The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques - Softcover

Mayer, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571143318 ISBN 13: 9780571143313

Verlag: Faber And Faber, 1991

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Reseña del editor:

The Artist's Handbook has become an indispensable reference work for thousands of practising artists all over the world. This fifth edition has been prepared by Steven Sheehan, Director of the Ralph Mayer Center, Yale University School of Art. It has been systematically revised and expanded to take account of the latest research. Once again, it has been edited for the British market.

Biografía del autor:

Ralph Mayer (1895-1979) was a painter and art conservator. Educated as a chemical engineer, he worked in paint manufacture and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York before going on to teach at Columbia University. He founded the Artists Technical Research Institute in 1959. He is best known as the author of The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (1940), which is still a point of reference for artists today, and he also wrote The Painter's Craft (1948) and A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques (1969).

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• Verlag: Faber And Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0571143318
• ISBN 13: 9780571143313
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 776