Launching the Imagination: A Guide to Three-Dimensional Design
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Launching the Imagination: A Guide to Three-Dimensional Design Details
About the Author Author, artist, and educator Mary Stewart is the Foundations Program Director for the Art Department at Florida State University and co-founder of Integrative Teaching Thinktank, a national organization devoted to strengthening college-level teaching. She regularly gives workshops and lectures on creativity, curriculum design, visual communication, leadership and visual narrative. Her artwork has been shown in over eighty exhibitions nationally and internationally, and she has received two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants for choreography. She received the FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) Master Educator award and the National Council of Arts Administrators Award of Distinction in 2009. Read more
Reviews
As an active 3D artist who is constantly on the search for more information, I can find myself in beginner type classes in order to see & hear what students are both learning and thinking about art. I bought this book because I was contemplating taking a community college class locally that used it. Much to my pleasant surprise, this book very useful by itself. It is worth reading completely, taking notes, and pondering the various points presented. Much of the information can be easily tied back by the reader to current works in any city's Art Museum, definitely helping understanding (is composition strongly influenced by construction, knowingly or unknowingly?). IMHO there is not much good information published about designing dimensional art, but this book is an asset. It does not tell you "how to make" but instead helps you with "how to think," thereby helping to launch the imagination (to quote the title).
