N Elizabeth SchlatterThis concise volume is the place to start for anyone considering a career in museums. Museum professional and author N. Elizabeth Schlatter outlines the nature of the profession...

Classical drawing is staging a comeback. "The Art Students League of New York" presents a unique and perfect celebration of this revival: a gallery of never-before-published 19th- and 20th-century drawings...

This dictionary provides comprehensive information on the fine arts, with entries on paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, and the artists who have made them, throughout the world. It covers historical...

Teaches how to write and illustrate children's books by analyzing story structure and showing how the story's action is communicated through picture sequences

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was...

Frances Morris Agnes Martin was one of the preeminent painters of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for...

Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy History. The Amber Room was one of mankind's greatest treasures, a masterpiece of staggering ambition and value. Commissioned by Frederick I of Prussia in 1701,...

Galen Rowell As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America - a bright shining promise of endless possibility. This exquisite celebration of "California The...