Artes / Pintura

Decoration of Houses

de Alexandra Stoddard

Alexandra Stoddard continues her creative and insightful guidance by showing us how to make our homes a real expression of our true selves. Starting with the Fifteen Defining Principles of Interior Design, Stoddard...

Freud: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

de Ernest Francisco Fenollosa

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

First Crossing of the Polar Sea

de Hans Christian Andersen

This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's 'Thumbelina', first published in May of 1835. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions...

Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen - Illustrated by Thomas, Charles and W. Heath Robinson

de Hans Christian Andersen

This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's most famous tale 'The Little Mermaid', first published in May of 1837. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in...

Colonial Folkways - A Chronicle Of American Life In the Reign of the Georges

de J. Anderson

Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 - September 9, 1943) was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history. The...

Paul Brown: Master of Equine Art

de M. L. Biscotti

Paul Brown is the definitive book on an artist who is widely regarded as the preeminent American illustrator of equestrian subjects. Based on extensive interviews with Brown's family, friends, and artistic contemporaries,...

The Art of Instruction: Vintage Educational Charts from the 19th and 20th Centuries

de Katrien Van der Schueren

Large-scale wall charts were fundamental tools of classroom instruction throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collected here for the first time in one deluxe volume are over 100 of...

Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop: Mixed Media Techniques for Embracing Imperfection and Celebrating Happy Accidents

de Serena Barton

Are you inspired by the little things, the bits others might overlook? A crack in the sidewalk? The trunk of a fallen tree? Shards of broken pottery? Do you want your artwork to speak to the abstract nature...

The State of Art Criticism

de James Elkins & Michael Newman

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation...

The Changing Concept of Reality in Art

de Deborah Rosenthal & Erwin Rosenthal

"The transmutation of artistic form," writes Erwin Rosenthal, "depends on individual decisions and cultural development. But there are basic laws of self-expression which do not change, which are perpetual because...

Painting Brilliant Skies & Water in Pastel: Secrets to Bringing Light and Life to Your Landscapes

de Liz Haywood-Sullivan

From skies above to water below, discover the secrets to glorious landscapes!

No two elements of the landscape bring the artist greater inspiration--or greater challenge--than sky and water. Get them right and...

Gifted: The Tale of 10 Mysterious Book Sculptures Gifted to the City of Words and Ideas

de Anonymous

One day in March 2011 staff at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh noticed a wonderful paper sculpture left on a table. Carved from paper and mounted on a book, it bore a tag expressing support for the...

Acrylic Solutions: Exploring Mixed Media Layer by Layer

de Chris Cozen & Julie Prichard

Fresh new ways to create fabulous paintings with mixed media techniques!

Acrylic Solutions provides the "hows" behind a multitude of effects you've admired in other artists' works--and then some! Based on the...

Watercolor Unleashed: New Directions for Traditional Painting Techniques

de Julie Gilbert Pollard

Discover fresh, forgiving techniques that promise less frustration and juicier results!

Julie Gilbert Pollard subscribes to the "whatever works" school of painting. Not bound by tradition, she shows you how...

The Get Well Book: A Little Book of Laughs to Make You Feel a Whole Lot Better

de John McPherson

If laughter is the best medicine, The Get Well Book by John McPherson is just what the doctor ordered. Filled with inside laughs about the cures, the pills, and the little indignities that doctors deliver, it...

The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective

de Jr., Samuel Y. Edgerton

A history of linear perspective. With illustrations and chronological outline. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title....

Acrylic Techniques in Mixed Media: Layer, Scribble, Stencil, Stamp

de Roxanne Padgett

Layer It Colorful! Layer It Lush!

Are you afraid of spoiling the blank page with a mish-mash of ugly colors? Vibrant design, striking marks, textures and dynamic color combinations can be easily attained by...

Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)

de Jean-Francois Bedard

This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). For the first time, this publication reproduces in their initial state the embellishments...

Drawing a Cat

de , Clare Turlay Newberry

This unusual book conrtains a guide for drawing cats, and would be a lovely addition to the bookshelf of any artist. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now...

Beads And Beadwork Of The American Indians

de , William Orchard

An in-depth study of the bead and how the native north and south Americans utilised beads for dress and ritual clothing from prehistoric to relatively modern times. Many of the earliest books, particularly those...