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Chuck Close: Work
Christopher Finch
Prestel Publishing
Prestel Publishing
The first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow ...
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Charles Reids Watercolor Secrets
Charles Reid
North Light Books
North Light Books
Beloved artist Charles Reid gives readers a rare look into his artistic life with this fascinating book. The paintings on each page have been selected from the actual sketchbooks he has kept for the past 25 years. These breathtaking illustrations...
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Saints in Art
Rosa Giorgi
Getty Publications
Getty Publications
Christian saints have been the objects of reverence and fascination throughout the past two millennia. Their likenesses, heroic acts, prayerful lives, and stories of martyrdom have been portrayed frequently in art of diverse media. Unfamiliar with...
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Delicious: The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud
Susan Goldman Rubin
Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books
One of the giants of American art, Wayne Thiebaud was at first unappreciated because of the everyday subject matter of his paintings. His tasty hot dogs, delectable cakes, dizzy streets, and sleepy deltas have since become icons of twentieth century...
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Trompe L'Oeil Grisaille, Architecture and Drapery
Ursula E. Benad, Martin Benad
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Introduces the techniques of painting with monochrome washes, a key element of trompe l'oeil painting. All trompe l'oeil painting uses light and shadow to create illusory forms and surfaces. This how-to manual gives step-by step instructions for...
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What Painting Is
James Elkins
Routledge
Routledge
What is painting really? Daubs of sticky oils and crushed rock, blobs that form and reform, colors that look one way on a palette, another way on canvas, a different way still in relation to other bits of color beside them. Books on painting...
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