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"Art Nouveau is a term which has become widely used in the last few years but, as the author shows, it should strictly be applied only to the decorative style which was fashionable in France at the end of the nineteenth century."--Excerpt from book jacket.
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Art nouveau
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Aesthetic and social interpretation of the history, development and meaning of the art movement which flourished at the turn of the century.
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Art Nouveau
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"Late in the 19th century artists and designers were searching for an alternative to the ponderous Victorian style which then predominated. William Morris with his Arts and Crafts Movement was the first to strike out on his own, and he was followed by three mildly dissimilar men who were to have a strong influence on the whole of European art: the Scottish architect-designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the English artist Aubrey Beardsley, and the eccentric Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi. The new style was based on graceful plant-forms, and the distinctive sinuous shapes appeared everywhere, from the entrances of the Paris Metro to the strangely elegant glass and furniture. The delicacy of the lines gives a feminine air to most Art Nouveau design, a feeling echoed by such artists as Mucha, Maillol and Klimt, who often portrayed women. The essence of the style is shown in the superb illustrations while Renató Barilli's text tells the absorbing story of the most distinctive and the most cosmopolitan of movements in modern art"--Front flap of original dust jacket.
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Colour harmony and contrast : for the use of art students, designers, and decorators ; with sixteen plates in colour, and eleven explanatory diagrams
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"The aim of the writer in this work has been to treat the subject of colour, both in its physical and artistic aspects, and also to show the connection, as well as some of the distinctions, between the scientific theory of the spectral colours of light, and the artistic practice of colour harmony and contrast. The book may also be described as the result of an attempt to provide a practical colour manual for the use of art students, decorators, and designers, and for those who may be engaged in any occupation where a knowledge of colour is essential"--From preface.
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Pulp art book
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"Pulp Art Book--the multi-media collaboration between photographer Neil Krug and model Joni Harbeck--has become a virtual sensation online, and is now the subject of the artists' first monograph. Pulp Art Book: Volume One is an LP-sized hardcover book, split into several vignettes ranging from a spaghetti western theme to a Bonnie and Clyde revival and to the struggles of a 1950s housewife. These series tell the story of each character, and will be expanded in subsequent volumes. The inspiration for the pulp theme comes from the artists' collective appreciation of societal life and the artistic expressions of the 1960s and 70s. Old LP jackets, Giallo posters, vintage book covers, and B-movie cinema themes have defined their taste for this project. Initially they set out to capture something simple and sexy; as the shoots progressed, however, natural story lines emerged. The resulting work captures the smell of those decades and expresses them in a fresh way"--Publisher's Web site.
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Tragic sense of life
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A practical, sensible discussion of the war between faith and reason that consumed the twentieth century and continues to rage in the twenty-first century. de Unamuno's philosophy is not the stuff of a rarefied realm but an integral part of fleshly, sensual life, metaphysics that speaks to daily living and the real world.
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