Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1849026742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 134 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Inside Flap"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
He taught many of America's leading artists and craftspeople, including Georgia O'Keeffe, two of the Overbeck Sisters and the Byrdcliffe Colony. Dow was largely inspired by Japanese art to this work on Compositionn.. Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential arts educator
Designing, *doing* & *putting together* Compositions Marie Kazalia This version of the vintage text on composition--that the artist Georgia O'Keefe, and no doubt many other artists of note studied in their day--comes with an amazingly well written and profoundly useful lengthly Introduction by the multi-gifted philosophizing art historian Joseph Masheck.After reading only the first few pages of Masheck's fast-paced concisely intelligent writing, I was hooked, and ordered his book on Cezanne--titled *C's Aesthetics* --which I have now completed reading, and am working on re-re. Love the book Love the book. This particular edition is a smaller format than another I had seen, making the illustrations difficult to see.. The definitive book on the subject Having read the earlier review, I felt it necessary to chime in. The introduction, which I skipped, was lengthy, but there's a lot of information in the main text of the book- enough to warrant the price. It's as much a workbook as a text since there are suggested exercises to follow. There are also lots of pictures of examples which I found very helpful. Dow "wrote the book" on composition, and this is it!