In this brightly written work, designer Michael Adams describes the basic building blocks that anchor all visual expression.
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In this brightly written work, designer Michael Adams describes the basic building blocks that anchor all visual expression.
Each chapter reveals one of the nine secrets (called lessons of light) that bring emotional meaning to visual experience. At the same time, a new and intriguing way of life, named "visual living," is illuminated, with dozens of surprising examples of how the visible world changes forever when we enthusiastically embrace it.
This is art and design made easy, even for people who rarely read books!
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How often does a simple university lecture move from college campus to Main Street’s leading book stores and museums? Of course it’s rare, but now it has happened! After helping legions of new freshmen through required foundation art classes, the nine lessons of light are now right here, right now, . . . for everyone else to savor.
This is a new adventure for everyone into art and design. And best of all, it’s conveniently, finally, revealed in a comprehensive, easy-to-understand simplified guide.
Web page for this book: BlueBananaBook dot com
This giveaway is for five brand new, never read, hard copies of the book.
Revised and updated. 354 pages with notes, index, dust jacket and book mark. The cover price is $24.95.
Available on ebay.
This book is also available at:
• The bookstore at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.
• The Strand Bookstore, the oldest and largest book store in New York city
• The bookstore at the Tate Modern, London, Great Britian's largest art museum
• The bookstore at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's largest art museum
• The museum shop at the Museum of Modern Art in Montclair NJ, near the home of the author
• The Montclair Book Center, Montclair, New Jersey
• And at other leading stores and museums.
Written for readers at all levels of artistic experience, from beginners to working professionals, this book explains the nine lessons of light, the building blocks to visual meaning used by artists, photographers, designers, sculptors, painters, architects and illustrators.
See excerpts from recent readers, taken from the back dust jacket. (Below.)
By designer Michael Adams.
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Reviews and excerpts from the text:
From the dust jacket:
Presents a joyful new look at art and design . . . . . and shows us how to do it !
Unfolding in a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide, here is a brand new adventure into art and design. It brings a reborn appreciation for visual expression to anyone with an open mind to welcome it. Whether it’s art we find in the best museums, designs for a garden or a family scrapbook, advertising graphics, your own photographs or fashions, classic architecture, or even a romantic tattoo . . . they’re all part of visual reality.
Michael Adams presents a firestorm of visual observations tied to an easy and engaging theory of what contemporary visual communication actually is. Along the way, even casual bystanders can try out visual living – a new lifestyle that’s wondrously celebrated as pages turn.
Based on the author’s university lectures, “Blue Banana” is written carefully for easy comprehension. Over and over, this book has taken readers of all ages, and all levels of experience, on a deeper and more personal journey to greater visual insight.
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Reader evaluations:
"This book made me proud to be an imaginative, artistic person."
"I felt like a new born baby, opening my eyes for the very first time.”
“When I finished the book, I smiled. . . . because for the first time, I actually TRULY understood art.”
“It felt like I was on a secret adventure that no one around me could ever possibly know about.”
“It’s a new, stimulating way to look at art.”
“ . . . an approach that must be applauded.”
“There is nothing on the market that is quite so understandable.”
“This isn’t a rehash of Bauhaus or Swiss or modernist principles.”
“ . . . right on the mark in explaining the visual creative process.”
“The points made are universal, and that is wonderful.”
"The book is refreshing in its simplicity."
"If you want to know what I think, I think it could be a classic."
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Web page for this book: BlueBananaBook dot com
This giveaway is for the third edition. In the event the third edition is not in print at the conclusion of the giveaway, winners will receive the second edition.
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