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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Classic comprehensive text presents detailed topics dealing with problems in teaching art; quality and creativity in art; value of art; the nature of the artist and the connoisseur; development of the child as artist and connoisseur; explanations for artistic growth in children; the teaching of art; formulating objectives and building a curriculum for the public school;… Read more about this item

USA: Olympia & York, 1989. This catalogue documents the art and architectural installatiions in "The New Urban Landscape" exhibition held at New York's World Financial Center in 1988, and contains a bewildering collection of arcane stories, cryptic essays, impressionistic photographs, and even a five-foot fold-out collage. The exhibition successfully addressed the ever-changing urban environment through images, music, and dance. 131… Read more about this item

Perth, Western Australia: Artways, 1991. What is the difference between Cadmium Yellow and Cadmium Yellow Hue? How does this difference affect the quality of the watercolor? Which Grumbacher Red is superior, Alizarin Crimson or Thalo Red? These are a few of the many questions asked by both professional artists and serious amateurs that are answered here. In cooperation with the… Read more about this item

Boston, MA.: Bullfinch Press, 1990. Comprehensive scholarly reference text presents a historical representation of the extensive collection of silk designs from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, some of which are among the earliest to have survived anywhere, with the exception of a few medieval Italian patterns. Most of the fabrics are of English origin, created to meet the… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1976. Classic text presents a series of sixty-four graphic paintings which corresponds to the each of the sixty-four hexagrams that are the basis of the I Ching, and are based on the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching. The I Ching forms and enigmatic yet practical system of images, judgements, and revelations that deals with the… Read more about this item

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E.Tuttle Company, 1970. Comprehensive classic text presents detailed coverage of the art glass produced in Europe from 1880 to 1930, portraying the accomplishments of the outstanding French and English artists of this period. Includes 135 notable works of Emile Galle, the indisputable leader of the French school; the English school with special emphasis given to the Stourbridge… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Prestal Verlag, 1986. Comprehensive text presents a detailed history of Nuremberg's "Golden Age." The nearly 300 objects that appear in the text were exhibited jointly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Includes discussions by German and American experts of the various artistic genres, and of… Read more about this item

New York: Da Capo Press, 1980. This complete four-volume set of Les Tendances Nouvelles is an unabridged republication, supplemented with a new introductory essay by Jonathan Fineberg and an index prepared by Marianne Malone, of the revue published in Paris between 1904 and 1914. The journal represented Symbolist ideology, involving some of the most prominent figures of the period, and… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1973. Comprehensive illustrated text presents a detailed biography of Francis Jaques, one of America's great nature artists, authored by his wife Florence. Includes the artist's life and work; his instictive understanding of wild creatures; his illustrious career with the American Museum of Natural History in New York for 17 years and museum expeditions throughout the… Read more about this item

New Orleans, LA.: Historic New Orleans Collection, 1987. Scholarly work presents a comprensive compilation of information about all known artists and art-related organizations active in New Orleans and environs during a 200-year period. It provides biographical and professional data on over 2,700 artists and art organizations both major and minor, associated with New Orleans in concise, clearly organized format for… Read more about this item

Firenze, Italy: Edizioni Il Ponte, 1983. Atmos and Thanatos contains the extraordinary works of the Valdarnese painter, Marco Fidolini, inspired by electric power stations. Fidolini associates two aspects of the contrast of dualism (fascination and repulsion) in his works to the Freudian theory of Eros and the instict of death. Atmos being the symbol of steam, a component of power… Read more about this item

Taipei, Taiwan, 1974. Comprehensive classic revised text presents 27 multidisciplinary papers from renown art and cultural scholars dealing with the subject of diffusion in the Pacific Basin regarding art forms and artifacts which were broadly distributed in the region that originated from China. Includes topics covering Ch'u art and archaeology; aspects of the calendar, astrology, and religious concepts of the… Read more about this item

New York: Weatherhill, 1975. Classic highly acclaimed text authored by one of Japan's leading graphic designers, contains a collection of traditional Japanese packaging which reflects Japan's cultural heritage. Originating from the source of utilitarian lineage, Japanese packaging became adequate for storing and transportation, while offering protection for a variety of fragile contents. 215 pgs. Illustrated with 244 photographs in matte… Read more about this item

Kansas City, MO.: Lowell Press, 1975. Classic text features Montana artist Bob Scriver's award-winning Rodeo Series of sculpture, a collection of bronze masterful sculptures which pays tribute to the rodeo cowboys and individual events of the rodeo sport. The sculptures were cast by Scriver at his foundry in Montana, using the ancient Cere Perdue (Lost Wax) investment casting process. Includes… Read more about this item

Vancouver, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990. Comprehensive text presents the first complete study of the renowned Canadian artist, Jack Shadbolt, whose paintings have appeared in international exhibitions and in major retrospectives at various international museums. Watson chronicles Shadbolt's life and career, his personal struggles, creative philosophy, and includes excerpts of the painter's own writings. Includes a selected bibliography, solo exhibitions,… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Comprehensive text presents current research from Soviet, European, and American scholars which provides an overview of Russian Constructivism and consider its resonance in non-Soviet art history up to the present day. Russian Constructivism aspired to bring "art into everyday life" and to de-fetishize the art object. Although Stalinism shattered these dreams in the late 1920s, Vladimir… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996. Comprehensive text is the first full-length study of the Canadian-born sculptor David Rabinowitch. Working in New York since 1972 and extensively in Europe since the early 1980s, Rabinowitch became Professor of Sculpture at the Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, in 1984. Whitney Davis closely analyzes six groups of works produced by Rabinowitch between 1963 and… Read more about this item

New York: Barbara Flynn & Richard Bellamy, 1990. Deatiled text depicting Rabinowitch's philosophical relationship of planes and space in the room-sized works of the Tyndale Constructions (1982-1989). Rabinowitch's Sculpture for Max Imdahl belongs to that group of Tyndale Constructions conceived as interior volumes using all four directions, as many as three of which may be fenestrated. The masonry construction in… Read more about this item

Boston, MA.: Little, Brown & Co., 1984. Classic text presents a selection of Tunnicliffe's outstanding measured drawings spanning forty years of bird study and over 300 drawings which illuminates his detailed mastery of a difficult medium. Includes full-color and black/white plates of sea & shore birds, waterfowl, predatory birds, and miscellaneous birds. Includes an explanatory text and memoir of Tunnicliffe… Read more about this item

Bombay, India: D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd., 1958. Comprehensive text presents a lavishly illustrated historic sourcebook on the origin of clothing, ancient Indian dress, clothes of the Muslim period, modern Indain dress- both male and female, embroidery, the arts of cloth dyeing and printing, the craft of the weaver, and the history of the Indian textile industry. 356… Read more about this item