Best of
Visual-Art

1979

Ed Emberley's Big Green Drawing Book


Ed Emberley - 1979
    Aspiring artists received step-by-step instructions for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle combinations.

The Art of Emily Carr


Doris Shadbolt - 1979
    It reflects more than a decade of meticulous research, and excerpts form Carr’s own prolific writings have been skillfully woven into the narrative, combining with exquisite reproductions of over 200 paintings, charcoals and drawings, two thirds of them in colour, almost all of them specially photographed for this book.Never swallowed by the mainstream in art. Emily Carr remained extraordinarily loyal to her inner vision. The world she created lingers persuasively in the Canadian psyche.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region


Richard Spellenberg - 1979
    The guide has been completely revised to make identification in the field easier than ever. Images are grouped by flower color and shape and keyed to clear, concise descriptions that reflect current taxonomy.

Ward 81


Mary Ellen Mark - 1979
    While on set, Mark met the women of Ward 81, the only locked hospital security ward for women in the state: the inmates were considered dangerous to themselves or to others. In February of 1976, just before the ward closed (it ceased to exist in November of 1977, when it became the female section of a coeducational treatment ward), Mark and Karen Folger Jacobs, a writer and social scientist, were given permission to make a more extended stay, living on the ward in order to photograph and interview the women. They spent 36 days on Ward 81, photographing and documenting. Jacobs recalls their slow, inevitable assimilation: "We felt the degeneration of our own bodies and the erosion of our self-confidence. We were horrified at the thought of what we might become after a year or two of confinement and therapy on Ward 81." This new hardcover edition adds 10 new pictures to the original. Ward 81 is a sobering investigation into the lives and treatment of the mentally ill.

Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, Vol. II: All 781 Plates from the 1887 "Animal Locomotion"


Eadweard Muybridge - 1979
    Essential for artists, animators, photographers, cinematographers, anyone interested in the mechanics of people in motion.

Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, Vol. I: All 781 Plates from the 1887 "Animal Locomotion"


Eadweard Muybridge - 1979
    Essential for artists, animators, photographers, cinematographers, anyone interested in the mechanics of people in motion.