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Art deco 1910-1939

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Description: The Victoria and Albert Museum's highly successful art nouveau exhibition is replaced in 2003 by an art deco exhibition. This volume focuses on one of the twentieth-century's most popular and distinctive styles.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 2003.
Call number: 654818
ISBN: 1851773886; 9781851773886; 1851773878; 9781851773879
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.
Dimensions: 29 cm
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Stock label: oranges with ribbon and art deco text plates

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Image of oranges on branch with leaves; ribbon and art deco text plates.

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Decorative frames and borders : 396 copyright-free designs for artists and craftsmen

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Largest, most varied collection from first-rate sources includes all styles: Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classical, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, chinoiserie, etc. Simple, ornate, picture-frame, typographical, round, square, eccentric motifs perfect for posters, announcements, cards, ads, packaging, menus, etc. 396 illustrations.

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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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The life of Christ as represented in art / by Frederic W. Farrar

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This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.

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The Children's book of art / by Agnes Ethel conway ; with sixteen full-page illustrations in colour

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Art deco 1910-1939

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