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Art Deco Fashion Masterpieces of Art by Gordon Kerr
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Art Deco Fashion: Masterpieces of Art highlights artworks from fashion illustrators of the era that was characterized by the allure of modernity, progression, women's liberation, and luxury - leading to the short hemlines and androgyny of the Flapper, th ...Show more
Art Deco Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Ert , Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco a ...Show more
Art Deco Masterpieces of Art by Janet Tyson
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Ert , Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco a ...Show more
Art Nouveau Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (Created by); Julian Beecroft
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Founded in the 1880s as a response to the art world's elitist obsession with painted and sculptural arts, 'New Art' quickly found ethusiastic support. Art Nouveau combined a desire for the complete reflection of art through craft and design, with the flowing lines of nature and Japonisme. It remains hug ...Show more
Art Nouveau Posters. Masterpieces of Art by Michael Robinson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Art Nouveau Posters is as vivacious and optimistic as the period from which it derives its power to appeal, the Fin de Siecle. Combining advertising and art, by artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha and Jules Cheret, these beautiful p ...Show more
Arts & Crafts Masterpieces of Art by Michael Robinson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
Arts & Crafts: Masterpieces of Art is a celebration of the design movement that spread rapidly around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and unusual artworks, textile patterns and decorations from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides a wealth of in ...Show more
Berthe Morisot Masterpieces of Art by Ann Kay
Category: Art | Series: Masterpieces of Art Ser.
Regarded by her fellow impressionists as a 'virtuoso colourist', Berthe Morisot (1841-95) strove to be considered an equal among her male peers - an uphill struggle at a time when women were generally forbidden from taking formal artistic training. Nevertheless, she succeeded in forging a career, gainin ...Show more
Edgar Degas Masterpieces of Art by Michael Robinson
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
French artist Edgar Degas was famous for his drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Although a member of the Impressionists, with Monet, Pissaro and Renoir his work focused on indoor subjects, particularly his acutely observed pieces on ballerinas. His masterful studies of real life resonate stil ...Show more
Edward Hopper: Masterpieces of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
This glorious book allows the reader to revel in Hopper's most well-known and masterful works, reproduced one after the other, often at full page, in full colour; but it also enables you to rediscover the artist, to delve further than the obvious paintings in order to fully understand his motivations, a ...Show more
Egon Schiele Masterpieces of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
Austrian painter Egon Schiele was a gifted artist, mentored by the great Gustav Klimt. Inspired by the human form, he is best-known for his figurative works, particularly of women, with their defiantly confrontational air and their bold contortions. Schiele's nudes are shockingly direct in the way they ...Show more
Eric Ravilious Masterpieces of Art by Susie Hodge
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
The Art of Fine Gifts: Twentieth-century painter, designer and wood engraver Eric Ravilious was responsible for a fascinating range of different works, from illustrations for books to designs for ceramics for the established Wedgwood pottery firm. This gorgeous new book features beautiful woodcut images ...Show more
Frida Kahlo Masterpieces of Art by Flame Tree Studio (COR)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterpieces of Art
The painful, exquisite art of Mexico's favourite artist was a product of immense physical pain, and an emotional tumultuous life. The new book features the range and power of her heavily autobiographical work, from the early, disturbing explorations of personal suffering to the more dulled, painkiller-d ...Show more