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Physical Description:64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. print
Edition:1st American ed.
Publisher:London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley ; Boston : Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
What is watercolor? -- The variety of watercolor -- Illuminated texts -- The Limbourgs -- Nature into art -- Watercolor's first master -- Eastern approaches -- The art of India -- Miniature painting -- Portrait of an era -- Exploring new worlds -- The portable art -- Satirical images -- The British tradition -- Cotman, a sense of place -- Turner and landscape -- Exhibition works -- A genteel pursuit -- The "mystics" -- Book illustrations -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- A company of craftsmen -- Impressionism -- Cézanne, art and light -- The nude in watercolor -- Modern uses of the medium -- Expressionism -- Into the abstract world.
Summary, etc.:
A visual history of watercolor painting from its ancient beginnings to the works of modern masters.
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