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...

European Drawings from the Fitzwilliam

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...

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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

An Illustrated Companion to the Lives and Works of the Most Celebrated Artists

Francis Frith's hugely popular photographs allowed the Victorian armchair traveller to follow him down the Nile, up the Rhine and over the British Isles. In his own words, Frith's aim...

A distinguished photographer portrays the men and women who have made world history over the past four decades

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...