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THELMA R. NEWMA'N
PLASTICS

AS AN ART FORM
PREHISTORIC ART ROBERT MYRON

PLASTICS AS AN IMAGINATIVE TECH­
ART FORM NIQUES IN PAINTING PREHISTORIC ART ORIENTAL BRUSHWORK

Thelma R. Newman Leonard Richmond Robert Myron Wang Chi-Yuan
R.0.1., RB.A.
The developments and uses of In this new and stimulating work, An exciting and detailed account of This book will appeal to the reader who
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creative field of art today are of enormous experience, shows The author, in his studies, covers a on the technique of Oriental Brush­
incredible, and this volume students of painting how to span of 30,000 years, following the work. The author's approach to the
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first time. It is essentially a this by demonstration and language of prehistoric painting forges versational - he addresses the reader
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wish for a foundation in sixteen in full colour, show the mences with a description of the dis­ Believing the reader to be creative, the
plastics as an art form. Unlike infinitely more satisfying results covery of the cave paintings at Alta­ author does not lay out a specific
previous publications in the that can be achieved by the mira and Lascaux, and the subsequent method or short-cut towards the
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