Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486240010 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. The designs are grouped by subject matter: florals, landscapes, figures, etc. The ornaments range in size from full-page illustrations to borders, head and tailpieces and decorative initials. Here, taken directly from those rare books and periodicals, are 577 royalty-free authentic period designs specially chosen for artists and designers. Artists represented include Gustav Klimt, George Auriol, Ethel Larcombe, and Will Bradley, along with hundreds of English. 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. French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and American studio draftsmen, all identified when possible. There are
BS Says 577 illustrations but only had 57 illustrations. This is the Kindle version. Not worth the $BS Amazon Customer Says 577 illustrations but only had 57 illustrations. This is the Kindle version. Not worth the $4. . One Star Not what I expected. 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 blotchy. The book are great if your ready to rebuild the images in vector, but
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