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With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first- century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discipline has emerged: landscape urbanism.
In The Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheim — long at the forefront of this new movement — has assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field’s top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the world — including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Bélanger, Julia Czerniak, and more — capture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field. The Landscape Urbanism Reader is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensable reference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.
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The Landscape Urbanism Reader.......2007-04-11
this book is really good to students who study Landscape Architecture.
The Landscape Urbanism Reader.......2007-01-15
This was a gift for my architect brother. He was thrilled with it. It was received as promised, with quick shipping and arrived in pristine shape. It was indeed a merry Christmas.
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Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures, Theory in Landscape Architecture reminds readers that the discipline of landscape architecture can be both practical and formally challenging. Covering the past fifty years of theory, this primer makes an important contribution to a student's emerging professional ethics.
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Love it! One of the Best out there!.......2007-07-11
I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS BOOK! ^^ It's one of the best books out there on this subject. Though some pages are downright creepy, the book is great over all if you like to draw this or like to use it in anyway. ^^ I recommend it for fans of Ghosts to Warewolves to Demons to Ogress to... just about anything! I own it and love it a lot!
Awesome Resource.......2007-06-03
I love this book... too bad I lent it to my friend and she moved now I have to get her to post it back to me... >.<
Anyway, this is a great resource, one of my favourite out of the How to Draw Manga series.
I also highly recommend Digital Manga Techniques by Hayden Scott-Baron
And the related book
The Complete Guide To... Anime Techniques by Chi Hang Li, Chris Patmore, and Hayden Scott-Baron
Both of which I got at Basement Books in Sydney for $19.95 AUD
Really Cool!.......2006-07-05
If you are creating fantasy or horror comics, this book will be a humungous help. It shows you how to draw some classic monsters and other monsters in different parts of the world. It shows you how to draw zombies, priests, magicians, holy artifacts, creepy crawlies, blood and gore etc, not half naked cat women.
contents not as cover depicts.......2005-10-06
By the look of the cover you'd expect to be drawing vampire queens or ghoulish gilrs but instead it tells you how to turn a paper lantern in a ghost. Though there were some minimal drawing tips, anyone who's picked up a pencil before whouldn't consider them helpful. Good for the absolute novice only.
Awesome Refrence.......2005-09-17
I have been drawing manga for almost 10 years and I had six other How to Draw Manga books given to me for Chirstmas. I use the books as refrences and for tips to improve my art. I'd always wanted this one but the bookstores in the area didn't have this available. So I was thrilled when I saw it on Amazon.com. When the book came in was exstatic. This book is very indepth and a great refrence book for anyone looking to learn how to draw zombies and witches and monsters and the like. It's a must have for any aspiring manga artist. And I highly recommend the series in general.
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Manga occult and horror are just under the radar of American pop culture--until you visit the graphic novels section of any bookstore. That’s when you enter a strange, mysterious universe of elegant occult and horror stories, packed with amazing artwork from the best illustrators Japan has to offer. Subtle and compelling, Japanese occult and horror manga melds the two genres into one, so that glamorous occult-world vampires may mingle in the horror-world of beasts, and dark angels might visit a cave filled with monsters to reveal a deadly secret. Manga Mania: Occult and Horror is the first American tutorial on this most alluring and complex genre. With his popular step-by-by step drawings and clear text, best-selling author Christopher Hart shows exactly how to draw wizards, demon children, vampires, card readers, dragon worshipers, and many more denizens of the hidden places between darkness and light.
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The Silver Age (1956-1970) was one of the most popular and influential eras in comic book history for creators and readers alike. THE SILVER AGE OF COMIC BOOK ART highlights the careers of eight acknowledged hall of fame artists who drew definitive versions of the industry's greatest characters, while often setting trends in the look of comic book art itself. Arlen Schumer's book is the first to concentrate on the importance of these artists and their work, as well as the literary and sociological aspects of the Silver Age. Designed by the author using a distinctive graphic style, actual comic book art is enlarged to dynamic full- and double-page spreads, along with biographical text by the author, and thoughts, ideas and quotes from the artists themselves. Finally, here is an art book that pays proper homage to this great era of comic books and the amazing artists responsible for it.
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Design engaging, Info lite.......2006-10-29
Some of the reviews praise this compliation, and others attack it. If you know what this book is, it can be very interesting and a spur to seek out more information on Silver Age artists.
First of all, what this book is: a visually interesting collage of artists from the 60s. Each page is designed differently and, with my untrained eye, I'd say visually engaging. Along the way you're given samples of the most famous covers and images that the various artists produced. He does reproduce (and enlarge) the original art which I liked (if I want enhanced art I'll check out the Marvel Masterpieces or DC Archives).
What this book is not: an indepth look at the artists or their influence on other artists. There are a number of intriguing quotations from the various artists--excellent sound bites--but not enough to let us know what made/makes them tick. Also a few figures (i.e. Doc Strange), when "blown up" became large pixels that--yes, visually interesting--but not as interesting as they would've been a bit smaller with more space for another graphic. What irritated me the most about the book was (in the interest of "design"??) some text was unreadable (see the bibliography for the worst example), and some art was unviewable (see Kirby's "self-portrait" that is totally obliterated by gray background and text.) Was the publisher so hard up on pages that we couldn't have a page of text as well as the Kirby (and Colon) self-portraits?
Overall, if you know what you're getting with the book, it's a nice addition to other 60s comic collections. I wouldn't pay for it in hardcover: it's too expensive for what you get--personally, I found it at an outlet bookstore at a fraction of the cost and felt it was a good buy.
YES, THIS ONE IS VERY GOOD!.......2005-09-13
While I didn't start reading comics until the early part of the bronze age of the early 1970's, the Silver Age is still my favorite comic era. I was fortunate to have a couple of stores that sold old back issues and was able to put together a nice collection of Silver Age comics. This book is a tribute to many of the artists who help make the Silver Age so revolutionary in it's artistic style and approach to story telling. The political unrest and turbulence brought about a big change in our country and comic books as well. The cynicism of the era is reflected in the art of most of the men who helped drive this revolution forward as they tackled stories dealing with drugs, Viet Nam, civil rights, women's rights, and more.
The book details these great artists by reprinting many of their most famous covers or pages with the artistss comments placed into the context of the word balloons or panel text which I found kind of cool. Others didn't seem to care for this method citing it made the book difficult to follow but I disagree.
Carmine Infantino, one of DC's stalwarts was charge with the task of saving Batman. Infantino was given the task of getting Batman out of it's 1950's doldrums or risk the title being canceled. Hard to believe today that Batman was once on the chopping block. Infantino would re-design the character's look, giving it the yellow oval around the bat insignia and changing the ears and nose of the costume. Many of Infantino's great covers are on display including the re-introduction of the Riddler and the first appearance of Poison Ivy.
I was never a big Steve Ditko fan but I respect his contributions. As noted, Ditko always went for a more realistic approach to his character's look as opposed to the larger than life heroes of Jack Kirby. Speaking of Kirby, he gets the largest section in the book and rightfully so. You really have to look back at his mid-60's work to see just how good he was. Kirby shares his thoughts on the different motivations for Doctor Doom's becoming a villain which seem to have differed over the years. Jack notes that the Hulk was roughly based on Frankenstein. Kirby's work in the 1960's was majestic. While most will point out the Fantastic Four as being his best work I personally love his Thor stories, especially those epics with Galactus, Ego, Mangog, and the Destroyer.
Steranko has always intrigued me. Never has an artist with such a relatively small body of comic work been more discussed than the mercurial and rather egotistical Jim Steranko. Steranko was the Andy Warhol of comics, infusing his art with a psychedelic, pop-art feel and using techniques that had never been seen in comics. His cover work is what I recall most, especially on Nick Fury, a minor character that Steranko was allowed to go wild on.
Neal Adams is perhaps my all-time favorite artist. While most of my comic collection has long since been sold off, I still have my Adams issues that I will pickup and read every now and then. The X-Men battle with the Sentinels, the Kree-Skrull war in the Avengers and many others. Adams is a bit of an egomaniac but deservedly so. No artist before him brought the kind of realism and power to their art than he did.
Other artists featured include Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, and Gene Colan. In the back there is a "More Masters" section with quick spotlights on Wally Wood, John Buscema, Nick Cardy, Murphy Anderson, and Curt Swan. Anderson and Buscema get short-changed a bit. These two important talents should have received a full look at their work. There's also a few notable exclusions including John Romita, who is every bit as important as Ditko, and Marie Severin. These few minor complaints aside, the Silver Age of Comic Book art is a truly dazzling book for any comic book fan.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Silver is the New Gold!.......2005-04-07
The Silver age of comic book art rules, as does the Silver age itself.
Yeah, yeah, I've read Golden Age comics, as well as books and articles about them, and I know that members of my generation gush over them and all that, but personally, I find Golden Age stuff flat, two-dimensional, and of little interest other than of it's historical nature. (Having said, that, I do want to give a sideways shout out to Michael Chabon's most excellent book, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay." which is better than the actual Golden Age itself.)
But I digress.
Arlen Schumer's book is and excellent look at the art of the Silver Age. He chooses a number of the best of the best artists, and looks at them as a student of the Renaissance would study that era's Masters. Mr. Schumer then brings in what was going on in the world outside of comics, to show how it influenced the art, as well as adds commentary after-the-fact from the artists themselves.
No, this isn't a book about comics, nor is it a history of the Silver Age of comics, this is an excellent coffee table book that showcases the very best artwork from that era, and combines it with thoughtful and insightful commentary. This book has become the darling of the industry of which it is so obviously a love letter from the author.
If you read comics during the Silver Age, or read them now, and want to see what the Silver Age was all about (or rather what the fuss about the Silver Age is all about), you owe it to yourself to purchase this book.
Also, I do recommend the hardcover over the soft cover, as the hardcover features more pages and reflects a higher degree of production values.
neal adams=arrogant moron.......2004-09-30
This book concludes with a brief chapter on Neal Adams who in the author's words "set the bar higher than any other artist could reach." He goes on to say how incredibly realistic his anatomy is and how emotive the facial expressions are. Neal Adams is the worst artist in this book. His figures are stiff, awkward, and uninspired. The "emotion" rings hollow and is frequently overdramatic. e.g. tears running down faces, scenes of forced anguish, despair. stomach-churning stuff. Adams also seems to have an inflated view of his drawing abilities. The book ends with this off the wall quote from Adams: "Nobody says they want to draw as well as Jack Kirby. His work is like a wall ... its just there - it fufills itself. ... My work is more like a promise. In a sense my work said you now have permission to do great work in comics. I now present comic books as potential. The challenge is, this is what I've done. What can you do?"
Some of the other creators, in contrast to Adams, present bizarre evidence of self-hatred, claiming that comics aren't art but merely "storytelling", as if the fact that their pictures told stories somehow precluded any possibility of art. clearly, a ludicrous suggestion. take, for example, the sistine cieling. tells the story of genesis. comics are art. just not necessarily good art.
overall an interesting book with compelling imagery esp. kubert and steranko, unfortuneately marred by neurotic and misguided commentary.
Silver Age, Tarnished Book..........2004-07-11
Before this volume came out, I was really enthused about perusing a volume dedicated to SILVER AGE COMIC ART. But, silly me, I thought the author and publisher would at least obtain the original art pages (or same-size stats of the original pages) from which to shoot the comic art for this book. After all, various prozines/fanzines (most notably Alter Ego) have been able to utilize originals or clear copies thereof from which to reproduce comic art by many classic artists.
Sadly, this book reproduces Silver Age comic art from the ACTUAL Silver Age comics themselves, hardly providing any greater clarity or presentation than when the comics were originally published. Printed actual size, the reproductions are no better or worse than the original publication comics. And, the author and publisher go further with questionable production philosophy, printing other art pages and panels too small in size, while printing other items grotesquely large. (By the way, Mr. Schumer, when you greatly ENLARGE a published Silver Age comic book page, you also enlarge all those "red dots" that serve as the "flesh color" for a comic book character -- and it looks downright hideous!)
Bad layout and an unnecessary limitation of the classic Silver Age artists presented are also flaws with this volume, one that fails to deliver the quality expected for a book sporting its suggested price tag. My advice is to go "mining" for classic Silver Age art elsewhere, as this publication offers only a new incarnation, "Fool's Silver."
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Time Masters #1 (1 of 8)
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Prestige format comic book published by DC Comics. Revives the classic Silver Age character of Rip Hunter, Time Master for the modern era. Book 1 of an 8-issue limited series. The series features Rip Hunter and his time-traveling cohorts battling the immortal Vandal Savage across the centuries.
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Time Masters #2 (2 of 8)
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Prestige format comic book published by DC Comics. Revives the classic Silver Age character of Rip Hunter, Time Master for the modern era. Book 2 of an 8-issue limited series. The series features Rip Hunter and his time-traveling cohorts battling the immortal Vandal Savage across the centuries.
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Time Masters #5 (5 of 8)
Bob Wayne , and
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Prestige format comic book published by DC Comics. Revives the classic Silver Age character of Rip Hunter, Time Master for the modern era. Book 1 of an 8-issue limited series. The series features Rip Hunter and his time-traveling cohorts battling the immortal Vandal Savage across the centuries. This issue guest-stars the Silver Age character The Viking Prince.
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Time Masters #6 (6 of 8)
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Prestige format comic book published by DC Comics. Revives the classic Silver Age character of Rip Hunter, Time Master for the modern era. Book 1 of an 8-issue limited series. The series features Rip Hunter and his time-traveling cohorts battling the immortal Vandal Savage across the centuries. This issue guest-stars Dr. Fate.
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Prestige format comic book published by DC Comics. Revives the classic Silver Age character of Rip Hunter, Time Master for the modern era. Book 1 of an 8-issue limited series. The series features Rip Hunter and his time-traveling cohorts battling the immortal Vandal Savage across the centuries. This issue guest-stars Arion of Atlantis.
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