With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nat...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

《Sketch Book for the Artist》（《艺术家速写簿》）以激发读者用画笔描绘自己周遭的世界为主旨，全书依绘画主题分为动物、植物与花园、建筑、肖像等共计11个部分，应主题及描绘需要介绍各种绘画材料、手法、技法及创作理念。书中附有大量大师作品及作者自己的作品作为例子。

《Sketch Book for the Artist》（《艺术家速写簿》）以激发读者用画笔描绘自己周遭的世界为主旨，全书依绘画主题分为动物、植物与花园、建筑、肖像等共计11个部分，应主题及描绘需要介绍各种绘画材料、手法、技法及创作理念。书中附有大量大师作品及作者自己的作品作为例子。

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

An insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility. The ultimate resource on aristocratic manners, it remains the most definitive account of life among the Renaissance nobility.