Innovators of American Illustration

Innovators of American Illustration
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This handsomely illustrated work is a collection of interviews with 21 leading American illustrators whose work revolutionized the artform over the past 35 years. Tom Allen, Seymour Chwast, Maurice Sendak, Barbara Nessim, Sue Coe, andRobert Weaver are just some of those included. Illustrated.

Art in America

Art in America
Author: Susan Davidson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2007
Genre: Art, American
ISBN:

Reproductions of art works spanning the 18th to 20th centuries.

The Picture Book

The Picture Book
Author: Angus Hyland
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781856694674

Surveying fresh illustration work from across the globe, this book presents a spectrum of styles, techniques and subject matter representative of trends and innovations. Each artist's work is accompanied by a self-portrait and a profile exploring their inspirations and their approach both to illustration and to their career.

Alaska Native Art

Alaska Native Art
Author: Susan W. Fair
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1889963798

The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabascan, Yupik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Alaska Native Art examines the concept of tradition in the modern world. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples.

Drawing on the Artist Within

Drawing on the Artist Within
Author: Betty Edwards
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987-04-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 067163514X

A guide to innovation, invention, imagination, and creativity.

Al Parker

Al Parker
Author: Stephanie Haboush Plunkett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Magazine illustration
ISBN: 9780989014717

One of America's best known magazine illustrators from the 1940s to the 1960s, Al Parker was an innovator, a trend setter and a constant experimenter. Each chapter describes his top work for every key American magazine, from fiction illustrations to advertising to covers. He was the go-to artist in all the early slicks, the highest peak a commercial artist could attain in his day. Colliers, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, McCalls.

For America

For America
Author: Jeremiah William McCarthy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300244282

Featuring paintings by American icons like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book illustrates the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over 200 years.

American Studio Ceramics

American Studio Ceramics
Author: Martha Drexler Lynn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300212739

A landmark survey of the formative years of American studio ceramics and the constellation of people, institutions, and events that propelled it from craft to fine art

Hearts of Our People

Hearts of Our People
Author: Jill Ahlberg Yohe
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Indian art
ISBN: 9780295745794

"Women have long been the creative force behind Native American art, yet their individual contributions have been largely unrecognized, instead treated as anonymous representations of entire cultures. 'Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists' explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world. This lavishly illustrated book, a companion to the landmark exhibition, includes works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital arts. It showcases more than 115 artists from the United States and Canada, spanning over one thousand years, to reveal the ingenuity and innovation fthat have always been foundational to the art of Native women."--Page 4 of cover.