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*Includes pictures of more than 25 of Picasso's most famous works, including an explanation of his techniques and influences.*Includes pictures of Picasso and important people in his life. .*Explains the artistic influences and legacy of Picasso's life and art. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Caravaggio greatest masterpieces, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted...

Stop Making Art and Die: Survival Activities for Artists is the first adult activity book that makes it impossible not to succeed and flourish as an artist. Suitable for visual artists and creative artists of all types, Stop Making Art and Die is beyond a mere colouring book. It also encourages a...

Man's inclination to decorate his belongings has always been one of the earliest signs of civilisation. Art had its beginning in the lines indented in clay, perhaps, or hollowed in the wood of family utensils; after that came crude colouring and drawing. Among the first serious efforts to...

Concise, essential and annotated by Raya Yotova, this Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Georges Seurat paintings drawings, date and interesting facts page below. An important Post-Impressionist French painter, Georges Seurat moved away from the apparent spontaneity and rapidity of...

From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed...

Domenico Ghirlandaio was one of the most popular Florentine artists of his time. He received his training in the workshop of Baldovinetti. Later, the work of Verrocchio in particular made an impression on him. Ghirlandaio's compositional representation was simultaneously imposing and respectable....

British women artists have struggled for recognition in the past. This eBook looks at some of the reasons why this was the case including the social and political changes, art education available to women at the time, how life classes were affected, income and commissioning of their artworks, , the...

Incisive reflections on more than twenty portraits of the author by some of the greatest artists of the last century Over the course of his life as a friend and confidant of artists and collectors, and as a lover of art himself, James Lord has written some of the best accounts we have of modern...

Creative History-Collective Insites documents an innovative Australian project that brought together artists and museums in an historic regional town. It will be of interest to artists, creative history students and curators interested in exploring new approaches to collections. Five artists each...

Art is more than just its aesthetic appeal. It is also reflective of the social, political and economic influences in an era. Of course, there’s also the personal preferences of artists added to the mix. In this ebook, we’re going to learn about some of history’s greatest artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Pablo Picasso. Grab a copy and start reading today.

  At the age of fifteen, Busser Howell lost 98 percent of his vision. At the age of forty he lost the remaining 2 percent. Were the story to end there you would likely not be entirely shocked as this type of circumstance is not that uncommon. But this is not the whole story—not by a long...

Part biography, part art history -- a thoroughly engaging look at one man’s life and his phenomenal influence on the world of contemporary art. Bill Reid was at the forefront of the modern-day renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art; but his art, and his life, was not without controversy....

For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. Variously between 1933 and 1953, Christchurch was the home of Angus and Bensemann and McCahon, Curnow and Glover and Baxter, the Group, the Caxton Press and the Little Theatre, Landfall and Tomorrow,...