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Art Nouveau by FKG EDITORS
Category: Art and Design | Series: Periods of Art Ser.
The book, with 550 images, illustrates the characteristics of the art movement, with chapters dedicated to architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic art, applied art and interior decoration. Biographies of the main artists and an index of names conclude the volume.
Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art S.
The story of art nouveau, from its inception in the 1890s to the modern resurgence of interest. It introduces the main personalities, such as Galle, Lalique and Tiffany, and relates their aims and accomplishments to the background from which the movement emerged.
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
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 Of The 20th Century by Dorothea Eimert
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art of the 20th Century Ser.
The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic mo ...Show more
Art and Climate Change by Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
An overview of ecologicallyconscious contemporary artthat responds to today'senvironmental crisis, fromspecies extinction toclimate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threatened, creative pr ...Show more
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece by Thomas H. Carpenter
Category: Art and Design | Series: World of Art Ser.
The ancient Greeks recorded their mythology on vase paintings, engraved gems, and bronze and stone sculptures, offering depictions that often predate any references to the myths in literature or recount alternative, unfamiliar versions of these tales. In some cases, visual art provides our only evidence ...Show more
Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism by Christopher Allen
Category: Art | Series: World of Art Ser.
Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from ...Show more
Art in California by Jenni Sorkin
Category: Art Instructional | Series: World of Art Ser.
This introduction to the art of California focuses on the distinctive role the state played in the history of American art, from early twentieth-century photography and Chicanx mural painting to the fiber art movement and beyond. Shaped by a compelling network of geopolitical influences--including waves ...Show more
Art of China - Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Hiromi Kinoshita; Xiaofeng Huang; Diandian Li; John E. Vollmer
Category: Art and Design | Series: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Ser.
This sumptuous presentation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's wide-ranging collection of Chinese art features one hundred works in various media spanning antiquity to the present day--including Ming gold vessels, a 15th-century Buddhist temple ceiling, imperial court robes, and an 18th-century bookcas ...Show more
Art of Coloring: Beauty and the Beast: 100 Images to Inspire Creativity by Disney Book Group
Category: Children's | Series: Art of Coloring Ser.
Relax, and let the creativity flow through you. Whether a skilled artist or an everyday dabbler of drawings and doodles, fans of all ages will enjoy these stunning pen-and-ink illustrations of beautiful landscapes, elaborate patterns, and memorable characters from Disney's new live-action feature Beauty ...Show more
Art of Coloring: Disney 100 Years of Wonder - 100 Images to Inspire Creativity by Staff of Staff of the Walt Disney Archives
Category: Art Therapy | Series: Art of Coloring Ser.
The Walt Disney Company spans one hundred wondrous years, and this stunning collection of illustrations features playful line art from vintage Disney coloring books across the decades, archival pieces from Disney movies and theme parks, and new line art for the Disney100 celebration. Thoughtfully curate ...Show more