looking like the subject. And she shares her secrets for turning simple lines and dots into all kinds of lifelike textures, including leaves, glass, hair, fruit, water, clouds, wood grain, grass, fur and feathers. Easy (and fun!) exercises get you started. Step-by-step projects teach techniques as you draw trees, flowers, barns, animals and other subjects—even people! And demonstrations show you how to put all that you've learned together to create a finished picture. So... Less

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Food of Spain : Hardback : Ecco Press : 9780061969621 : 0061969621 : 07 Jun 2011 : From the James Beard Award winning author of the classic "A Book of Middle Eastern Food," and one of the foremost authorities on Mediterranean, North African, and Sephardic Jewish cooking, comes the definitive cookbook on the cuisines of Spain.

Who owns an art ''masterpiece?'' How does a work's value in the marketplace, or its status in art history, affect its meaning? In her photos and assemblages, German photographer Claudia Angelmaier uses book pages, postcards, or slides of well-known works and turns these reproductions into revelations about what is ''behind'' the masterpiece. Especially in the most recent series ''Works on Paper,'' in which she photographs the back sides of postcards, the strong back lighting and slightly translucent image of the front side results in an interplay of visibility and vanishing. Angelmaier's powerful work follows in the footsteps of contemporary photo-based artists, Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine, asking fundamental questions about appropriation art.

Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, color—a mixture of mediums and techniques—to suggest: glasscast ironadobe and bricksunrise and sunsetdriftwoodle af texturesbasketrys urf and ocean wavesenamelwarera inbowswood graindistant treeseggs and onionsanimal hairand dozens of other textures!You'll learn how to use materials, from technical pens to paint brushes, colored inks to liquid acrylics. You'll discover ways to blot, spatter, stamp and otherwise alter and combine ink and watercolor for exciting texturing effects.