Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers

Author:   Arthur Wesley Dow ,  Joseph Masheck
Publisher:   University of California Press
Edition:   13th Revised ed.
ISBN:  

9780520207493


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   19 March 1998
Format:   Paperback
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Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers


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First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition has probably influenced more Americans than any other text to think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity. While Dow is known as the mentor of Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber, his legacy as a proponent of modern art has suffered undeserved neglect by recent artists and art historians. In Composition Dow develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between lines, colors, and dark and light patterns. Greatly influenced by Japanese art, he expounds a theory of ""flat"" formal equilibrium as an essential component of telling pictorial creation. Generations of teachers and their public school pupils learned from Dow's orientalism and adopted basic postimpressionist principles without even knowing the term. The reappearance of Dow's practical, well-illustrated guide, enhanced by Joseph Masheck's discussion of its historical ramifications, is an important event for all concerned with the visual arts and the intellectual antecedents of American modernism.

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Author:   Arthur Wesley Dow ,  Joseph Masheck
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Edition:   13th Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 28.60cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780520207493


ISBN 10:   0520207491
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   19 March 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was a painter, printmaker, and writer. He chaired the Department of Fine Arts at Teachers College of Columbia University from 1904 until his death. Joseph Masheck is a well-known art critic and Professor of Art History at Hofstra University.

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