FadeawayThe Remarkable Imagery of Coles Phillips

Coles Phillips (18801927) was among the most in-demand illustrators in his field during the 1910s and 20s. A dynamic and highly skilled watercolor artist and draftsman, Phillips created dozens of covers for mainstream American magazines, including Good Housekeeping, Life, and The Saturday Evening Post. In 1908 he created a style in which the figure in the foreground blended seamlessly into the …

Fotografía para principiantes: Cómo configurar la iluminación fotográfica…

¿Eres un fotógrafo principiante y te preguntas cómo configurar la iluminación fotográfica? ¿Necesitas saber cómo organizar tu kit de iluminación fotográfica? No hace falta que busques más, ya que este eBook de fotografía para principiantes te explica exactamente cómo configurar la iluminación fotográfica en un estudio casero. Es difícil saber qué comprar cuando eres un fotógraf…

New Orleans VoodooA Cultural History

There is no more compelling nor more spiritual city than New Orleans. The city's Roman Catholic roots and its blended French, Spanish, Creole and American Indian populations heavily influenced the rites and rituals that West Africans brought to Louisiana as enslaved laborers. The resulting unique Voodoo tradition is now deeply rooted in the area. Enslaved practitioners in the nineteenth century…

Give the Man RoomThe Story of Gutzon Borglum

THE SCULPTOR WHO CARVED THE FACES OF AMERICA'S HEROIC DEAD ON GRANITE MOUNTAINS—AND THEY WERE SELDOM BIG ENOUGH. First published in 1952, Robert John Casey co-wrote this fascinating biography with the wife of Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), the American sculptor best known for his colossal sculpture of the faces of four U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. The son of Danish immigran…

100 Favorite Illustrations from Collier's Magazine, 1898-1914by Gibson, Parri…

Peter F. Collier (18491909) and Robert J. Collier (18761918) were the men behind publishing giant Peter F. Collier Son, and their organization ranked among America's most prestigious firms. Collier's Weekly, which appeared in various forms from 1888 through 1957, was at the forefront of new publishing technologies, such as the use of halftone images, and was noted for its fiction and investiga…

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University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses SeriesThe Extraordinary …

Contributions by Megan Abbott, Michael Almereyda, Kris Belden-Adams, Maude Schuyler Clay, William Dunlap, W. Ralph Eubanks, William Ferris, Marti A. Funke, Lisa Howorth, Amanda Malloy, Richard McCabe, Emily Ballew Neff, Robert Saarnio, and Anne Wilkes Tucker The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston is an examination of the life and work of the artist widely consider…

Douglas DuncanA Memorial Portrait

Douglas Duncan was a Torontonian who, by his patronage of the arts, has had an almost incalcuable influence on their development in Canada. The book also includes reproductions of paintings by some of the artists whose work Duncan encouraged and collected, and examples of his work as a bookbinder and a photographer.

George HeriotPostmaster-Painter of the Canadas

This volume, combination biography and art history, presents a rounded picture of George Heriot (1759-1839), a skilled landscape watercolourist and the contentious deputy postmaster general of British North America.

The Arts in CanadaThe Last Fifty Years

The contributors to this volume were invited to discuss the changes, problems, challenges, and achievements in the arts in the last fifty years.The result is a varied group of essays in each ofwhich the character of the individual artist is clearly evident.