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Line Let LooseScribbling, Doodling and Automatic Drawing
As forms of drawing go, scribbling is the most basic: it is seen as playing a formative role in the drawings of both children and primates. Doodling, while still being a widespread phenomenon, is largely an adult preoccupation—a nomadic form of drawing typically produced during meetings and phone calls. But even though those who engage in it are not necessarily trained artists, automatic draw…
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A Selection of Old-Time Recipes for Boiled Sweets
Authored by various experts, this vintage series of books reveals how to create traditional British sweets, long-loved by young and old, and is sure to delight anyone with an interest in old-time confectionary. This edition addresses the boiled sweet, from the acid drop and peppermint twist to lemon barley sugar and the honey drop. Full contents: Confectionery - Boiled Sweets - Coating Syrup - …
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Robert AltmanIn the American Grain
Known as an iconoclast and maverick, film director Robert Altman has consistently pushed against the boundaries of genre. From refashioning film noir in The Long Goodbye, the western in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the psychological drama in Images, science fiction in Quintet, and the romantic comedy in A Perfect Couple, he has always tested the limits of what film can and should do. In this book, Fra…
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Vegetarian Puddings - A Selection of Old Time Recipes
"Vegetarian Puddings" is a vintage book full of fantastic, old-style recipes for meatless desserts and sweet dishes. These simple and to-the-point recipes are suitable for amateurs and experienced cooks alike, and they are ideal for modern vegetarians looking for interesting alternatives. Contents include: "Sweet Dishes", "Sultana Pudding", "Apple and Raisin Tart", "Ginger Sponge Pudding", "Bon…
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The Grain of the ClayReflections on Ceramics and the Art of Collecting
People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weisss engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with Japanese ceramics. Weiss unfolds their world of materiality and pleasure and the culture and knowled…
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A Dream and a ChiselLouisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925–1928
A portrait of a young artist's formative years studying sculpture in Paris, recounted in her own words Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a notable twentieth century American sculptor. In A Dream and a Chisel, Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose explore Gregory's desire, even as a teenager, to learn the art of cutting stone and to become a sculptor. Thr…
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CounterpointsDialogues between Music and the Visual Arts
Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict associated with multimedia is not a new phenomenon. From opera to the symphonic poem to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day.…
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Margaret Preston's Monotypes27 Plates in Colour
MARGARET PRESTON is Australia's most original painter. Essentially a pioneer, she strikes out new paths, and her fervour for experiment has led her into diverse forms of art. As she has mastered each new method she discards it and moves on to something fresh. Her latest conquest is the Monotype, and this book reveals her achievement in this field. As a practical craftsman, she found intense ple…
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Image on the EdgeThe Margins of Medieval Art
What do they all mean the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to…
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Margaret Preston
Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years. 'A red-headed little firebrand of a woman', she was an artist who never stood still, moving from realism to Post-Impressionism, to a…
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