Theory of art books

"This volume contains a comprehensive guide to drawing, with information on all aspects and step-by-step instructions....  Read More >>

This book contains a teacher's manual for an introductory course on technical drawing and drafting. Written in clear,...  Read More >>

"This is a guide by Marie Elizabeth Cave outlining her own personal method for drawing from memory. Presented in...  Read More >>

"""The Science and Art of Model and Object Drawing"" constitutes a fantastic introduction to drawing from real life...  Read More >>

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"Art education has gone through a number of paradigms since its origins in the medieval guilds. Yet ever since joining...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

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The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines ""found""...  Read More >>

Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism), a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), claimed a...  Read More >>

""A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar."" What happens...  Read More >>

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""A wide-ranging theoretical and aesthetic exploration of hybrid moving images based on the intersection of film,...  Read More >>

A look at why we are interested in what we see in art. Are we born with aesthetic preferences that are shaped by...  Read More >>

Threads, a series of talks devoted to the art of the book, includes poets, scholars, artists and publishers. It...  Read More >>

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Bringing together a renowned international group of contributors, this book explores the problems in the study of...  Read More >>

The process of taking form begins with an engagement with chaos, a recurrently updated insinuation of creation....  Read More >>

Die Vielseitigkeit seiner konsequenten, experimentellen und poetischen, sowohl immateriellen wie physischen künstlerischen...  Read More >>

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The third volume in the ""Performance Ideas"" series.  Read More >>

The author has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in...  Read More >>

The Drawing Lesson uses the tale of one aspiring young artist and his reluctant mentor to impart easy-to-follow...  Read More >>