We are an authorized, direct-from-the-publisher retailer of NEW books. Our titles are ON HAND and available for immediate shipping. Table of Contents In Paint by Number, author William L. Bird, Jr. takes us on an unbelievable journey where art meets kitsch and popular and high cultures collide in a collage of home economics, leisure time fun, and art education. Bird revisits the hobby from the vantage point of the entrepreneurs who created the kits (and sent friends to Macy's during a demonstration to set off a buying frenzy), the consumers who filled them in and hung them in their homes, the artists including Andy Warhol who made them, and the critics who reviled them. Developed by Dan Robbins, based on an idea by Leonardo da Vinci to teach painting, the paint by number craze reached its zenith in the 1950s, but has reemerged today as paintings and kits are avidly collected, traded on line, and exhibited in galleries. Paint by Number reminds us that "every man" can be a Rembrandt. - Over 200 paintings-landscapes, portraits, and still-lifes
- Advertisements, housewares, and other ephemera
- And numerous paint by number kits
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