Where Art Begins
by Hume Nisbet
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Chapters (43)(click to expand)
- WHERE ART BEGINS
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- WHERE ART BEGINS
- A WORD BEFORE
- CHAPTER I WHERE ART BEGINS
- POSING
- LIGHTING
- RETOUCHING
- CHAPTER II A STUDY IN LIGHT AND SHADOW
- CHAPTER III THE PRIMARIES: YELLOW, RED, AND BLUE
- I. AN APOLOGY TO THE AUTHOR OF ‘MODERN PAINTERS,’ ETC.
- II. THE PRIMARIES: YELLOW, RED, AND BLUE
- CHAPTER IV ART IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EVERYDAY LIFE
- CHAPTER V ON PICTURE LIGHTING
- CHAPTER VI SHIPS: ANCIENT AND MODERN
- CHAPTER VII ILLUSTRATIVE ART: PAST AND PRESENT
- CHAPTER VIII ART IN MINOR DIRECTIONS
- THE ART OF GRAINING
- THE ART OF OAK IMITATION—OAK GRAINING
- THE IMITATION OF SOFT WOODS
- MAPLE WOOD
- MAHOGANY AND WALNUT
- ON THE IMITATION OF MARBLES—BLACK AND GOLD
- DOVE MARBLE
- CHAPTER IX DRESS AND DECORATION
- DRESS
- DECORATION
- CHAPTER X SOME OF THE OLD MASTERS
- A CURSORY EXAMINATION
- CHAPTER XI THE SACRED AND THE COMIC SIDES OF ART
- PART I.—THE SACRED SIDE OF ART
- PART II.—THE COMIC SIDE OF ART
- CHAPTER XII ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH ART
- EX LIBRIS
- BOOK PLATES
- ARTISTIC ASTRONOMY
- ARTISTIC BOTANY
- THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY
- THE BUTTERFLY SYMBOL OF ART
- CHAPTER XIII NATURE WORSHIP
- INDEX
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