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|  | Donald Judd Colorist by William Agee
Donald Judd, the noted American sculptor, architect and furniture designer, regarded color as one of the most important aspects of his art -- an element in its own right and on an equal level of aesthetic significance with material and space. He continually explored the creative possibilities of color both in his works and in theoretical writings. Especially from the mid-1980s on, he integrated color intensively into his objects in a wide variety of different combinations. Up until now, however, the significance of color has largely been neglected in the reception of his oeuvre. This publication, lavishly illustrated with full-page color reproductions, concentrates in detail for the first time on this crucial aspect of Judd's work. With selected theoretical texts by the artist and important essays by art experts, it offers insight into the complexity of Judd's artistic thought. AUTHOR: William Agee
PUBLISHER: Edition Cantz
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Painting the Things You Love in Watercolor
Description not available.Teaches budding artists how to capture in watercolor their favorite subjects and then enhance them with animal additions, showing each step with mini-demos and finished examples and providing complete demonstrations of each covered lesson.
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Studio by John G. Dunne
A depiction of daily life inside a major Hollywood film studio, written by a veteran screenwriter and journalist. AUTHOR: John G. Dunne
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | More Wildlife Painting by Susan Rayfield
Contemporary masters of wildlife painting such as Carl Brenders, Alan M. Hunt, and John Seerey-Lester have achieved international recognition for their beautiful images of wild animals in their natural habitats. In this lavishly illustrated volume, these and other artists discuss the artistic techniques they have developed for rendering wildlife accurately and in remarkable detail. More Wildlife Painting: Techniques of Modern Masters offers an education in becoming both a keen observer of the natural world and a skilled technician with watercolors, acrylics, gouache, oils, pastels and other media. For this book, author Susan Rayfield interviewed ten outstanding artists about their working methods and careers. They generously provided her with many of the sketches, studies, and reference photographs that led to their finished paintings, offered numerous tips for other artists in the field, and shared their favorite stories of encounters with their wild subjects. AUTHOR: Susan Rayfield
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | A Midsummer Night's Dream by A. L. Rowse, Alan Durband, Alfred Alexander Evans, Barbara A. Mowat, David Bevington
Confusions of the heart reign in Athens, where everyone is pining away for the wrong person except Theseus, the Duke and his fiancee, Hippolyta, whose wedding day is fast approaching. Hermia, the Duke's daughter, is intent on marrying Lysander, although her father disapproves and threatens to make her a nun if she refuses to marry his choice for her, Demetrius. However, Helena loves Demetrius, who courted her once, and Lysander and Hermia plan to elope despite the Duke's orders. Hoping that Demetrius will fall for her instead, Helena plans to alert Demetrius that Hermia will shortly be spoken for. Meanwhile, in a subplot, the artisans Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling, and Bottom, are rehearsing the play PYRAMUS AND THISBE to be performed at the Duke's wedding. As Hermia and Lysander head into woods to elope, with Helena and Demetrius following, the amateur acting troupe likewise takes cover in the woods to rehearse in privacy. This leads all the players into the realm of fairy magic, where fairies Oberon and Titania are arguing over a changeling. When Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania with the aid of a magic flower that causes people to fall in love with the first person (or beast) they set eyes on, the real trouble starts. The flower is used liberally on both the humans and the fairies by the trouble-making sprite Puck, inspiring many amorous entanglements. There is no known source for Shakespeare's fantastic plot, though the structure is classical, as the events begin in the court, relocate to an uncivilized environment, and return to the court with renewed order, and aspects of the imagery are drawn from classic works, such as Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS and Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. Evidence in the play, like Titania's remark about three unusually unpleasant summers in a row--documented elsewhere in England's records--suggest a composition date of 1595 or 1596. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM was listed in a 1598 catalogue of Shakespeare's works, and was publi AUTHOR: A. L. Rowse, Alan Durband, Alfred Alexander Evans, Barbara A. Mowat, David Bevington
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | How to Draw Caricatures by Lenn Redman
The entertaining art of caricature is made simple in this delightfully informative book. AUTHOR: Lenn Redman
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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