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Working SouthPaintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte
Dynamic artistry celebrating the diverse lives and labors of hardscrabble Southerners In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator opera…
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- 9781611172010
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An Artist's Way Of Seeing
Artist Mary Whyte has learned many lessons over the years--lessons about art and, perhaps more important to her, lessons about life. In this book, she uses specific illustrations from her training, her teaching, her travels and her mentors to show the reader how to see and how to appreciate the artist's experience. Referring to numerous color and black and white examples, she explains what her…
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- 9781423622116
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Taking AIM!The Business of Being an Artist Today
Taking Aim! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies of the contemporary art world. It demystifies often daunting and opaque practices through …
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Computers and Typography 2
This second Volume of Computers and Typography reflects new developments in this rapidlychanging field. This book complements without in any way supplanting Volume1 through an extensive elaboration of issues that were considered only briefly the first Volume. Its aim is to alert those involved in computer interface design that the skills of layout, spacing and usage of type are equally vital in…
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- 9781841508122
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Handwriting of the Twentieth Century
The history of formal calligraphy has been thoroughly documented, and the demise of what people see as beautiful handwriting is frequently deplored, but the details of the teaching of this skill during this century have gone almost unrecorded. Everyday handwriting is ephemeral and school books soon disappear. The main purpose of this book is to create a historical record, however, techniques ar…
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Women Illustrators of the Golden Age
At the turn of the twentieth century, the demand for magazine and book illustrations was at an all-time high, offering women artists an unprecedented number of professional opportunities. This unique anthology features 120 color and black-and-white artworks by the Golden Age of Illustration's finest female illustrators, including Beatrix Potter, Kate Greenaway, and Jessie Willcox Smith. A caree…
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- 9780486131887
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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Light and ShadeA Classic Approach to Three-Dimensional Drawing
Form, writes the author, is developed by means of light and shade; without these every object would appear flat. Originally published in the mid-nineteenth century, this classic approach to three-dimensional drawing was the first book to provide art students with instructions for correctly illustrating perspective outlines of various objects. An art historian noted for her authoritative referen…
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The Art of Fresco Painting in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Known for its durability, a fresco painting is created in "sections" on freshly laid wet plaster, allowing the painter to comprehensively portray the subject and execute designs with ease. As both the paint and plaster dry, they become completely fused. Highly popular during the late-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, fresco painting was almost a lost art by the time this book was first…
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Advances in nanomaterials for drug delivery :polymeric, nanocarbon and bio-in…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Drug delivery approaches -- 2.1. Review of the chemical and physical properties of nanomaterials -- 2.2. Critical advances in nanomaterials for drug delivery3. Polymeric and hyper-branched nanoparticles and dendrimers …
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Physics of surface, interface and cluster catalysis /
"Version: 20160301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The reactivity of metals based on delocalized electronic states -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The d-band model -- 1.3. The self-consistent model of chemisorption on surfaces -- 1.4. When the surface electronic properties change : models based on Newns-Anderson -- 1.5. The LDOSEF model -- 1.6. Cluster reactivi…
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