- Hardcover: 134 pages
- Publisher: Benediction Classics (9 Jun 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1849027196
- ISBN-13: 978-1849027199
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,911,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Arthur Wesley Dow taught at major American arts training institutions for 30 years including Teachers College, Columbia University; the Art Students League of New York; Pratt Institute; and his own Ipswich Summer School of Art. His ideas were quite revolutionary for the period, he taught that rather than copying nature, art should be created by elements of the composition, like line, mass and color. He taught many of America's leading artists and craftspeople, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles J. Martin, two of the Overbeck Sisters and the Byrdcliffe Colony.
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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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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
The definitive book on the subject
6 Dec 2000
Format: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!
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Composition Masterpiece
27 July 2003
Format: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.
69 of 86 people found the following review helpful
Arthur Wesley Dow "Composition"
3 Sep 2000
Format:Paperback
I've never chucked a book out before in my life, but this one I did. The basic writings by Arthur Wesley Dow are very good, however the introduction written by Joseph Masheck occupied most of the books pages in a stilted language that was obviously written to put a check in one of this person's achedemic requirements boxes. It got me so riled that I had paid considerably for Dows comments and got Mashecks voluminous dribble, that I cut out the introduction with a razor blade and kept the small informative portion by Dow. If you're impressed with disjointed, convoluted, achedemic banter, buy it, you'll love it.
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