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850 Calligraphic Ornaments for Designers and Craftsmen
Blending the old and the new . . . the elegance of eighteenth-century pen flourishing, replete with elaborate swirls and curlicues, and the precision of modern graphic design, boasting clean lines free of feathering, blotting, and other irregularities . . . in this spirit, artist Kiyoshi Takahashi offers this collection of 850 original calligraphic ornaments. Created in response to the recurrin…
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- 9780486144122
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Bold Script Alphabets
Here's a book that every graphic artist and studio will want to have on hand. Noted typographer and print historian Dan X. Solo presents 100 complete, high-impact, copyright-free fonts in bold roman, italic, or cursive script. Almost all fonts come with lower- and upper-case alphabets, and almost all include numerals. Many also contain vignettes and/or various punctuation marks. Among thes…
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- 9780486144054
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A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students
Skeletal structure, muscles, heads, special features. Exhaustive text, anatomical figures, undraped photos. Male and female. 337 illustrations.
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- 9780486144023
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Modern Monograms1310 Graphic Designs
Monograms are immensely useful and eye catching visual devices consisting of two or more letters interwoven in artistic harmony. They lend themselves to numerous graphic applications: stationery, fabrics, advertising, book illustration, greeting cards, posters, menus, logos virtually any project requiring symbolic or high-recognition lettering. The present volume offers graphic designers an un…
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- 9780486144030
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Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
The art in medieval cathedrals, in addition to its profound aesthetic appeal, told unlettered churchgoers a series of morality tales. From divine creation to the lives of the saints, the stone sculpture and stained glass windows provided dramatic illustrations of the key elements of Christian doctrine. Unfortunately, the true meaning of these religious artworks was gradually obscured by time. I…
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- 9780486143941
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Drawing Outdoors
Noted artist, author and educator shows how to draw every major outdoor subject land, greenery, skies, building, people, cities, and more in all the major drawing media: pencils, pen and ink, brush and ink, felt pens, charcoal, Rembrandt to Wyeth. Over 100 illustrations.
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- 9780486143989
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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BlakeProphet Against Empire
"An unsurpassed account of the historical background literary, cultural, and intellectual as well as political and socialagainst which Blake worked and to which he responded as engraver, painter, and poet." English Language Notes. For many years, William Blake was seen as a brilliant eccentric on the fringes of English literature and art. In the twentieth century, however, he came to be regar…
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- 9780486143903
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Art and GeometryA Study in Space Intuitions
One of Western civilization's jealously guarded myths is that of Greek cultural supremacy. In this controversial study, William Ivins shows that the limitations of the Greek worldview actually hampered the development of the arts and sciences and gives a stimulating history of the new ideas of the Renaissance, especially in painting and geometry, that freed us from ancient misconceptions. Begin…
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- 9780486143583
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Animal Painting and Anatomy
Drawing is "the very essence of all pictorial art," and this book approaches the challenging art of animal painting from the point of view of accurate representation of animal subjects on canvas. Combining useful information on important anatomical features with direction on how to handle the subjects and how to express their forms and postures, the author has produced a complete, inexpensive, …
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- 9780486142456
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Painting MaterialsA Short Encyclopedia
The combined training and experience of the authors of this classic in the varied activities of painting conservation, cultural research, chemistry, physics, and paint technology ideally suited them to the task they attempted. Their book, written when they were both affiliated with the Department of Conservation at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, is not a handbook of instruction. It is, instead, an …
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- 9780486142425
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