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Good things continue to come in small packages. Thats the theme behind this full update of 200 Small House Plans, Second Edition. Award-winning residential designers and architects have put together a bold new collection, with over 25% new plans, designed for essential livingwith a measure of imagination. In less than 2,500 square feet, each plan works hard to create a sense of placewhatever your familys lifestyle. Section headings suggest patterns of living, but there are no rules here.
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What a disappointment!.......2005-10-09
This book gives new meaning to the expression "false advertising." Most of the homes run between 1800 and 2100 sq. ft.(hardly "small"), and there are very, very few homes in the 1200 sq. ft. range. Amazon should either drop this book from its list altogether or include a disclaimer.
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An American Classic Artist.......2005-10-22
I found this painter sometime in the 1970's where Purdue University gave him a show. Fascinated by his "clown" picture I soon found a large print of his "Parakeet" and not being able to afford the price of that print, I did it anyway.
Vickrey is simply a classic American Artist. A major artist of that century.
Glad he's still living and hoping to see more of his work in a new book.
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A good book about egg tempera.......2006-09-03
It's simple but complete. By reading this book you'll discover many interesting approachs and different tecniques. Egg tempera is a fascinating medium, very easy, versatile and characteristic. This book is an excellent guide for beginners and more advanced artists.
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This important resource is essential to any artist who is interested in using the time-honored medium of egg tempera to achieve the luminous effects that can't be duplicated by any other medium. Complete with step-by-step photography, the book elucidates all stages of preparation, development, and completion of egg tempera paintings. Formal issues such as the depiction of light, color, form, and detail are discussed.
Altoon Sultan's paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other fine institutions. Represented by the Marlborough Gallery, she lives in Groton, Vermont.
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Good Introductory Text.......2002-12-03
This book is an excellent modern alternative to Daniel V. Thompson's useful, but dated book, which I find mired in 'thirties philosophy and art theory. Ms. Sultan lays out the materials and techniques well, not only her own preferences but also other possibilities. I was pleased to see a small but handy section in the back where a number of diverse egg tempera painters with widely varying styles spoke briefly about their own approaches. This is a very good introductory text.
The Only Current 'How-To' for Egg Tempera Painting.......2001-10-17
While I own and have read Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.'s book The Practice of Tempera Painting I'm glad I have Sultan's book as well. I don't know how hatching and cross-hatching can be construed as "uninspired" since this is the traditional method egg tempera artists employ to create paintings. Neither is Sultan's book a "dumbed-down" instruction manual of Thompson's book. The Luminous Brush is a complete book on egg tempera painting itself. The one main technique Thompson's book covers which The Luminous Brush doesn't is gilding.
The Luminous Brush will appeal to people who appreciate the many step-by-step photos showing how to prepare your own grounds, the amount of pigment paste to egg yolk to water ratios, etc. The author provides exercises for the reader using ink and/or gouache for practicing egg tempera painting techniques so the transition to egg tempera itself will be easy. There are chapters on painting landscapes, skies, rough and smooth textures as well as a chapter showing new experimental approaches to egg tempera painting by guest artists. There is a bibliography and sources selling pigments, grounds or other materials for use in egg tempera painting.
Unless you are planning to employ gold gilding in your egg tempera paintings or want to read chapters on which paint pigments to buy that were current as of 1936 (some now known to present health risks and made obsolete by safer, lightfast alternatives) The Luminous Brush will be just fine for anyone wanting to get started.
Keep Looking!.......2000-07-18
This book by Altoon Sultan is basically a dumbed-down version of Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.'s excellent introduction to the medium in his book The Practice of Tempera Painting. While photographs abound, they are most useful in displaying Sultan's uninspired use of hatching and cross-hatching. If your looking at acquiring this book because you are a Sultan fan, it might be just the thing to help you understand how her images are made. If you want a good instructional book on egg tempera, keep looking!
A Luminous Book on Egg Tempera.......1999-12-22
In this luminous and exquisitely presented book Altoon Sultan vividly conveys a sense of the richness inherent in this ancient medium. Sultan eschews the pitfalls of most art instruction books that purvey pat formulas, which lead merely to a hobbyist's superficial and empty technique. Rather, while providing a rigorously detailed and clearly delineated process--each step accompanied by lush, illustrative photographs and a very directly written text--Sultan encourages and leaves room for individual adaptation; which is precisely one of this work's greatest strengths. The text is further amplified by a rich array of the author's own masterful works, as well as samples ranging from the first century A.D. to the present. She includes abstract work that is predicated on spontaneity and improvisation, properties not generally associated with this medium. This is in fact a large and generous work that conveys the author's articulately expressed sense of excitement at the possibilities she has discovered in tempera and eloquently invites us to explore.
A Long Neglected Topic, and a great medium.......1999-12-22
As a teacher and painter who works in different mediums including egg tempera, I implore others teaching to acquire this book for the classroom as well as private study. I have long been a fan of Tooker and Wyeth, and I'm pleased to see Altoon Sultan spreading the word via work and intelligent instruction.It is wonderfully economical as well!
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: EGG TEMPE R & AB.&; IW ]> N G TEMPERA UNDERPA: I: NTING OIL EMULSION PAINTING A Manual of Technique BY VACLAV VYTLACIL and RUPERT DAVIDSON TURNBULL NEW YORK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1935 COPYRIGHT, 1935, BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK, INC. eAll rights reserved. ' The reprinting of this boo)( in whole or part without the Publishers permission is forbidden FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION i NOTE ON OIL PAINTING AND TEMPERA PAINTING Summary of essential differences between the two media 4 OIL PAINTING General discussion Doerner's the ory of the Mixed-Technique Maroger's theory of Oil-Emulsion Painting Theory of Fat and Lean 7 NOTES ON UNDERPAINTING Difficulties of the be ginner Practical suggestions Artistic considera tions 13 TEMPERA PAINTING Description and classification for the sake of clarity 17 EMULSIONS FOR TEMPERA PAINTING Egg and Water Yolk of Egg and Water Lean Tempera Me dium Fat Tempera Pastose Tempera Formulae and descriptions - Suggestions and cautions . 22 RUBBING OR GRINDING OF TEMPERA COLOURS Sug gestions based on practical experience Three Good Tempera Whites 28 PUTRIDO Preparation Characteristics Possibili ties in combination with other forms of tempera 32 GROUNDS FOR TEMPERA Chalk Ground Tempera Ground Tempera Panel Coated Paper and Cardboard Formulae and detailed instructions for making 36 OIL GROUNDS Full-Oil Ground Non-Absorbent Ground Formulae and detailed instructions for making 44 Iv SGS - TEMPERA PAINTING PAGE NOTES t> w ^ TERIALS - Canvas - Stretching - Stretch ers -^ Tacks-Brushes - Gilder J s Whiting ... 40 GLUES - Fish Glue - Rabbit Skin Glue ( Colle de Lapin)-Tests - Preparation 51 LINSEED OIL - General notes Sun-Bleached - Sun-Thickened 53 DAMAR VARNISH - Notes on preparation . ... 56 LEAD WHITE - Cautions in handling 58 GOUACHE Preparation - Possible use with tempera emulsions 59 MAROGER OIL EMULSION Description Maroger's theory of Oil Emulsion Painting Chemical struc ture 61 SUMMARY OF PROCEDURES Brief notes on Seven Dif ferent Methods of Picture-Building ( ordinary di rect oil painting apart) summarizing the material contained above 67 INDEX 75 INTRODUCTION THIS book has two functions. It is partly a text-book, or manual of technique, and partly an essay. As a text-book it contains full directions for painting in Egg Tempera and for the making of the necessary grounds. As an essay it outlines a new method of painting in oil or oil emulsion, with suggestions both theoretical and practical. There is a logical connec tion between these two functions or we should not have included them in the same book. As a text-book on tempera painting, we have given directions, as precise and clear as possible, for the mak ing and use of those forms of egg tempera which we have found in the course of several years of experi menting to be the important fundamental forms. There are many variations of these forms which any one, with the experience these fundamental forms provide, can work out to suit his own taste. As the use of the right ground is of the utmost importance in both tempera and oil painting, we include full direc tions for the making and use of the most important tempera and oil grounds. The student who wishes a clear and concise manual of technique on tempera painting alone should find here all the information necessary, and in as practical a form as possible. It seems to us, however, that there is another important aspect of tempera ; that is, its suitability as an underpainting for oil or oil emulsion. We have therefore given precise and practical direc tions on the preparation and use of tempera as an underpainting. If it seems to the reader that the language used is sometimes too elementary, it has been used deliber 2 EGG TEMPERA PAINTING ately, as it has always seemed to us that most manuals of technique are too vague and general in their direc tions. There is also a certain amount of repetition bot
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Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950
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Tempera was a primary medium for artistic expression in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Milk and Eggs examines the American re-emergence of tempera painting in the mid-20th century. It experienced a renaissance in the work of a large number of mostly unconnected American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Jacob Lawrence, and Andrew Wyeth among others.
Milk and Eggs focuses on four centers where tempera painting was revived--Yale University School of Art, the Art Students League of New York, the studio of N. C. Wyeth in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Kansas City Art Institute--and the historical, cultural, and philosophical factors that drove the revival, including the Great Depression and the Works Progress Administration. It also examines the medium in great detail, its materials and preparation, and arrives at a definition of tempera. Moreover, the results of extensive analysis of certain works of art is included.
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Robert McNeely -- President Bill Clinton's official photographer from 1992 to 1998 -- has traveled the world and roamed the halls of the White House, a virtual fly-on-the-wall, documenting the day-to-day political and private lives of President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Clinton Years presents in dramatic detail a behind-the-scenes look at the White House with intriguing glimpses into the personal side of Clinton's presidency.
Clinton trusted McNeely's vision completely and granted him full access to the inner workings of the presidency. McNeely was Clinton's constant shadow, quietly recording for posterity the president's moods, his reactions to key moments and events, his prowess as a politician, his personal charisma and presence, and his interactions with world leaders. An intimate look at the man behind the politician, this collection also reveals Clinton's relationships with his wife, his staff, his public and the world. These striking images compel the viewer to recognize what an extraordinarily complex individual Bill Clinton is. It is more than a portrait of a president; it is an education about the presidency. The Clinton Years is an essential record of Bill Clinton's legacy.
"The Clinton Years tells for the first time the real story of this administration in photos. For those of us who were there, these photos by White House photographer Bob McNeely are more revealing in their emotions than all of the words that have been written about this president."
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Camelot Revisited.......2003-03-28
Former President Bill Clinton's white house photographer was given freedom of access and freedom to publish. The result is
an astonishingly honest look at Clinton in unguarded moments as seen by a man with a gift for capturing time through photographs. It is not political by any stretch of the imagination and instead shows the regality of the Presidency in all its glory. It truly is a glimpse at the fabled Kennedy Camelot in the modern era.
An fantastic inside.......2002-11-03
The Clinton Years offers an fantastic inside to the White House and the years of Bill Clinton. The fantastic black and white pictures make you feel you were there and experienced the presidency first hand.
THE CLINTON YEARS.......2002-06-18
ROBERT McNEELY - President Bill Clinton's official photographer from 1992 to 1998 - has traveled the world and roamed the halls of the White House, a virtual fly - on - the - wall, documenting the day - to - day political and private lives of President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Clinton Years presents in dramatic detail a behind - the - scenes look at the White House with intriguing glimpses into the personal side of Clinton's presidency.
Clinton trusted McNeely's vision completely and granted him full access to the inner workings of the presidency. McNeely was Clinton's constant shadow, quietly recording for posterity the president's moods, his reactions to key moments and events, his prowess as a politican, his personal charisma and presence, and his interactions with world leaders. An intimate look at the man behind the politician, this collection also reveals Clinton's relationships with his wife, his staff, his public and the world. These striking images compel the viewer to recognize what an extraordinarily complex individual Bill Clinton is. It is more than a portrait of a president; it is an education about the presidency. The Clinton Years is an essential record of Bill Clinton's legacy.
YESSSSS!.......2002-01-17
I love the Clintons and I love this book!!
Beautiful photography.......2001-09-26
This book is a masterful piece of photograhpy as the author captures former President Clinton in formal and sometimes informal moments. The photographs humanize the President, his advisors and his wife, making one appreciate Clinton as not just a President, but an everyday person with high points and lows. I recommend this book to anyone who likes beautifully crafted photography and has a love of Presidential politics. A must have coffee table book
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The Eighth Book of Earl
Wally Badgett
Manufacturer: Magpie Enterprises
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The latest in the "COWBOYIN' WITH EARL" series. 96 pages of cartoons, laughs and memories, taken directly from ranch life.
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True country/cowboy humor reflected in Earl books.......2002-06-05
The cartoons found between the covers of the Books of Earl reflect real situations experienced by those who homesteaded the vast Montana prairies, and the progeny who continue to work that rugged land. The humorous situations depicted on these pages will stimulate many a conversation of "Remember when......" for the true country folk who enjoy Badgett's renderings. A must read for those with links to the rugged western lifestyle!
Earl's day-to-day observations keep readers pluggin' along........1999-09-28
I met Wally Badgett, aka M.C. Tin Star, during a Cowboy Cartoonists International Rendezvous at Western Pleasure Guest Ranch in Sandpoint, Idaho, where he even won a prize sponsored by the Western Horseman Magazine. It was hard NOT to meet Wally as he was ambling around the lodge in his long underwear, beat-up cowboy hat, boots and jinglin' spurs. He told me he'd slept in the tipi with two dogs he didn't know. Kinda scary at first, but once I sat down and chewed the fat with Wally, I found he was one of the nicest guys I'd met in a long time. His character Earl may be just like Wally---pure sincerity, untarnished by big city ways and rock solid good soul. A collection of Earl books now sits on our coffee table when it's not on the kitchen counter where my hubby reads Earl's trials and tribulations while enjoying his breakfast. Earl gets in a fix or two. Readers come to expect that, just as folks on the farms and ranches know that Murphy's Law will visit at least once or twice on the best of days. Give Earl a whirl. I think you'll like Earl and want to meet his creator, a mighty nice guy.
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Looking for Clark Gable and Other 20th-Century Pursuits: Collected Writings
Virginia V. Hamilton
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Corporate Taxation: Problems, Solutions & Explanations has over 90 different fact patterns with over 200 questions for students and practitioners to work through and learn the complicated provisions in the Internal Revenue Code related to corporations and their shareholders. Topics covered include incorporations, distributions, redemptions, mergers, stock acquisitions, asset acquisitions, and reorganizations.
Here are some comments from students who have used the book.
"I have found [the] work exceptionally helpful both as a law student learning the principles of corporate taxation for the first time, and also as a corporate attorney needing a refresher on the core aspects of the taxation of business transactions."
"The 'Learning by Doing' methodology is, to my mind, a highly effective pedagogical technique."
"[The workbook] translates the frequently hard-to-follow language of the Internal Revenue Code into the key underlying rules that the Code seeks to convey (rules that are, in fact, much simpler than I ever imagined after first trying to make sense of the Code by myself)."
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not very sophisticated.......2005-05-05
While I'm a huge fan of the Q&A approach, this book just does a really bad job with it. The questions offer endless repitition of the same few (very basic) ideas, rather than altering the facts a little to get different results under the tax code. As a consequence, you'll do nothing but get bored trying to work through these questions, even if you're really trying to learn the material (because instead of getting hit with new ideas you'll just get question after question asking the same thing (and answer after answer that is identical, like they were written mostly just using cut-and-paste). Also, this book covers *much* less material than any law school corp. tax course. While it treats all the main topics (incorporation, distributions, mergers and reorgs), it does so only on a *highly* superficial level.
Love the Q&A idea, wish this book executed well. Save your time and money.
Very Helpful.......2003-03-27
I found the questions and answers to be a great way to work through the corporate tax rules. I'd definitely recommend it if you are taking a class or trying to learn the rules yourself.
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