Wood-Block Printing

A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice

Author: F. Morley Fletcher

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Bound By Law

This book is about the effects of intellectual property on culture – something of interest to artists and citizens around the world. Reflecting the authors’ expertise, the legal discussion in the book is primarily focused on US law, which has strongly influenced the global cultural marketplace...

Author: Daya Filmaker

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Memoirs Illustrative of the Art of Glass-Painting

It is evident," he observes, " that the first step towards elevating glass-painting to the rank it once held among the arts, is to estimate its productions by those sound rules of criticism which are alike applicable to all works of art..

Author: Charles Winston, 1865

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Beautiful Women in Art Vol. 1

A GENERAL view of the portraits of women reproduced in this volume, portraits of women belonging to the most remote antiquity, as well as those of lovely contemporaries, shows very clearly that the author found himself compelled to choose, from among the innumerable feminine rep- resentations which we owe to the brush of the painter and the chisel of the sculp- tor, those in which the genius of the author and the beauty of the model are most perfectly expressed...

Author: Armand Dayot, 1902

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Beautiful Women in Art Vol. 2

O designate a feminine type in which beauty depends upon the incessant play of expression, the in- tense, changeable animation of the physiognomy, we usually say: an eighteenth century. And, in fact, this type is to be met with in the definitive form of the masterpiece, in the works of La Rosalba, Watteau, Latour, Fragonard, and others...

Author:Armand Dayot, 1902

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The Art of Bookbinding

This book is intended to give the amateur sufficient knowledge to enable him to avoid such mistakes in his purchases, and at the same time give him as much instruction as will, if his inclination and time permit, enable him to bind his own volumes as his wishes and taste may dictate. To this end I have endeavoured to explain, in as concise a manner as possible, the various branches of the trade...

Author:Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, 1880

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The Magic Art
...I make no apologies for the inclusion of certain known tricks and devices. The book is not intended so much for the collector of magical literature as for that great host of aspiring amateurs, who, seeking after enlightenment in the world of conjuring...

Author: donald Holms 1920

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The Art of Magic

For the purpose of this book it will be convenient to divide magic into three branches: manual dexterity, mental subtleties and the surprising results produced by a judicious and artistic blending of the second and third branches...

Author: Thomas Nelson Downs, 1921

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The Art of Brewing

The artificial formation of exhilarating and intoxicating liquors has been practised in most ages and nations...

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The Art of Miniature Painting

..Almost every painter sees nature with a different eye, and uses different colours to imitate it, some more successfully than others; the colours, however, to be shortly mentioned below, will produce every effect that may be required...

Author: Charles William Day, 1852

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The Art of Fresco Painting

The revival of the art of Fresco Painting in the nineteenth century, will be an epoch in the fine arts, and, will probably, be the means of forming a great school of painting in this country, and lead to the improvement of the sister arts of sculpture and architecture...

Author: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield, 1846

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Stained Glass as an Art

..for this purpose three things are indispensable : 1. A brief but clear account of the technique and methods pertaining to the material. 2. An examination into the artistic possibilities inherent in it from the point of view of its technique. 3. A consideration of the artistic question in relation to the situation and purpose of the work...

Author: Henry Holiday, 1896

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The Art of Wood Carving

...In commencing the study of wood-carving it will be well to see that the necessary implements and materials are at our hand; I will, therefore, give in this section a list and description of the various items we shall require in the course of our work...

Author: George Alfred Rogers, 1867

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Practical Forging and Art Smithing

..The artistic success of this book lies in the evident fact that the work represented appears "Hand wrought and fashioned to beauty and use." ...

Author: Thomas Francis Googerty, 1915


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The Art of Making Paper

..As in the case of many useful arts, the earliest beginnings of paper-making, properly so-called, must be traced among the Chinese ; but it is worth while to bestow some atten- tion upon a material which anticipated both the name and function of paper...

Author: Rensselaer W Daniels, 1905

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The Fine Art of Photography

THERE are almost as many definitions of the phrase " fine art " as there are writers on the subject, one author even maintaining that any beautiful object produced by man is a work of fine art, a definition which would obviously include Oriental rugs, automobiles, grand pianos and repeating rifles; but the definition which the present author prefers, and on which the discussion in the following pages is based, is as follows: A fine art is any medium of expression which permits one person to convey to another an abstract idea of a lofty or ennobling character, or to arouse in another a lofty emotion.

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Master Art Forger The Story Of Han Van Meegeren

..It is a fact that he proceeded to paint six spurious "Vermeers" and forge two "de Hoochs" and that these pictures were unanimously hailed as outstanding examples from the Brushes of two of the greatest artists of all time. The experts and the connoisseurs agreed on that...

Author: John Godley, 1951

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Forgers, Dealers, Experts, Strange Chapters In The History Of Art

Who are the forgers and who are the experts? It is not always easy to say, so great is the skill and ingenuity employed by forgers when copying a work of art. The greatest art experts can be, and have been, taken in by a clever piece of forgery and though the forger's motives are questionable his skill deserves recognition...

Author: Sepp Schuller, 1960

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Creative Ceramics A Primitive Craft Becomes A Fine Art

..It was, no doubt, the highly plastic quality of clay and its sensitive response to the slightest pressure that fascinated the primitives. It is this same plastic quality which, charmlike, continues to hold the interest of moderns...

Author: Kartherine Morris Lester, 1948

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The Principles of Light and Color

it seemed quite possible at last to crystallize the subjects of Light, Color, and other Fine Forces into a science, and learn their chemical and therapeutical potencies as well as many of their mystic relations to physical and psychological action...

Author: Edwin D. Babbitt, 1878

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The Art of Illumination, as Practised During the Middle Ages:

With a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods Of all the relics of the middle ages which have been preserved to our times, none possess a greater amount of interest, or more varied instruction, than illuminated manuscripts. Whether we regard them, in their almost infinite variety, as an assemblage of all that is most graceful in design and gorgeous in colouring...

Author: Henry Shaw. 1870

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