Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers Paperback - 1998
by Arthur Wesley Dow; Introduction by Joseph Masheck
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was a painter, printmaker, and writer, much influenced by Japanese art. Although known as mentor to Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber, Dow's legacy as a proponent of modern art has been neglected. His COMPOSITION, first published in 1899, teaches students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between lines, colors, and dark and light patterns. 8 color and 150 b&w illustrations.
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ANYONE WHO CAN think of "design" in art as a matter of form doing structural more than representational duty is on the way to comprehending the modernist motion of preeminent form as it emerged from design in the decorative (or applied or industrial) arts into an independent "abstract" art, with the positively decorative as transitional to the fully nonobjective.
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"Composition is a great classic that had immense influence on thinking about art during the first decades of the twentieth century; it is still a challenging statement about the nature of effective visual representation, and it remains of special interest to students of the history of art."--Richard Shiff, University of Texas, Austin
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- Title Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers
- Author Arthur Wesley Dow; Introduction by Joseph Masheck
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 1998-03-19
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780520207493 / 0520207491
- Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
- Dimensions 11.22 x 8.95 x 0.74 in (28.50 x 22.73 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Composition (Art), Art - Study and teaching
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97002400
- Dewey Decimal Code 702.8
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