Download or read book Alphonse Mucha 240 Plates written by Maria Peitcheva and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Peitcheva contains 240 selected color plates of drawings and paintings from Alphonse Mucha.Alphonse Maria Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many drawings, paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. The Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau ("new art"). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful young women in flowing, vaguely Neoclassical-looking robes, and often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed halos behind their heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used pale pastel colors. Mucha's style was given international exposure by the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He decorated the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborated with decorating the Austrian Pavilion. His Art Nouveau style was often imitated. The Art Nouveau style however, was one that Mucha attempted to disassociate himself from throughout his life; he always insisted that rather than maintaining any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings were entirely a product of himself and Czech art. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained by his commercial art, when he most wanted to concentrate on more artistic projects.
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Download or read book Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad written by William Herman Rau and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reproduces almost 100 remarkably detailed and texturally rich photographs. Essays by noted historians John Stilgoe, Mary Panzer, and Kenneth Finkel place Rau and his work in the context of the history of American advertising and landscape photography.
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Download or read book Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copious details on behavior, plumage, nesting and migratory habits, field marks, much more.
Download or read book The Complete Masters of the Poster written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most famous compilation of art from the great age of the poster features full-color, large-format illustrations by nearly 100 artists: Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Mucha, Beardsley, Parrish, Penfield, Steinlen, and many others. Extensive documentation.
Download or read book Sculpture in Wood written by Jack C. Rich and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down-to-earth, practical book by noted sculptor covers everything you need to know — woods, tools, equipment, carving techniques, finishing, preservation, etc. Especially valuable "dictionary of woods" covers geographical distribution, physical properties, carving characteristics, more. Over 70 photos and drawings illustrate methods and techniques, works by Brancusi, Henry Moore, Leonard Baskin, other artists.
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Download or read book Great Nineteenth century French Short Stories written by Angel Flores and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen imaginative selections by lesser-known writers: "Adolphe," Benjamin Constant; "Salome," Jules Laforgue; "The Anatomist," Petrus Borel, 14 more. Trends toward the fantastic, expressionism, surrealism. Introductory notes.
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Download or read book Lhasa and Its Mysteries written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating account of Tibetan capital, its people, leaders, religion, British-Tibetan military clashes, peace negotiations, more. 185 rare contemporary photos, illustrations; plus expedition documents.
Download or read book 1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Sumerian pottery to Tiffany stained glass, decorative art has been a fundamental part of the human experience for generations. While fine art is confined to galleries and museums, decorative art is the art of the every day, combining beauty with functionality in objects ranging from the prosaic to the fantastical. In this work, Albert Jacquemart celebrates the beauty and artistic potential behind even the most quotidian object. Readers will walk away from this text with a newfound appreciation for the subtle artistry of the manufactured world.
Download or read book The Punic Mediterranean written by Josephine Crawley Quinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'classical' world, but their lack of literature and their oriental associations mean that they are much less well-known. This book brings state-of-the-art international scholarship on Phoenician and Punic studies to an English-speaking audience, collecting new papers from fifteen leading voices in the field from Europe and North Africa, with a bias towards the younger generation. Focusing on a series of case-studies from the colonial world of the western Mediterranean, it asks what 'Phoenician' and 'Punic' actually mean, how Punic or western Phoenician identity has been constructed by ancients and moderns, and whether there was in fact a 'Punic world'.
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Download or read book Science from Your Airplane Window written by Elizabeth A. Wood and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes dozens of interesting phenomena and occurrences readily observable during an airplane ride and relates them to the appropriate scientific principles.
