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Animals1419 Royalty-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.
Contemporary artists and designers are finding the wood engraving one of the most highly desirable sources of illustration for many design purposes. Simple and bold or capable of the most exquisite effects of tonal gradation, this elegant black-and-white artwork sustains no loss in reproduction and is a perfect complement to typography. 1,419 clear wood engravings present, in natural, lifelike …
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- 9780486318981
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- 1 online resource (284 pages)
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Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures1,087 Renderings from Histori…
Drawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection undoubtedly the largest royalty-free collection of its kind of devils, dragons, mythical creatures, fanciful beasts, animal-gods, totemic figures, and other supernatural beasts from the darker regions of man's imagination. Spanning many cultures and eras, the collection ranges from prehistoric rock paintings to the drawi…
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- 9780486319094
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- 1 online resource (160 pages)
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Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring"
"His pictures, which seemed to me then [aged 13] to be the very music made visible, plunged me a few fathoms deeper into my delight. I have seldom coveted anything as I coveted that book." C.S. Lewis Before portraying Wagner's "Ring," Arthur Rackham (18671939) had become England's leading illustrator through his interpretations of fairy and fantastic books: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rip van Winkle,…
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- 9780486319001
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Albinus on Anatomy
This beautiful, enthralling book represents the rarest of human achievements: a work of great scientific merit that is a magnificent work of art as well. Bernard Siegfried Albinus was the greatest descriptive anatomist of the eighteenth century. Over a period of twenty years, he produced two volumes of drawings, Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body and Tables of the Human Bones,…
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- 9780486318868
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Animal DrawingAnatomy and Action for Artists
This book was written and illustrated by Charles R. Knight (18741953), the acknowledged master of animal drawing and the man who American Biographies agrees "was generally recognized as the most distinguished painter of animal life." Those who have seen his murals, paintings, and bronzes of both prehistoric and modern animals in the New York Museum of Natural History or any one of a dozen other…
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The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Drer's 96 engravings, six etchings, and three dynamic drypoints are counted among his finest and best-known works. By the very nature of the medium, each fine line of an engraving is controlled by the artist and is dependent upon the pressure of the burin in his hand. In the engravings, Drer was therefore able to achieve an unprecedented intricacy of detail, subtlety of line, and three…
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- 9780486318783
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100 Drawings
Gustav Glck, director of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, wrote as early as 1922 of Gustav Klimt (18621918) that his drawings were perhaps his ultimate artistic achievement. This founder of Secessionsstil and leader of the revolt against the Viennese academies was able to achieve greater freedom in his drawings than in his more laboriously executed paintings. While there are only about two hu…
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Hawthorne on Painting
Look around and select a subject that you can see painted. That will paint itself. Do the obvious thing before you do the superhuman thing. It may have been accidental, but you knew enough to let this alone. The good painter is always making use of accidents. Never try to repeat a success. Swing a bigger brush you dont know what fun you are missing. For 31 years, Charles Hawthorne spoke in thi…
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Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color
Along with Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Kay (pronounced "kigh") Nielsen was one of a triumvirate of great artists from the golden age of illustration. Known for his soft yet ornate pastels and a splendid use of various design elements, the Danish-American artist became famous for his memorable illustrations of stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the Nordic …
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- 9780486317861
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Hensche on Painting
An artist for over 70 years and a teacher for more than 60, painter Henry Hensche (190192) employed Monets Impressionist tradition of seeing and painting color under the influence of light, and he taught his students to "see the light, not the object." In this book, his student and biographer John Robichaux examines the artists basic painting philosophy and methodology, as expounded in his famo…
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- 9780486317618
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