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Projection Art For Kids
Linda Buckingham
Hartley & Marks Publishers
PO Box 147, Point Roberts, WA 98281
0881791970 $14.95 1-800-277-5887
A unique and very highly recommended addition to any family, art department, or
community library Art Instruction reference collection, Projection Art For
Kids: Murals & Painting Projects For Kids Of All Ages by self-described
"talent-free" artist Linda Buckingham is a compendium of twenty-one projects
ranging from small-scale designs to full-scale wall murals that kids aged 10
and older can make on the wall of a nursery, daycare, classroom, or bedroom.
Buckingham's projection technique will enable children to utilize a favorite
photograph, slide, drawing, painting, clip art, cartoon, or logo in the
creation of a memorable and eye-pleasing, imagination-engaging work of art.
Doug Lindstrand's Alaska Sketchbook
Doug Lindstrand
Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc.
1970 Broad St, East Petersburg, PA 17520
1565231422 $25.00 carvingworld.com
Doug Lindstrand's Alaska Sketchbook: An Artist's Guide To The People And
Wildlife Of America's Last Frontier is a compendium of hundreds of field
sketches, studio drawings and photographs celebrating Alaskan frontiersmen,
birds, and animals. The text includes a kind of diary kept by Lindstrand as a
journal of his wanderings and contacts with the people and wildlife of this
northern clime in which he has been photographing and sketching for the last 30
years. Doug Lindstrand's Alaska Sketchbook is a very welcome and much
appreciated contribution to both Art Studies and Natural History collections.
Painting In The Middle East
Ann Zwicker Kerr
Syracuse University Press
1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-5160
0815607520 $49.95 1-800-365-8929
Painting In The Middle East by Ann Zwicker Kerr (Coordinator of the Fulbright
Visiting Scholar Enrichment Program, University of California - Los Angeles) is
a full-color compilation of watercolors and photographs combined with an
engaging and informative text that bring life to the author's love of the
Middle East, and reflect upon her travels and experiences in the varied middle
eastern landscape from the 1950's down to the present day. Extensive
commentaries and personal memoir-based observations add a very special depth to
the hidden history behind the soothing, gentle, and vibrant pictures showcased
in this memorable body of art.
My Dear Stieglitz
James Timothy Voorhies
University of South Carolina Press
937 Assembly Street, 8th Floor, Columbia, SC 29208
1570034788 $39.95 1-800-768-2500
Compiled and edited by art historian and expert James Timothy Voorhies, My Dear
Stieglitz: Letters Of Marsden Hartley And Alfred Stieglitz 1912-1915 is an
informative and intrinsically interesting collection of previously unpublished
correspondence between America artist Marsden Hartley and avant-garde
impresario, editor, and photographer Alfred Stieglitz chronicling Hartley's
three year European sojourn before and just at the inception of World War I.
The letters begin with Hartley's 1912 arrival in Paris and provides invaluable
commentary on Gertrude Stein's salons, the paintings of Picasso, Cezanne, and
Matisse, and his encounters with many of the leading lights of the European
world of artists, art dealers, and gallery owners. Hartley continues in 1913 to
write an informative correspondence about the Expressionist artists and art
trends that he encountered in Germany. This amazing body of correspondence
concludes with Hartley's late 1915 return to an America seasoned by the influx
of pre-war modern art. My Dear Stieglitz is a welcome and invaluable
contribution to 20th Century Art History reference collections and supplemental
reading lists.
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