A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice Want to paint like Rembrandt-- and not like "modern artists" like Pollock? Read this beautifully illustrated and exquisitely written book. Explore this book.
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
A play based on the story of young Helen Keller - blind, deaf, and mute since infancy- who is unable to communicate - and her teacher Annie Sullivan's persistence to teach her how to do so. Explore this book.
The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand
“The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe.” "Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments." "By a selective re-creation,...
Innovators in Sculpture
"How did artists progress from Egyptian sculptures to a work such as Frishmuth's The Vine - two of the works on the front cover? To find out, we focus on innovations that gave the sculptors who created them - and all those who followed - greater power to make viewers...
Lessons in Classical Drawing by Juliette Aristides
Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier Juliette Aristides breaks down the drawing process into small, manageable parts to introduce universal principles and concrete techniques to understand the artistic process and create beautiful drawings. Explore this...
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale
In this wonderful book, recommended to me by art historian Mary Ann Sures, Robert Hale examines 100 drawings of the Masters —including works of Michelangelo, da Vinci, Rodin, Goya, and Rembrandt—showing how these Masters tackled basic issues such as line, light,...
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
Michelangelo Buonarotti, the creator of “David”, painter of the Sistine ceiling, the architect of the dome of St Peter’s, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone’s marvelous book. Explore this book...