Many of these images were created as illustrations for science fiction, popular science, and pulp-fiction magazines, and as prototype drawings for industrial design. However, few of the original watercolors, oil paintings, and pen-and-ink drawings -- which the author spent years tracking down -- have ever been exhibited before. Norman Brosterman, the author of Abrams' acclaimed Inventing Kindergarten, here triumphs once again -- with another ...

The Copeland Collection of 134 Chinese and Japanese ceramic figures, perhaps the most important assemblage of its kind still in private hands, is recognized internationally for the superb quality of its many rare forms. Acquired by Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland over the past fifty years, each of these beautifully modeled human and animal figures testifies to the unerring eye of a premiere collector.<P>The majority of these figures are of ...

This is the first major illustrated monograph to be published on British sculptor Bernard Meadows (b. 1915), a key figure of post-war British sculpture. In his catalogue introduction, Herbert Read coined the phrase 'the geometry of fear' - a particularly apposite description of Meadows' sculpture. For Meadows has been obsessed in his work with the representation of fear, first with frightened birds, and then with frightening armed figures. It is ...

This multicultural and international survey of artists' videotapes reflects the extraordinary richness and diversity of independent media art production from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Presenting video's current investigations as well as milestones in its historical evolution, this volume resonates with the dynamic, often radical forms and strategies that define video as one of the most provocative modes of contemporary artistic ...

Dutch art spans the history of Western easel painting from the Middle Ages to the present, and has a psychological development of its own which makes it a fascinating field of study. ...

Edgar Degas (1834-1917), a founding member of the Impressionist movement, was one of the group's most original and independent artists. This Tiny Folio offers insight into the themes and preoccupations that make his paintings, sculptures, and brilliant pastels so well-loved today. ...

Collected from notes taken by students at famous Cape Cod School; hundreds of direct, personal apercus, ideas, suggestions.
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This is a series of passionately and reasoned reflection on the current state of arts in Britian, written by a distinguished broadcaster and art administrator. ...

Packed with 1000+ art definitions, hundreds of photographs, paintings, mini-demos, diagrams and drawings. This is the most comprehensive artist's reference available. ...

An expert looks at a wide variety of country arts that characterized early New England homes. ...