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Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
Written by a famous American painter and teacher, whose landscapes are found in many of the worlds most noted museums, this book is known as one of the art students most helpful guides. It provides a wealth of advice on the choice of subject; it tells what to look for and aim for, and explains the mysteries of color, atmospheric conditions, and other phenomena to be found in nature. Through his…
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Celtic ArtThe Methods of Construction
The construction principles of Celtic art were re-discovered in the middle of the 20th century by George Bain. Until his writing, the intricate knots, interlacings, and spirals used in illuminating The Book of Kells and in decorating craftwork and jewelry seemed almost impossible, "the work of angels." In this pioneering work, George Bain shows how simple principles, no more difficult than thos…
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- 9780486317441
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Engravings by Hogarth
This book contains 101 of Hogarth's finest and most important engravings, including all the major series or "progresses": "The South Sea Scheme," A Harlot's Progress, "A Midnight Modern Conversation," A Rake's Progress, Before and After, Marriage la Mode, Industry and Idleness, "The March to Finchley," The Four Stages of Cruelty, "Time Smoking a Picture," "Tailpiece," and many more, including …
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- 9780486317168
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- 1 online resource (205 pages)
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Perspective Drawing Handbook
This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing. Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustra…
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- 9780486317304
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150 Masterpieces of Drawing
This collection, never before published in the United States, presents art from the early fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. Selected with great care and impeccable taste by a highly respected artist and teacher, these drawings are the finest efforts of great masters of Western art, a rich and glowing collection that will be treasured by every art lover. The artists whose work is…
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- 9780486316925
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An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists
"Highly recommended as one of the very few books on the subject worthy of being used an an authoritative guide." Design "Illustrators, sculptors, and taxidermists who draw or model animals will welcome this new revised edition." Natural History Here are 288 remarkably lifelike drawings of animals, furnishing artists and students with an easy-to-follow method of instruction in the drawing of …
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- 9780486316710
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The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels
The works of Andreas Vesalius (15141564) have long been regarded among the great treasures of the Renaissance. Published as medical books while he was teaching anatomy and dissection at the University of Padua, they include the Tabulae Sex (1538), intended as an aid to students; the magnificently illustrated De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), and the companion volume, the Epitome (1543). Indivi…
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Pen Drawing and Pen DraughtsmenA Classic Survey of the Medium and Its Masters
In this comprehensive study of the art of drawing with a pen, artist and author Joseph Pennell highlights his opinionated "technical suggestions" with more than 400 illustrations by 250 famous artists, including Titian, Drer, Rembrandt, Rodin, Manet, Renoir, Beardsley, Pyle, Hiroshige, van Gogh, Rackham, and other masters from around the globe. Each of the high-quality reproductions is accompan…
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- 9780486316475
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Views of Mt. Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai (17601849) was among the foremost ukiyo-e artists of his generation, and his Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji ranks among the best-known series of Japanese woodblock prints. This edition presents a full-color reprint of Hokusai's enduring masterpiece, plus his black-and-white series, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji. Hokusai created thousands of woodcut prints based on the tradition…
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- 9780486315997
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Fantastic Ornament, Series Two118 Designs and Motifs
Abounding in cherubs, nymphs, soldiers, kings, dragons, and other flamboyant motifs, this compilation of ornamental designs was originally published in Paris during the 1840s. The extravagant images are based on a wide variety of historical examples that date back as far as the 1500s and include imaginative renderings by Watteau and Drer. Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and…
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- 9780486315980
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