EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Great Drawings and Illustrations from Punch  1841 1901

Download or read book Great Drawings and Illustrations from Punch 1841 1901 written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 192 drawings by 25 artists: Phiz, Leech, Tenniel, du Maurier, Sambourne.

Book Survey of Historic Costume

Download or read book Survey of Historic Costume written by Phyllis G. Tortora and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Preface of the 5th Edition of Survey of Historic Costume, Tortora and Eubank conclude with the following: "In the history of dress at the beginning of the 21st century, costume might be compared to a constantly moving river. This river divides into many narrower channels that separate, cross, come together, and separate again, and yet that river continually moves on." Building on the previous editions, the authors update their analysis of Western dress to 2008. Survey of Historic Costume has, from its beginnings, taken seriously the need to accompany the text with appropriate illustrations and the major change in the 5th Edition is the move to full color throughout the book to enrich the text and the concepts. Perfect for anyone interested in historic costume, fashion, textiles, drama, and design, this beautifully illustrated book is full of interesting facts and commentary.New to this Edition:-- Over 500 four-color photographs and illustrations-- Updated text to 2008-- Additional influences from one period or civilization to another, including influences from other cultures-- Index - updated and organized to be utilized as glossary with terms defined and page numbers printed in boldface-- Instructor's Guide provides sources for visuals, websites, teaching strategies and evaluation techniques-- PowerPoint® Presentation contains interactive visual presentation with links to Internet

Book Treasury of Nineteenth Century Ornamental Metalwork

Download or read book Treasury of Nineteenth Century Ornamental Metalwork written by Jules Decker and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely pliable yet amazingly durable, metal offers infinite decorative options. Here are 1,000 prime examples of French metal masterworks, painstakingly reproduced from an extremely rare and valuable edition. From the everyday to the ornate, items include: Weather vanes Tiles Waterspouts Trims Basins Pike heads You'll also find hundreds of other images, offering a wealth of inspiration and useful historical designs.

Book Composition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Wesley Dow
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-03-13
  • ISBN : 0486133648
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Composition written by Arthur Wesley Dow and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on harmonic relations between lines, color, and dark and light patterns, this manual influenced generations of artists. Practical and well-illustrated, it conveys its insights in a convenient workbook format.

Book The Drawings of Heinrich Kley

Download or read book The Drawings of Heinrich Kley written by H. Kley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irreverent, bizarre, whimsical, and mocking, these 200 pen-and-ink sketches date from the early 20th century. They blend savage humor with brilliant draughtsmanship in depictions of humans, animals, and curious combinations of the two.

Book Victorian Imagery and Design  The Essential Reference

Download or read book Victorian Imagery and Design The Essential Reference written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed compendium offers glimpses of social history as reflected by historical periodicals, trade catalogs, architectural graphics, William Morris patterns, Crystal Palace exhibits, and many other sources. Includes color and black-and-white images, detailed bibliographies, and artist biographies.

Book Art Deco Display Alphabets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan X. Solo
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1982-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486243726
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Art Deco Display Alphabets written by Dan X. Solo and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, practical treasury of Art Deco typography selected by noted typographer Dan Solo. Includes Broadway Engraved, Lampoon, Modernique, Plaza Suite, Neon, over 90 more. Alphabets are immediately useable and copyright-free; printed in jet black ink on repro quality paper. Many fonts display both upper and lower case letters.

Book The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Download or read book The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, and music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawings.

Book Recollections of a Picture Dealer

Download or read book Recollections of a Picture Dealer written by Ambroise Vollard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art merchant recounts selling the works of Cézanne; partying with Renoir, Forain, Degas, and Rodin; the studios of Manet, Matisse, Picasso, and Rousseau; encounters with Gertrude Stein, Zola, others. 33 illustrations.

Book Impressionist Prints of Childe Hassam

Download or read book Impressionist Prints of Childe Hassam written by and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 94 black-and-white etchings, drypoints, and lithographs are representative works of famed painter-turned-printmaker whose art preserved a vanished American landscape and a genteel, middle-class way of life.

Book Leonardo on the Human Body

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leonardo da Vinci
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-07-24
  • ISBN : 048631927X
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Leonardo on the Human Body written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are clear reproductions of over 1,200 anatomical drawings by one of humanity's greatest geniuses — still considered, nearly five centuries later, the finest ever rendered. 215 plates.

Book Noa Noa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Gauguin
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486248592
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Noa Noa written by Paul Gauguin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Gauguin fled what he called "filthy Europe" in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa — a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that time. Noa Noa — the most widely known of Gauguin's writings — is reproduced here from a rare early edition (1919), in a lucid translation capturing the artist's unpretentious style. Page after page reveals Gauguin's keen observations of Tahiti and its people, and his passionate struggle to achieve the inner harmony he expressed so profoundly on canvas. Gauguin's prose is as seductive as his paintings, filled with descriptions of warm seas, hidden lagoons, lush green forests, and beautiful Maori women. The journal is captivating reading, offering a compelling autobiographical fragment of the soul of a genius and a rare glimpse of Oceanian culture. The brief periods of happiness Gauguin found among the Tahitians are eloquently expressed in his narrative. We understand the motives that drove him and gain a deeper appreciation of his art. Today the manuscript provides unparalleled insight into Gauguin's thoughts as he strove to achieve spiritual peace, and into the wellsprings of a singular artistic style which changed the course of modern art. This wonderfully affordable edition — enhanced by 24 of Gauguin's South Seas drawings — makes a unique and passionate testament accessible to all art lovers.

Book Los Caprichos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francisco Goya
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-06-08
  • ISBN : 0486139131
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Los Caprichos written by Francisco Goya and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered Goya's most brilliant work, this collection combines corrosive satire and exquisite technique to depict 18th-century Spain as a nation of grotesque monsters sprung up in the absence of reason. 80 plates.

Book Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery

Download or read book Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery written by Cesare Ripa and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent royalty-free reprint of 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition of 1593 classic that codified symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. New introduction, translations of captions and index, plate descriptions.

Book Gauguin s Intimate Journals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Gauguin
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486294414
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Gauguin s Intimate Journals written by Paul Gauguin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality....They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham."--Emil Gauguin, the artist's son, in the Preface. One of the great innovative figures in modern art, Gauguin was a complex, driven individual who, in 1883, gave up his job as a stockbroker in order to be free to paint every day. As time passed, he determined to sacrifice everything for his artistic vocation. Finally, in pursuit of a place to paint "natural men and women living lives unstained by the sham and hypocrisy of civilization, he took up residence in the South Seas, first in Tahiti and, later, in the Marquesas Islands. Completed during the artist's final sojourn in the Marquesas, these revealing journals -- reprinted from rare limited edition -- throw much light on the painter's inner life and his thoughts about a great many topics. We learn of Gauguin's first stay in Paris in 1876, and his initial encounter with Impressionism, his tumultuous relationship with van Gogh when they lived and painted together in Arles, his pithy evaluations of Degas, Cezanne, Manet, and other artists; his opinion of art dealers and critics (poor), and much more. Also here are illuminating glimpses of Gauguin's life in the islands: his delight in the simple, carefree lives of the natives and the physical charms of Polynesian women, counterbalanced by his struggles with poverty, hatred of the missionaries, and despair over the failures of French colonial justice. Witty, wide-ranging, and aphoristic, these writings are not only entertaining in themselves, they are crucial for anyone seeking to understand Gauguin and his work. The text is enhanced with 27 full-page illustrations by Gauguin. Dover (1997) unabridged republication of "Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, " Boni and Liveright, New York, 1921.

Book Songs of Innocence

Download or read book Songs of Innocence written by William Blake and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake's original color plates are faithfully reproduced in this illuminated edition of his early poems

Book Migrant Representations

Download or read book Migrant Representations written by Peter Leese and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant Representations pairs twenty-four carefully selected histories in order to compare how migrants themselves – Irish labourer, Lithuanian refugee or Indian doctor – and their social investigators capture in words and images defining private and historical moments. These comparative case studies from the 1780s to the 2000s explore how migrants constructed their own narratives of mobility and settlement through procedures of reflecting, remembering and recording. Moreover, these studies examine how speech, writing, and picture were used, for instance, by a missionary, social scientist or activist to make ‘outside’ representations of the migrant. Such life-stories, social surveys, and pictures emerge as alternative archives. Leese’s transnational, cultural history considers life-story forms and their uses; the tension between external surveillance and self-observation; the power of narratives to afford legibility and acknowledgement. Leese argues that, historically and in the present, first-person migrant stories and outsider investigations create a continuous charged exchange of views where both migrant and observer negotiate position, authority, authenticity, and potential advantage. Within the history of migrant representations this exchange generates a persistent, subversive strain of opposition and critique. Such self-observations, observations of others, and images never settle.