The Craft of Old-Master Drawings | 
 enlarge | Author: James Watrous
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 456958
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 184
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0299014258
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.2
EAN: 9780299014254
ASIN: 0299014258
Publication Date: April 12, 2002
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Product Description
This volume is both a manual for contemporary artists and a historical work covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. It presents the old masters' techniques and provides specific directions for making inks, styluses, reed and quill pens, and fabricated chalks, as well as instructions for preparing grounds for metalpoint drawings. It comprises a body of knowledge that should be useful to artists, students of art history, curators, and collectors.
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Very nice July 5, 2002
Kevin Goodman (Some where USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book was a very useful and resourceful book for me. Any body interested in the historical perspective of materials will want this book in there library. The Author provides valuable information about caulks, pastels, crayons, inks, pens, quills, metal points, and intaglio. The most interesting information the book provided me was recipes for each tool and medium. The author quoted many recipes from old text and sources and then presented more general recipes. One can expect to find the time and region in which these materials and recipes would have been most frequently used.pThe information is of great value for a historic perspective on materials and reproducing them. The book is well worth its price. My only complaint is that the book "The craft of old master drawings" doesn't detail information about supports and papers. Despite finding this an intriguing yet disappointing exclusion in a discussion about traditional drawing materials I still give the book five stars for every thing else.
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