A catalogue of Hall Thorpe coloured woodcuts, including a Foreword by Richard King, Introduction (Hall Thorpe: A Consideration of His Work) by Robert and Ingrid Holden, and 'On Colour in the Cottage' by Hall Thorpe, R.B.A., reproduced from The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art 1919. ...
Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years.<br /> <br />'A red-headed little firebrand of a woman', she was an artist who never stood still, moving from realism to Post-Impressionism, to an Aborig ...
• A collection of essays written by theatre practitioners and experts with track records of successful audience engagement• Discusses findings from TCG's ongoing assessments and research of the field, as well as findings from cross-disciplinary sources• Explores current audience engagement and community development models in the field• Dynamic essays that aim to connect with their theatre peers to share successful strategies• Every essay is ...
"Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These writings, collected from two earlier books now long out-of-print along with two recent interviews, provide a fascinating window into Richard Foreman's singular mind and creative process. Also included is The Gods Are Pounding My ...
Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Lee Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde, creating challenging works both independently and with Mabou Mines, the company he co-founded with JoAnne Akalaitis, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow. By blending disciplines and techniques from widely different cultures, he ...
In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western intellect' – Ira Progoff 'No one can read Chang's book without experiencing a broadening of his mental horizons' – John C. H. Wu, Philosophy East and West &apo ...
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own groundbreaking paintings, this ...
Written by an expert art teacher, this visual drawing dictionary offers thousands of instructive illustrations in alphabetical order — from abdomen to zodiac. Simplified for beginners and intermediate students, it presents a tremendous wealth of images: animals, people performing a variety of activities, and common and uncommon objects, including fruits and flowers, clothing, furniture, and much more.The twofold purpose of this manual ...
