ISBN: 9780754602002 - Artists Emerging: Sustaining Expression Through Drawing (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 159 pages, with 8 pages of colour plates and 130 b/w text-illustrations, 10 x 7.8 inches, hardback, a Fine copy in a fine dust-jacket [0754602001].

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Most children enjoy drawing and use it to express a wide range of experiences and emotions. Drawing can offer an avenue of expression where words fail. So why do many people stop drawing after the early school years? This is an examination of the early work of John Everett Millais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Michael Rothenstein, Gerard Hoffnung, Sarah Raphael and David Downes to investigate the reasons why these artists were able to sustain and develop their drawing skill and expressive potential while others failed. The close study of these artists' early drawings reveals their sequences of progress and their eventual achievement. Sheila Paine, a former President of the National Society for Education in Art and Design, shares the experience of a lifetime's work in art education to explore the mysteries of drawing fluency, its often precocious beginnings, and the personal, social and cultural circumstances which help or hinder its development.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 0.9 x 9.7 x 7.6 Inches; 164 pages.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Most children enjoy drawing and use it to express a wide range of experiences and emotions. Drawing can offer an avenue of expression where words fail. So why do many people stop drawing after the early school years? This is an examination of the early work of John Everett Millais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Michael Rothenstein, Gerard Hoffnung, Sarah Raphael and David Downes to investigate the reasons why these artists were able to sustain and develop their drawing skill and expressive potential while others failed. The close study of these artists' early drawings reveals their sequences of progress and their eventual achievement. Sheila Paine, a former President of the National Society for Education in Art and Design, shares the experience of a lifetime's work in art education to explore the mysteries of drawing fluency, its often precocious beginnings, and the personal, social and cultural circumstances which help or hinder its development.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Qto.,xii, 164 pages, illustrated. A clean, bright Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. First Edition. 164 pages. Colour plates & B&W illustrations. A very clean dustjacket, hardback binding and pages.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 245 x 190 mm. xii, 164 pp + 8 pp colour plates. Black boards in pictorial jacket. 15 mm closed tear at bottom edge of back panel of jacket. B&w illustrations in the text. Book.