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Author: Deborah Dependahl Waters
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300181142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gathers for the first time the story of Marie Zimmermann's life and work and puts a spotlight on one of the most singular makers of metalwork active in early 20th century America.
Author: Jo Lauria
Publisher: Potter Style
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0307346471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft
Author: Jérôme Gautier
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780500515815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanel's own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton's portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself, the resonance between archive and contemporary photographs becomes sharp, vibrant and telling. The vocabulary of Chanel's style - the little black dress, baroque inspirations, androgynous chic - is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanel's legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashion's undisputed style perennials.
Author: Terrie Sultan
Publisher: Giles
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures contemporary works of art that capture the existential dilemma of the human condition
Author: James Stevens Curl
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 1001
ISBN-13: 1134234678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his pioneering and definitive work analyzes the remarkable and persistent influence of Ancient Egyptian culture on the West. The author deftly develops his argument that the civilization of Ancient Egypt is central, rather than peripheral, to the development of much of Western architecture, art, design, and religion. Curl examines: the persistence of Egyptian motifs in design from Graeco-Roman Antiquity, through the Medieval, Baroque, and Neo-Classical periods rise of Egyptology in the nineteenth and twentieth-century manifestations of Egyptianisms prompted by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb various aspects of Egyptianizing tendencies in the Art Deco style and afterwards. For students of art, architectural and ancient history, and those interested in western European culture generally, this book will be an inspiring and invaluable addition to the available literature.
Author: Elizabeth Siegel
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title examines comprehensively the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage, presenting imagery that has rarely - and in many cases, never - been displayed or reproduced.
Author: Lisa Hostetler
Publisher: George Eastman House
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780935398182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Published in conjunction with the exhibition A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, presented by the George Eastman Museum, October 22, 2016-January 29, 2017."
Author: Joseph Cunningham
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Rohlfs (1853-1936) ranked among the most innovative furniture makers at the turn of the twentieth century. Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, his beautiful works grew out of an interesting mix of styles that included Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and proto-modernism. This book presents the first major study of this important American designer and craftsman, drawing upon new photographs and fresh sources of information. Alongside traditional historical approaches, the book presents detailed formal, structural, and stylistic analyses of Rohlfs's well-known masterpieces from major museums, together with lesser-known objects in public and private collections. Topics include discovering the contribution of Rohlfs's wife--mystery novelist Anna Katharine Green--to his designs; the far-ranging sources of his idiosyncratic motifs; his influence on Gustav Stickley's designs; his commissioned interiors; his efforts at self-promotion and marketing; and his attempts to define a conceptual framework for his artistic endeavor. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the book also features a complete set of unpublished period illustrations of over seventy works.
Author: George Barbier
Publisher: Marsilio
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788831796460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first singular study of one of the key artists of the Art Deco movement, George Barbier (1882-1932) was a fashion illustrator to the leading stylists (Poiret, Lanvin, Paquin, Vionnet) of his time, as well as a set and costume designer for the theater, Russian ballet, and music hall. Barbier's work is also noted in the world of advertising, wallpaper design, and jewelry for Cartier, in albums, as well as in almanacs and precious illustrated books. This volume, with essays by Italian and French authors, marks the rediscovery of a very successful artist of 1920s Paris who was strangely forgotten after his death in 1932.
Author: Metallwarenfa Wurttembergishe
Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851495108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround the turn of the century, Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik was the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of household metalware. This book provides an insight into the type and style of domestic metalwork of the time, printed throughout in colour.
