Short biography & critical assessment of Roger Hilton's work, in which the author focusses on the rich complexity & cultural significance of the artist's later work in gouache.
A comprehensive and authoritative survey of Islamic Architecture from the world's leading expert.
Through an exploration of Latin America's ancient and contemporary art and architecture, this classroom resource provides a social study of this vast and varied region. The colourful timelines transport students back to the ancient civilisations of the Maya, Olmec, Aztec, and Inca.
Offers a comprehensive approach to art. This text includes a survey of Western art, studies of non-Western art, as well as an introduction to art appreciation. It shows students how the visual arts serve to shape and reflect ideas, issues, and themes from the time of the first cave paintings to the twenty-first century.
A comprehensive resource that covers drawing media. It explores both realistic and expressive drawing techniques through hands-on studio opportunities, from basic to advanced levels. It includes 12 transparencies that illustrate fundamental skills and techniques: drawing concepts; student artwork, landscape; and, elements and principles of design.
Includes the artist's original designs, combining calligraphic mottoes, quotations or anniversary dates with appropriate art, producing witty and harmonious compositions, and thus illustrates how to achieve similar results.
Designs from documents (Fraktur and Vorschrift) and other craft examples with floral borders, hearts, tulips, doves and other motifs in vivid abundance. Not the commercial hex signs of roadside stands but the authentic art of the Pennsylvania German culture.