Drawing was Leonardo da Vinci’s primary artistic activity. He used drawing to think, to explore the world around him and to develop his other artistic projects. His drawings are among the most diverse
Since 1972, the departement des Arts graphiques of the Musee du Louvre has published the general catalogue of Italian drawings of its collections. This eleventh volume is dedicated to Genoese Drawings
For forty years, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York City subway in a series of extraordinary drawings, meticulously detailing the typography, terra-cotta mosaics, faience
Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration, which encompassed the years from 1890 until the end of World War I. The acclaim f
A beautifully produced literary art book that restores a collection of drawings and pastels to the heart of the life story one of the great artists of the 19th century - now in paperback.
"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer?she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes."?Eileen MylesA book of i
Dante’s Inferno inspired Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) to create a series of 34 drawings that comprise one of the most remarkable creative enterprises of 20th-century American art. Completed between
One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of his time. This fresh assessment of the artist focuses on th
This book showcases 112 superb drawings by Italian artists of the 15th and 16th centuries. Taken from the pre-eminent collections of the British Museum, the Louvre and other French museums, they range
Si Lewen’s Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country—a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957
Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo documents an important collection of master drawings donated by an individual to the IU Art Museum, including five drawings by the celebrated Venetian genius Giambatt
Andy Warhol spent his career working so prodigiously as to assure longlasting renown. In the printmaking field alone, his output was prolific, and his appropriation of silkscreen as a fine art medium
Samuel Palmer was one of the most visionary and mystical landscape painters of the Romantic era. This volume is a facsimile of the only sketchbook not to have been destroyed by the artist's son after
Ingres, described by Baudelaire as a painter of "profound sensual delights," has not always been acknowledged as such by the art world. Famous for his iconic paintings The Grand Odalisque and The Turk
Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell, admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the
