Art Books For Drawing
Art Books For Drawing
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 The Natural Way to Draw A Working Plan for Art Study Acceptable Books US $6.85 |
 FIGURE DRAWING FOR ALL ITS WORTH ART BOOK LOOMIS 1945  US $179.99
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 Sport Drawing reference for painting art book US $30.00
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 How To Draw Art For Comic Books Kane Kubert Spiegelman US $4.00
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Batman The Animated Series Art Book Review
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Sakura Manga-Comic Pro sketching & inking set of 6 sketching and inking set $5.99 With the popularity of Manga and Comic drawings, this set is targeted to the high level users who demand only the highest quality in their sketching materials. The set contains the Pigma Micron black pen in a .25mm, .35mm, .50mm and 1.0mm point size. Also included is a Pigma Brush black pen, and a 0.7mm Mechanical Pencil.Pigma pens are chemically stable, waterproof, archival and fade resistant.... |
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CR Gibson Solid Pocket Page Recipe Book, Haute Cuisine Design, 4 x 6-Inch Cards $21.95 Get your recipes organized with this gorgeous pocket page recipe holder from C.R. Gibson. Style is Haute Cuisine, QP12-8952.... |
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Elmo's World - Singing, Drawing & More $5.11 50 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo.... |
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All Killer No Filler $3.99 If you've heard Blink 182, the Offspring, or Green Day, you've heard Sum 41, with or without All Killer No Filler. The Canadian quartet's California punk formula is a well-worn one that seems to be working--all the way from the store to the Warped Tour. Set poppy, three-chord rock to hyperactive speeds, write songs about why you don't give a shit, and play up your juvenile-delinquent side for all ... |
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The Art Of Drowning $8.44 You want music that is loud, fast, and heavy? The Art of Drowning delivers on all three fronts. Songs like "Ever and a Day" and "The Days of the Phoenix" sound like a crunchy, no-nonsense cross between the joyful minimalism of the Vandals and heavier hardcore outfits such as Sick of It All and the Cro-Mags. Davey Havok's vocals are impassioned, focused, and undeniably sincere. Newest members Hunte... |
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; Seven Lessons to Enhance Creativity and Artistic Self-Confidence [VHS] $22.00 ... |
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Behind the Scenes 1: David Hockney [VHS] $14.20 Hosted by famous illusionists Penn and Teller, this segment in a PBS art primer series for children offers insight into "how depth is created on a flat surface." Using multiple animated and live-action examples, Penn and Teller cattily and chattily illustrate principles of perspective, vanishing point, and composition. From his studio, David Hockney makes a somewhat precious appearance throughout ... |
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drawing methods gail price (art is video series) $17.25 ... |
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Arts and Crafts Morris Chair: Downloadable Woodworking Plan $10.95 Believed to have originated with William Morris, father of the English Arts and Crafts movement, the so-called Morris chair combines comfort with simply stated good looks. True to form, our version features loose cushions, curved arms, and an adjustable back. We'll even tell how to make the cushions. Measures 34-1/4" wide, 29-1/2" deep, 42-1/4" tall. About WOOD Magazine downloadable plans For e... |
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!Dibuja Manga! Nivel Basico (Xtreme Art: Draw Manga) $27.34 Geared for the eager young artist ages six to 12, Xtreme Art: Draw Manga! is an easy-to-follow guide to drawing heroes, villains, fairies and monsters manga-style. Part of the Xtreme Art series, it features dozens of instructional illustrations that show kids how to create eye-popping renderings in only four simple steps. Author Christopher Hart packs the page with illustrations and techniques kids can use to start drawing right away. |
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$12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art $26 Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know. |
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$12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art $7.95 Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know. |
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'Hail And Farewell!' ... $21.92 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:n Myself, an elderly man, lying in an arm-chair listening to the fire, is a far better symbol of reverie than the young girl that a painter would place on a stone bench under sunlit trees; myself trying to remember if it were on our way back from Prince's Gardens or a few days afterward that I begged money from my father to buy drawing materials, remembering everything but the dates—that a pencil was never out of my hand, and that as soon as family criticism was exhausted, professional criticism was called in. Jim was invited to dinner. But a bad cold kept me in bed, terrified lest my drawings should be forgotten. As he descended the staircase voices reached me, and when the fro,-uoor closed I listened, expecting somebody to come up to tell me what Jim had said. But nobody came, and when I went shyly to my mother next morning her news was bad; after dinner my sketches had been shown to him, but he did not seem to think much of them, and on my pressing my mother to tell me more I dragged the truth from her that he considered girls riding bicycles showing a great deal of stocking a low form of art. "He only likes Raphael, Michael Angelo, and Rubens," my father said, and he invited me to cometo the National Gallery, and I followed him from masterpiece to masterpiece, humble and contrite, but resolute in my persuasions that he must come with me to Drury Lane and buy some plaster casts. He seemed to look upon the money thus expended as wasted, and when he came to the bedroom that I had converted into a studio he glanced round the walls shocked at my crude attempts to draw the Venus de Milo, the Discobolus, and some busts. The next step in my artistic education was the South Kensington Museum. He sent me to the evening classes, but he sent my brother with me, and this |
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1-2-3 Draw Wild Animals $0.01 Whimsical, appealing drawings spring like magic from the hand of illustrator Freddie Levin, as she shows young artists how to create charming animals from simple shapes, such as eggs, ovals and circles. And each step toward the finished drawing is gradual and fully explained. Kids can choose from a menagerie of favorite subjects, including anteaters, armadillos, bison, deer, elephants, giraffes, hippos, jaguars, kangaroos, koalas, lions, orangutans, pandas, platypuses, polar bears, raccoons and more! Information about each animal helps make the book educational as well as fun. Freddie Levin has been dividing her time between freelance illustration assignments and art instruction since 1968. She is currently at work on a number of projects and also teaches art, with classes ranging from kindergarten through eighth grade, at a Chicago public school. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. * Provides young and beginning artists with practical step-by-step instruction in a warm, friendly voice * Ideal for children ages 6-10 years old |
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100 Artists of the Male Figure: A Contemporary Anthology of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture $50 Images of the classical female figure are more prevalent in the contemporary figurative art world, as the nude male has been shunned as too potent or treated as a sex symbol. This book bravely showcases works by male and female artists from around the world that focus on this classic subject. Painting, drawings, and sculptures display broad and varied styles, including portraiture, studies, Pop Art, abstract, and photorealism. Read each artist's approach to the male figure through candid personal statements. Nearly 400 works capture masculine beauty in many styles. This resource brings balance to the figurative art world and is an ideal reference for artists, curators, dealers, students, and collectors. |
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100 Creative Drawing Ideas $5.08 What art student doesn't groan at the hackneyed problems too often assigned in art classes, such as a still life and chianti bottles, old chairs, and large cloths draped over the whole scene? Here, in the first book ever of its kind, is a collection of interesting and original ideas for drawing projects, contributed by art instructors from all over the United States (and a few from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia) who have invented successful alternatives to humdrum exercises. The accompanying illustrations demonstrate ways in which their students have addressed the assignments and are included to help the reader visualize what might result from the written description. This book will be a welcome resource for art teachers and students in high school, college, graduate programs, and art schools, as well as artists undertaking independent study. Among the 100 drawing ideas are:    •  Drawing with a piece of charcoal held between the toes—to explore how limitations often bring out great creativity.    •  Adopting a mouse's-eye view of a still life—an unusual twist on perspective drawing.    •  Making a self-portrait that does not show the head but tells something significant about the artist through the depiction of other parts of the body—an original way of investigating "Who am I?"    •  Constructing a figure from assembled objects and then drawing it—for those times when a live human model is unavailable.    •  Creating a personal visual representation of the blues musical genre—to discover how one art form engenders another. |
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100 Creative Drawing Ideas $22.95 With 100 creative and inspiring drawing ideas--illustrated with examples--this book is an essential tool kit for art teachers, and a master course for artists and art students. |
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1000 Poses in Fashion $16.25 Ambiguous, sensual, coquette, and suggestive: the one thousand fashion drawing poses in this book are a deep journey into the wealth of possibilities for illustrating male and female bodies, and designers’ capacity to transmit sensations with an ever so slight flick of the wrist. 1,000 Poses in Fashion compiles all the usual fashion poses and illustrated features, represented in full color, supplemented by the many variations of each pose, in black and white. The poses show the effects of the way in which the clothes sit on the models, guiding the reader in aspects such as how to give proportion or volume to a garment. 1,000 Poses in Fashion is an essential reference for photographers, fashion designers, illustrators, models, and art directors who are interested in corporal expression in relation to fashion. Award-winning fashion illustrator and designer Chidy Wayne has created his own niche in the international fashion scene. The education he received from the Instituto Europeo di Design in Barcelona along with hands-on experience as a men’s fashion design assistant at Antoni Miro, and a costume designer for the Festival Grec in 2006, laid a solid foundation for this up-and-coming star. Chidy Wayne is the author of Essential Fashion Illustration: Men. www.chidywayne.com |
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1563 Establishments: National Palace, Clerics Regular Minor, Sodality of Our Lady, Accademia Di Belle Arti Firenze, Gardes Fran aises $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Settlements Established in 1563, States and Territories Established in 1563, United Kingdom Parliamentary Constituencies Established in 1563, Beverley, National Palace, Stockbridge, Tamworth, Durango, Durango, Kingston Upon Hull, Clerics Regular Minor, Minehead, Sodality of Our Lady, Cartago, Costa Rica, Royal Audience of Quito, Accademia Di Belle Arti Firenze, Gardes Françaises, Ica, Alter Südfriedhof, Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Accademia Delle Arti Del Disegno, Sidzina, El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Villa Guadalupe. Excerpt: The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy of the Arts of Drawing") of Florence promotes the safeguard of the works of art in Italy. Founded in 1563, it was the first academy of drawing established in Europe .The headquarters of the academy in the Palazzo dell'Arte dei BeccaiHistory of the Accademia Founded by Cosimo I de' Medici , on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari , it had been initially denominated Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno Academy and Company for the Arts of Drawing as it was divided into two different operative branches.While the Company was a kind of corporation which every working artist in Tuscan should join, the Academy was constituted only by the most eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo s court, and had the task of supervising the whole artistic production of the medicean state.The extraordinary contribution of academics as Michelangelo Buonarroti , Francesco da Sangallo , Agnolo Bronzino , Benvenuto Cellini , Giorgio Vasari , Bartolomeo Ammannati , Giambologna , Tiziano , Tintoretto , Palladio etc. increased the prestige of this institution, certainly not reduced to the politic and economic limits of the medicean principality. The first woman honoured with the |
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1959: The Year Everything Changed $27.95 It was the year of the microchip, the birth-control pill, the space race, and the computer revolution; the rise of Pop art, free jazz, "sick comics," the New Journalism, and indie films; the emergence of Castro, Malcolm X, and personal superpower diplomacy; the beginnings of Motown, Happenings, and the Generation Gap-all bursting against the backdrop of the Cold War, the fallout-shelter craze, and the first American casualties of the war in Vietnam.It was a year when the shockwaves of the new ripped the seams of daily life, when humanity stepped into the cosmos and commandeered the conception of human life, when the world shrank but the knowledge needed to thrive in it expanded exponentially, when outsiders became insiders, when categories were blurred and taboos trampled, when we crossed into a "new frontier" that offered the twin prospects of infinite possibilities and instant annihilation-a frontier that we continue to explore exactly fifty years later, at an eerily similar turning point.In 1959: The Year Everything Changed, acclaimed Slate columnist Fred Kaplan vividly chronicles this vital, overlooked year that set the world as we know it in motion. Drawing on original research, including untapped archives and interviews with major figures of the time, Kaplan pieces together the vast, untold story of a civilization in flux-and paints vivid portraits of the men and women whose creative energies, ideas, and inventions paved the way for the new era. They include:Norman Mailer, musing on the hipster and the H-bomb while fusing journalism and literature in wildly new, influential ways; Lenny Bruce, remaking stand-up comedy by loosening the language and skewering politics and religion; Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman, shattering the structures of jazz; John Cassavetes, making a new kind of movie, with improvised dialogue, shot in the city streets, outside the Hollywood system; Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, insinuating black urban |
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1990s Black Metal Albums $14.14 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 344. Not illustrated. Chapters: Dawn of the Black Hearts, Nightwing, Opus Nocturne, Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered, Dark Endless, Passage, King of the Distant Forest, Those of the Unlight, Imrama, the Secrets of the Black Arts, Wolf's Lair Abyss, Srontgorrth, Inn I Evighetens Mørke, Rebel Extravaganza, Here's No Peace, Dark Funeral, Fuck Me Jesus, Sons of Satan Gather for Attack, Stridsyfirlysing, Ix Equilibrium, the Slaughter of Innocence, as Jerusalem Burns...aĺintisar, Vinterskugge, the Sun of Tiphareth, Nemesis Divina, the Third Storm of Cythraul, Born of the Flickering, the Oath of Black Blood, a Journey's End, Thy Mighty Contract, a Dead Poem, the Fire and the Wind, Min Tid Skal Komme, Tuatha Na Gael, Satanic Art, Upon Promeathean Shores, Out From the Dark, Drawing Down the Moon, Sleep of the Angels, Glorification of the Master of Light, Mocking the Philanthropist, in the Sign of the Ravens, Last-Minute Lies, Non Serviam, the Forest Is My Throne / Yggdrassil, Eternal, Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irreligiöser Darbietung, Devil's Path, Damnation's Prophecy, the Pagan Prosperity, Maior Arcana: the Words That Turn Flesh Into Light, a Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria, Following the Voice of Blood, Passage to Arcturo, Kronet Til Konge, Unearthed, Dark Medieval Times, Blood Ritual, Triarchy of the Lost Lovers, the Siege of Lachish, Høstmørke, the Attraction: Heavens and Earth, Black Shining Leather, Arntor, Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion, Kings of Chaos, Intermezzo Ii, the Merciless, Adimiron Black, Yggdrasill, Worship Him, the Trilogie - Three Journeyes Through the Norwegian Netherworlde, Dark Romanticism, Megiddo, Prepare for War, Hiidentorni, Dictius Te Necare, Sala Molksa, Onwards to the Spectral Defile, Seen Through the Veils of Darkness, in the Shades of Life, a |
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19th Century In Denmark $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: First Schleswig War, Danish Golden Age, Gunboat War. Excerpt: The Danish Golden Age or the Golden Age of Danish Painting are terms commonly used to describe the period of creative production between 1800 and the 1850s. It encompasses the work of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and his students, including among others Wilhelm Bendz , Christen Købke , Martinus Rørbye , Constantin Hansen , and Wilhelm Marstrand as well the sculpture of Bertel Thorvaldsen .Visual art Around the beginning of the 19th century the Golden Age of Danish Painting emerged to form a distinct national style for the first time since the Middle Ages; the period lasted until the middle of the 19th century. It has a style drawing on Dutch Golden Age painting , especially its landscape painting , and depicting northern light that is soft but allows strong contrasts of colour. The treatment of scenes is typically an idealized version of reality, but unpretentiously so, appearing more realist than is actually the case. Interior scenes, often small portrait groups, are also common, with a similar treatment of humble domestic objects and furniture, often of the artist's circle of friends. Little Danish art was seen outside the country (indeed it mostly remains there to this day) and the Danish-trained leader of German Romantic painting Caspar David Friedrich was important in spreading its influence in Germany.A crucial figure was Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg , who had studied in Paris with Jacques-Louis David and was further influenced towards Neo-Classicism by Thorwaldsen. Eckersberg taught at the Academy from 1818 to 1853, becoming Director from 1827-28, and was an important influence on the following generation, in which landscape painting came to the fore. He taught most of the leading |
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19th-Century Painters $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 October 31, 1918) (German pronunciation: , approximately SHEE-leh) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism, although still strongly associated with the art nouveau movement (Jugendstil). The most important collection of Schiele's work is housed in the Leopold Museum, Vienna. Egon Schiele was born in Tulln on the Danube. His father, Adolph Schiele, worked for the Austrian State Railways as a station master; his mother, Marie Soukup(ová), was from Krumau, in Bohemia. As a child, he attended the school run by the Stift Klosterneuburg, where his arts teacher K.L. Strauch recognized and supported Schiele's artistic talent. Egon Schiele, Self-portrait, 1912When Schiele was 15 years old, his father died from syphilis, and he became a ward of his maternal uncle, Leopold Czihaczec, who became distressed by Schiele's lack of interest in academic studies, yet recognized his passion and talent for art. In 1906 Schiele applied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Vienna, where Gustav Klimt had once studied. Within his first year there, Schiele was sent, at the insistence of several faculty members, to the more traditional Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna in 1906. There, he studied painting and drawing, but was frustrated by the schools conservatism. Records show that Adolf Hitler was rejected by the Akademie in 1907; this has led to a misconception that Schiele and Hitler knew each |
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2010 California Biennial Orange County Museum of Art $39.95 Created for the Orange County Museum of Art’s renowned California Biennial, this exhibition catalogue features forty-five contemporary California-based artists and collectives in all their rich diversity. The works shown here represent remarkable developments in contemporary art, including drawing and works on paper, film and video, installation, painting, performance and dance, photography, sculpture, and text-based work. This exhibition and catalogue continue the museum’s four-decade history of identifying new talent on the verge of national and international recognition. “California is an inimitable and variegated environment in which to work as an artist,” states Sarah C. Bancroft, the exhibition’s curator. “The 2010 presentation champions emerging artists, celebrates a selection of more established practitioners, and shares a unique vision of the vibrant practices and the disparate media found in the state today.” This catalogue offers four-page entries for each artist, featuring reproductions of their works, an extensive interview, and biographical material. |
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40-Day Journey with Madeleine L'Engle $13.71 This volume invites readers to take a spiritual journey with Madeleine LEngle, Newbury Award-winning author who wrote dozens of books for children and adults. In addition to novels and poetry, LEngle wrote many non-fiction works, including the autobiographical Crosswicks Journals and other explorations of the subjects of faith and art. Drawing from his published works, series editor Henry French here selects 40 inspiring passages from LEngles writings that reflect her spiritual journey and invites readers to explore their own spirituality under the guidance of this noted author, educator, and activist. |
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50 Fantasy Vehicles to Draw & Paint: Create Awe-Inspiring Crafts for Comics, Computer Games, and Graphic Novels $21.99 Artist and designer Keith Thompson presents a practical course for art students interested in drawing fantasy vehicles. Clear instruction is supplemented with more than 400 vivid, step-by-step color illustrations of sample projects. Barrons Educational Series |
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A Bibliography Of Dancing $50 Paul Magriel's 'A Bibliography of Dancing', first published in 1936, was the twentieth-century's first major bibliography of printed dance books. Drawing on material in the collections of the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Boston Public Library, Harvard College Library and from the catalogues of major European libraries, Magriel produced a bibliography listing nearly five thousand books and articles.The bibliography is divided into eight sections: I. General works; II. History and Criticism of the Dance; III. Folk, National, Regional and Ethnological Dances; IV. Art of Dancing; V. Ballet; VI. Mime and Pantomime; VII. Masques; VIII. Accessories. Each part is subdivided as necessary for clarity, and there is an index of author, subject, and analytical. |
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A Blue Dog Christmas $14.95 For the Blue Dog Man, Christmas is a holiday steeped in sentiment, a season that evokes the artist's earliest recollections of drawing, painting -- and forming the first tentative thoughts about the canine who, decades later, would become his signature creation. In A Blue Dog Christmas, the painter takes readers back in time, to New Iberia, Louisiana, in the 1950s. On a quiet street in this sleepy bayou town, the twelve-year-old George Rodrigue found his calling, and discovered that the true meaning of Christmas is not to give, but to create.With original holiday-themed prints, George Rodrigue adds a new dimension to the now-legendary Blue Dog tale. Through his art, he illustrates how his childhood pets, Lady and Trixie (both terrier/spaniels like Tiffany, the inspiration for Blue Dog), played a central role in the family's Christmas festivities. The joyous images in this volume are based on his heart-warming memories of the dogs' holiday antics.This enlightening Christmas tale combines the appeal of almost twenty new Blue Dog images with an invigorating design that even includes an irresistible Blue Dog tree ornament. This year's indisputable stocking stuffer, A Blue Dog Christmas will charm new readers and be cherished by longtime fans for many yuletides to come. |
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A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of Th Archie Bray Influence $301.58 For the fifty years of its existence, the Archie Bray Foundation has been a continuous, unique, and important center for the arts. Archie Bray envisioned his pottery as a place where young artists could use the brickyard's clays and kilns, hone their skills, learn from each other, and develop a sensibility about the Foundation's signature production ware. In 1951, Peter Voulkos and Rudy Autio became the Bray's first two resident artists. By the start of the 1960s, they had accomplished a revolution in the concept of ceramic art.A series of resident directors, themselves artists, have overseen the development and expansion of the Bray Foundation's programs and workshops. An ever-increasing number of young artists continue to find support and inspiration there, largely because of the three rugged individualists who gave it life and impetus. It is a place , writes curator Peter Held, where people come of age, finding a niche in the centuries-old continuum of the ceramic arts . You get notorious when you start a pottery in the middle of the wilderness , Peter Meloy reflected, looking back on his own backyard pottery beginnings in Helena, Montana, in the late 1940s. Meloy went on to a career in law but remained actively connected with the arts, as did Branson Stevenson of Great Falls, a versatile artist and businessman. They became two of the three original board members of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. The other member and founder, Archie Bray, owned a brickyard that, even if at first notorious in its western isolation, became the nexus of contemporary ceramics in America.This fiftieth anniversary publication offers a history of the Archie Bray Foundation, anevaluation of its accomplishments, and a discussion of 85 works selected from more than 800 in the Bray collection. Through interviews with artists, resident directors, workshop presenters, and the late Peter Meloy, and drawing on the resources of the Foundations archives, Rick Newby an |
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A Childs Garden of Verses $7.99 The enduring popularity of Robert Louis Stevensons A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) is testament to the poet's uncanny ability to evoke the child's viewpoint so truly that it has flourished for more than a century. We have paired the poems with Charles Robinson's 1896 illustrations, which reflect not only the Art Nouveau aesthetic of that time, but also Robinson's masterful draftsmanship.Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), in addition to giving us the beloved  A Child's Garden of Verses, is also the author of such timeless works as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Charles Robinson (1870-1937) was born into a family of artists, and he and his brothers T. Heath and W. Heath carried on this fine tradition.  During his long and distinguished career Charles Robinson illustrated over 100 books, mostly for children, and was equally adept at line drawing and watercolors.  His black and white illustrations are no less exciting or vibrant than their color counterparts - such is Robinson's genius.  He was among the first to recognize the importance of book design and champion the book as a work of art in and of itself.    Though clearly influenced by the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements of his day, Charles Robinson was a true original and titan of children's illustration.  |
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A Collector's Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt $7.5 Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) made his money as a railroad-car manufacturer. A discerning collector, he assembled one of the finest collections of Asian Art at the turn of the nineteenth century and during three trips to Egypt, between 1906 and 1909, he developed a passion for Egyptian art. He gave his collections to the United States, plus funds for a building to house them and in 1923, the Freer Gallery of Art was opened as the first Smithsonian Museum for Fine Art.Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, diaries and other sources, A Collector's Journey documents Freer's experience in Egypt and discusses the place Egyptian art occupied in his collection's aims. From jewel-like ancient glass vessels to sacred amulets with supposed magical properties to impressive stone guardian falcons and more, the Freer Egyptian collection is diverse, beautiful and important. |
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A Course of Lectures on Drawing, Painting, and Engraving, Considered as Branches of Elegant Education. Delivered in the Saloon of the Royal $21.51 Title: A Course of Lectures on Drawing, Painting, and Engraving, Considered as Branches of Elegant Education. Delivered in the Saloon of the Royal Institution, in Successive Seasons, and Read Subsequently at the Russell Institution Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Publication date: 1821 Subjects: Art Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Critical Account of the Drawings by Michel Angelo and Raffaello in the University Galleries, Oxford $37.9 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Drawing, Italian Drawing, Renaissance Art / General Art / Criticism Art / Techniques / Drawing Art / History / General Art / European Art / History / Renaissance Art / Individual Artist Juvenile Nonfiction / Art / Drawing Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Dear Little Girl At School $13.99 Amy Ella Blanchard (1856-1926) was a writer of children's literature. She was born in Baltimore, studied art in New York and Philadelphia, and for two years taught drawing and painting in Plainfield, N.J.. She wrote the "Corner" and "Little Maid" series. Her works include: Holly Berries (with Ida Waugh, 1881), Wee Babies (1882), Daisies and Raindrops (1882), Bonny Bairns (c1888), Twenty Little Maidens (1894), Two Girls (1894), Girls Together (1896), Taking a Stand (1896), A Girl of '76 (1898), A Sweet Little Maid (1899), A Heroine of 1812 (1901), A Frontier Knight (1905), The Four Corners (1906), Three Little Cousins (1907), The Four Corners in California (1907), The Four Corners at School (1908), Little Maid Marian (1908), The Four Corners Abroad (1909), When Mother Was a Little Girl (1909), The Four Corners in Camp (1910), The Four Corners in Japan (1912), The Four Corners in Egypt (1913), The Camp Fire Girls of Brightwood (1915), In Camp with the Muskoday Camp Fire Girls (1917) and others. |
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A Drunkard's Path (Someday Quilts Series #2) $0.25 By the author of The Lover's Knot, a brand-new quilting mystery in the tradition of Jennifer Chiaverini and Emilie Richards. In the sleepy town of Archers Rest, Nell Fitzgerald is finishing her first quilt and preparing for her first date- with Police Chief Jesse Dewalt. When Jesse stands her up, it turns out he has a good reason-the body of a murdered young woman has been discovered near the Hudson River. Meanwhile the members of Nell's quilting circle encourage her to take drawing classes with the famous artist Oliver White. When Nell's professor meets her grandmother Eleanor, owner of the Someday Quilts shop, he seems instantly smitten. But once another woman's body is found outside her grandmother's home under a blanket of snow, Nell begins to patch together clues and follow a path of evidence that suggests her professor may also have a degree in the art of murder. |
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A Familiar Introduction To The Theory And Practice Of Perspective $14.14 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Payne; Publication date: 1770; Subjects: Perspective; Optics; Art / Techniques / Drawing; Art / Techniques / Painting; Art / Techniques / General; Science / Optics; |
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A Familiar Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Perspective $18.77 Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Payne Publication date: 1770 Subjects: Perspective Optics Art / Techniques / Drawing Art / Techniques / Painting Art / Techniques / General Science / Optics Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Giant Claw $8.12 Art. Latino/Latina Studies. The B-movie THE GIANT CLAW is Gronk's Citizen Kane in this reprise of Mitch MacFee's and Mlle Mathematician's meeting with, what else, a giant claw. Drawing for Gronk is writing, or perhaps writing is drawing, possibly a book of poetry, since its language is images, each page organized with the fragility of poems, laced with elegant verbal and visual puns. 100 illustrations. Foreword by Gail Wronsky translated into Spanish by Alicia Partnoy. |
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A Giant Claw $14 Art. Latino/Latina Studies. The B-movie THE GIANT CLAW is Gronk''s Citizen Kane in this reprise of Mitch MacFee''s and Mlle Mathematician''s meeting with, what else, a giant claw. Drawing for Gronk is writing, or perhaps writing is drawing, possibly a book of poetry, since its language is images, each page organized with the fragility of poems, laced with elegant verbal and visual puns. 100 illustrations. Foreword by Gail Wronsky translated into Spanish by Alicia Partnoy. |
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A Guide to Postmodern Architecture in London $56.25 Mimicking an architectural almanac of the nineteenth century, artist Pablo Bronstein presents the Postmodern architecture of London. Each building is described by a drawing and text by the artist. The book is based on the guided bus tours Bronstein conducted as an official project for the visitors of the 2006 Frieze Art Fair. |
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A Handbook Of Ornament $39.99 From simple patterns to the most intricate ornamentation, hand-drawn decoration was a vital part of 19th-century design. Originally published in 1888, this beautiful and highly detailed volume collects over 3000 examples of contemporary decorative figures, including designs inspired by oriental tiling, heraldic pomp and the sinuous curves of Art Nouveau. Covering the full range from basic geometric patterns and borders to complex, lifelike renderings of natural forms, Franz Sales Meyer's clear line drawings provide both guidance for the drawing student and a fascinating treasury of period decoration. |
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A History of American Literary Journalism $67.47 During the 1960s, such works as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem were cited as examples of the new journalism . True stories that read like novels, they combined the journalist's task of factual reporting with the art of fictional narration.Yet as John C. Hartsock shows in this revealing study, the roots of this distinctive form of writing -- whether called new journalism, literary journalism, or creative nonfiction -- can be traced at least as far back as the late nineteenth century. In the decades following the American Civil War, Stephen Crane, Lafcadio Hearn, and other journalists challenged the notion, then just emerging, that the reporter's job was to offer a concise statement of the objective truth . Drawing on the techniques of the realistic novel, these writers developed a new narrative style of reporting aimed at lessening the distance between observer and observed, subject and object.By the 1890s, Hartsock argues, literary journalism had achieved critical recognition as a new form of writing, different not only from objective reporting but also from the sensationalistic yellow press and at times the socially engaged muckrakers . In the twentieth century, the form has continued to evolve and maintain its vitality, despite being marginalized by the academic establishment.A former journalist who covered Capitol Hill for UPI and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union for the San Francisco Examiner, Hartsock brings a fresh and informed perspective to the issues he examines. The result is a concise introduction to the genesis and development of a significant literary genre. |
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A History of Dogs in the Early Americas $26.39 Drawing on chronicles, ethnographies, archaeological reports, myths, biology, and a rich array of visual materials, Marion Schwartz investigates views about dogs in a wide range of native societies in North and South America. She discusses the early domestication of the dog and looks at how hunting and gathering peoples relied on dogs to help with the hunt and to transport food and goods. She provides details about the eating of dogs for ritual purposes or as a dietary staple. She describes how dogs were associated with the afterlife, where they functioned as guides or guards, and how dogs were buried in tombs or were sacrificed to the gods in many cultures. She examines pre-Columbian art to see how the dog was portrayed and the various meanings attributed to it. The book concludes with a description of the fierce war dogs brought by the Spanish to wreak havoc among the Indians - dogs unlike any the New World had ever seen - and how traditional societies reinvetented their relationship with dogs after the arrival of the Europeans. |
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A June Romance $13.25 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:had practice. Which is capital. Tea. No Miss Ellaby. Dinner. No Miss Ellaby. This begins to be a little disappointing. Or frank or shy. With long and lovely hair ? Blue of the sky To light a face that's fair ? A country rose with scent perchance To wake in me my first romance. Untravelled love To bosom never lent, May Fortune prove Thy waiting is all spent, Rumour within my heart is sweet, And Hope comes near on swifter feet. June the Third. Finished the farm-yard with Charlie for guide before breakfast. My views on pigs by no means changed. The falsetto squeaks of the piglets when Charlie's testing stick prodded them were amusing. I was introduced to half the hinds about the place. The district would seem to produce a yokel a moment, unless theMajor selects carefully. Among other things Charlie inducted me into the mysteries of milking, but I fumbled the teats to little purpose, while he, arrayed in a mighty apron, compelled the snowy stream. A sculptor might make a fine group, shaping it into marble, of a scene like this. Title, Patience. The cow deeply contemplative. The milker assiduous, pushing his head into her mottled side, drawing down into the pail the fruit of the grass in the meadow, an aid to life. How easily she gives it! And at night again she gives, just as if she were only a machine for supplying milk. I shall have more lessons in this frothy art, for it must be most pleasant to hear the warm liquid tinkle on the floor of metal ; to feel your head pushed outward and again drawnin by the big breathing of the animal; to watch the dancing multitude of creamy beads rise nearer and nearer to the top of your pail. A Graduate so lately from Oxford milking a cow! What would Clifford of Brasenose say ? My name would be no mor... |
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A Life Drawing $36.95 Lavishly illustrated throughout with sketches from Shirley Hughes' sketchbooks, doodles from boring meetings, roughs from what would later become classic picture books, and perfectly executed paintings done just for the fun of it, this book will be a treasured gift for those who love art and those who have grown up with the enduring characters from Shirley's books. A personal text in the form of a story details her remarkable life as an illustrator. |
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A List of Books and Pamphlets in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum, on Drawing, Geometry, and Perspective $14.44 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode Subjects: Drawing Perspective Geometry Art / Techniques / Drawing Art / Techniques / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Art / Drawing Mathematics / Geometry / General Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or an index. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Manual Of Ethics $19.99 The ethos of a people... we may say, constitutes the atmosphere in which the best members of a race habitually live...-from "The Virtues"Offered as a textbook for university students and drawing from both classical and modern schools of philosophical thought-from Aristotle and the Bible to Mill, Hume, and Kant-this comprehensive 1901 overview of the universe of ethical thought is still a valuable resource today. The fascinating discussions within explore:.the nature of ethics.the art of conduct.ethics and the physical sciences.ethics and economics.psychological hedonism.the true sense of freedom.the origin of conscience.the moral connoisseur.the general problem of authority.the social universe.theories of punishment.morality and religion.and more.A book to dip into at random or to read in-depth, this is as fresh and original today as it was a century ago.British philosopher JOHN STUART MACKENZIE (1860-1935) was professor of logic and philosophy at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. |
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A Map of the Known World $1.3 Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever since her reckless older brother, Nate, died in a car crash, Cora has felt suffocated by her small town and high school. She seeks solace in drawing beautiful maps, envisioning herself in exotic locales. When Cora begins to fall for Damian, the handsome, brooding boy who was in the car with Nate the night he died, she uncovers her brother's secret artistic life and realizes she had more in common with him than she ever imagined. With stunning lyricism, Sandell weaves a tale of one girl's journey through the redemptive powers of art, friendship, and love. They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something. -- From A MAP OF THE KNOWN WORLD. |
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A Map of the Known World $0.99 Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever since her reckless older brother, Nate, died in a car crash, Cora has felt suffocated by her small town and high school. She seeks solace in drawing beautiful maps, envisioning herself in exotic locales. When Cora begins to fall for Damian, the handsome, brooding boy who was in the car with Nate the night he died, she uncovers her brother's secret artistic life and realizes she had more in common with him than she ever imagined. With stunning lyricism, Sandell weaves a tale of one girl's journey through the redemptive powers of art, friendship, and love.They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something. -- From A MAP OF THE KNOWN WORLD. |
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A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging $18 A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery.Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond.The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history - the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities.In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art. |
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A New Perspective Universal Edition $29.95 A New Understanding of Perspective for All Visual Art Forms Including: Drawing, Painting, Photography, Motion Picture and Video Game Design www.perspective-book.com The most complete perspective book written, included are topics not typically covered; like motion, color, thinking in three dimensions, setting up shots, audio, portraying people, lenses & perspective and distortion. This book also corrects dozens of misconceptions perpetuated for centuries. And until now, few materials were available to professionals in: [ photography [ motion picture (directing, camerawork, visual effects, set design and animation) [ video game design [ computer graphics (website design, software design and graphic design) Two editions are available: [ UNIVERSAL EDITION [ PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING EDITION |
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A Saloonkeeper's Daughter $16.95 An authentic story of life in Minneapolis in the late nineteenth century. That ring of authenticity comes clearly from the mind and craft of an artist at work. For the contemporary reader, the novel provides a glimpse of an immigrant society, a culture in exile, and the immigrants' responses to the social scene... Drawing on the realistic and naturalistic trends in Europe and in America, Janson has written an American novel that anticipates the works of such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, and Sarah Orne Jewett. -- from the Preface by Gerald ThorsonFirst published in Norwegian by a Minneapolis firm in 1887, Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter has been sadly neglected in the history of American literature, despite its unusually forward-looking portrayal of a self-reliant, career-minded woman and its importance within America's regional and urban literary traditions. Janson's lyrical coming-of-age novel tells the story of the pensive, beautiful Astrid Holm, forced by her family's bankruptcy to abandon a comfortable, middle-class life in Norway for a harsh, new existence in Minneapolis living in an apartment above her father's saloon. She attempts to escape this hardship through art (as an actress) and love (entering into an unhappy relationship with a brutish lawyer) until she finds her true calling as a Unitarian minister and fulfills her longing for meaningful companionship with Helene Nielsen, a selfless doctor to poor immigrants. With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English. |
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A Summer of Birds $26.95 As the summer of 1821 began, John James Audubon's ambition to create a comprehensive pictorial record of American birds was still largely a dream when, out of economic necessity, he came to Oakley Plantation, a sprawling estate in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. Teeming with what Audubon described as an almost supernatural abundance of birds, the woods of Oakley galvanized his sense of possibility for one of the most audacious undertakings in the annals of art. In A SUMMER OF BIRDS, journalist and essayist Danny Heitman sorts through the facts and romance of Audubon's summer at Oakley, drawing upon a rich variety of Audubon's extensive journals, recent Audubon scholarship, and Robert Penn Warren's poetry to create a stimulating excursion across time, linking the historical Audubon to the present-day civic and cultural icon. Includes 46 color illustrations plus 18 halftones and 1 map. |
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A Sweet Little Maid (Dodo Press) $9.98 Amy Ella Blanchard (1856-1926) was a writer of children's literature. She was born in Baltimore, studied art in New York and Philadelphia, and for two years taught drawing and painting in Plainfield, N.J.. She wrote the "Corner" and "Little Maid" series. Her works include: Holly Berries (with Ida Waugh, 1881), Wee Babies (1882), Daisies and Raindrops (1882), Bonny Bairns (c1888), Twenty Little Maidens (1894), Two Girls (1894), Girls Together (1896), Taking a Stand (1896), A Girl of '76 (1898), A Sweet Little Maid (1899), A Heroine of 1812 (1901), A Frontier Knight (1905), The Four Corners (1906), Three Little Cousins (1907), The Four Corners in California (1907), The Four Corners at School (1908), Little Maid Marian (1908), The Four Corners Abroad (1909), When Mother was a Little Girl (1909), The Four Corners in Camp (1910), The Four Corners in Japan (1912), The Four Corners in Egypt (1913), The Camp Fire Girls of Brightwood (1915), In Camp with the Muskoday Camp Fire Girls (1917) and others. |
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A Text-Book On Roofs And Bridges (Volume 2); Graphic Statics. 2d Ed., 1894 $20 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Art. 17. Stresses Due To Dead And Snow Loads. The wooden truss shown in Fig. 25 has a span of 42 feet, rise at peak 14 feet, rise at hip 10 feet 3 inches, horizontal distance from hip to peak 12 feet 6 inches, and a distance between trusses of 8 feet. The lengths of the members BG and EL are each 8.5' -f- 10.25' = 13.32 feet, and of Cffand DK ' 2. -j- 3.75 = 13.05 feet. The weight of the truss is found to be 874 pounds by the formula in Art. 16. The roof covering on BG weighs 13.32 X 8 X 12 = i 279 pounds, and on CH is 13.05 X 8 X 12 = i 253 pounds. The snow load on BG is 8.5 X 8 X 15 = i 020 pounds, and on CH is 12.5 X 8 X 15 = i 500 pounds. The apex loads, expressed in pounds, are then as follows: AB = EF BC=DE CD Total Truss, .... 109 218 218 872 Roof covering, . . 640 1266 1253 5065 Dead 749 1484 i 471 5937 Snow, 510 1260 1500 5040 Each dead load reaction is therefore 2 969 pounds, and each snow load reaction 2 520 pounds. The truss diagram, Fig. 25, composed of the center lines of the truss members, is carefully drawn to as large a scale as convenient, each joint being marked by a fine needle point and surrounded by a small circle to limit the lines drawn toward the point. In the actual construction the diagram was drawn to a scale of 3 feet to an inch, but the above figure is reduced to nearly one-seventh of the original size. The external forces acting upon the truss are in equilibrium, and hence form a closed force polygon (Art. 2). These forces being parallel the resulting polygon becomes a straight line, which is called the ' load line.' Taking first only the dead load and using a suitable scale (i ooo pounds to an inch was used on the original drawing), the apex loads taken in regular order from left to right are laid off in succession o... |
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A Text-Book On Roofs And Bridges ... $28.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Art. 17. Stresses Due To Dead And Snow Loads. The wooden truss shown in Fig. 25 has a span of 42 feet, rise at peak 14 feet, rise at hip 10 feet 3 inches, horizontal distance from hip to peak 12 feet 6 inches, and a distance between trusses of 8 feet. The lengths of the members BG and EL are each 8.5' -f- 10.25' = 13.32 feet, and of Cffand DK ' 2. -j- 3.75 = 13.05 feet. The weight of the truss is found to be 874 pounds by the formula in Art. 16. The roof covering on BG weighs 13.32 X 8 X 12 = i 279 pounds, and on CH is 13.05 X 8 X 12 = i 253 pounds. The snow load on BG is 8.5 X 8 X 15 = i 020 pounds, and on CH is 12.5 X 8 X 15 = i 500 pounds. The apex loads, expressed in pounds, are then as follows: AB = EF BC=DE CD Total Truss, .... 109 218 218 872 Roof covering, . . 640 1266 1253 5065 Dead 749 1484 i 471 5937 Snow, 510 1260 1500 5040 Each dead load reaction is therefore 2 969 pounds, and each snow load reaction 2 520 pounds. The truss diagram, Fig. 25, composed of the center lines of the truss members, is carefully drawn to as large a scale as convenient, each joint being marked by a fine needle point and surrounded by a small circle to limit the lines drawn toward the point. In the actual construction the diagram was drawn to a scale of 3 feet to an inch, but the above figure is reduced to nearly one-seventh of the original size. The external forces acting upon the truss are in equilibrium, and hence form a closed force polygon (Art. 2). These forces being parallel the resulting polygon becomes a straight line, which is called the ' load line.' Taking first only the dead load and using a suitable scale (i ooo pounds to an inch was used on the original drawing), the apex loads taken in regular order from left to right are laid off in succession o... |
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A Text-Book on Shades and Shadows, and Perspective; Prepared for the Use of Students in Technical Schools $20.43 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Wiley Subjects: Shades and shadows Perspective Shades and Shadows Shadows Art / Techniques / Drawing Art / Techniques / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Science |
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A Treatise On Painting By Leonardo Da Vinci $30.95 1897. With a life of Leonardo and an account of his works by John William Brown. Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist and one of the great masters of the High Renaissance. His most famous work is the Mona Lisa. He was also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies- particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science. Evidence indicates that Leonardo had apprentices and pupils in Milan, for whom he probably wrote the various texts that are compiled into Treatise on Painting. Contents: The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci; Drawing-Proportion; Invention or Composition; Light and Shadow; Colors and Coloring; and Miscellaneous Observations. |
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A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci $47.12 1897. With a life of Leonardo and an account of his works by John William Brown. Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist and one of the great masters of the High Renaissance. His most famous work is the Mona Lisa. He was also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies- particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science. Evidence indicates that Leonardo had apprentices and pupils in Milan, for whom he probably wrote the various texts that are compiled into Treatise on Painting. Contents: The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci; Drawing-Proportion; Invention or Composition; Light and Shadow; Colors and Coloring; and Miscellaneous Observations. |
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A Treatise on Shades and Shadows and Linear Perspective $18.77 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: A. S. Barnes Subjects: Shades and shadows Perspective Geometry, Descriptive Art / Techniques / Drawing Art / Techniques / General Mathematics / Calculus Mathematics / Mathematical Analysis Mathematics / Functional Analysis Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or an index. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory for Drawing and Painting Students $22.5 A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory is great for both traditional and non-traditional media. Each page, theory and diagram represents a different tool for the artist to use. Through their use, the artist will find an infinite number of solutions. Artists also may use the book to create a trompe-loeil effect in graffiti art or the illusion of volume and depth on the computer. A Visual Guide to Art Theory is presented in a unique, non-verbal format that clearly illustrates the effect of perspective on color, light and shade. |
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A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century $7.84 A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century—an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers, and official records, from doctors as well as ordinary soldiers. It reaches back to the moment when the technologies of modern warfare and the disciplines of psychological medicine first confronted each other on the Western Front, and traces their uneasy relationship through the eras of shell-shock, combat fatigue, and post-traumatic stress disorder. At once absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, A War of Nerves weaves together the literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War. In so doing, he answers recurring questions about the effects of war. Why do some men crack and others not? Are the limits of resistance determined by character, heredity, upbringing, ideology, or simple biochemistry?Military psychiatry has long been shrouded in misconception, and haunted by the competing demands of battle and of recovery. Now, for the first time, we have a definitive history of this vital art and science, which illuminates the bumpy efforts to understand the ravages of war on the human mind, and points towards the true lessons to be learned from treating the aftermath of war. |
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A Year in Art: The Activity Book $24.95 This unique book allows kids to interactively explore the world's great masterpieces every day of the year through games, puzzles, coloring and other activities. What better way to learn about art than to create your own masterpiece alongside another, find hidden details that add to an understanding of the artwork, read fascinating stories about how the piece came to be created, or take an entertaining quiz that leads to a deeper appreciation of the technique and theme. Modeled after Prestel's successful A Year in Art series, this beautifully produced activity book introduces children to many of the world's greatest artworks— ranging from African masks to European paintings and modern art. Hands-on projects are sure to spark children's imaginations while imparting important knowledge that will serve them well as they grow older. The book is perfect for all kinds of drawing and the exquisite reproductions will impress kids of all ages. Whether used at home or in a classroom, this engaging and enriching book will delight children, their parents, and teachers with its endless opportunities to create and learn about art. |
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ABC's of Architectural and Interior Design Drafting with an Introduction to AutoCAD 2000 $120.51 The ABCs of Architectural and Interior Design Drafting with an Introduction to AutoCAD(R) 2000presents an introduction to the art and science of drafting, and provides the user with a solid working knowledge of both manual and computer-aided drafting. It includes information for and examples from a variety of fields, including interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, and construction. The last section of the text focuses on the use of AutoCAD(R) 2000 for architectural and interior design drafting.Some of the features of this text include: Step-by-step instructions for drafting and AutoCAD(R) commandsNumerous illustrations of materials, projects, and examplesChapter-ending review questions and exercisesDetailed drawing assignmentsTips, reminders, and examples |
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ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career $8.58 Find Out What They Didn't Teach You in Art School The most comprehensive guide of its kind, Art/Work gives artists of every level the tools they need to make it in an art world so competitive one dealer likens it to "The Sopranos, except nobody gets killed." Whether you're an art school grad looking for a gallery, a mid-career artist managing a busy studio, or someone just thinking about becoming a professional artist, this indispensable resource will help you build your career and protect yourself along the way. Unlike other creative professionals, visual artists don't have agents or managers. You have to do it all yourself, at least until you find gallery representation — and even then, there are important business and legal issues you need to understand to stay in control of your career and ensure you're being treated fairly. Heather Darcy Bhandari, a gallery director, and Jonathan Melber, an arts lawyer, walk you through these issues so that you can essentially act as your own manager and agent. They show you, for example, how to tackle business basics such as tracking inventory and preparing invoices; how to take legal precautions like registering a copyright and drafting consignment forms; how to use promotional tools like websites and business cards; and how to approach career decisions such as choosing the right venue to show your work. In addition to drawing on their own experiences, Bhandari and Melber interviewed nearly one hundred curators, dealers, and other arts professionals, in cities across the country, about what they expect from and look for in artists. The authors also talked to a host of artists about their careers and the lessons they've learned navigating the art world. The book is full of their entertaining anecdotes and candid advice. No matter what kind of artist you are — or want to be — this book will help you. Art/Work covers everything you need to know to succeed, saving you |
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Act Like a Sales Pro: How to Command the Business Stage and Dramatically Increase Your Sales with Proven Acting Techniques $16.99 Act Like a Sales Pro was a finalist for TOP SALES AND MARKETING BOOK OF 2011 and featured on the cover of Ken Blanchard's Sales and Service Excellence Magazine and her articles have appeared across the globe."Julie Hansen knows how to cut to the chase. In her book, she engages readers in conversation, drawing them in like the best salespeople and improv actors, making the connection that builds relationships and drives business."--Mike Cote, editor, ColoradoBiz"Julie brings a whole new approach to sales training by incorporating the latest in acting techniques into the 'art' of the sale."--Jackie Purmort, director of corporate support, Colorado Public Radio"Unleash your inner performer! Act Like a Sales Pro shows how acting and improv skills can help sellers fearlessly deliver a more compelling and authentic performance. Julie Hansen has written an insightful, creative, and powerful guide to achieving greater sales success with confidence."--Diane Conway, author of What Would You Do if You Had No Fear?"Act Like a Sales Pro brilliantly blends acting and improv skills with sales tactics for a winning combination. Julie's ideas are great fun, effective, and easy to apply--even for non-actors like me! Follow the sales advice and exercises in this book and you¹ll soon be outperforming and outselling your competition."--Dessie Fafoutis, senior marketing manager, CaridianBCT"There is an overwhelming volume of sales advice available today, however there are very few authors who approach the topic of sales in a unique and fresh way, which is why we are fans of Julie's work."--Nicole Lombard, production director, Entrepreneur and ThinkSales magazines, South Africa"This book should be on every real estate agent's desk. Hansen shows agents how to enhance their authentic selves for both client and agent successes!"--Laura Dirks, author of Marketing Without Mystery, and real estate broker, Coldwell Banker |
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Active Knowledge Modeling of Enterprises $89.95 Enterprise Modeling has been defined as the art of externalizing enterprise knowledge, i.e., representing the core knowledge of the enterprise. Although useful in product design and systems development, for modeling and model-based approaches to have a more profound effect, a shift in modeling approaches and methodologies is necessary. Modeling should become as natural as drawing, sketching and scribbling, and should provide powerful services for capturing work-centric, work-supporting and generative knowledge, for preserving context and ensuring reuse. A solution is the application of Active Knowledge Modeling (AKM).The AKM technology is about discovering, externalizing, expressing, representing, sharing, exploring, configuring, activating, growing and managing enterprise knowledge. An AKM solution is about exploiting the Web as a knowledge engineering medium, and developing knowledge-model-based families of platforms, model-configured workplaces and services.This book was written by the inventors of AKM arising out of their cooperation with both scientists and industrial practitioners over a long period of time, and the authors give examples, directions, methods and services to enable new ways of working, exploiting the AKM approach to enable effective c-business, enterprise design and development, and lifecycle management. Industry managers and design engineers will become aware of the manifold possibilities of, and added values in, IT-supported distributed design processes, and researchers for collaborative design environments will find lots of stimulation and many examples for future developments. |
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Adirondack Camps $49.95 A comprehensive social and architectural history of camps in the Adirondacks, from primitive bark shanties and cabins of trappers, loggers, and guides to the great camps where the rich played at roughing it in the company of servants and personal guides.Enhanced by more than three hundred illustrations, this book provides the most extensive history of both the celebrated great camps and the lesser-known but more popular hideaways of the North Country. Craig Gilborn, author of the award-winning Adirondack Furniture and the Rustic Tradition, presents new information about these idyllic sanctuaries and the social life, rituals, and traditions associated with them.Adirondack Camps opens with a survey of log and bark structures that were shelters for trappers, guides, and sporting parties -- the forerunners to the architect-designed camps of the 1890s. As the rails brought increasing numbers of middle-class tourists to the Adirondacks, the wealthy created their own personal wilderness playgrounds by building exclusive clubs. Gilborn uses the term, Great Camp -- but critically -- offering a broader framework to include all of the woodland retreats that he has visited over the last twenty-five years. He explores cabins as both social and artistic expression. For its mixture of vernacular and formal architecture, for instance, he examines the significance of the authentic rustic art of Kill Kare. He covers new territory, such as Brandreth Park, and examines the work of Robert Robertson, William West Durant, and William Coulter, to name a few architects.Drawing on archival material, period literature, and privately published histories, Gilborn gives the book a breadth and authoritythat will be difficult to match. |
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Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques $19.99 Illustrator CS2 How-Tos is a highly focused survey of the one-hundred most essential things anyone needs to know to use Illustrator CS2. Folks new to Illustrator will find clear, basic, easy-to-understand explanations of the techniques, tools, and tricks they need to quickly become productive with Illustrator. Experienced users will find a handy reference with insights, tips, and shortcuts that will help even experts be more productive.Illustrator CS2 How-Tos was written specifically for CS2, and integrates the important new features of Illustrator CS2, including Live Paint, Live Trace, new Type format features, and helpful new interface innovations.Written by veteran illustrators David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins, Illustrator CS2 How Tos breaks down confusing concepts and clearly explains and illustrates how to master the challenges of drawing and editing vector paths. David Karlins teaches Illustrator at San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program, and Bruck K. Hopkins has been a professional illustrator for a decade, creating everything from fine art to technical drawings.The book: Demystifies the process of creating and editing vector artwork Covers new Illustrator features: Live Paint, Live Trace, Type formatting, and the Control Palette Includes survival tips and tricks that will guide new illustrators through the program, and provide time-saving tricks for Illustrator veterans. |
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