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Modelling and Sculpting Animals
"A joy to read, as well as a constant reference library. Thoroughly inspiring." Workbench The republication of this highly valuable text by Edouard Lanteri, a renowned teacher, sculptor, and intimate friend of Rodin (Rodin called him "my dear master, my dear friend"), makes it possible for serious students to gain the requisite skills needed for figurative sculpture and to bridge the gap betwe…
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The New VisionFundamentals of Bauhaus Design, Painting, Sculpture, and Archit…
One of the most important schools for architecture, design, and art in the 20th century, the Weimar Bauhaus included in its distinguished membership Moholy-Nagy. This book, a valuable introduction to the Bauhaus movement, is generously illustrated with examples of students' experiments and typical contemporary achievements. The text also contains an autobiographical sketch.
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- 9780486138411
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Sketching Outdoors
A facility with pencil drawings is a valuable asset for painters in oil and watercolors, and a high-quality pencil sketch ranks as the artistic equal of the best painting. This guide offers beginners step-by-step demonstrations of how to depict clouds, trees, buildings, and other outdoor scenes.Famed for his landscape paintings, author Leonard Richmond provides pencil studies that demonstrate e…
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- 9780486138190
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Draw Anything
Written by an expert art teacher, this visual drawing dictionary offers thousands of instructive illustrations in alphabetical order from abdomen to zodiac. Simplified for beginners and intermediate students, it presents a tremendous wealth of images: animals, people performing a variety of activities, and common and uncommon objects, including fruits and flowers, clothing, furniture, and much…
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Drawing the HeadFour Classic Instructional Guides
An accomplished artist and teacher, Walter T. Foster began producing his classic art instruction books in the 1920s. He wrote, illustrated, printed, bound, packaged, shipped, and distributed his books from his own home for decades, before moving the business to a commercial facility to accommodate his international trade. This comprehensive volume combines four of the artist's vintage instructi…
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- 9780486138244
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Rubens Drawings44 Plates
Peter Paul Rubens' gifts as an artist were as comprehensive as they were supreme. A prolific painter of illimitable resource and invention, he was a master of intellect and emotion, figure and form, color and sweep. In all his artistic endeavors, he proved himself the true heir of Renaissance art of both the North and the South, inspired by and assimilating the best of both. Yet he was very m…
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- 9780486138251
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Chinese Brushwork in Calligraphy and PaintingIts History, Aesthetics, and Tec…
"A volume of great value to the admirer of Chinese art that also contains much practical advice for the student." Library Journal When this book was first published, there were few if any important studies dealing with Chinese brushwork and its crucial role in Chinese art. The present volume, by a noted scholar, calligrapher, and artist, was the first significant treatment of the topic and rem…
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Drawing the Draped Figure
Many art students and professionals have mastered the art of depicting unclothed figures, but still have trouble accurately rendering clothing or other forms of draped cloth. Part of the problem before this book came along was that there was a lack of concise and simple instruction on the subject, and much that was written was too vague to be helpful. This comprehensive, well-illustrated book…
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- 9780486138121
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Perspective Drawing for Beginners
The amateur artist faces many challenges. To Len A. Doust, perspective is by far the most problematic. With his trademark humor, the author/artist turns his expert eye toward that "dreaded, horrid word." In a clearly written how-to guide on mastering the art of perspective, he carefully: describes the roles of lines, boxes, and circles provides shortcuts for visualizing shapes and forms inco…
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Doré's Illustrations of the Crusades
Long regarded as the standard history of the subject, Franois Michaud's History of the Crusades, published in 1877, recorded over four centuries of passionate, bloody wars that brought the countries and cultures of Asia and Europe into conflict with one another. To illustrate Michaud's classic study, Gustave Dor executed 100 striking plates, capturing all the savagery, nobility, and vast swee…
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- 9780486138114
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