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13th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311255, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer was an active centre of painters and scribes from...
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14th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311248, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
From Italy to France to Flanders, the arts of painting in the 14th century were practised in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are included in this collection. "Experiments upon Colou...
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1st to 19th Century Pigments
ISBN: PB: 9780946311262, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
288 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series, Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources. The entries define the pigment – colour, its source (animal, plant, m...
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£25,00
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16th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...
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17th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...
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18th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...
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1st Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311149, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, 1st. century B.C. to 1st century A.D. The over 40 pigments in use were described by Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides, complemented by 3rd century B.C. Theop...
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Impressionists' Palettes of Light
ISBN: PB: 9780946311002, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, October 2015
68 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus.
The French Impressionist painters discovered new means for painting light – they used a "solar palette", the pigments matched to the colours the eyes see. They are the colours of a ray of light. This little book reproduces palettes by 8 of the plein-...
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£8,00
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Malevich Writes A Theory of Creativity Cubism to Suprematism
ISBN: HB: 9780946311088, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, October 2014
704 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 115 black&white illus.
Collection of 30 texts, 1915-1928 and 3 facsimiles, some in first English translation, plus Nina Kogan on Cubism and Ilya Chashnik on Suprematism. Chronological sections trace Malevich's analyses of Cubism and Futurism, the Supremus Society of Artist...
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Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism 34 Drawings (1920)
ISBN: PB: 9780946311033, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, July 2014
64 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 2 illus., 34 plates
A facsimile edition of Kazimir Malevich, "SUPREMATISM: 34 Drawings", was published in 1990 by Artists Bookworks accompanied by an introduction to the drawings by Patricia Railing; it is now out-of-print. This 2014 reprint of Malevich's little book co...
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£17,00
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