Author: Frank Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Contemporary Portraits
Author: Frank Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Art of Portrait Photography
Author: Michael Grecco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936262857
Category : Portrait photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of over 60 photographs by leading photographer Michael Grecco whose work regularly appears in Entertainment Weekly, Premiere and numerous other entertainment publications. Each shot is carefully analysed from concept to execution providing a valuable insight into his creative and technical methods.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936262857
Category : Portrait photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of over 60 photographs by leading photographer Michael Grecco whose work regularly appears in Entertainment Weekly, Premiere and numerous other entertainment publications. Each shot is carefully analysed from concept to execution providing a valuable insight into his creative and technical methods.
Prejudices, Third Series
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Prejudices contain several insightful essays by the American journalist and essayist H. L. Mencken. In this modern political discourse, he attacked what he deemed to be American provincialism and hypocrisy with humor, satire, and excellent words in his writings. His views on the American civilization of that time were refreshing and covered many prevalent yet ignored problems in the country. Contents include: On Being an American Huneker: a Memory Footnote on Criticism Das Kapital Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum Star-Spangled Men The Poet and His Art Five Men at Random The Nature of Liberty The Novel The Forward-looker Memorial Service Education The Dismal Science Matters of State Reflections on the Drama Advice to Young Men Suite Américaine
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Prejudices contain several insightful essays by the American journalist and essayist H. L. Mencken. In this modern political discourse, he attacked what he deemed to be American provincialism and hypocrisy with humor, satire, and excellent words in his writings. His views on the American civilization of that time were refreshing and covered many prevalent yet ignored problems in the country. Contents include: On Being an American Huneker: a Memory Footnote on Criticism Das Kapital Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum Star-Spangled Men The Poet and His Art Five Men at Random The Nature of Liberty The Novel The Forward-looker Memorial Service Education The Dismal Science Matters of State Reflections on the Drama Advice to Young Men Suite Américaine
The Library of John Quinn ...
Author: John Quinn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Portrait Painting Atelier
Author: Suzanne Brooker
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823008355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in the old ways in this country and throughout the world. Coming out of this dedicated movement, Portrait Painting Atelier is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old Masters’ technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a process that builds from the transparent dark areas to the more densely painted lights. This method unifies the entire painting, creating a beautiful glow that illuminates skin tones and softly blends all the color tones. Readers will also find valuable instruction in paint mediums from classic oil-based to alkyd-based, the interactive principles of composition and photograph-based composition, and the anatomy of the human face and the key relationships among its features. Richly illustrated with the work of preeminent masters such as Millet, Géricault, and van Gogh, as well as some of today’s leading portrait artists—and featuring seven detailed step-by-step portrait demonstrations—Portrait Painting Atelier is the first book in many years to so comprehensively cover the concepts and techniques of traditional portraiture.
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823008355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in the old ways in this country and throughout the world. Coming out of this dedicated movement, Portrait Painting Atelier is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old Masters’ technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a process that builds from the transparent dark areas to the more densely painted lights. This method unifies the entire painting, creating a beautiful glow that illuminates skin tones and softly blends all the color tones. Readers will also find valuable instruction in paint mediums from classic oil-based to alkyd-based, the interactive principles of composition and photograph-based composition, and the anatomy of the human face and the key relationships among its features. Richly illustrated with the work of preeminent masters such as Millet, Géricault, and van Gogh, as well as some of today’s leading portrait artists—and featuring seven detailed step-by-step portrait demonstrations—Portrait Painting Atelier is the first book in many years to so comprehensively cover the concepts and techniques of traditional portraiture.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Contemporary American Literature
Author: John Matthews Manly
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Contemporary American Literature" (Bibliographies and Study Outlines) by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Contemporary American Literature" (Bibliographies and Study Outlines) by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The United States Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
Written Lives
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219364
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe). In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected here are twenty pieces recounting great writers' lives, "or, more precisely, snippets of writers' lives." Thomas Mann, Rilke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Turgenev, Djuna Barnes, Emily Brontë, Malcolm Lowry, and Kipling appear ("all fairly disastrous individuals"), and "almost nothing" in his stories is invented. Like Isak Dinesen (who "claimed to have poor sight, yet could spot a four-leaf clover in a field from a remarkable distance away"), Marías has a sharp eye. Nabokov is here, making "the highly improbable assertion that he is 'as American as April in Arizona,'" as is Oscar Wilde, who, in debt on his deathbed, ordered up champagne, "remarking cheerfully, 'I am dying beyond my means.'" Faulkner, we find, when fired from his post office job, explained that he was not prepared "to be beholden to any son-of-a-bitch who had two cents to buy a stamp." Affection glows in the pages of Written Lives, evidence, as Marías remarks, that "although I have enjoyed writing all my books, this was the one with which I had the most fun."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219364
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe). In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected here are twenty pieces recounting great writers' lives, "or, more precisely, snippets of writers' lives." Thomas Mann, Rilke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Turgenev, Djuna Barnes, Emily Brontë, Malcolm Lowry, and Kipling appear ("all fairly disastrous individuals"), and "almost nothing" in his stories is invented. Like Isak Dinesen (who "claimed to have poor sight, yet could spot a four-leaf clover in a field from a remarkable distance away"), Marías has a sharp eye. Nabokov is here, making "the highly improbable assertion that he is 'as American as April in Arizona,'" as is Oscar Wilde, who, in debt on his deathbed, ordered up champagne, "remarking cheerfully, 'I am dying beyond my means.'" Faulkner, we find, when fired from his post office job, explained that he was not prepared "to be beholden to any son-of-a-bitch who had two cents to buy a stamp." Affection glows in the pages of Written Lives, evidence, as Marías remarks, that "although I have enjoyed writing all my books, this was the one with which I had the most fun."
Young Titan
Author: Michael Shelden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451609922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An account of the World War II prime minister's early career covers his contributions to building a modern navy, his experimentations with radical social reforms, and his lesser-known romantic pursuits.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451609922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An account of the World War II prime minister's early career covers his contributions to building a modern navy, his experimentations with radical social reforms, and his lesser-known romantic pursuits.