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Animal Motifs in Asian ArtAn Illustrated Guide to Their Meanings and Aesthetics
Authoritative reference deals primarily with animal symbolism in Japanese art, with occasional mention of the decorative art of China, India, and Persia. Arranged in the format of a dictionary, the explanatory text is rich with sidelights from literature and legend, while 673 black-and-white illustrations depict dragons, tigers, bats, and other creatures with symbolic significance.
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Beginner's Guide to Perspective
Perspective is one of the most difficult skills to mastereven for seasoned artists. In this book, distinguished artist and art educator Victor Perard shows clearly how the use of such simple techniques as vanishing points and perspective lines can add a dramatic depth and dimension to any drawing. Sixty-two accompanying illustrations have been chosen to demonstrate a variety of problems the art…
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- 9780486147253
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Great Drawings of Nudes45 Works
This volume offers an impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters. From Albrecht Drer's 15th-century brush-and-ink drawing of Female Nude, Seen from the Back and Modigliani's mixed media presentation of Caryatid to splendid drawings by Raphael, Rubens, van Dyck, Hogarth, Constable, Ingres, Gauguin, Matisse, and 35 other outstanding artists, these carefully sel…
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- 9780486147154
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The Chinese on the Art of PaintingTexts by the Painter-Critics, from the Han …
Because so many Chinese artworks have been ravaged by time, the only way to really understand their history and significance is to turn to writings by the painters themselves or by contemporary critics. That is what Osvald Sirn has done in this classic book, with eye-opening results. One of the first Western studies to systematically cover the more than two thousand years of Chinese art, this b…
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Quick Sketching
"Quick sketching" stimulates the artist's ability to rapidly capture a subject's features, expressions, and movements as they are actually happening. A perfect introduction to this invaluable technique, this concise and uniquely organized guide easily helps artists of every capacity explore new ideas and methods for creating powerful, true-to-life works of art. Discover over one hundred masterf…
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Treasury of Medieval Illustrations
A Rich Archive of Medieval Vignettes From Authentic Pages of History In this artful look back at the fascinating facets of medieval society, the realms and reveries of the Middle Ages unfold in more than 750 black-and-white illustrations. Crisp depictions of battling warriors, everyday business and industry, architectural motifs, religious and secular celebrations, calligraphy, beasts of myth a…
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- 9780486146874
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The Energetic Line in Figure Drawing
Well-crafted and class-tested, this guide to figure drawing features a unique teaching method. It focuses on learning to draw complete figures prior to the study of individual components, and it stresses action figures rather than the customary static examples favored by most drawing and anatomy texts. Employing more text than typical art instruction books, it presents thirty figure drawing les…
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Smart surface design for efficient ice protection and control /
"Version: 20250601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The physics of icing / Ilia V Roisman, Mingyue Ding, Andrea Maslov, Luca Stendardo and Ali Raza Shaikh -- 2. Strategies for icephobicity and the role of surface chemistry / Simrandeep Bahal, Miisa Tavaststjerna, Navid Mostofi Sarkari, Anny Catalina Ospina Patino, Gabriel Hernandez Rodriguez, Alexandros A. Atzemoglou, T…
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- 1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).
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Stimuli-responsive polymers :nano-dimension /
"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Stimuli-responsive polymers : introduction -- 2. Stimuli-responsive polymers : synthesis approach -- 2.1. Physical self-assembly of interactive polymers -- 2.2. Polymerization of polymers in a heterogeneous environment3. Stimuli-responsi…
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Blockchain-based peer-to-peer transactions in energy systems /
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to blockchain and smart contracts development -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Blockchain technology -- 1.3. Types of blockchain -- 1.4. Consensus mechanisms -- 1.5. Key characteristics of blockchains -- 1.6. Smart contract development tools -- 1.7. Sample smart contract : ERC-20 token standard -- 1.8. Decentr…
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