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|  | Drawing Basics by Michael Woods
Drawing mediums and techniques are demonstrated through clear exercises in pencil, charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, and colored pencils. Landscape subjects are specially chosen to show the artist how to handle line, tone, and light. Illustrations. AUTHOR: Michael Woods
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Art Fraud Detective by Andy Parker, Anna Nilsen
Description not available.A spot-the-difference game, mystery story, and art book with split pages--all in one--asks readers to try to tell which paintings are genuine and which are forgeries and includes historical information on each painting, tips on the techniques of the Old Masters, and a glossary of art terms. 30,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Andy Parker, Anna Nilsen
PUBLISHER: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Tutu
Second edition of a photography book first published in 1999 in a larger format. It is a collection of black-and-white photographs of members of the Australian Ballet company in unchoreographed, informal poses, designed to celebrate the grace and beauty of the human body in action and in repose. Includes an introduction in which the photographer reflects on his approach to photographing dancers. He has worked in film direction, fashion photography and advertising and his work forms part of the permanent collection of the National Library in Canberra. His other publications include 'Danceshots'.
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Plays, Prose Writings & Poems by Isobel M. Murray, Oscar Wilde, Terry Eagleton, Everyman's Library Staff
Description not available.Gathers Wilde's essays and poems along with his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, and The Importance of Being Earnest AUTHOR: Isobel M. Murray, Oscar Wilde, Terry Eagleton, Everyman's Library Staff
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Literature Made Easy by Steve Eddy
Description not available.Offers commentary profiling major themes, settings, characters, style, and viewpoints while asking leading questions and summarizing important details AUTHOR: Steve Eddy
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Vasily Kandinsky
Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the founders of abstract painting, perhaps the most revolutionary development in 20th-century art. In this book, 40 of his major works are reproduced in full-page colorplates, each with an accompanying commentary.Author Thomas M. Messer has selected important paintings from every period of Kandinsky's long and varied career. The early Riding Couple is followed by such masterpieces as the apocalyptic Composition VI and Composition VII, which date from the years before World War I that witnessed Kandinsky's radical breakthrough into a richly colored abstraction. Other colorplates include the complete set of four decorative panels executed in 1914 for the American collector Edwin R. Campbell and Several Circles, perhaps the finest geometric work from Kandinsky's years at the Bauhaus school in Germany. The artist's final decade, spent in Paris, is represented by such works as the valedictory Tempered Elan.The introduction includes discussion of Kandinsky's highly original contributions to aesthetic theory, developed in the famous Blue Rider Almanac and his influential treatises On the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane. Photographs of the artist, his family, and his associates are also featured.Thomas M. Messer is director emeritus of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, which possesses one of the most comprehensive collections of Kandinsky's art.
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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