Tag: Artists

July 16, 2023

Maghreb Noir The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future

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Free Download Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future "
English | ISBN: 1503635910 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black liberation struggles. Tangier and Algiers attracted Black American and Caribbean artists eager to escape American white supremacy; Tunis hosted African filmmakers for the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage; and young freedom fighters from across the African continent established military training camps in Morocco. North Africa became a haven for militant-artists, and the region reshaped postcolonial cultural discourse through the 1960s and 1970s.

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July 3, 2023

Shakespeare’s Artists The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems

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Free Download B. J. Sokol, "Shakespeare’s Artists: The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems"
English | ISBN: 1350021938 | 2018 | 344 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare’s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare’s work throughout his career. It also uncovers unexpected aspects of an enthusiastic Elizabethan consumption of artworks, an enthusiasm that had significant bearing on the quite new profession that Shakespeare himself followed. A high valuation placed on art and artists, and at the same time certain fears of these and fears for these, made for a very complex reception of the figure of the artist, and Shakespeare’s treatments were equal to that complexity.

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June 30, 2023

The Gnomon Workshop – Photogrammetry for Production Artists

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Free Download PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR PRODUCTION ARTISTS
PROP SCANNING THROUGH TO FINAL PRODUCTION ASSET WITH JOHN WILLIAM CROSSLANDs
MP4 | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920×1080 | Audio: aac, 48000 Hz | Duration: 4h 28m | 7.53 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Capture and create your own 3D props for production using photogrammetry with this comprehensive guide for Modo, Marmoset, Photoshop, Agisoft, Lightroom, and ZBrush. In this 4-hour workshop, John William Crossland, a Lead Principal Artist at Remedy Entertainment, sheds a light on the entire process for those looking to get started with photogrammetry on a small scale. He details several ways to achieve low, medium, and high-range scans and explains how to produce a decent-quality scan that can be used as a baseline for a production asset.

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