The artist at work / H. Ruhemann and E.M. Kemp
1951, 1st edition. Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books. Very good paperback copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #327912
Physical description: 72 pages: illustrations (some color); 19 x 23 cm. Notes:
Includes index. Contents:
Influences: Environment and task -- Artistic tradition -- Personality: Creative impulse -- Training -- The work of art: Inspiration -- Planning -- Style -- Optical principles -- Preliminary studies -- Tricks of the trade -- Sketch -- Finished picture -- The work in progress -- Watercolour -- Pastel -- Texture -- Main types of painting techniques -- Milestones -- Decline -- Recovery -- The French impressionists -- The neo-impressionists -- The post-impressionists -- Cézanne and eclectics -- Contemporary British painters -- Contemporary continental painters -- Some misconceptions.
Subjects: Painting. Painting Technique. Art; Exhibitions.
Art. Painting Technique.
Genre: Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated. Summary:
Scope and content: This book "represents ... the exhibition of the same title suggested and organized in 1944 for the British Institute of Adult Education and C.E.M.A. (now the Arts Council of Great Britain) by Ellen M. Kemp and designed by H. Ruhemann."
Price: €25.00