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Product Description: L'analyse des métaphores et des mythes utilisés par Eschyle permet de mettre au jour les préoccupations profondes du dramaturge, ses angoisses et sa conception de l'univers. Réseaux d'images, thèmes privilégiés, techniques de l'écrivain (métaphores paradoxales, transformation des images du discours en objets scéniques), liens étroits entre l'imagination du poète et l'imaginaire mythique (passage de la métaphore à la métamorphose par exemple) font surgir, derrière les personnages qui s'affrontentet se déchirent sous le regard des spectateurs, l'ombre d'un mythe essentiel qui sous-tend toute l'oeuvre d'Eschyle, celui du combat entre le Cosmos (l'ordre et la paix) et le Chaos (la confusion et la violence)...read more

Product Description: This practical drawing series comprises six titles across a range of subjects that are perennially popular with artists: still life, landscapes, portraits, perspective and composition, life drawing, and animals. Each book provides an accessible introduction to the subject, backed up by clear examples and developed through step-by-step exercises for readers to follow...read more

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Product Description: Students and professionals alike will benefit from this focus on the figure in the overall composition of a sketch or drawing. Its solid instruction and many fine examples make it a particularly valuable tool for intermediate artists...read more

The tension between two systems for understanding and picturing space, the concentric and the Cartesian, is regarded by the author as the key to composition in painting, sculpture and architecture

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Product Description: Hey, kids! If you liked learning the basics of three-dimensional drawing from Mark Kistler in his books Draw Squad and Imagination Station, you'll love his new book, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler. Featuring a fun, action-filled tale about a family of lovable characters struggling through a series of breathtaking discoveries and hilarious adventures, Drawing in 3-D with Mark Kistler is all you need -- along with a sharpened pencil, a ready imagination, and Mark Kistler's Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook -- to draw cool creatures and awesome objects such as: Atomic Androids, Big Bug-Eyed Birds, and Colossal Castles Daring Driving Dogs, Early Egyptian Sphinx, and Kissing Kangaroos Magnificent Macaroni, Peaceful Pelicans, and Zapping Zombies ...read more

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Product Description: In this captivating study, an influential scholar-artist offers timeless advice on shape, form, and composition for artists in any medium. Irma Richter illuminates the connections between art and science by surveying works of art from classical antiquity through the Modernist era...read more

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Explains the historical background of composition and perspective, analyzes each area of a composition, and discusses the application of fundamental concepts of perspective to indoor and outdoor scenes