Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486240010 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Hundreds of thousands of carefully wrought designs embellished books, bookplates, furniture, and appliances. Art Nouveau motif seekers have been left with little choice but to resort to expensive archives of rare books. The designs are grouped by subject matter: florals, landscapes, figures, etc. There are spot illustrations, bookplates, menus, title pages, and many, many swirling line forms.. The ornaments range in size from full-page illustrations to borders, head and tailpieces and decorative initials. Ornament is the essence of Art Nouveau. Artists represented include Gustav Klimt, George Auriol, Ethel Larcombe, and Will Bradley, along with hundreds of English. French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and American studio draftsmen, all identified when possible. Here, taken directly from those rare books and periodicals, are 577 royalty-free authentic period designs specially chosen for artists and designers. All are in black-and-white line, clearly reproduced.Many of the creations come from the influential English periodical The Studio (1894–1920) and the French Art el Décoration (1897–1910); others from a variety of original European sources, all identified. Throughout their two decades of dominance, Art Nouveau artists concentrated on the ornamental and decorative potential of the flowing line in painting, printing, wallpaper, and all other fine and applied arts. A fashionable home was a garden of graphic florals, petals, leaves, and stem
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") What disappointed me was that the print in the books is" according to Bitten Fogh Andreasen. I'm sorry to say that the books didn't quite meet my expectation ;) Ok-- they were cheap, so it's my own fault.I should have looked closer into them, but I was in a hurry--and that you shall not be, when buying books. SoIt was not your fault :)What disappointed me was that the print in the books is of such a bad quality, that the pictures look wooly--the lines turb. and I was fortunate to notice and claim a refund in time Rebecca This review is for the Kindle version. Rather than 577 plates, the Kindle version of Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament has a paltry 57 PLATES! It is clearly a mistake, and I was fortunate to notice and claim a refund in time. Please, Kindle, or Dover, fix this!. good for the price robert drawbaugh the other Dover Pictorial Archive came with discs, which made it easy to import into my computer for design projects.due to the outstanding price i can understand why a disc was not included, so i was ready to scan the images i liked, but the paper they used for the book is low quality, the printing inks bleed and the true lines were lost, the images are some what