Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981484679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A quirky memoir of the aesthete responsible for creating culture icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and bringing the concept of wabi-sabi into Western aesthetic discourse.
Musings of a Curious Aesthete
Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981484679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A quirky memoir of the aesthete responsible for creating culture icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and bringing the concept of wabi-sabi into Western aesthetic discourse.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981484679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A quirky memoir of the aesthete responsible for creating culture icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and bringing the concept of wabi-sabi into Western aesthetic discourse.
On Creating Things Aesthetic
Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
ISBN: 9781734914313
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a pared-down, demystified overview of the mental operations involved with creating things aesthetic, i.e., art, design, and the like. It is a disarmingly clearheaded and unsentimental look at the creative process by an eminent creator. The book's photographs and design serve as an example of what the creative process, at its most sophisticated, can yield.
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
ISBN: 9781734914313
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a pared-down, demystified overview of the mental operations involved with creating things aesthetic, i.e., art, design, and the like. It is a disarmingly clearheaded and unsentimental look at the creative process by an eminent creator. The book's photographs and design serve as an example of what the creative process, at its most sophisticated, can yield.
Fantazius Mallare
Author: Ben Hecht
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
What Artists Do
Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981484662
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
An essay about the unique, useful and necessary contribution artists make to society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981484662
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
An essay about the unique, useful and necessary contribution artists make to society.
The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI
Author: Alex Shvartsman
Publisher: UFO Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Today’s software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow? Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity. Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible futures are imagined by award-winning and bestselling human authors from the USA, UK, China, Ukraine, Chile, Japan, Madagascar, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Sri Lanka. "In this impressive collection, a star-studded lineup of 17 authors assembled by Shvartsman (Kakistocracy) raise angst-ridden questions about human-AI collaboration. ... This smart, kaleidoscopic view into the digital future will have readers longing to log off." - Publishers Weekly
Publisher: UFO Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Today’s software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow? Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity. Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible futures are imagined by award-winning and bestselling human authors from the USA, UK, China, Ukraine, Chile, Japan, Madagascar, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Sri Lanka. "In this impressive collection, a star-studded lineup of 17 authors assembled by Shvartsman (Kakistocracy) raise angst-ridden questions about human-AI collaboration. ... This smart, kaleidoscopic view into the digital future will have readers longing to log off." - Publishers Weekly
The Flower Shop
Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
ISBN: 9781933330006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
From the author of Wabi-Sabi, on the intersection of beauty and design.
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
ISBN: 9781933330006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
From the author of Wabi-Sabi, on the intersection of beauty and design.
Under the Wave at Waimea
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358446287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358446287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
Making WET
Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981484624
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
WET was one of the seminal avant-garde magazines of the 1970s. Matt Groening and others got their start here.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981484624
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
WET was one of the seminal avant-garde magazines of the 1970s. Matt Groening and others got their start here.
Thirteen Books
Author: Leonard Koren
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
ISBN: 9781880656594
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An author and book designer offers a candid look at his own creations.
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
ISBN: 9781880656594
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An author and book designer offers a candid look at his own creations.
Coming to My Senses
Author: Alyssa Harad
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101583673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A sudden love affair with fragrance leads to sensual awakening, self-transformation, and an unexpected homecoming At thirty-six—earnest, bookish, terminally shopping averse—Alyssa Harad thinks she knows herself. Then one day she stumbles on a perfume review blog and, surprised by her seduction by such a girly extravagance, she reads in secret. But one trip to the mall and several dozen perfume samples later, she is happily obsessed with the seductive underworld of scent and the brilliant, quirky people she meets there. If only she could put off planning her wedding a little longer. . . . Thus begins a life-changing journey that takes Harad from a private perfume laboratory in Austin, Texas, to the glamorous fragrance showrooms of New York City and a homecoming in Boise, Idaho, with the women who watched her grow up. With warmth and humor, Harad traces the way her unexpected passion helps her open new frontiers and reclaim traditions she had rejected. Full of lush description, this intimate memoir celebrates the many ways there are to come to our senses.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101583673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A sudden love affair with fragrance leads to sensual awakening, self-transformation, and an unexpected homecoming At thirty-six—earnest, bookish, terminally shopping averse—Alyssa Harad thinks she knows herself. Then one day she stumbles on a perfume review blog and, surprised by her seduction by such a girly extravagance, she reads in secret. But one trip to the mall and several dozen perfume samples later, she is happily obsessed with the seductive underworld of scent and the brilliant, quirky people she meets there. If only she could put off planning her wedding a little longer. . . . Thus begins a life-changing journey that takes Harad from a private perfume laboratory in Austin, Texas, to the glamorous fragrance showrooms of New York City and a homecoming in Boise, Idaho, with the women who watched her grow up. With warmth and humor, Harad traces the way her unexpected passion helps her open new frontiers and reclaim traditions she had rejected. Full of lush description, this intimate memoir celebrates the many ways there are to come to our senses.