Lumen Picturae

Lumen Picturae
Author: Frederick de Wit
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0062048880

Thanks to its exquisite pictorial material, this book familiarizes the reader with the logic and golden rules of art. It enables an understanding, on the one hand, of the keys to appreciating the works of the great masters, and on the other, of how to apply these rules to the practice of one's own creative activities. The work begins with a number of basic explanations on how to represent and interrelate the different parts of the human body. The introduction is followed by chapters on the various possibilities for representing male and female nudes, and mythological and biblical figures, dressed and contextualized. Finally it looks at quadruped animals and birds.

Lumen Picturae

Lumen Picturae
Author: Frederick de Wit
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0062103687

LumenPicturaeis apictorial guide to classicaldrawing as exemplified by the sublime work of the influential 17th centuryDutch engraver Frederick de Wit. Presenting a carefully curated set of imagesnever before seen outside of rare book archives, Lumen Picturaerenders de Wits’ incomparable figure drawings available to the public forthe first time. In the tradition of Harold Speed’s The Practice and Scienceof Drawing, Andrew Loomis’s Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth,Gottfried Bammes’ Der NackteMensch, and George Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life,the step-by-step visuals in Lumen Picturae arean indispensible handbook for visual artists both professional and amateur, andfor readers of any age or language who want to incorporate the incomparableinsight of classical Dutch figure studies into their drawing today.

Pictures and their Use in Communication

Pictures and their Use in Communication
Author: David Novitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9401010633

Ours is the age of the picture. Pictures abound in our newspapers and magazines, in storybooks and on the glossy pages of instruction manuals. We find them on billboards and postage stamps, on the television screen and in the cinema. And in all of these cases pictures inform us: they explain, they clarify, they elucidate - and at times, too, they entertain and delight us. Images on the television screen have all but replaced the printed word as a source of information about the world; and nowadays, too, picture books and comic strips are consulted much more readily, and with much less intellectual effort, than the printed word. There can be little doubt but that pictures have come to play a very important role in communication. It strikes me as odd that, in what is nothing less than a visual age, philosophers have had so little to say about the visual image and its use in communication. Hardly anything has been done to explain the way in which pictures are used to inform us; the way in which they influence our thinking, our attitudes and our perception of the world. My aim in this work is to fill this gap, and in so doing to provide a viable account of pictorial communication.

Lumen picturae

Lumen picturae
Author: Frederik de Wit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 9783898369732

Das Werk "Lumen picturae" von Frederick de Wit, das wohl zwischen 1660 und 1675 in Amsterdam erschienen, ist ein Buch von grossem historischen Wert. Es entstand in der Tradition der Zeichenlehrbücher, die bis zur Revolution des Impressionismus unverzichtbarer Bestandteil der Ausbildung eines jeden Jünstlers waren. In der vorliegenden vollständigen Fassung erlaubt es einen hervorragenden Einblick in das ästhetische Empfinden des 17. Jahrhunderts und lässt und Ausbildung und Werdegang eines Malers in jenem "Goldenen Zeitalter" der Niederlande nachzeichnen, das durch eine bis dahin nicht gekannte Blüte von Kultur und Kunst geprägt war.

Lumen Picturæ

Lumen Picturæ
Author: Frederik de Wit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2010-10-20
Genre: Anatomy, Artistic
ISBN: 9788492731770

Frederick de Wit published his work 'Lumen picturæ' in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1675. It is a book of great historic value that falls within the tradition of the treatises on illustration, which were an essential element in any artist's education up to the impressionist revolution. The complete version of this work is an excellent introduction to the aesthetic developed in the seventeenth century. It enables us to take up the trail of the education and evolution of a painter in the Dutch Golden Age, characterized by hitherto unknown cultural prosperity and a blossoming of the arts.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1044
Release: 1921
Genre: Catalogs, Booksellers'
ISBN:

Art and Illusion

Art and Illusion
Author: E. H. Gombrich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691252742

A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historians E. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. Bridging science and the humanities, this classic work examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of modern theories of information and learning in visual perception. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines ideas about the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments, he ranges over the history of art, from the ancient Greeks, Leonardo, and Rembrandt to the impressionists and the cubists. But the triumphant originality of Art and Illusion is that Gombrich is less concerned with the artists than with the psychological experience of the viewers of their work. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Translation in Modern Japan

Translation in Modern Japan
Author: Indra Levy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351538608

The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism with cutting-edge English-language scholarship. Collectively, the contributors to this book address two critical questions: 1) how does the conception of modern Japan as a culture of translation affect our understanding of Japanese modernity and its relation to the East/West divide? and 2) how does the example of a distinctly East Asian tradition of translation affect our understanding of translation itself? The chapter engage a wide array of disciplines, perspectives, and topics from politics to culture, the written language to visual culture, scientific discourse to children's literature and the Japanese conception of a national literature.Translation in Modern Japan will be of huge interest to a diverse readership in both Japanese studies and translation studies as well as students and scholars of the theory and practice of Japanese literary translation, traditional and modern Japanese history and culture, and Japanese women‘s studies.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1920
Genre: Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN:

Book Auction Records

Book Auction Records
Author: Frand Karslake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1494
Release: 1928
Genre: Book auctions
ISBN:

A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.