Report
Report

Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 734

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Painting Miniatures
Painting Miniatures

Author: Pauline Denyer-Baker

Publisher: Crowood

Published: 2014-11-30

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 184797841X

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Miniatures are not simply small paintings: special techniques are used to achieve their unique glow and luminosity. This book explains how to paint in detail in a small format with colour and precision. It gives an introduction to the history and traditions of miniatures set by Holbein, Hilliard and Oliver. Advice is given on materials, paints, bases and framing and there are step-by-step demonstrations of stippling and hatching, watercolour and oil painting, and colour mixing. There is a focus also on portraits, still life and silhouettes. Drawing on her extensive experience, Pauline Denyer-Baker shares her passion for painting miniatures, and inspires both beginners and more experienced artists to master and enjoy this historic art form. With further advice on the importance of drawing and sketchbooks, and featuring work from leading artists with a range of styles and subjects, this is an inspirational guide aimed at all artists, particularly those interested in miniatures and portraits.Fully illustrated with 254 colour images.

Photography Theory
Photography Theory

Author: James Elkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1135867747

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Photography Theory presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau in animated debate on the nature of photography. Photography has been around for nearly two centuries, but we are no closer to understanding what it is. For some people, a photograph is an optically accurate impression of the world, for others, it is mainly a way of remembering people and places. Some view it as a sign of bourgeois life, a kind of addiction of the middle class, whilst others see it as a troublesome interloper that has confused people's ideas of reality and fine art to the point that they have difficulty even defining what a photograph is. For some, the whole question of finding photography's nature is itself misguided from the beginning. This provocative second volume in the Routledge The Art Seminar series presents not one but many answers to the question what makes a photograph a photograph?

20 Centuries of Great European Painting
20 Centuries of Great European Painting

Author: Hiltgart Leu Keller

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Introduction -- This collection does not aim to be a complete academic course in the history of art; its purpose is rather to introduce the reader to the language of painting by means of European masterpieces of two thousand years, and to demonstrate the developments and changes.