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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
Art Nouveau Graphic Masterpieces - 100 Plates by Henry Guedy
Category: Art and Design | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Published in Paris before World War I, these decorative Art Nouveau graphics originally appeared in a now-rare periodical, La Decoration Artistique. This compilation presents 100 full-color plates in a beautiful assortment of naturalistic motifs and period designs that will prove essential to collectors ...Show more
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures by Arthur Rackham; Arthur Quiller-Couch (As told to)
Category: Art | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
With his distinctive blend of humor and romance, English illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) recaptured scenes from a thrilling fairy tale world -- a realm shadowed by danger, yet suffused with a sense of sweetness and light. His images enjoyed both popular and critical success, conveying a mood of j ...Show more
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by WASSILY KANDINSKY
Category: Art and Design | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crysta ...Show more
Dore's Illustrations For Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré; John Milton (Contribution by)
Category: Other Gift | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Gustave Dor 's Romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. His wood-engraved illustrations for John Milton's monumental epic poem Paradise Lost, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan, were among ...Show more
Fadeaway - The Remarkable Imagery of Coles Phillips by Coles Phillips; Scott Fischer (Introduction by); Jeff A. Menges (Editor)
Category: Art | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Coles Phillips (1880-1927) was among the most in-demand illustrators in his field during the 1910s and 20s. A dynamic and highly skilled watercolor artist and draftsman, Phillips created dozens of covers for mainstream American magazines, including Good Housekeeping, Life, and The Saturday Evening Post ...Show more
Fantastic Ornament: French Color Design by Dover
Category: Home Interiors | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Derived from a one-of-a-kind, hand-painted studio sourcebook of the early 1900s, the patterns in this stunning collection combine to form a treasury of bold, colorful designs. These images have never before appeared in print, and this compilation affords users a unique selection of remarkably brilliant ...Show more
Gods' Man - A Novel in Woodcuts by Lynd Ward
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
The most important work of American artist and illustrator Lynd Ward, Gods' Man is a powerfully evocative novel, told entirely through woodcuts. Ward (1905-85), in employing the concept of the wordless pictorial narrative, acknowledged his predecessors the European artists Frans Masereel and Otto N ckel ...Show more
Japanese Woodblock Flower Prints by Tanigami Kônan
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Exceptionally drawn in a realistic fashion and awash in spectacularly rich colors, this one-of-a-kind art book—masterfully reprinted from a rare and costly edition—combines the perennial appeal of flowers with the art of Japanese woodblock prints.Nothing expresses the richness and vigor of life like blo ...Show more
Just What the Doctor Disordered: Early Writings and Cartoons of Dr. Seuss by Rick Marschall
Category: Humour | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
Before his worldwide fame as a bestselling children's author, Dr. Seuss was a magazine writer and cartoonist. His genius mix of visual hilarity, nonsense language, and absurdist humor illuminates this entertaining compilation of items from the Doctor's early - and often forgotten - career. Includes feat ...Show more
Leonardo Drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci (Illustrator)
Category: Art | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Although Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest artists who ever lived, his career was marked by an unusually large number of uncompleted projects and by finished works that rapidly deteriorated. Nevertheless, his influence is undoubted, and his claim to greatness rests chiefly on his drawings, which ...Show more
Picasso by Gertrude Stein
Category: Art | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments: Picasso as founder of Cubism, associate of Apollinaire, Braque, Derain, other notables; titanic, creative spirit. One of Stein's most acc ...Show more