La composición es la base fundamental de cualquier dibujo. Su cometido es disponer o distribuir todos los elementos que intervienen en la obra para que esta se muestre visualmente equilibrada. Transformar en imágenes la impresión que queremos transmitir con la mayor sensibilidad posible, para atraer y conducir la mirada del espectador, sorprenderle con encuadres o puntos de vista originales, crear tensiones...; en definitiva, comunicar y expresar ideas y sentimientos con efectos que le resulten agradables. Este libro aborda la composición de manera muy fácil, a partir de la exposición y la práctica de algunos de sus principios elementales. Los ejercicios que contiene son un excelente complemento a la teoría y ofrecen al lector un amplio abanico de ejemplos para que experimente, combinando diversos procedimientos de dibujo y desarrollando distintos estilos hasta encontrar el propio.

The illustrator Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists - including the great American painter Norman Rockwell and comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, Realist style. His hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered. Drawing the Head and Hands is the second in Titan's programme of facsimile editions, returning these classic titles to print for the first time in decades.

On October 14-19, 1990, the 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sponsored by the GCI, the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments, ICCROM, CRATerre-EAG, and the National Park Service, under the aegis of US/ICOMOS, the event was organized to promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and research findings on the conservation of earthen architecture. Presentations at the conference covered a diversity of subjects, including the historic traditions of earthen architecture, conservation and restoration, site preservation, studies in consolidation and seismic mitigation, and examinations of moisture problems, clay chemistry, and microstructures. In discussions that focused on the future, the application of modern technologies and materials to site conservation was urged, as was using scientific knowledge of existing structures in the creation of new, low-cost, earthen architecture housing.

In this 1993 book, John Holloway explores the radical change in the very nature of individual consciousness over the last century.

Originally published in 1940, this book charts the origins and evolution of academies of art from the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. Pevsner expertly explains the political, religious and mercantile forces affecting the education of artists in various countries in Western Europe, and the growing 'academisation' of artistic training that he saw is his own day. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the various historical schools of art instruction and the history of art more generally.