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The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques Ralph Mayer

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques By Ralph Mayer

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer


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Summary

The Artist's Handbook has become an indispensable reference work for thousands of practising artists all over the world. This fifth edition has been prepared by Steven Sheehan, Director of the Ralph Mayer Center, Yale University School of Art. It has been systematically revised and expanded to take account of the latest research.

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques Summary

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer

The Artist's Handbook has become an indispensable reference work for thousands of practising artists all over the world. This fifth edition has been prepared by Steven Sheehan, Director of the Ralph Mayer Center, Yale University School of Art. It has been systematically revised and expanded to take account of the latest research. Once again, it has been edited for the British market.

About Ralph Mayer

Ralph Mayer (1895-1979) was a painter and art conservator. Educated as a chemical engineer, he worked in paint manufacture and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York before going on to teach at Columbia University. He founded the Artists Technical Research Institute in 1959. He is best known as the author of The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (1940), which is still a point of reference for artists today, and he also wrote The Painter's Craft (1948) and A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques (1969).

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NGR9780571143313
9780571143313
0571143318
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer
New
Paperback
Faber & Faber
19910916
784
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