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Writing & Illuminating & Lettering
One of the founders of modern calligraphy, Edward Johnston regarded lettering, writing, and illuminating as not only desirable ends in themselves but also as practical avenues to mastery of typography, decoration, and design. In this classic, profusely illustrated guide, he distilled his expertise into a series of easy-to-follow lessons that will benefit any student of calligraphy, book design,…
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A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
In the course of browsing an illustrated book of objectsumbrellas, watches, tools, clothesartist Max Ernst was struck by the items' unusual juxtapositions. By manipulating the Victorian-era engravings into striking tableaux and adding brief captions, Ernst invented the collage novel and transformed banal advertising art into revealing dramas rooted in his dreams and secret desires. A Little Gir…
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- 9780486823386
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Of Menus and MythologyLate Nineteenth-Century Print Graphics
"Dover Publications can always be counted on to provide a virtually neverending source of obscure beautiful graphics and arts books. This one is no exception. The designs are beautifully rendered and detailed. " Nonstop Reader This early collection of graphic designs by German artist Franz von Stuck (18631928) features images intended for menu cards, wine lists, and other food service applicat…
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Fantastic Beasts of the Nineteenth CenturyDragons, Birds, and Incredible Sea …
Fanciful creatures slither, swim, and soar through this full-color adaptation of a rare 19th-century German portfolio. The colorful images include exotic birds and fishes, dramatic reptiles and amphibians, and scores of ferocious dragons. This new layout of a hard-to-find antique volume presents enlargements of the original illustrations that offer magnified details of stylized feathers, fins, …
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The Hundred Headless Woman
Originally published in Paris in 1929, this collage novel by avant-gardist Max Ernst constitutes a seminal 20th-century work of art. The artist's striking combinations of engravings from Victorian-era books and magazines, accompanied by enigmatic captions, offer a universe of mystery replete with all the possibilities of the bizarre dream world of the surreal. Images speak, language illustrates…
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The Fantastic Line Art of Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration, which encompassed the years 1890 until the end of World War I. The acclaim for the artist's wealth of color illustrations has overshadowed the merit of his first-rate ink work, a genre richly deserving of individual attention. This original volume, the first available coll…
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Will Bradley's Graphic ArtNew Edition
Will Bradley (18681962) was among the first American artists to realize the immense possibilities creative design held for the business world. Experimenting with typefaces, decorative illustrations, layouts, and print, he produced posters, advertisements, book designs, and magazine covers that were practical as well as striking and original works of art. At the turn of the century, Bradley was …
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Prisms
The career of E. A. Seguy spanned both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, and he was one of the few graphic artists to incorporate both styles into his work. Original portfolios of his magnificent designs intended as inspiration for textiles, wallpaper, and other decorative items are highly collectible today. These 40 full-color plates, most of them geometric patterns, are derive…
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The Art of Illustration
An influential teacher whose pen-and-ink drawings helped define the style of the early twentieth century, Edmund J. Sullivan sought to define the principles behind good illustration. His treatise richly illustrated with black-and-white engravings by Holbein, Drer, Rubens, Blake, and many others also offers suggestions on materials and methods. Sullivan, who came of age during the heyday of gr…
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The Love Affair as a Work of Art
This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, and published correspondences. We make the intimate acquaintance of great writers like Mme de Staël, Chateaubriand, George Sand, and Anatole France, who, however, fall gradually under the suspicion of pursuing their amorous entanglements for &…
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