Presents master drawings depicting the basic principles of composition and perspective as well as exercises to develop observational powers and technical style

Product Description: ? The record and results of one man's artistic and ecological adventure Artist and Williams College art professor Mike Glier has translated his preoccupation with man's connection to nature into a series of precisely plotted journeys...read more

Product Description: Presented here are more than 65 of the province's contemporary landscape artists and their works. Each profiled artist appears with a short bio and artists statement, followed by examples of his or her art. The artists covered in this book represent a wide range of styles.

Product Description: Alan Gussow (1931-1997) was at the forefront of a generation of American artists who extended the reach of abstract expressionism through an inventive blend of abstraction and realism. The youngest American to win the Prix de Rome, his career spanned nearly 50 years...read more

Product Description: This is a classic collection of eight idyllic rural scenes for cross stitchers to enjoy from a selection of favourite designers.Each design encapsulates a moment of rustic tranquillity, from a charming cottage brimming with summer flowers, to a bluebell carpet blanketing a woodland scene...read more

Product Description: In Heimat, his previous collection of photographs published by Hatje Cantz, German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski, born in 1961, gave us pictures of his homeland that showed it as it had never been seen before. Photo International deemed it "one of the most beautiful and significant photography books this year...read more

South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun  achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed.  Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood.  Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from  “being South African,” and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa.   In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.

Product Description: Humphry Repton’s Red Books have long been the subject of scholarly interest for their unique contribution to British landscape discourse around 1800. Lavishly illustrated with Repton’s own watercolours, the notorious Red Book manuscripts were used to suggest improvements to family estates all over England, Scotland and Wales...read more

Product Description: Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art...read more

Product Description: Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art...read more

Product Description: Mountains of the Heart explores Japan's landscape through the eyes of a renowned artist and provides new perspectives on a rare painting collection.It is an invaluable study of a landmark masterpiece that profoundly influenced the development of ehon, or art books, which recorded Japanese life, culture, and geography for hundreds of years...read more

Product Description: Paint sweet scenes with cuddly baby animals!These precious animals are ready to play! Create your own warm moments of wonder as you paint charming baby animals exploring the world around them.Ten complete step-by-step demonstrations show you how to paint adorable country animals, including little lambs, playful piglets, sleepy chicks, mischievous ducklings, a friendly foal and their loving, watchful mothers...read more

Product Description: Fourth in the Realistic Model Railroading series by the same author, this volume shows modelers how to turn to the real thing natural land forms, crops, forests, water features, and even the seasons, to get better results on their model railroad layouts...read more

FROM THE PREFACE: The subject of this volume is the growth and development of ceramic production in the Northeastern United States and its relation to changing consumption patterns and more general cultural processes. It is an examination of domestic pottery manufacture in the Northeast from its beginning as a small, family-based enterprise in the 1620s to the entrepreneurial, mechanized mass production of wares in many communities by 1850. Major themes considered include the cultural, social, and economic significance of the domestic ceramic industry as indicated by the extent and nature of regional production in the Northeast; the relation of these production patterns to consumption, distribution, and trade with settlements along the colonial Eastern seaboard and in Europe; and the recognition of patterned cultural variation and change in the Northeast as revealed through ceramics in the archaeological and historic record.One major theoretical orientation dominates the volume: the relevance of ceramic studies to the anthropological concept of tradition. After an introductory description of specific external and internal mechanisms of change that operate on all traditions, we consider archaeological ceramics in their temporal and spatial contexts as material correlates of human behavior. Patterns revealed in the archaeological record of the Northeast are viewed as suggestive of more general cultural processes operating in the region. The conservative, emulative nature of ceramic traditions initially transplanted to the Northeast is detailed, and subsequent transformations of these traditions are explored. The eventual emergence of a distinctive American industry that was nevertheless still subject to continuing nondomestic influences is also addressed.By concentrating on domestically produced earthenware--in addition to other domestic ceramic classes such as stoneware--for cultural interpretation, we stress an artifact class that was of great importance in the Northeast, where it usually comprises upward of 80% of the total ceramic sample from typical early colonial sites. Yet, due mostly to lack of available documentation, red-bodied earthenwares in particular have been underemphasized or ignored in many historical archaeological studies of the Northeast. Here, considerable emphasis is placed on these poorly documented wares. The authors integrate recent archaeological and historical considerations of specific domestic ceramic types, varieties, forms, and functions, documentary research, and kiln excavation data for the entire Northeast. We also compare these wares to their European antecedents and to contemporary European and colonial Southeastern wares to interpret their significance in colonial lifeways.The volume is organized into an Introduction and three thematic Parts. Largely for clarity of presentation, each Part is introduced with an overview. In the chapters of each Part, trends in the development and growth of the domestic pottery-making industry are described and interpreted. Chapters are ordered in a topical and loosely chronological way according to the thematic emphasis of each Part. Part I, "Transplantation: Early Regional Production," is a consideration of the conservative, emulative nature of many of the ceramic traditions that were transplanted initially from Europe to colonies in the Northeast. In Part 2, "Transformation: Access to Local and World Trade," we define subsequent transformations of these ceramic traditions in terms of specific external and internal mechanisms of change common to all types of traditions, interpreting evolving ceramic traditions in relation to changing cultural processes and also considering the impact of continuing in-migration of European potters, techniques, forms, and influences on the budding domestic industry. In Part 3, "Legacy: Emergence of an American Industry," the development of a distinctively American industry by early Industrial Revolution times is addressed. This nineteenth-century achievement is viewed as mainly entrepreneurial and specifically American. Yet, it still bears marks of a persistent, on-going, identifiable European influence.This volume will be most useful to those archaeologists and ceramic historians working with colonial pottery from the eastern United States. However, it also provides a theoretical, analytic, and interpretive framework for considerations of domestic ceramics and comparable wares produced elsewhere. This treatment, additionally, should serve as a model of general approach, method, and theory for discussions of tradition and the mechanisms of change that operate on all types of traditions. Consequently, this book should be a helpful reference for scholars and researchers working in other regions and with later sites and comparative data, as well. Historic-period potters and their wares in the Northeastern United States receive long-due attention in this analytical, interpretive, and theoretical synthesis. The volume focuses on the growth and development of ceramic production in relation to changing consumption patterns and more general cultural practices, as well as marketing and world trade patterns between 1625 and 1850.The editor views archaeological ceramics, in their temporal and spatial contexts, as material correlates of human behavior. Ceramic traditions are explored and defined in terms of their initial transplantation to the Northeast, subsequent transformation, and eventual emergence as a distinctively Americanized industry in which Old World influences persist.The book gives further attention to other important aspects of ceramic study, including:domestically produced red earthenwares -- an area often neglected in other works;comparable wares produced elsewhere;domestic pottery manufacturing from the beginnings of small, family-based enterprises in the 1620's to the entrepreneurial, mechanized mass-production of wares by the 1850's;cultural, social, and economic role of the domestic ceramic industry and the nature and extent of regional production;examination of patterned cultural change in the Northeast as revealed through ceramic research.

Brings together vivid reproductions of the artist's paintings, biographical details, and the recollections of friends, family members, and colleagues in a colorful portraint of vagabond artist Harold Newton, a key member of the Highwaymen, a group of African-American painters from Florida.

Product Description: In the early decades of the twentieth century, Canada sought to define itself as an independent dominion with allegiance to the British Empire. The visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and the Group of Seven's landscapes became part of a larger program to unify the nation and assert its uniqueness...read more

Seven illustrations show how a village changes between the years 1953 and 1972.

Product Description: Created specifically for the beginning to advanced artist who has an interest in traditional watercolor painting. Subjects include mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, birds, trees, and snow-covered landscapes. Incorporate Chinese brush effects and Oriental grace into paintings...read more

Product Description: Presenting diverse ways to depict nature, this book offers expert guidance for drawing with pencil, pen, ink, and charcoal, and painting with oils and pastels. A comprehensive historical review of the genre - from early European and American schools through impressionism and expressionism to contemporary landscape art - provides artists with a solid understanding of this type of art...read more

Product Description: Following on the success of the catalogue raisonné Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints published by Hotei Publishing in 2003, Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasuis Masterpieces brings together in a single volume one hundred of the artists most celebrated prints...read more