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Rhythmic Form in Art
In this captivating study, an influential scholar-artist offers timeless advice on shape, form, and composition for artists in any medium. Irma Richter illuminates the connections between art and science by surveying works of art from classical antiquity through the Modernist era. Richter shows the conscious and unconscious ways artists animated their works with geometric principles in an attem…
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- 9780486149790
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Lessons on Figure Drawing
Drawing the human form requires a complete vocabulary of skills and techniques. In this concise guide to figure drawing, Watson teaches readers, step by step, everything they need to know to master these valuable methods. Separated into two distinct sections, "Elements of Figure Drawing" and "Drawing From the Figure," readers are treated to nearly eighty drawings, paintings, and photographs tha…
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- 9780486149868
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- 1 online resource (128 pages)
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Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark with a Calder drawing for each fable and 12 additional vignettes. Includes "The Lion in Love" and "The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs."
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- 9780486149882
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- 1 online resource (89 pages)
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Anatomy for Artists
Concise and uniquely organized, this outstanding guide teaches the essentials of anatomical rendering. Author Diana Stanley presents numerous illustrations and instructions covering the key aspects of anatomy, without the distractions of unnecessarily extensive technical details that many art students find discouraging. Four major sections constitute the book, with studies of the trunk, the hea…
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- 9780486149820
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Human Anatomy for Art Students
A staple of art instruction, this book is the most concise and accessible guide to accurately depicting the human body. Its illustrations and cross-sections offer examples of human skeletal and muscular substructures and details of individual body parts, helping students achieve the most precise visual re-creation of human form and motion. Subjects include the skeleton, the coverings and region…
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- 9780486149752
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A Guide to Pictorial Perspective
Meeting the challenge of realistic drawing involves the application of science to an individual design sense. Here is a clear, jargon-free primer on recreating objects from nature by using perspective techniques. Author Benjamin R. Green's straightforward approach teaches artists and students at all levels how to visually rationalize the differences between form and appearance. Green begins wit…
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- 9780486149677
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Anatomical Diagrams for Art Students
Any artist wishing to practice figure drawing or to understand the body's movement will do well to study the interaction of muscles with bone structure. This timeless introduction to human anatomy combines art and science, focusing on realistic depictions of the skeleton's impact on the external form and the attachments of the muscular system. More than 70 black-and-white illustrations show the…
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- 9780486149479
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Great Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer
A master of many media, Albrecht Drer (14711528) excelled in the art of woodcut design. This modestly priced edition, comprising images both sacred and secular, offers an ideal introduction to his work. Scenes from the lives of Jesus and the saints and episodes from the Old Testament appear alongside a variety of subjects, including a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian and Drer's coat of arms. …
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- 9780486149622
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- 1 online resource (96 pages)
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A Manual of Historic Ornament
Exceptionally comprehensive, easy-to-use guide surveys the evolution of historic ornament in architecture and the applied arts from primitive ornaments of Oceania, Egypt, and Assyria to a Gothic doorway in Amiens, the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, and a classic early-19th-century sofa by Thomas Hope. Over 700 black-and-white illustrations. 16 plates of photographs.
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- 9780486149363
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Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs
Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers the names of composers of great American musicals are household words. But many of the stars who introduced these songwriters' classic triumphs and whose names were on everybody's lips a few decades ago have been all but forgotten. Now, with this book, you can take a fascinating journey into the days when Lillian Russell and Frank Daniels, or Mar…
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