Download or read book The Nature Practice and History of Art Illustrated written by Harold van Buren MAGONIGLE and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Reading written by Jamie Camplin and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Reading appraises works by the many great masters who took inspiration from the printed word. Authors Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. Paintings contain a world of information about religion, class, gender, and power, but they also reveal details of everyday life often lost in history texts. Such artworks show us not only how books have been valued over time but also how the practice of reading has evolved in Western society. Featuring over one hundred works by artists from across Europe and the United States and all painting genres, The Art of Reading explores the two-thousand-year story of the great painters and the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time: the book.
Download or read book The Practice of Art A Classic Victorian Treatise written by J.D. Harding and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Victorian manual on the philosophy and principles of art is geared toward practicing artists. Twenty-four black-and-white plates accompany advice on composition, light and shade, drawing from nature, more.
Download or read book Amazing Rare Things written by David Attenborough and published by Kales Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Attenborough provides an introductory survey of the artistic representation of plants and animals through human history, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and continuing on through the mid-1700s.
Download or read book Natural History Illustration in Pen and Ink written by Sarah Morrish and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book combines the author's extensive ecological knowledge with art, and her passion for drawing with ink. It is packed with clear instruction and inspirational illustrations, and will be treasured by artists, illustrators, scientists and ecologists alike. Practical advice is given on using a range of materials and equipment for illustrating in pen and ink, as well as the collection and preservation of subject matter and reference material. Detailed instruction is given on how to create essential mark-making techniques that will enhance your illustrations through accurate depiction of shape, form, texture and pattern, and in the principles and elements of design. Subject-themed chapters include plants, strandline and marine specimens, fossils, invertebrates, and mammals. There are step-by-step exercises suitable for all skill levels, and case studies describing working practice as a professional illustrator.
Download or read book The Art of Natural History written by S. Peter Dance and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practice of Art A Classic Victorian Treatise written by James Duffield Harding and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1845 as The Principles & Practice of Art: With Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by the Author, this enduring guide is the work of an English painter and lithographer. J. D. Harding wrote several popular books on art instruction, and this volume constitutes one of his finest. A comprehensive manual geared toward practicing artists, the book features 24 black-and-white plates of illustrations by Harding that elucidate his observations and instructions. Topics include: • Imitation as Applied to Art • The Distinction Between the Judgment and the Feelings with Respect to Art • Beauty and Form • Composition • Light and Shade • Color • Drawing from Nature Art historians and students—especially those of nineteenth–century art—will prize this book for its philosophical theory of beauty and its abundant supply of illustrative examples, rendered in various styles of engraving and lithography.
Download or read book History of Illustration written by Susan Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the prehistoric to the contemporary. With hundreds of color image, this book to contextualize the many types of illustrations within social, cultural, and technical parameters, presenting information in a flowing chronology. This essential guide is the first comprehensive history of illustration as its own discipline. Readers will gain an ability to critically analyze images from technical, cultural, and ideological standpoints in order to arrive at an appreciation of art form of both past and present illustration"--
Download or read book Representing History 900 1300 written by Robert Allan Maxwell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Gallery of Nature and Art Or a Tour Through Creation and Science written by E Polehamton and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book Art of Nature written by Judith Magee and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art of Nature is an astonishing visual record of the exploration of parts of the natural world that had never previously been documented. It features many of the greatest natural history artists of the last 300 years - Merian, Bartram, Ehret, the Bauer brothers, Audubon and Gould. Some were seeking fame as scientists or artists, others sought financial gain or at least the prospect of earning a living in what they loved doing. For some it also provided them with the opportunity to present their view of nature to a wider community. Whatever the reasons, few would have contradicted Humboldt's comment that he was spurred on by an uncertain longing for what is distant and unknown, for whatever excited my fantasy: danger at sea, the desire for adventures, to be transported from a boring daily life to a marvellous world. Continent by continent Judith Magee draws on the unrivalled collections of the Library of the Natural History Museum to illustrate the development of natural history art through the centuries and its crucial role in furthering people's appreciation of nature all around the world." --book jacket.
Download or read book The Mysteryes of Nature and Art written by John Bate and published by . This book was released on 1635 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art of the Natural World written by Richard Rosenblum and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Valerie C. Doran, Richard Rosenblum.
Download or read book Confronting Images written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, and he suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water Colours Illustrated by a Series of Twenty Six Drawings and Diagrams in Colours and Numerous W written by George Barnard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. ON ELEMENTARY PRACTICE. SECTION I.--ON COMPOSITION. .HATEVER description of composition may ultimately engage the attention of the student, an intimate acquaintance with the fundamental principles which regulate every successful attempt of art in imitating nature, must be of the first importance. Consequently, before he approaches the more attractive and ornamental art of colouring, these principles, and the rules deduced from them, which are the only sure foundation of future progress, must be firmly impressed upon his mind. 'Any attempt to please by a picture which, though possessing the most harmonious arrangement of charming tints, is defective in regard to the choice of objects, in lines misplaced, or faulty in perspective, would be utterly vain and fruitless. Errors like these would undoubtedly offend both the eye and taste of an intelligent observer; and that too in such a degree that any praise he might bestow upon the beauty of the colouring, would be accompanied by the regret that powers, capable of so much in one branch of the art, should yet be so deficient in those on which all truthful representation depends. Colour, the author is compelled to acknowledge, even in a work devoted like the present to its especial consideration, is subordinate to form and light and shade; for, although more attractive, it is, in the representation of nature, the least important of the three. In studying from nature, the student, in the first instance, would do well to consider colour as so much light and shade, giving to the different hues that portion of shade to which they are equivalent. Truthfulness in form and light must predominate. This object being effected, representations in colour may be given with great effect, even in...
Download or read book The Gallery of Nature and Art Or a Tour Through Creation science Illustrated with Engravings Second Edition written by Edward POLEHAMPTON (and GOOD (John Mason)) and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Natural History written by Pascale Heurtel and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oversized collector’s edition showcases antique paintings and drawings of birds and animals from the most important natural history collection in France. An unparalleled collection of the most beautiful—yet scientific—depictions of flora and fauna ever produced, these artworks document three centuries of exploration of the far reaches of the world—a rich visual record harking back to a time when science relied upon painstaking human illustration as the only way to record exotic plants and unknown animals observed during voyages of discovery. All the artworks included here were depicted on vellum, a high-quality, long-lasting parchment that fell out of use around 1900 when it was supplanted by photography. France’s national collection consists of over 7,000 such artworks and is among the world’s finest. Flora and fauna from every corner of the globe are represented in precisely rendered color and detail. Sadly, many of the species depicted in these masterful yet hauntingly accurate portraits are now endangered, threatened—or in many cases, already extinct. This volume is both a celebration of the human quest for knowledge and an epitaph for a fast disappearing world—as well as a feast for the eyes for anyone who loves birds or vintage natural history art. This exquisite and timeless book is beautifully presented in a jacketed volume within a slipcase and luxuriously packaged within an illustrated mailer with a handle for portability.
