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100 Dresses: The Costume Institute by Harold Koda
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminder of the ways fashion reflects the broader culture tha ...Show more
100 Shoes: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harold Koda
Category: Fashion | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
A hundred pairs of shoes, from the 16th to the 21st century, paint a vivid picture of how shoe styles have changed-sometimes radically-over the years. They also reveal how some trends have reappeared throughout the ages. For instance, platform shoes were worn by fashionable Venetian women from the 15th ...Show more
20th Century Ceramics by Edmund De Waal
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art S.
Ceramics have kept pace with - or even led - new movements in art, from Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the Bauhaus and Futurism, through Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Performance, to Land Art and Installation Art. From orientalism and colour theory to modernism, postmodernism and the profuse diversity of appr ...Show more
30 Millennia Of Erotic Art by Klaus H. Carl; Victoria Charles; Hans-Jürgen Döpp; Joe A. Thomas
Category: Art and Design | Series: 30 Centuries of Art Ser.
From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in society, whatever their morals or cultural references.This work has assembled one thousand images of erotic artworks, from all times and all continents, to i ...Show more
365 Days of Creativity: Inspire Your Imagination with Art Every Day by SCOBIE LORNA
Category: Art Instructional | Series: 365 Days of Art Ser.
365 Days of Creativity is a thoughtful and inspiring book designed to help you carve out moments of self-expression and unlock your creative potential. Lorna Scobie shows you how to experiment, explore and let go of your artistic inhibitions, encouraging you to look for creative inspiration wherever you ...Show more
365 Days of Drawing: Sketch and Paint Your Way Through the Creative Year by Lorna Scobie
Category: Art Instructional | Series: 365 Days of Art Ser.
Get lost in your creativity with 365 Days of Drawing, a thoughtful and inspiring art journal designed to help you carve out moments of self-expression. Lorna shows you that drawing does not have to be scary - it can be done with any materials, in any color, in any style and can be done anywhere. Eac ...Show more
365 Days of Feel-good Art: For Self-Care and Joy, Every Day of the Year by Lorna Scobie
Category: Art Instructional | Series: 365 Days of Art Ser.
In 365 Days of Feel-good Art, Lorna Scobie explores art-based tasks which will help to boost your overall confidence, wellbeing and happiness.Full of tips that will encourage you to nurture your creativity, 365 Days of Feel-good Art teaches readers of all artistic levels how to tackle creative tasks, ev ...Show more
A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci; John Francis Rigaud (Translator)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
The much overused word genius aptly describes only a few people in the history of civilization. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) unquestionably belongs in this elite group. Anyone who has looked in amazement at the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, or the many drawings that sprang from his fertile imagination ma ...Show more
A Well-tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Hearing Heartbeats Ser.
"Originally published in German by Karl Blessing Verlag in 2012."
ABC OF ART by HILLYEAR Dianne
Category: unmapped | Series: Children's Art Ser. from the National Gallery of Victoria Ser.
Using examples of art from the National Gallery of Victoria's collection of international art, this book is an aid for children learning the alphabet.
ANGLOMANIA : TRADITION AND TRANSGRESSION IN BRITISH FASHION by BOLTON ANDREW
Category: Fiction | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Anglomania, the craze for all things English, gripped Europe during the mid-to-late 18th century. As perceived by Anglophiles such as Voltaire and Montesquieu, England was a land of reason, freedom, and tolerance, a place where the Enlightenment found its greatest expression. What began as an intellectu ...Show more
ART NOUVEAU by JEAN LAHOR
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art of Century Ser.
The Art Nouveau movement is distinguished as the decorative and architectural style that began, in response to the Industrial Revolution. The primary objective of this movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of natural subjects. Designs from this movement are ...Show more