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First published in 1899, this greatly influential text develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between lines, colours and dark and light patterns. The author was a known mentor of Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber.
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ANYONE WHO CAN think of "design" in art as a matter of form doing structural more than representational duty is on the way to comprehending the modernist motion of preeminent form as it emerged from design in the decorative (or applied or industrial) arts into an independent "abstract" art, with the positively decorative as transitional to the fully nonobjective. Read the first page
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ANYONE WHO CAN think of "design" in art as a matter of form doing structural more than representational duty is on the way to comprehending the modernist motion of preeminent form as it emerged from design in the decorative (or applied or industrial) arts into an independent "abstract" art, with the positively decorative as transitional to the fully nonobjective. Read the first page
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The definitive book on the subject, 6 Dec 2000
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This review is from: Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers (Paperback)
Having read the earlier review, I felt it necessary to chime in. The introduction, which I skipped, was lengthy, but there's a lot of information in the main text of the book- enough to warrant the price. It's as much a workbook as a text since there are suggested exercises to follow. There are also lots of pictures of examples which I found very helpful. Dow "wrote the book" on composition, and this is it!
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Composition Masterpiece, 27 July 2003
By Todd - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers (Paperback)
Dow's book is a classic of pictoral composition. Yes, there is a long forward, but so what? Dow didn't write the forward. The book is a workbook format, and many may not find the exercises useful, but the information sandwiched inbetween is priceless. Not an easy book to read, but well worth the effort. If you're looking for a quick fix with pretty pictures and easy formulas, don't buy this.
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Great Book! Terrible Binding, 24 May 2006
By P. Rice "Paul Rice" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers (Paperback)
This is a wonderful approach to design and very valuable to the artist, photographer or anyone interested in the over arching principle " to fill a space in a beautiful way"
Unfortunately the bookbinding I received through Amazon and from the publisher is falling apart. The pages began falling out when I first opened the book. The binding loses more pages with each reading.
The worst binding I have ever seen!!! Buyer beware
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