{"title":"books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-mosaic-handbook","title":"The Modern Mosaic Handbook","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the cover \"The Modern Mosaic Handbook is especially geared to students who are also interested in contemporary mosaic technique, the different methods involved and its expressive potential....The Modern Mosaic Handbook is an effort to classify the grace\/movement that modern mosaic art has acquired in the modern age and to provide an educational foundation that helps to understand the reasoning and function behind mosaic art\". The handbook covers topics such as Materials, Mortars, Substrates, Grout, Protection, Tools, Working methods, Mosaic Rules, Micro Mosaics, Industrial Mosaic, Colour theory, and the Evolution of mosaic art. 155pp\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Smalti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37839955394760,"sku":"","price":46.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0524\/7189\/0120\/products\/Handbook.jpg?v=1610433461"},{"product_id":"mosaicism-by-helen-bodycomb","title":"Mosaicism by Helen Bodycomb","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy do we lose ourselves in the act of making? Is the urge to create order and permanence the only desire when we fill a void with an object or colour?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Mosaicism, Bodycomb draws on her experience  as a visual artist and her ground-breaking research, to explain the human urge to \"make special\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis intuitive act of assembling small, like parts, is one where the act of making is as important as the artefact made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFEATURES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnglish and Italian text\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart One- The Past\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePart Two-Thinking in Mosaic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e70+ colour images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuidelines for a public art project made with community.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eList of plates\/bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMosaic is both a process and a product, action and object. It grew from \"making special\" to become a form of durable architectural skin and lasting cultural text. ( Helen Bodycomb, Mosaicism 2023)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smalti Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42891230511304,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0524\/7189\/0120\/files\/2-10.jpg?v=1694605646"}],"url":"https:\/\/smaltiaustralia.com\/collections\/books.oembed","provider":"Smalti Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}