title: Fundamentals of Drawing from Life (Volume 1)
author:  Michael 
description: Michael is an artist, writer, and philosopher from Seattle. He studied for two years at the Art Institute of Seattle, then studied with Jeff Watts and Ron Lemen in San Diego. He's had shows and taught around the Seattle area for the last several years. You can learn more and see more of his different work at his website http://www.endlessunlimited.com
zlib_text: SKETCHES
  FROM
  LIFE
  THEAUTOBIOGRAPHYOF
  LEWISMUMFORD
  HE EARLY YEARS
  
  $19.95
  Illustrated with 23 sketches by the author
  and 16 pages of photographs
  Lewis Mumford has been widely recognized as one of
  the most original minds this century has produced.
  No one field contains him: he is philosopher, biogra-
  pher,
  social analyst, and critic of art and architec-
  ture.
  In
  Sketches from
  Life Mumford
  takes
  as
  his
  subject his formative years—and the result is an auto-
  biography of remarkable candor, acuteness, and wit.
  "I was a child of the city. " These are, significantly,
  the opening words of the book; for it was the Manhat-
  tan of the turn of the century,
  in
  all
  its vitality and
  richness of circumstance, that stirred the boy as he
  walked about the city with his grandfather—an ex-
  citement that was not lost as the years went by. Early
  on he came to know and fully use the city's outstand-
  ing libraries and museums and universities. And
  when a perhaps overly cautious doctor at City College
  advised h