Review\nJorge Otero-Pailos’s collection is much more than a simple anthology of texts, instead charting a revelatory new history of historic preservation theory and philosophy through comprehensive and carefully selected original readings, some of which appear in English translation for the first time. This book is an essential volume for academics, educators, students, and practitioners alike. -- Rodney Harrison, Professor of Heritage Studies, University College London\n“This volume is like an ideal symposium, gathering a fascinating array of thinkers across time and disciplines and encouraging dialogue between them and with practitioners in the present. It vividly demonstrates that how we preserve and interpret historic places is rooted in and requires critical thinking and creative inquiry. And it reminds us that, like places themselves, historic preservation theory has evolved over time in ways that are powerfully instructive and inspiring.” -- Katharine Malone-France, Chief Preservation Officer, National Trust for Historic Preservation\nThis important anthology has the double achievement of showing preservation theory as a vigorous field of knowledge and, at the same time, as a fertile intellectual ground for emerging experimental preservation approaches, discourses, and sensibilities to come. 
-- Emilio De la Cerda, Professor of Architecture, Catholic University of Chile, formerly Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage and President of the National Council of Monuments of Chile\nA deftly curated collection of readings that simultaneously clarify, complicate, challenge, and robustly expand our understanding of Historic Preservation discourse and its situated histories. 
-- Rahul Mehrotra, Architect, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, GSD, Harvard University\nThis is an essential, needed anthology tracing the development of approaches to and theories about preservation. It will be required reading for my graduate students. 
-- Saburo Horikawa, Professor of urban and environmental sociology, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan; author of Why Place Matters (Springer)\nA generous gift from Jorge Otero-Pailos, compiling the most significant theoretical texts on historic preservation, duly introduced by an enlightening note on each author and their writings. Experts, professors, and future generations of students will thus benefit from these 100 indispensable assessments on heritage from varied times and cultures. -- Louise Noelle Gras, Professor of Architecture, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Member of the International Scientific Committee on Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration, ICOMOS\nThis anthology of historic preservation theory is remarkable for the timeliness of its purposes, the breadth of its scope, and the depth of the texts selected by editor Jorge Otero-Pailos. Covering material from the United States to China and from Sweden to Brazil, it provides invaluable information for anyone interested in the subject. 
-- Carlos Eduardo Comas, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and member of the Advisory Board of the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN), Brazil\nA much needed and highly original anthology of the global culture of conservation since the early ages. The academic soundness of the material is well curated by an artistic sensibility and a passion for architectural heritage. The choice of the authors is especially accurate about contemporary debates that become crystal clear for the lay reader. 
-- Dominique Poulot, Professor and Director of the School of Art History, La Sorbonne, France, and Director of the Masters program in Politics and History of Museums and Heritage\nIn architectural conservation we look at stones—but we are interested in people. Places of different times and cultures tell us about the vast dive

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Robert Murray grew up in western Canada and moved to New York City in 1960. Quickly establishing himself as an important young artist, he took part in the renaissance of modern sculpture and public art that unfolded over the following decades. Murray was particularly innovative in his use of industrial fabrication methods to create his pieces and in his deep investigation of landscape as inspiration for abstract sculpture. His synthesis of the rich tradition of landscape painting in Canada and the exciting vision of New York abstract expressionist and color-field painters has resulted in an extraordinary and unique body of work. Murray was awarded the Order of Canada in 2000 and received the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Grant Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2018. Robert Murray: Sculpture includes photographs of nearly two hundred works that span the artist's career, seen in galleries, museums, and private collections, at public outdoor exhibitions, in his studios, and in the workshops of his fabricators. Jonathan D. Lippincott's introduction and interview with Murray cover the sculptor's process of working with fabricators and foundries, issues of public art and the siting of sculpture, Murray's early years, his close friendship with Barnett Newman and relationships with other artists, his lifelong interest in flying, and more, insightfully illuminating both the work and the life of this remarkable sculptor.

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So much daily human activity longs to be captured by the artist's brush--but to do so requires skills and techniques that stretch beyond the traditional, studio-based approach to figure drawing. 
Ballestar teaches watercolor artists a "Candid Brush" approach to subjects engaged in the spontaneity of everyday tasks. He shows how to capture attitudes, emotions and activities of many subjects--a child playing in the street, a farmer returning from work, a couple in the park. Readers are encouraged to do quick, on the spot sketches and also to take photographs of such events to take back to their studios for later development. 
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* In contrast to studio portrait work, these techniques capture the spontaneity of everyday activities

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Virtual Pose 2 is the second installment in what is fast becoming the ultimate visual reference series for drawing the human figure. For professional and student artists, this series is the next best thing to working with a live model--and the ultimate for amateur artists who have no access to studio sessions. 
Each volume includes an interactive CD-ROM with 54 full-figure poses which the artist can rotate 360 degrees. The artist is also able to zoom in on the pose, thus presenting the human form in a way that allows a deeper understanding of shape, form and gesture. Ranging from action to classic poses, standing and reclining, these carefully selected subjects were designed to offer visually pleasing as well as challenging drawing subjects. 
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Painting Landscapes with Watercolor is a wonderfully expressive book, opening up all of the creative possibilities that landscapes offer to the watercolorist. Ballestar, an accomplished artist, succeeds in teaching exactly how to use the transparent, free-flowing nature of watercolor to generate landscapes with great emotional appeal. * Sound advice on selecting materials, learning basic techniques, making first sketches * Sixteen brilliant step-by-step demos put key concepts into practice * Examples of watercolors by world-renowned artists add variety and inspiration * Close-ups detail how to paint snow, windy skies, mountains and reflections on water Readers will discover how to capture the light that personalizes a landscape and enliven their scenes with dynamic movement and color. No matter their level of experience, watercolor artists will treasure this indispensable reference.

Painting Landscapes With Watercolor

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Even if you've never held a brush in your hand, you can master the graceful art of fine calligraphy with the expert guidance of Brush Lettering. Brush calligraphy offers unlimited potential for creating an array of hand-lettered treasures. Now you can produce beautiful invitations, greeting cards, and certificates, distinctive stationery, unique posters and brochures, innovative logotypes, professional-quality headlines, elegant fabric designs, and much more. Marilyn Reaves and Eliza Schulte take you step by step through the techniques of brush lettering with the edged brush and pointed brush, dispensing invaluable advice on tools, media, and design. For beginners, students, hobbyists, or anyone involved in graphic design, Brush Lettering is a complete and authoritative how-to-manual. (8 1/2 X 11, 176 pages, b&amp;w photos, illustrations, diagrams)

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