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Provides information on the basic techniques of drawing using a pencil, pen, charcoal, pastels, pen and wash, and contâe.

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Product Description: Book by Robertson, Bruce

When Ruth Harriet Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with "more stars than there are in heaven," she was twenty-two years old and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios. In a career that lasted from 1925 until 1930, Louise (born Ruth Goldstein) photographed all the stars, contract players, and many of the hopefuls who passed through the studio's front gates, including Greta Garbo, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, and Norma Shearer. This book, which coincides with a major traveling retrospective of Louise's work organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, is the first collection of her exquisite photographs. Containing over one hundred breathtaking images--reproduced from the original negatives--it attests to the talent and vision of a surprisingly unknown photographer who formed the images and helped create the popularity of some of our most enduring stars.Louise shot about one hundred thousand negatives that distilled the glamour, drama, and excitement of MGM's feature productions. Louise's original photographs were circulated to millions of moviegoers, magazine and newspaper readers, and fans. The movies and publicity machine that these photographs supported shaped the basic notions of stardom, glamour, and fashion in the 1920s and still affect our ideas today.Robert Dance and Bruce Robertson re-create the entire process--from the moment a performer sat in front of Louise's camera to the point at which a fan pasted a star's picture into a scrapbook. They provide insight into Louise's work habits in the studio and describe the personal dynamics between Louise and the actors she photographed. They include a condensed account of the methods of other photographers, a sharp analysis of fan culture in the period, and superb readings of Louise's photographs. With its combination of well-known and rare images, all magnificently reproduced, this book is a fitting tribute to one of the most gifted and underappreciated glamour photographers of Hollywood's golden period.Note: The hardcover edition of this book does have a dust jacket. (Some hardcovers of University of California Press books available in paperback do not.) (view table of contents)

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In medieval Paris, Marguerite helps her nearly blind father finish painting an illuminated manuscript for his patron, Lady Isabelle

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Product Description: Quick--what did Alfred Hitchcock say about actors? What was author H.G. Wells's opinion on advertising? And how did Brigitte Bardot describe growing old? Enhance your conversation--or any speech--with witty quotations, thoughts, and toasts on everything from marriage to alcohol, from politics to civilization, from cinema to computers...read more

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Product Description: Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. "Marsden Hartley is that rare figure in American public life, an artist with a second act. Within five years of his first New York exhibition he was on the threshold of an important international career as one of the few Americans painting original abstractions just as abstraction itself was being developed...read more

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Defines architectural terms, identifies various architectural ornaments and styles, and offers brief profiles of influential architects