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Author: David Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 2021-07-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1350240575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised, second edition develops the creative principles established in the first edition, building particularly on three-dimensional forms, featuring a large number of new images.
Author: Leslie Ross
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-05-23
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1476616256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses text and image relationships in the history of art from ancient times to the contemporary period across a diversity of cultures and geographic areas. Focusing on the use of words in art and words as art forms, thematic chapters include "Pictures in Words/Words in Pictures," "Word/Picture Puzzles," "Picture/Word Puzzles," "Words as Images," "The Power of the Word," and "Monumental and Moving Words." Chapter subsections further explore cross-cultural themes. Examining text and image relationships from the obvious to the elusive, the puzzling to the profound, the minor to the major, the book demonstrates the diverse ways in which images and writing have been combined through the ages, and explores the interplay between visual and written communication in a wide range of thought-provoking examples. A color insert is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Jack Fredrick Myers
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keith Micklewright
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781856694605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary to assumptions that drawing is a gift that cannot be learned, this book demonstrates that it is a highly teachable skill. As well as instructing the student how to draw, the book also serves as a visual handbook for artists and designers who need to express ideas through drawing. Each chapter addresses a key topic in drawing method and theory in order to improve technique and understanding. Issues such as perspective and the manipulation of tones and marks to make 3-D forms are tackled in a simple and direct way, with a wealth of drawings by the great masters of the medium, in addition to diagrams and tables. Each section also offers ways for the student to put into practice the ideas and concepts discussed. These 'Ideas to Explore' range from practical exercises in drawing to the selection of drawing surfaces (such as paper) and subjects to discovering ways of thinking.
Author: Michael O'Toole
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780838636046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on his background as a linguist, O'Toole analyses in detail a number of major works of art to show how the semiotic approach relates a work's immediate impact to other aspects of our response to it: to the scene portrayed, to the social, intellectual and economic world within which the artist and his or her patrons worked, and to our own world. It further provides ways of talking about and interrelating aspects of composition, technique and the material qualities of the work.
Author: Salim Kemal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521445986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first volume in the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts offers a range of responses by distinguished philosophers and art historians to some crucial issues generated by the relationship between the art object and language in art history. Each of the chapters in this volume is a searching response to theoretical and practical questions in terms accessible to readers of all human science disciplines. The editors, one a philosopher and one an art historian, provide an introductory chapter which outlines the themes of the volume and explicates the terms in which they are discussed. The contributors open new avenues of enquiry involving concepts of 'presence', 'projective properties', visual conventions and syntax, and the appropriateness of figurative language in accounting for visual art. The issues they discuss will challenge the boundaries to thought that some contemporary theorising sustains.
Author: James Lancel McElhinney
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781402768484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing the insights of 15 current and former Art Students League instructors, this stunning volume reassesses the art of drawing not as a technique, but as the essential grammar of all visual thinking. In an illuminating introductory essay, James Lancel McElhinney punctures the myth that learning to draw is something for experts only, and presents methods for making, appreciating, and teaching drawing. The 15 contributors then offer a broad range of stylistic approaches and methodologies, accompanied by examples of their own and their students' artwork. A final section of basic exercises, along with information on materials, techniques, and resources, completes this inspirational study.
Author: Carol Eckert
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781465240095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive and concise introductory level art text.
Author: Alois Riegl
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-03-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1890951463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA to is Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the greatest modern art historians. The most important member of the so-called "Vienna School," Riegl developed a highly refined technique of visual or formal analysis, as opposed to the iconological method with its emphasis on decoding motifs through recourse to texts. Riegl also pioneered understanding of the changing role of the viewer, the significance of non-high art objects or what would now be called visual or material culture, and theories of art and art history, including his much-debated neologism Kunstwollen (the will of art). At last, his Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, which brings together the diverse threads of his thought, is available to an English-language audience, in a superlative translation by Jacqueline E. Jung. In one of the earliest and perhaps the most brilliant of all art historical "surveys," Riegl addresses the different visual arts within a sweeping conception of the history of culture. His account derives, from Hegelian models but decisively opens onto alternative pathways that continue to complicate attempts to reduce art merely to the artist's intentions or its social and historical functions. Book jacket.
Author: Van James
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780945803881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn drawing attention to the fundamental elements of form inherent in all graphic and sculptural art, Van James opens our eyes to the alphabet of the language of form. Through the simplest of indications, we find ourselves able to read the meaning of works of art from other cultures and times. We begin to know these cultures and peoples in ways we could not know through oral and written language alone. Likewise, we can begin to read the language that Mother Nature speaks through the form of every created object and being. We can join those on the cutting edge of a new science that investigates the spiritual forces at work within physical phenomena through exact perception of qualities of form. For everyone who is fascinated by nature, art, and life in different cultures.
