"Author Javier Sierra embarks on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind some of the greatest paintings in the world--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts of artwork by Raphael, Boticelli, and other masters"--

"By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury was formed, to create graphics and media that campaigned against corporate greed, government inaction, and public indifference to AIDS. In It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful, writer...

"Most accounts of Modernism take the view that the movement's characteristic shifts--abstraction in painting, atonality in music, free verse in poetry--are cultural. This book puts a different account on the table. It argues that Modernism is fundamentally a cognitive shift, one in which the brain comes up against its own limitations. The shifts that characterize Modernism are essentially workarounds, the consequences of abandoning shared rule systems....

Examines the use of graphics in packaging, advertising, posters, political placards, and shaping the environment.

A look at advertising techniques and strategies includes explanations by artists and graphic designers about how they create their works. "This book illuminates the path by which original graphic ideas come into being. It begins with a concise review of what is generally known about the creative process and innovative thought and continues with a study of the procedures more directly related to graphic design and the search for creative graphic solutions....