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Landscape PaintingIn 1855, Asher B. Durand, a founder of the National Academy of Design and a leading member of the Hudson River School, wrote a series of articles for his son's art magazine, The Crayon. The nine articles, Letters on Landscape Painting, outlined Durand's thoughts...
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Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life PaintingIn this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in...
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Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian ModernJoaquín Torres-García is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters from the first half of the 20th century, whose work determined transformational paths for modern art on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawn toward both the avant-garde and the primitive, the schematic...
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Laura OwensSince first coming into prominence in the '90s and early 2000s, Laura Owens's work has offered a set of wholly new and critical ideas about painting. Propelled by the conviction that her work should prompt difficult questions about the nature of painting, Owens distinguishes...
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The Hudson River School: Nature and the AmericanvisionIn the mid-1800s, a group of painters based in New York turned their focus to the theme of the natural landscape to demonstrate the beauty of the wilderness. Their work enjoyed a popular national success that no other group of artists has achieved since....
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A Theory of /Cloud: Toward a History of PaintingThis is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all...
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Master-Pieces: Flip and Flop 10 Great Works of ArtPrinted on heavy board and laminated, Master-Pieces will stand up to the most enthusiastic flipping, at home or in the classroom. Including full images with captions, short descriptions of the works, and artists' biographies, it features artworks from the world's most magnificent public collections,...
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California ImpressionismIn recent years, the richly colored, exuberantly painted canvases by artists such as Franz Bischoff, Alson Clark, Joseph Raphael, Guy Rose, and William Wendt have attracted an expanding circle of admirers all across the country. In addition to the work of these established West...
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20 Projects for Alcohol Inks: A Workbook for Creating Your Best ArtUsing your creativity and the vibrant medium of alcohol inks, create these 20 beautiful representational paintings. With a broad range of painting subjects including florals, animals, landscapes, and more, these projects demonstrate a variety of approaches to alcohol ink painting to inspire and ignite...
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Kristy's Fall Cutting Garden: A Watercoloring BookThe third in a series of seasonal watercoloring books based on artist Kristy Rice's cutting gardens, this book celebrates autumn's vibrant blossoms such as asters, zinnias, torch lilies, and chrysanthemums. Her easy-to-learn, joy-driven approach includes simple tutorials on how to use watercolor and where...
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More Than Meets the Eye: Seeing Art with All Five SensesThis book lets you do more than look at beautiful art. It shows you how to feel it, taste it, smell it, hear it, and touch it Looking at art with the right attitude can let you hear a cannon boom or know what...
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Mastering the Art of Landscapes: A Step-By-Step Course with 30 Drawing and Painting Projects and 800 PhotographsLearn how to illustrate a variety of landscapes, from coastal vistas and rolling hills to city skylines and summer meadows, in this updated new edition. An understanding of the various natural forms is key to successful landscape art. Expert tutorials provide this knowledge, from...
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Animal Painting Workbook: Learn to Paint Animals in Watercolour with Complete Confidence and EaseThis is a fun, comprehensive course to painting animals in watercolour that focuses on the two key aspirations for novice animal artists: to paint subjects in a loose yet realistic style; and to capture the essence of animals' characters. Eight complete lessons explore a...
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Watercolour Problems and Solutions: A Trouble-Shooting HandbookThis invaluable handbook for all watercolourists takes a practical problem-and-solution approach to painting a range of popular subjects, showing common mistakes and how to rectify them. Mastering fundamental drawing and watercolour techniques forms the basis of successful watercolour painting - the author starts by...
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Mark BradfordThe first comprehensive study of the work of one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation.This timely entry in the Contemporary Artists series focuses on Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class,...
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The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle AgesThe Alchemy of Paint is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow shows us how in...
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Chinese PaintingTraditional Chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form. Artists did not seek to represent direct copies of the natural world; rather, traditional Chinese paintings sought to portray the harmony between the natural world and human emotion, evoking ancient Chinese philosophy. From ancient scroll...
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Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London PaintersThe development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it...
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Hokusai: Beyond the Great WaveAn acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Exhibitions since the 1980s have presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This publication, which...
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Vasari on TechniqueSixteenth-century painter reveals technical secrets: gilding, stained glass, casting, painter's materials, much more. Most detailed, valuable sourcebook of Renaissance methods. 29 illustrations.Author: Giorgio VasariPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 03/17/2011Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.01h x 5.44w x 0.79dISBN: 9780486207179This title is not returnable
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