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Dennis J. Sporre
Reality Through the Arts
by Prentice Hall College Div (Paperback)

For Introduction to the Humanities and General Humanities courses. An introductory exploration of basic artistic concepts and terms applied to a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural history of artistic styles. This text treats all the arts--painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, music, theatre, dance, film, architecture, literature--uniformly, as it ties both artistic media and history to the theme of art as a reflection of human reality.

Steven A. Nash, Adam Gopnik
Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective
by Thames & Hudson (Hardcover)

Brian Curtis, Brian Curtis
Drawing from Observation
by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (Paperback)

Perceptual drawing, in which one renders the physical world as it appears to an observer, is the focus of this new text for the introductory drawing course. Drawing from Observation offers a balanced mix of hands-on technique and perceptual theory while making a compelling argument for the long-term value of studying perception-based drawing.

et al., James H. Duff
An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth
by Bulfinch (Paperback)

From a major international exhibition, this stunning book captures three generations of art by the Wyeth family. This comprehensive collection is now in a paperback identical to the original clothbound edition. 130 color, 54 black-and-white illustrations.

David Batchelor, Paul Wood, Briony Fer
Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars (Modern Art Practices and Debates)
by Yale University Press (Paperback)

The book begins by considering responses by French artists to the World War I, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The authors then discuss the language of construction in places as dissimilar as France, Germany and the Soviet Union; the contrasting demands of the utility and decoration of objects and paintings; and the relationship of Surrealism to questions of sexuality and gender and to Freudian theory. The book concludes by addressing the widespread debate over realism in art: whether it represents an alternative to the elitism of the avant-garde or whether avant-garde art should play a role in the development of a modern realism.

Sueellen Ross
Paint Radiant Realism in Watercolor, Ink & Colored Pencil
by North Light Books (Hardcover)

Discover an exciting new way of painting--a multi-medium approach that combines the vivid moods of watercolor, the punch and contrast of ink, and the intriguing textures of colored pencil. In this book, Sueellen Ross will introduce you to her unique "Four-Step Program"--a simple method of layering one medium on top of another in easy-to-control stages. Step-by-step, you'll see how to use this technique to paint cozy interiors, beautiful flowers, cats, birds and other delightful subjects in a brilliant, realistic style!

Linda Nochlin
Realism (Style and Civilization)
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

Sanford Schwartz, Robert Storr, Rackstraw Downes
Rackstraw Downes
by Princeton University Press (Hardcover)

Hanneke Grootenboer
The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting
by University Of Chicago Press (Hardcover)

Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image.Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes a new theory of perspective based on the phenomenological aspects of non-narrative still-life, trompe l'oeil, and anamorphic imagery. Drawing on playful and mesmerizing baroque images, Grootenboer characterizes what she calls their "sophisticated deceit," asserting that painting is more about visual representation than about its supposed objects. Offering an original theory of perspective's ...

The Wanderers: Masters of Nineteenth-Century Russian Painting : An Exhibition from the Soviet Union
by Dallas Museum of Art (Paperback)

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