Add period flair to a variety of graphic projects with rare cuts of advertising art that once decorated matchbook covers. Over 900 images promote everything from women's accessories, baked goods, and choice meats, to quality luggage, holiday getaways, "Scientific Body Sculpturing," and "Dance Instruction by Experts." Practical, amusing, and royalty-free View More...
This volume presents essays which explore the influence of the Adirondack region on artists and printmakers. Including essays originally presented at the 1995 North American Print Conference, the text embodies the artistic spectrum from the documentary to the aesthetic. View More...
This volume deals with the interrelation between English and Dutch culture as it emerged in the field of the emblem and the emblem book in the 16th and 17th centuries. The traffic of emblems was mostly from the Low Countries to England. The very first printed English emblem book, by Geffrey Whitney, was printed in Leiden in 1586. One of the last English emblem books to be published in the 17th century, by Philip Ayres (1683) goes straight back to the Dutch love emblem tradition (Heinsius, Vaenius, et al.).The reasons for this mainly one-way traffic are manifold. For one thing the best engraver... View More...
This study provides a detailed coverage of all aspects of Roman campaigning. It examines the training, the way they set about planning their campaigns and the techniques of warfare used.' View More...
When is an artistic work finished? When the copyeditor makes the final correction to a manuscript, when the composer writes the last note of a symphony, or when the painter puts the last brushstroke on the canvas? Perhaps it's even later, when someone reads the work, when an ensemble performs, or when the painting is hung on a gallery wall for viewing? Art from Start to Finish gathers a unique group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications--many of them practicing artists in their own right--to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters ... View More...
In its early years, The Studio (published monthly in London from April 1893 until well into the twentieth century) was one of the major media for the development of Art Nouveau styles. It was probably more responsible than any other publication for the acceptance of Art Nouveau by the public, and as it progressed it remained the most outstanding vehicle of Art Nouveau illustration. It also had a tremendous influence on American artists and illustrators of the period. In addition to art competitions, featured articles on contemporary artists and on topics like photography, and portfolios of the... View More...
Go to art school...in your own home With over 400 information-packed pages of basic techniques for watercolor, oils, and acrylics, plus carefully graded projects and over 1,000 specially commissioned pictures, this colorful, oversized "painters course" will turn you into a complete, versatile artist Progress from single color projects to wet-on-wet washes, achieve brilliance and richness of color, paint ambitious figures and landscapes, choose suitable subjects for each medium, and arrange attention-grabbing compositions. It's the perfect place to begin learning View More...
Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds-in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor these two, only seemingly opposed, views of "Gypsies," exalting their songs on stage but scorning them on the streets as liars and cheats. Alaina Lemon's Between Two Fires examines how Roma themselves have negotiated these dual images in everyday interactions and in stage performances.Lemon's ethnographic study is based on extensive fieldwork in 1990s Russia and focuses on Moscow Romani Theater ac... View More...
