Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers - Hardcover

Dow, Arthur Wesley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849027196 ISBN 13: 9781849027199

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2010

Synopsis

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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"Composition is a great classic that had immense influence on thinking about art during the first decades of the twentieth century; it is still a challenging statement about the nature of effective visual representation, and it remains of special interest to students of the history of art."―Richard Shiff, University of Texas, Austin

About the Author

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was a painter, printmaker, and writer. He chaired the Department of Fine Arts at Teachers College of Columbia University from 1904 until his death. Joseph Masheck is a well-known art critic and Professor of Art History at Hofstra University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849027196
• ISBN 13: 9781849027199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 134