Search Results: Art: Methods from The Owl at the Bridge

NY, Arco, ©1963. Soft Cover. 182 p., illus.; 19 cm. Cover title. Title page continues: "Foreword by Sir Donald Wolfit. Part 1: Acting, by Edwin C. White; pref. by W. J. Mayhead. Part 2: Stage movement, by Marguerite Battye; pref. by Margaret Leighton." Stock#46219. Vg / soft cover.

[NY] Dover [©1957]. Soft Cover. xxiv p., 189 plates (part color); 26 cm. "Sketches by Michelangelo, Leonardo, and other masters highlight this study of skeletal and muscular structure and development of the body." Third edition. ISBN (10): 0486202410. Stock#46826. Vg/ soft cover.

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, [1971].. Soft Cover. 96 p. illus. (part col.) 19.5 x 16.5 cm. "An introduction to the basic elements of the plastic arts." Stock# 40,471. Vg/ softcover.

J. P. Tarcher, Los Angeles [c1979]. Soft Cover. 'My premise is that developing a new way of seeing by tapping the special functions of the right hemisphere of your brain can help you learn to draw, and the sequence of exercises is designed to do just that.' Chapters include Expressing Yourself in Drawing: The Nonverbal Language of Art; Crossing Over: Experiencing the Shift from Left to Right; Drawing on Memories: Your History as an Artist; Getting Around Your Symbol System: Meeting Edges and Contours; Perceiving the Shape of a Space: The Positive Aspects of Negative Space; Branching Out in All Directions: Perspective in a New Mode; Fitting It All Together: The Place of Proportion; Facing Forward: Portrait Drawing with Ease; glossary & bibliography. 207 p., index, illus., 23 cm.; pictorial paper covers a bit worn; VG. 31918.

NY, Sterling Pub., 2003. Soft Cover. 192 p., color illus.; 22 cm. A comprehensive visual guide to traditional and contemporary techniques. ISBN(10): 1402709110. Stock#46480. Vg / softcover.

Den Haag/ Oxford, A. A. M. Stols/ Bruno Cassirer, 1947. Hard Cover. 179 p., 1 leaf, 23 cm. On landscape painting and its origin. Also contains essays on still life and portrait. Stock# 34,179. Vg/dj good+

NY, Macmillan, MCMXXXVI [1936]. Hard Cover. xxxv, 343 p., index, illus, 29.5 cm. Title continues: of modern artistic methods... fourth edition. Note "Published November, 1919. Revised edition with new material October, 1924. Third edition with new preface, October, 1925. Fourth edition with preface by Mrs. Pennell, November, 1926. Reprinted, August, 1929; March 1931; October, 1936, December, 1936." MRP. Stock# 36,353. Good+, some foxing/ no dj.

Minneapolis, Burgess,1969. Soft Cover. 3 p.l., 194p., illus., 26 cm. A teacher of university art students, the author developed simple ways to draw complex images. Stock# 32,835. Good+, owner's name on t.p./ paper.

New Haven, Yale U Press, 2000. "Examines the formation of the new career of printmaker during the late fifteenth and throughout the sixteenth century in Italy. Focuses particularly on the practical relationship between the ancient skill of drawing and the more modern techniques of artisans who made prints by engraving images into copper or wood." Lincoln builds her discussions around the work of three printmakers practicing at different times and under varying economic opportunities and restraints: Andrea Mantegna in Mantua, Domenico Beccafumi in Siena, and Diana Mantuana (Diana Scultori) in Rome. Stock#41933x. Fine; new from publisher.

N.Y., Schocken, [1965].. Soft Cover. 288 p., 41 illus., 20 cm. Translated by R.F.C. Hull from Essays Uber die Landschaftsmalerei. Stock# 34,180. Vg/ paper.

Royston, Eagle Editions, [2004, c1991]. Soft Cover. 176 p., col. illus., 24.5 cm. "A complete course in figure drawing, incorporating advice on techniques and drawing mediums." Stock# 39,982x. Fine, new from publisher/ paper.

Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher; NY, Distributed by St. Martin's Press ©1979. Soft Cover. vii, 207 p., illus.; 23 x 20 cm. "Applying recent discoveries in brain research to the teaching of drawing skills, Dr. Betty Edwards presents a set of basic exersizes designed to release creative potential and tap into the special drawing abilities of the right half of the brain." ISBN (10): 0312904924. Stock#47705. Vg / soft cover.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1985. Soft Cover. xiv, 239 p., illus. throughout in color & b/w; 25 cm. "This book is a compilation of my writing that has appeared in the past. A graphic designer is one who creates ideas that are expressed in words and/or pictures, and generally solves problems of visual communication." Seems to be the second printing. OB 446. Vg/ softcover.

New York, Bonanza Books [1970?, c1963]. Hard Cover. 94 p. illus., port. 22.5 x 19 cm. First pub. Pitman Pub. Corp., 1963. "An illustrated step-by-step framng job shows exactly how it is done." Stock# 44,074. Vg / dj vg.

N.Y., Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973. Hard Cover. 103 p., illus., 21.5 cm. On art education is schools. Many examples of young students' art. Stock# 32,834. Vg/ no dj.

50 Projects include Pendants, Earrings, Rings, Beads, Other Jewelry, Accessories & Objects. 127 pages, color & b/w illustrations throughout incl. photos; color pictorial hard cover over ring binder so book lies flat; new from publisher. Stock#40296bis/h.