Covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends, constants, and variables. This third edition highlights the current swift advances in unmanned vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber warfare and other effects of information warfare.
Described as one of Australia's most inventive artists, Mikala Dwyer creates objects and installations that are both playful and provocative, re-imagining familiar materials and what they say to us about the world in which we live. Mikala Dwyer: A Shape of Thought looks at Dwyer's work over the past three decades documenting the evolution of her practice and her influences. Her work is characterized by a playful and excessive accumulation of elements - she has created installations out of fabric, play dough, stockings, felt, vinyl, plastic, organza and nail varnish. Her choice of materials has been identified as feminine and by extension as a subtle feminist critique of recent art history. However her teasing references to modernist abstraction, the more organic forms of minimalism and to pop art (such as the saggy Kenneth Noland-like target forms and Oldenburg-esque baggy vinyl shapes in 'Hanging eyes') are an acknowledgment of antecedents rather than necessarily having a critical agenda. Dwyer's highly engaging sculptures explore ideas about shelter, childhood play, modernist design and the relationship between people and objects. Often beguiling in their colour and profusion, her works incorporate raw materials and found objects in inventive and unexpected ways that transform their architectural settings.
Interactive text, first words, and sliders on each spread make this an ideal early-learning introduction to the farm. Children can slide the sliders across the page to learn fun farm words! This sturdy board book includes interactive prompts and sliders on each spread, which help promote early language skills, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills. Young readers will discover the different kinds of buildings found on a farm, which animals live there and the sounds they make, and the vehicles that are used on the farm. Simple questions keep readers engaged and learning fun facts about the farm. An exciting early-learning experience!
A fun Halloween-themed activity book packed with puzzles, crafts, and more than 100 full-color stickers. Halloween is such an exciting, fun time for children, and this creative activity book is the perfect way to celebrate the holiday! Readers will love to complete the delightful puzzles, fun coloring scenes, and Halloween crafts that most children can do themselves and with common household items. This engaging activity book includes an adorable press-out skeleton mask, a door hanger, Halloween-themed stencils, and more than 100 colorful stickers for young artists to decorate their spooky creations.
From the emergence of pop art in the 1950s through to its reinvented forms in the 1980s, Pop to Popism explores the dynamic engagement of art with popular culture. Drawn from major public and private collections around the world, Pop to popism includes over 180 works including pivotal works by key artists such as Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter and Hockney. It begins with the emergence of pop art in the United Kingdom, Europe and America; proceeds through the key years of high pop in the 1960s and early 1970s including a substantial Australian component; and finishes with the new generation of artists who began exhibiting in the late 1970s with works dating up to 1986.