Brilliant butterflies, songbirds and seabirds, flowers and weeds, bees and bugs: Margaret Shaw records in watercolour and prose the rich flora and fauna of the unspoiled countryside of the 1920s. In Shaw's bucolic world the eaves swarm with housemartins, elm trees still grow tall, and the hedgerows are full of quarrelsome wrens. Travelling widely in Britain and in France and Italy, between October 1926 and December 1928, Shaw chronicled her observations of the landscape in all its weathers and c...
Watercolor Landscape Painting Essentials with Johannes Vloothuis
by Johannes Vloothuis
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This adorable collection of pint-sized porkers is so sweet it will make you burst with affection for snuffling snouts, teeny trotters and curly-wurly tails. Meet some of Pennywell Farm's cutest residents, including delightful duo Dee and Dexter, cheeky chappie Robin and the elegant Tallulah - they're itty-bitty and they need your cuddles!
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
by Monty Don and Ann Dumas
While depictions of gardens are found across the centuries and around the world, within Europe the Impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their colour and form rather than using them as a background for historical, religious and literary themes. This volume explores the close, symbiotic relationship between artists and gardens that developed during the latter part of the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries, centring on Monet, a...
The Transformation of Nature in Art (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts)
An attempt to explain the theory behind medieval European and Asiatic art, especially art in India.
"For four years, artist Barbara A. Thomason roamed her beloved Los Angeles, seeking the vistas, nooks, bridges, signs, streets, and landmarks that most captivated her. Inspired by Hiroshige's acclaimed print series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, this grand project resulted in the one hundred paintings reproduced within. Intimate, often recognizable, and sometimes unexpected, Thomason's paintings capture the vibrant L.S., the quirky L.A., the beautiful L.A.--the essential L.A."--Back cover.
In The Languages of Landscape, Mark Roskill employs a new approach to understanding Western landscape art, from antiquity to the present, by linking the concerns of its creators to the ways in which such art was viewed in successive periods or contexts. Roskill uses new methodologies deriving from sociology, anthropology, the study of rhetorical theory, and especially a version of visual semiotics for this analysis. The discussion covers artists not usually associated with landscape, such as Go...
Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas. The Shipping Forecast is a national institution, relied upon by mariners but also strangely comforting and poetic to landlubbers. Published in 1998 to great acclaim, Rain Later, Good was chosen by the RNLI to celebrate their 175th anniversary, and has since sold over 25,000 copies. Fifteen years later, this gorgeous book will be available in paperback for the first time, comp...