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Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Plates in Full Color64 Engravings from the …
The Galerie des Modes has been called the "most beautiful collection in existence on the fashions of the 18th century." Published over a 10-year period, its plates were elegantly drawn, accurately engraved, and exquisitely hand colored. Here are 64 of the finest plates, reproduced faithfully from the originals and selected by costume historian Stella Blum.
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How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police…
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Drawing the Living Figure
"Joseph Sheppard has been favorably compared to practically every Renaissance masterhe is without peer among modern realists for his ability to impart a warm verisimilitude to the figure." Artspeak magazine. In this highly praised guidebook, Joseph Sheppard, a versatile and influential artist and teacher who is widely recognized as a master of figure drawing, introduces an innovative approach …
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- 9780486129891
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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The Human Figure in Motion
This is the largest selection ever made from the famous Muybridge sequence high-speed photographs of human motion. Containing 4,789 photographs, it illustrates some 163 different types of action: elderly man lifting log, woman sweeping, woman climbing ladder, men boxing and wrestling, child crawling, man lifting weight, man jumping, and 155 other types of action, some of which are illustrated b…
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Animals in Motion
"The dry plate's most spectacular early use was by Eadweard Muybridge." Life "A really marvelous series of plates." Nature (London) "These photographs have resolved many complicated questions." Art Journal Here is the largest, most comprehensive selection of Muybridge's famous animal photos more than 4,000 high-speed shots of 34 different animals and birds, in 123 different types of actions…
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The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy136 Plates
Gustave Dor (183283) was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. His Dor Bible was a treasured possession in countless homes, and his best-received works continued to appear through the years in edition after edition. His illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy constitute one of his most highly regarded efforts and were Dor's personal favorites. The present volume rep…
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- 9780486129938
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- 1 online resource (141 pages)
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AnatomyA Complete Guide for Artists
In this superb guidebook, a skilled practitioner of figure drawing demonstrates how to achieve mastery of anatomy through careful, knowledgeable articulation of the muscles and bones lying beneath the skin. Joseph Sheppard's concise instructions have been carefully integrated with over 250 halftone illustrations and over 180 line drawings to lead artists one step at a time through the technique…
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Beardsley's Le Morte DarthurSelected Illustrations
Beardsley's illustrations for the Dent edition of the great Thomas Malory classic made him famous virtually overnight. This volume contains a rich selection of those splendid drawings, including floral and foliated openings, fauns and satyrs, initials, ornaments, and much more. Characters from Arthurian legend are portrayed in 62 splendid full-page black-and-white illustrations.
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Learn to Draw Comics
This user-friendly guide from the 1930s offers aspiring cartoonists a wealth of practical advice. Rich in period flavor, it supplies the ageless foundations of comic art. Abundant illustrations and clear, nontechnical prose cover: creating expressions, attaining proportion and applying perspective, depicting anatomy, simple shading, achieving consistency, lettering, and writing a strip.
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Senefelder on LithographyThe Classic 1819 Treatise
The invention in the late eighteenth century of lithography, or "writing on stone," reshaped the course of graphic arts. Some years later, the father of this world-changing technology, Alois Senefelder, published a description of the process. This English translation of the original German work, Vollstndiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey, vividly describes Senefelder's struggles to develop and po…
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