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In a series of four meditations on still-life painting, Guy Davenport blends art history with literary criticism, taking a close look at the iconic and symbolic function of objects and the multiple ways they are represented in culture. Focusing on a genre... [ More...]
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Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818) was one of the most talented still-life painters of the French school. Her exquisite paintings, today located in some of the world's finest museums, were admired and collected by many of her contemporaries, including Marie... [ More...]
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New Edition A still life provides the perfect model—motionless and with a never-ending range of shapes, textures, and colors. For this reason, it is an important part of every artist's repertoire, and an excellent style for the newcomer just... [ More...]
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The Sense of Pleasure is a collection of fifty nine still life paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that expresses the variety, abundance, nourishment, pleasures and mysteries of nature. The great masters of still life painting were from... [ More...]
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JEANETTE PASIN SLOAN works in the great still-life tradition of Western art but takes a distinctly modernist approach to design and color, employing bold shapes, vertiginous arrangements of patterned fabrics, and distorting reflections (occasionally... [ More...]
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The watercolors created using this naturalistic approach are botanically correct but also show the beauty of flowers in a very real way—the velvety quality of a petal, the delicate colors, the gloss of a leaf. Coral G. Guest demonstrates in a series... [ More...]
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The Impressionists showed us a new way to look at the world with their graceful and fleeting visions of city streets and the countryside. But one aspect of their work has gone largely overlooked—the still-life painting. Here are some of the most... [ More...]
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This title focuses on visually satisfying compositions in which the main elements are flowers, fruit and vegetable arrangements, and even arrangements of abstract geometric shapes. Both examples of famous paintings and step-by-step examples of works in... [ More...]
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"It's rare to find a series of basic instructional books that are well executed, comprehensive, and attractively priced. The quality of this series is consistent....Purchase as many of these as your budget allows."—"Library Journal. "Explores the... [ More...]
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