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Book Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Download or read book Views and Viewmakers of Urban America written by John William Reps and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.

Book Drawing Shortcuts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Leggitt
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2015-06-12
  • ISBN : 047063913X
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Drawing Shortcuts written by Jim Leggitt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools. Jim Leggitt?s Drawing Shortcuts shows how communicating with hand drawings combined with digital technology can be ingeniously simple, and this new edition makes an already popular technique even better. Completely expanded with new chapters and a wealth of supporting images, this Second Edition presents practical techniques for improving drawing efficiency and effectiveness by combining traditional hand drawing methods with the latest digital technology, including 3-D modeling with SketchUp. This book?s step-by-step approach will sharpen and streamline your techniques whether you draw for pleasure, school or your design profession. Easy-to-follow instructions cover every aspect from the basics of drawing?such as composition, color, shading, hatching, and perspective?up to the most current technologies Incorporates Google SketchUp, Google Earth, computer generated renderings, digital scanners and printers Features new visuals from accomplished drawing experts Special new ?Gallery? section highlights the creative process with step-by-step examples of drawings Complete coverage of the ?Overlay and Trace Method,? ?Simple Composite Method,? ?Advanced Composite Method,? and ?Digital Hybrid Drawings? New matrices show alternative drawing techniques for specific visual effects such as Linework and Shading, Selecting the Right Views, Perspectives and Paraline Drawings, Drawing Detail, Camera Lenses, and Drawing Tools Generously enriched with detailed process drawings, examples, and more than 500 full-color images, Drawing Shortcuts, Second Edition will have you creating top-quality drawings faster and more effectively.

Book It s a Wrap

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  • Author : Benjamin J Hummel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-05-07
  • ISBN : 9781641750004
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book It s a Wrap written by Benjamin J Hummel and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can effortlessly draw fabric folds! An easy-to-read, comprehensive guide on drawing folds for any art student or even art professional! In this conversational and interactive teacher-to-artist workbook, you will learn about: - The structure of folds - Why they behave the way they do - How to recognize the different types of folds - Best practices to immediately start drawing better folds Plus, drawing worksheet pages, illustrated diagrams, and more! "A must have for any educator or beginner. Hummel makes it very easy to understand folds. Short explanations and lots of images to look at help break things down to their basics." - Brizida Ahrnsbrak Online Chair of Illustration Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design

Book Colorado s First Portrait

Download or read book Colorado s First Portrait written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first pictorial history of Colorado containing only drawings made by nineteenth century artists. Five hundred scenes show the West's most colorful state just as it was sketched by early artists and explorers. Here are pictures of Indians and Indian fighters, of riotous mining camps and dirt-street towns, of narrow gauge trains and palatial Victorian hotels. The oversize pages teem with views of cowhands, sodbusters, townsfolk, and politicians in an era that is gone forever. Professor Clifford P. Westermeier, a leading Colorado historian, searched for woodcuts, lithographs, and paintings from scarce and obscure sources. The great collections of the Colorado State Historical Society and the Denver Public Library were opened generously to make this book possible. Each picture, copied from the original, is accompanied by explanatory text and source identification.--From publisher description.

Book Thomas Moran

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Moran
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780806127040
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Thomas Moran written by Thomas Moran and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated catalog of Thomas Moran’s field sketches includes an interpretive essay tracing the artist’s seventy-year career in the field; a chronological, stylistic, and geographical survey of his fieldwork; an illustrated checklist of the 1080 sketches in public collections. Moran is best known for his work in the American West during the post-Civil War expansion, particularly in what would become Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite national parks. Yet this virtuoso painter and draftsman also traveled in search of inspiration in Pennsylvania, New York’s Long Island, Florida, Wisconsin, Mexico, England, Scotland, Wales, France, and Italy, returning repeatedly to favorite subjects. An almost compulsive desire to sketch refined his innate skill as one of America’s finest landscape artists. Most of Moran’s known field sketches are reproduced here. As described in the introduction, “their range encompasses summary contour drawings of the spectacular topography of the American West, luminous watercolors that simultaneously fix local color and evoke the artist’s rapturous response to the natural world, and fully realized works that nevertheless preserve the intensity of Moran’s firsthand experience of his plein air subjects.” No serious formal study of Thomas Moran can be made without reference to this volume.

Book Western Art  Western History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ron Tyler
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2019-03-07
  • ISBN : 0806164425
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Western Art Western History written by Ron Tyler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly half a century, celebrated historian Ron Tyler has researched, interpreted, and exhibited western American art. This splendid volume, gleaned from Tyler’s extensive career of connoisseurship, brings together eight of the author’s most notable essays, reworked especially for this volume. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, Western Art, Western History tells the stories of key artists, both famous and obscure, whose provocative pictures document the people and places of the nineteenth-century American West. The artists depicted in these pages represent a variety of personalities and artistic styles. According to Tyler, each of them responded in unique ways to the compelling and exotic drama that unfolded in the West during the nineteenth century—an age of exploration, surveying, pleasure travel, and scientific discovery. In eloquent and engaging prose, Tyler unveils a fascinating cast of characters, including the little-known German-Russian artist Louis Choris, who served as a draftsman on the second Russian circumnavigation of the globe; the exacting and precise Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, who accompanied Prince Maximilian of Wied on his sojourn up the Missouri River; and the young American Alfred Jacob Miller, whose seemingly frivolous and romantic depictions of western mountain men and American Indians remained largely unknown until the mid-twentieth century. Other artists showcased in this volume are John James Audubon, George Caleb Bingham, Alfred E. Mathews, and, finally, Frederic Remington, who famously sought to capture the last glimmers of the “old frontier.” A common thread throughout Western Art, Western History is the important role that technology—especially the development of lithography—played in the dissemination of images. As the author emphasizes, many works by western artists are valuable not only as illustrations but as scientific documents, imbued with cultural meaning. By placing works of western art within these broader contexts, Tyler enhances our understanding of their history and significance.

Book Pictorial Americana

    Book Details:
  • Author : Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Pictorial Americana written by Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chronicling the West for Harper s

Download or read book Chronicling the West for Harper s written by Claudine Chalmers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the 1870s is the series of prints collected for the first time in this book. Chronicling the West for Harper’s showcases 100 illustrations made for the weekly magazine by French artists Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier on a cross-country assignment in 1873 and 1874. The pair—“Frenzeny & Tavernier,” as they signed their work—documented the newly accessible territories, their diverse inhabitants, and the changing frontier. Historian Claudine Chalmers focuses on the life and work of Frenzeny and Tavernier, who were accomplished and adventurous enough to succeed as “special artists,” the label Harper’s Weekly gave the illustrators it sent into the field. The job required imagination, courage, and adaptability, not to mention expert draftsmanship. Frenzeny, a skilled artist who accepted his adopted country’s many cultures, was also a superb horseman. Tavernier had been trained to work fast in a variety of media. Both men had the advantage of viewing America with fresh eyes. They began their artistic record in the East with An Emigrant Boarding-House in New York. Their journey ended in San Francisco, where they sketched the city’s bustling Chinatown and pastoral Marin County suburbs. Along with each illustration, the artists sent Harper’s a description; those captions are reproduced here. Frenzeny and Tavernier documented the frontier as it evolved. They depicted the hazards of travel and settlement, from fires to destitution, and presented disconcerting subject matter—such as the Sioux Sun Dance—in relentless detail. Their skill has made some of their drawings, among them The Strike in the Coal Mine, classics of American culture. With pencil and woodblock, Chalmers shows, these intrepid Frenchmen shaped public perceptions of the West for decades to come.

Book Portfolio

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  • Author : Old Print Shop (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book Portfolio written by Old Print Shop (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brave Molly

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  • Author : Brooke Boynton-Hughes
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
  • Release : 2019-04-30
  • ISBN : 1452162948
  • Pages : 51 pages

Download or read book Brave Molly written by Brooke Boynton-Hughes and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when no one can see your monsters but you? At first, Molly runs from them. But they follow her down the sidewalk, getting in the way when she tries to make a new friend, popping up unexpectedly out of shadows, and multiplying. Until finally...Molly faces her fears. Author-illustrator Brooke Boynton-Hughes delivers a modern classic in this moving adventure that honors everyday acts of bravery and the power of friendship to banish the monsters that haunt us.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : National Railway Historical Society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1000 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by National Railway Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traitor  Survivor  Icon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victoria I. Lyall
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-01
  • ISBN : 0300258984
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Traitor Survivor Icon written by Victoria I. Lyall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of Mexico An enslaved Indigenous girl who became Hernán Cortés's interpreter and cultural translator, Malinche stood at center stage in one of the most significant events of modern history. Linguistically gifted, she played a key role in the transactions, negotiations, and conflicts between the Spanish and the Indigenous populations of Mexico that shaped the course of global politics for centuries to come. As mother to Cortés's firstborn son, she became the symbolic progenitor of a modern Mexican nation and a heroine to Chicana and Mexicana artists. Traitor, Survivor, Icon is the first major publication to present a comprehensive visual exploration of Malinche's enduring impact on communities living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Five hundred years after her death, her image and legacy remain relevant to conversations around female empowerment, indigeneity, and national identity throughout the Americas. This lavish book establishes and examines her symbolic import and the ways in which artists, scholars, and activists through time have appropriated her image to interpret and express their own experiences and agendas from the 1500s through today.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A E

Download or read book A E written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: