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The Art of the Moving Picture - Vachel Lindsay
The Art of the Moving Picture - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical...
The Practice and Science of Drawing - Harold Speed
The Practice and Science of Drawing - Harold Speed
- Author: Harold Speed
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass drawing, and how rhythm is conveyed in art by means of balance and proportion. Everything is pulled together...
Lectures on Landscape - John Ruskin
Lectures on Landscape - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin....
Van Dyck - Percy M. Turner
Van Dyck - Percy M. Turner
- Author: Percy M. Turner
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic periods in his life's work are given as well as his place in history. (Summary by Susan Morin)...
Rosa Bonheur - François Crastre
Rosa Bonheur - François Crastre
- Author: François Crastre
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
A Masterpieces in Colour series book. Very informative with a biography and critique of the artist's work and how well she was beloved. (Summary by Susan Morin)...
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic - Benedetto Croce
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic - Benedetto Croce
- Author: Benedetto Croce
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influential ideas of aesthetics. Croce defines art in terms...
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards - Washington Irving
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / History
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of the material for his book. In 1828, Washington Irving traveled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to...
The Greek View of Life - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
The Greek View of Life - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Author: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Philosophy
βWith the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existence.β This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the...
Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily KANDINSKY
Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily KANDINSKY
- Author: Wassily KANDINSKY
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
Published in 1911, Kandinsky's book compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid -- the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work. The point of the pyramid is those few, great artists. It is a spiritual pyramid,...
The Sins of Hollywood - Ed ROBERTS
The Sins of Hollywood - Ed ROBERTS
- Author: Ed ROBERTS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable hotbed of crime, licentiousness, and moral transgression. THE SINS OF HOLLYWOOD, published in May 1922, is...
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy - Edward ARMITAGE
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy - Edward ARMITAGE
- Author: Edward ARMITAGE
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing, color, decorative painting, finish, choice of subject, composition of decorative and historical pictures,...
The Two Paths - John Ruskin
The Two Paths - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
"The Two Paths" is a collection of five lectures delivered in 1858 and 1859 by John Ruskin on art and architecture. This is how the author himself presents the book: "The following addresses, though spoken at different times, are intentionally...
A Short Description of Torre Abbey - Hugh Robert WATKIN
A Short Description of Torre Abbey - Hugh Robert WATKIN
- Author: Hugh Robert WATKIN
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the time of Henry VIII, a significant part of the buildings of Torre Abbey, particularly the church area, lay in ruins. Then, during the 17th century and subsequently, surviving parts of the abbey were...
Windsor Castle, Book 3 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 3 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
Book 3 - The History of the Castle. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl...
Thoughts on Art and Life - Leonardo DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life - Leonardo DA VINCI
- Author: Leonardo DA VINCI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Philosophy / Memoirs
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einstein. - Summary by A. Gramour...
The Art of Stage Dancing - Ned WAYBURN
The Art of Stage Dancing - Ned WAYBURN
- Author: Ned WAYBURN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Self-Help
Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and his way of teaching it....
Great Artists: Volume 1 - Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
Great Artists: Volume 1 - Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
- Author: Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study. Summary by Laura...
Just Me - Pearl WHITE
Just Me - Pearl WHITE
- Author: Pearl WHITE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. White guides us through her early childhood, her development as a performer, and finally to her breakout role...
The Eyes of the Movie - Harry Alan POTAMKIN
The Eyes of the Movie - Harry Alan POTAMKIN
- Author: Harry Alan POTAMKIN
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Impresario, Imperialist." So begins Harry Alan Potamkin's The Eyes of the Movie, a posthumously published indictment...
A Little Tour in France - Henry James
A Little Tour in France - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France -- from Touraine, down to Provence, then back up north -- made by Henry James in 1882, and first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1883-1884. -...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' piΓΉ eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' piΓΉ eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour - Sir Alfred Edward EAST
The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour - Sir Alfred Edward EAST
- Author: Sir Alfred Edward EAST
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Crafts & Hobbies / Nature
Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance -- chapters rich with timeless oil painting advice by a master landscape artist, Sir Alfred East. East had an exceptional ability to capture the...
The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 - John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Travel & Geography
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in...
Child-life in Art - Estelle M. HURLL
Child-life in Art - Estelle M. HURLL
- Author: Estelle M. HURLL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / History
The poetry of childhood is full of attractiveness to the artist, and many and varied are the forms in which he interprets it. The Christ-child has been his highest ideal. All that human imagination could conceive of innocence and purity and divine...
Auguste Rodin - Rainer Maria Rilke
Auguste Rodin - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translatorsβ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out...
The Gentle Art of Faking - Riccardo NOBILI
The Gentle Art of Faking - Riccardo NOBILI
- Author: Riccardo NOBILI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary counterfeiter; he must be studied amid his proper surroundings, and with the correct local colouring, so to...
Theory of Colours - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theory of Colours - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and the phenomena as experienced by the human eye. He did not try to explain this, but rather collected and...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' piΓΉ eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 - John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Travel & Geography
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in...
The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 - John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Travel & Geography
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in...
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
- Author: Vincent VAN GOGH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Letters
βBeing the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but within recent years that it has found admirers who in many cases have been most ardently enthusiastic. Of...
A Color Notation - Albert Henry MUNSELL
A Color Notation - Albert Henry MUNSELL
- Author: Albert Henry MUNSELL
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
A Color Notation is a method developed by A. H. Munsell in order to produce a unified system of color classification. The system identifies three color dimensions hue (color name), value (lightness), and chroma (color purity) and was the first to...
Remodeled Farmhouses - Mary H. NORTHEND
Remodeled Farmhouses - Mary H. NORTHEND
- Author: Mary H. NORTHEND
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
"There is a certain fascination connected with the remodeling of a farmhouse. Its low, raftered interior, its weather-beaten exterior, never fail to appeal. Types vary with the period in which they were built, but all are of interest. In this...
The Real Latin Quarter - Frank Berkeley SMITH
The Real Latin Quarter - Frank Berkeley SMITH
- Author: Frank Berkeley SMITH
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière. "Yes, rue Falguière, the old rue des...
Ten Books on Architecture - Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO
Ten Books on Architecture - Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO
- Author: Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Antiquity
On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of the most important sources of modern knowledge of...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle piΓΉ eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies...
The Dial, May 1920 - Various
The Dial, May 1920 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Essays & Short Works
An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry by e.e. cummings and Louise Bryant (aka Mrs. John Reed, of "Reds" fame), a short story by Sherwood Anderson, a memoir of the late poet James Flecker, theater and...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Edgar James BANKS
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Edgar James BANKS
- Author: Edgar James BANKS
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Antiquity
The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World is a list of masterpieces of architecture and art of classical antiquity. First compiled in the second century BC, it served as a guidebook for the interested Hellenic traveller. This small book gives an...
The Seven Lamps of Architecture - John Ruskin
The Seven Lamps of Architecture - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
The Seven Lamps of Architecture, published in May 1849, is an extended essay written by the English art critic and theorist John Ruskin. The 'lamps' of the title are Ruskin's principles of architecture, which he later enlarged upon in the...
