Beautiful LEGO Author: Mike Doyle | Language: English | ISBN:
B00FFJ1GG8 | Format: PDF
Beautiful LEGO Description
"Far from child's play. An astonishing collection." —Publishers Weekly
Mix hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks with dozens of artists, and what do you get? Beautiful LEGO, a compendium of LEGO artwork that showcases a stunning array of pieces ranging from incredibly lifelike replicas of everyday objects and famous monuments to imaginative renderings of spaceships, mansions, and mythical creatures. You'll also meet the minds behind the art. Interviews with the artists take you inside the creative process that turns simple, plastic bricks into remarkable LEGO masterpieces.
As seen in The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, TODAY.com, Wallpaper, USA Today, MAKE, and more!
Note: This full-color ebook is not compatible with Kindle E Ink devices.
- File Size: 73811 KB
- Print Length: 280 pages
- Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (September 25, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FFJ1GG8
- Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,037 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #8
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Art > Sculpture - #15
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Activities, Crafts & Games > Crafts & Hobbies - #19
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Models
- #8
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Art > Sculpture - #15
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Activities, Crafts & Games > Crafts & Hobbies - #19
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Models
The rising popularity of LEGO as an art form is emphatically punctuated in Mike Doyle's book, Beautiful LEGO. Whereas the title seems to obviously declare what's inside, once you crack the pages and take a look, you'll wonder how Doyle kept his title so simple. This book is spectacular and should be more adequately titled, "267 pages of stunning, crisp, high resolution, full color photos of LEGO creations that will blow you away." Even the back cover and fold-over dust jacket are packed with artfully arranged high res. images, rather than busy words. This book is definitely destined to become the de rigueur of coffee table LEGO books [and may shove a few modern art books out of the way as well.]
Beautiful LEGO takes you on a jaw-dropping photo journey of the creations of around 70 different LEGO artists from around the world, including brief interviews with about a dozen of them. The LEGO creations depicted in the book range in size from Doyle's 200,000 piece, Contact-- the fantasy city featured on the cover-- down to 10 piece birds and snails with amazing character. Unlike other LEGO books where the photography and resolution are secondary, every image in this book appears to consist of a well-lit, clutter-free, high res. images destined for the Smithsonian. Many images are so clear you can see the airtight seams between even the smallest of bricks.
Among the strengths of this book is that Doyle does not linger on any particular LEGO artist, building style or motif for more than a few pages. The upside to this is that the reader gets a wide-ranging view of the amazing capabilities of the artist and their bricks, but the downside is that you may crave more.
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