The Computer in the Visual Arts
The Computer in the Visual Arts
Résumé
Provides an introduction to computer graphics focused on the computer as a medium for artistic expression and graphic communication. This book combines technical and theoretical aspects of the emerging field of computer art and design. It is useful for the artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers.
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The Computer in the Visual Arts by Anne Morgan Spalter
Introducing a dynamic medium for artistic expression and graphic communication This is a seminal contributionoa must-read for anyone interested in how computers are used in art and design. Spalter masterfully presents the principles and practices of this vital and rapidly growing field. She blends just the right amount of technology with applications and implications to the visual arts, in an easy-to-read, informative style.. -- Andries van Dam, T. J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, and coauthor of the authoritative book, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. At last Those are the words that most often greet Anne Morgan Spalteris new book--an introduction to computer graphics uniquely focused on the computer as a medium for artistic expression and graphic communication--the first comprehensive work to combine technical and theoretical aspects of the emerging field of computer art and design. Integrating theory, examples, and the concepts underlying all the major types of graphics software, Spalter explains the principles and practices that artist, designers, illustrators, and photographersAnne Morgan Spalter is currently Artist in Residence, Brown Computer Graphics Group, Department of Computer Science, Brown University and Outreach Director, The NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization. She designed the first computer art course at Brown and taught joint- ly there and at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has degrees in mathematics (Brown) and in painting (RISD). Her own computer art has been exhibited both in the U.S. and abroad. She is the founder of the College Art Association SIG for Computers in the Visual Arts.
0201386003AB04062001
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780201386004 |
| ISBN 10 | 0201386003 |
| Titre | The Computer in the Visual Arts |
| Auteur | Anne Morgan Spalter |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Hardback |
| Éditeur | Pearson Education (US) |
| Année de publication | 1999-02-23 |
| Nombre de pages | 650 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |