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Delacroix by Simon Lee
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while ...Show more
Drawing Animals by Anna Milbourne
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas
This innovative book is brimming with amazing ideas for drawing animals. Easy, step-by-step instructions show you how to draw and paints all kinds of creatures from hairy orang-utans to hunting tigers. Simple step-by-step instructions make it easy to create amazing art. Many of the pictures in the book ...Show more
Drawing Cartoons by Anna Milbourne
Category: Fiction | Series: Art Ideas
This inspiring book is brimming with ideas for drawing cartoons. Easy step-by-step instructions show you how to create all kinds of cartoons, from funny animals and superheroes, to flick-book animations. Simple step-by-step instructions make it easy to create amazing art. Many of the pictures in the boo ...Show more
Drawing Faces by Rosie Dickins
Category: No Category | Series: Art Ideas
This innovative book is brimming with easy ideas for drawing faces. Simple, step-by-step instructions show you how to create portraits, caricatures and cartoons, using pencils, pens, pastels and paints. Simple step-by-step instructions make it easy to create amazing art. Many of the pictures in the book ...Show more
Early Christian and Byzantine Art by John Lowden
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
In the 320's AD the Emperor Constantine moved the capital of his Empire from Rome to Byzantium, which was renamed Constantinople, and until its fall in 1453 remained a major artistic centre. Under successive emperors and empresses for more than a thousand years, artists, archtects and craftsmen produced ...Show more
Egyptian Art by Jaromir Malek
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Ancient Egyptian art has an enduring fascination. From the geometrical precision of the great pyramids at Giza to the golden treasures found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, the products of the Egyptian civilization attract and intrigue. Far from being art work in the modern sense, they represent the concret ...Show more
Goya by Sarah Symmons
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S. | Reading Level: very good
This is a study of Francisco Goya (1746-1828), the Spanish painter and graphic artist whose work ranges from elegant and opulent royal portraits to dark depictions of horror and evil. Goya's career was a great triumph in the history of Spanish art. The son of a peasant craftsman from rural Aragon had, b ...Show more
Greek Art by Nigel Jonathan Spivey
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Geared towards art history students, this concise survey of Greek art is also an excellent overview of the subject for the traveler. Divided thematically, it covers major artists, myths and plays in addition to temple sculpture and architecture. With 200 photographs and mostly color illustrations. A vol ...Show more
Hogarth by Mark Hallett
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Hogarth (1697-1764) is one of the most versatile, innovative and celebrated of all British artists. He lived at a time when Britain was emerging as an increasingly urbanized, commercialized and aggressively imperial power. His work celebrates the benefits of commerce, politeness and patriotism, while si ...Show more
Impressionism by James Henry Rubin
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Celebrations of city streets; tranquil vistas of the countryside and seashore; enchanting images of the leisured classes in domestic interiors or at fashionable Parisian cafes - the work of the Impressionists gives pleasure to art lovers everywhere. But while Impressionism today may appear "natural" and ...Show more
Indian Art Art And Ideas by Vidya Dehejia
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A full and up-to-date history of the subcontinent's artistic heritage.
Islamic Arts by Professor Sheila S. Blair
Category: No Category | Series: Art & Ideas S.
In the years following the revelations of the Prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century AD, the new religion of Islam spread rapidly through Arabia to North Africa and Spain in the west and Cental Asia and India in the east. Through the following 1000 years, artists and craftsmen in the areas influe ...Show more