Artrageous

by Klutz, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Imagine you could squeeze the Metropolitan Museum of Art between the covers of a book... and then open up all the display cases and unhook the velvet ropes. Introducing A Book of Artrageous Projects, our extraordinary collaboration with the venerable Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It's all about art, and it's designed not only to be read but also to be stickered, painted, pounded, rubbed, woven, soaked and poked. Artrageous comes complete with all the supplies essential to the hands-on experience, including light-sensitive paper, color pigments, a paintbrush, rice paper, copper foil and a whole gallery of stickers. Comes Embossable foil cover, embossing templates, sunprint paper, 4 color pigments, brush • Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

Genres: Crafts, Art

66 pages, Spiral-bound

First published August 1, 2000

About the author

Klutz is a publishing company started in Palo Alto, California in 1977 and acquired by Scholastic Inc. in 2002. The first Klutz book was a how-to guide titled Juggling for the Complete Klutz, which came provided with juggling beanbags attached in a mesh bag. The book was created by three friends who graduated from Stanford University: Darrell Lorentzen, John Cassidy, and B.C. Rimbeaux. Since then the company has continued to specialize in activity-driven books sold along with other items needed for the activity. Not all the books are about developing a skill; there has also been a geography book containing, among other physical attachments, packets of rice corresponding to the average daily caloric intake among the poorest people of the world. Many of their books are spiral bound and teach various crafts. The items needed are usually included with the book, e.g. the juggling guide. The Klutz credo is: Create wonderful things, be good, have fun.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Gwen · Rating 5 out of 5]

i'm not one for spending too much time on what art is and and how to make it - i believe it all depends on perspective and circumstances and simply what materials you have available anyway - but this book is awesome!

i got it for a kid's birthday and wanted to keep it myself. here's what it is, are you ready? a craft/activity book filled with historical information, cultural notes and humor. i know, amazing. hopefully the kid i'm giving it to thinks it's half as spectacular as i do because even then she'll still think it's really cool.

[Helen Pugsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dude. My mom bought me this as a kid. It was the best thing ever. The art projects were pretty advanced. Like, you could fuck up and hurt yourself, but that was part of the fun! I loved the metal work. I think 90% of what I know about Egypt came from this book, and I've been looking for it. I literally built myself a notebook with this once. Best thing EVA!
Dude. Please make more of these.

[Wendi (Alex) Werner · Rating 4 out of 5]

The photos of people in the book are almost exclusively white. If they ever make a new edition of this book it should have people of various backgrounds!