History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2004-04-26 | Author:William Smock

The all-time lightness nut was Buckminster Fuller. His three-wheeled, airplanelike Dymaxion Car was very fast. Tippy and fragile, it didn’t stand a chance in a collision. Fuller’s first aluminum home ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julian Spalding [Spalding, Julian]

Chapter 6 Veil Our next perception of the universe was triggered by something we couldn’t see. Zoroaster, a priest who lived in Persia about three thousand years ago, argued that ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 25,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Julian Spalding [Spalding, Julian]

Chapter 6 Veil Our next perception of the universe was triggered by something we couldn’t see. Zoroaster, a priest who lived in Persia about three thousand years ago, argued that ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 25,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:John Lowry

The result of a colour-switch exercise. There is a lot to be learned from this exercise, which can be mind-boggling at first but is relatively simple. Having started from a ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Wahrman, Dror

II The first thing to point out is that a scenario in which Collier was not himself involved intimately with these paintings-signed-by-others is rather improbable. Unless, of course, we posit ...
( Category: Europe April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Edward Winkleman

The Second Story New York-based collector Glenn Fuhrman, who with his wife Amanda are also ranked among the world’s top 200 collectors, shared a story with me in an interview ...
( Category: Business of Art April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-23 | Author:Nilda Alvarez

How designs grow and evolve The ability of Andean weavers to create extremely complex patterns, and to execute multiple patterns in one piece of cloth, without written records, strikes a ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-23 | Author:Lynne Perrella

ARTIST KEITH LO BUE Secret Garden Describing his studio as a cul-de-sac, in which endless paths and impulses converge, Keith Lo Bue thrives on the notion of terra incognita, where ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Jackie Garner [Garner, Jackie]

MAMMAL STRUCTURE Mammals are vertebrates: they have an internal skeleton made up of a head, a spine, a ribcage, four limbs and a tail. The skeleton provides support and protects ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:David Der-Wei Wang

The action and costuming of the roles in Chinese drama indicate that they are not figures of reality. Objectively speaking, they can be likened to puppets, to ghosts; subjectively, they ...
( Category: Other Media April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Elizabeth Lunday [Lunday, Elizabeth]

COLORS TO DIE FOR We can thank the Industrial Revolution for the brilliance of van Gogh’s paintings. In the nineteenth century, chemical research resulted in the development of some twenty ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Grant, Patrick

The Trouble with Pangloss Van Gogh the idealist well knew his own propensity for building “castles in the air” (732/4:380; 736/4:388): indeed, his controversy with Gauguin about painting from imagination ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ursprung, Philip

FIGURE 25. Robert Smithson, drawing for Wandering Earth Mounds and Gravel Paths, 1967. While working for TAMS, Smithson invited Carl Andre, Robert Morris, and Sol LeWitt to develop related projects ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Cook, Peter

Chapter 7 Drawing and Technics The tradition of the architects’ ‘technical drawing’ lies historically at a watershed. The smartest and fastest builders are increasingly passing their instructions directly from the ...
( Category: Architecture April 21,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2001-03-31 | Author:David Bayles & Ted Orland

PART II When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. — Oscar Wilde VI. A VIEW INTO THE OUTSIDE WORLD ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 21,2018 )