- Paperback
- Publisher: Borden Pub Co (January 1964)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0875051561
- ISBN-13: 978-0875051567
- Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 22.4 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
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Great Work, Sep 26 2007
By J. Ferguson - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Drawings of Daumier (Paperback)
This is a terrific look at this artist's use of line especially. If you're interested in his color work, pick up one of the more expensive books offered on this man, but if you're wanting a cheap, quick, intro to this man's work and especially his use of gesture, this is an awesome book.
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A Four-Star Book if more works had been Included, Aug 25 2011
By James Ellsworth - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Drawings of Daumier (Paperback)
Artists will find plenty to look at and to think about in 'The Drawings of Daumier' from the Master Draguhtsman series. From what little I know of his work or have seen in museums, this book features examples of his major work. There is plenty of material here to show his use of flowing line to carve out space and his use of shading to add volume and drama to his subjects. This first American edition, brought out by the Borden Publishing Company in 1964, has a sparse introduction (two pages or less) by Stephen Longstreet and includes neither a table of contents nor an index. I understand that Daumier made at least four thousand lithographic drawings during a forty year period and this slender folio makes room for some forty-six of them. Most of the included works are given a full page and the printing clearly renders each work. The other works are presented in varying sizes but all are suitable to be appreciated clearly. Daumier did a lot of 'carricatures' for the popular press but the ones duplicated in this book should not be thought of in terms of today's 'editorial' portraits with their 'characteristic' features exaggerated. Daumier's sketches, as shown here, are more to bring a sense of what a personage really looked like to a reader at a time when photos were not easily reproduced in newspapers. Other available (and expensive) larger samples of his work show more of the vocabulary of the 'caricaturist' in their changes in body proportions and in their emphasis on distinctive features. I had hoped for a 'thicker' volume with a larger number of his works included. Amazon does provide a key to more of these publications and the seriously interested artist and observer of Daumier's work should consider purchasing them.
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