Artikelname: Art Deco (Duncan)
Artikelbeschreibung: Art Deco is one of the most exciting chapters in the history of the decorative arts. Conceived in France before the First World War, it spread throughout Europe and had its greatest and most spectacular success in the United States. Myriad influences shaped the style - Cubism, Constructivism, Orientalism, the Ballets Russes, the Bauhaus - and its exponents included many of the century's most celebrated artists, designers and craftsmen. Alastair Duncan's guide is a history of the style, an encyclopaedia of its practitioners and a handbook for the enthusiast, student or collector.
Artikelname: Art Deco (Lemme)
Artikelbeschreibung: A fascinating guide to this short-lived but immensely influential movement in design and decoration.The book surveys the movement in its historical context, and explains the different theories and ideologjes that helped to form its various strands. Lavishly illsutrated with full-colour photographs of some of the most beautiful and innovative designs of the period.
Artikelname: Art Deco Decorative Ironwork
Artikelbeschreibung: Sumptuous treasury of 320 lavish examples of architectural ornamentation from the 1920s and ?30s by Paul Kiss, Raymond Subes, Edgar Brandt and other artisans. Meticulously reproduced photographs from three rare portfolios depict magnificent designs for doors, grilles, gates, lamps, balustrades, chandeliers, screens, mirrors, and other objects. A splendid collection for artists, illustrators, craftspeople, and Art Deco enthusiasts.
Artikelname: Art Deco Fashion
Artikelbeschreibung: This stylish book proves that fashion in the jazz age goes far beyond the flapper dress and the cloche hat.The costumes and decor of the Ballets Russes took Paris by storm in 1909 and fuelled a mania for the exotic, for vibrant patterns and rich, luxurious textiles. It only took the genius of designers like Paul Poiret and Natalia Goncharova to transform these into garments that were bold, inventive and quintessentially modern. Ballet, theatre and cinema all lent ideas to mainstream fashion, as did artists of the avant-garde such as Sonia Delaunay.
Freedom was the motif in the emancipated climate of the past-war years. A huge increase in sport and leisure activities, new dances like the Charleston, greater opportunities to travel all ushered in designs adapted to greater flexibility of movement. Gabrielle Chanel and Madeleine Vionnet were quick to embrace these trends and create innovative new lines for the modern, liberated woman.This book recreates the era with a wealth of evocative illustrations, many from the V&A's world-famous dress collection, others from the stylish fashion magazines of the time.
Artikelname: Art Nouveau (Duncan)
Artikelbeschreibung: Alastair Duncan tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art Nouveau, which began as a general reaction by young artists and designers to the stifling traditionalism and revivalism of the mid-nineteenth-century fine and decorative arts. The 'new art' first made itself felt around 1895, in architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics and the other applied arts, and fell into eclipse after World War I, until its rediscovery in the 1960s. The author recounts the history of this important movement in detail, introducing the main personalities - Mucha, Lalique, Tiffany and others - and relating their aims and accomplishments to the background from which the movement emerged.
Artikelname: Art Nouveau (Lemme)
Artikelbeschreibung: A fascinating guide to this short-lived but immensely influential movement in design and decoration.The book surveys the movement in its historical context, and explains the different theories and ideologjes that helped to form its various strands. Lavishly illsutrated with full-colour photographs of some of the most beautiful and innovative designs of the period.
Artikelname: Clyde Coast Picture Palaces
Artikelbeschreibung: Cinema architecture has traditionally ranged from the grandiose to the distinctly basic, and the cinemas along the Clyde and Ayrshire coasts represented these extremes and everything in between. Flights of fantasy such as the Viking in Largs (illustrated on the front cover) contrast with the likes of the Picture Palace in Helensburgh, which was little more than a corrugated shack - and certainly not a palace. Elsewhere, interior shots of modish foyers show Art Deco detailing and modernist furniture, while outside posters advertise long-forgotten celluloid classics such as Attack of the Crab Monsters. Towns included in Bruce Peter's (admittedly rather liberal) definition of 'Clyde Coast' are: Clydebank, Renfrew, Dumbarton, Helensburgh, Port Glasgow, Greenock, Gourock, Dunoon, Rothesay, Millport, Largs, Saltcoats, Ardrossan, Stevenston, Troon, Irvine, Prestwick, Ayr ... and Campbeltown.
Artikelname: Essential Art Nouveau
Artikelbeschreibung: This attractive book highlights the key elements of Art Nouveau, a ground-breaking style which swept across Europe and America at the turn of the century and became a major influence on all art forms.The approach of a new century provokes new thinking and new technologies, and the artists and designers of a hundred years ago played a key role in shaping a changing world. Challenging the old order with daring flamboyance, their wild and wonderful designs began to appear everywhere - not only on buildings, in paintings and in sculpture, but right through to chairs, cutlery, glassware, ceramics, jewellery and textiles.Essential Art Nouveau features thematic sections and a wonderful selection of images - some are well-known while others are previously unpublished - to provide the reader with the very essence of this extraordinary style.
Artikelname: Faberge (BB)
Artikelbeschreibung: Carl Faberge was the last court artist-jeweller in the old tradition, creating exquisite baubles for the crowned heads of Europe and the rich and fashionable in the golden age of the belle epoque. This book covers the whole range of Faberges work and includes illustrations of items from private collections which have never been published before and newly discovered photographs and working drawings. The reference section gives details of hallmarks and signatures and a list of the most important collections.
Artikelname: Interior Design of the 20th Century
Artikelbeschreibung: From the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day - including discussions about Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement and Art Deco through to Hi- Tech and green design - every style of interior design is charted in this concise, wide-ranging and indispensable critical survey. Interior design in the twentieth century saw many changes in direction, all documented and discussed here, with the emergence of professional 'interior decoration' and its evolution into interior design. Interiors, domestic and other, are explored and placed within their social, political, economic and cultural context. This revised, expanded and updated edition illustrates recent examples and is brought right up to date with discussions about green design, the unprecedented boom in DIY and the effect of new technology both on the home and the work place.
Artikelname: Islamic Art and Architecture
Artikelbeschreibung: Embracing a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Robert Hillenbrand - a world authority on Islamic art and architecture - has written an unrivalled new synthesis of the arts of Islamic civilization. From the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the survival of the Ottoman Empire well into the modern age, Hillenbrand traces the evolution of an extraordinary range of art forms, including architecture, calligraphy, book illumination, painting, ceramics, glassware, textiles and metalwork. Complete with maps and glossary, this is an accessible and definitive guide to the arts of a vastly accomplished civilization.
Artikelname: Islamic Art and Architecture
Artikelbeschreibung: Embracing a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Robert Hillenbrand - a world authority on Islamic art and architecture - has written an unrivalled new synthesis of the arts of Islamic civilization. From the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the survival of the Ottoman Empire well into the modern age, Hillenbrand traces the evolution of an extraordinary range of art forms, including architecture, calligraphy, book illumination, painting, ceramics, glassware, textiles and metalwork. Complete with maps and glossary, this is an accessible and definitive guide to the arts of a vastly accomplished civilization.
Artikelname: Kent Churches
Artikelbeschreibung: A new fully revised edition of John Vigar's highly-acclaimed guide to the history and architecture of over 200 churches. Kent is the cradle of English Christianity and its churches include the oldest parish church still in use anywhere in Great Britain. There is also an illustrated introduction telling the story of Kent's churches in a readable yet informative way, and describing their many features and fittings.
Artikelname: Klimt
Artikelbeschreibung: Gustav Klimt's work brilliantly negotiates the borders between traditional and modern, figurative and nonfigurative. His subtly erotic portraits, richly patterned landscapes and enigmatic allegorical compositions are at once sensuous and refined, while his extravagant, ornamental style verges on abstraction. Obliged to go his own way when he was denied public commissions, Klimt became the leader of the modernists in Vienna, perhaps the greatest portraitist of his age, a landscape painter of dazzling originality and, above all, the creator of extraordinary decorative schemes. Frank Whitford examines the artist's work against the background of his time - the tragic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the light shed by political and cultural history, Klimt's paintings and personality emerge with new clarity.
Artikelname: Lanarkshire's Legendary Cinemas
Artikelbeschreibung: Cinemas in seventeen Lanarkshire towns are featured, ranging from glorified sheds (such as the Ritz in Lesmahagow) to art deco palaces and architectural flights of fantasy like the Windsor in Carluke. Some of these popular childhood haunts have survived (often as bingo halls), but many have been demolished. Pictures of the interiors reveal that cutting-edge styling often continued beyond the facade of these remarkable buildings.
Artikelname: Old Letterboxes
Artikelbeschreibung: Pillar boxes were first introduced into Britain at the instigation of Anthony Trollope, the novelist who was also a Post Office Surveyor. Nowadays the red postbox is a familiar sight in city street and country lane alike. Although many are very ordinary, some types, such as those that survive from the 1850s, are understandably rare. This book ranges from the Channel Islands to Scotland, and from the heart of London to the depths of rural Wales and the Irish Republic.
Artikelname: Sexuality in Western Art
Artikelbeschreibung: Sexuality in its many guises has preoccupied Western artists from Michelangelo to Picasso, Rubens to Robert Mapplethorpe. Almost every form of the subject has been portrayed, whether covert or overt, crude or highly sophisticated. Edward Lucie-Smith considers the fruits of this obsession, which, while highly sexual, are also fine art. His incisive text is as invigorating as it is rewarding and will prove invaluable in assessing this aspect of the history of Western art.
Artikelname: Surrealism (Waldburg)
Artikelbeschreibung: The culmination of radical transformations in the arts initiated largely by Dada was the first Surrealist manifesto issued by Andre Breton -leader and principal theorist of Surrealism - in 1924, two years after the Dada movement split. Breton published two more manifestos in 1930 and 1934. In the first Manifesto, Surrealism is defined not so much as a formal movement as a spiritual orientation, embracing ethics and politics as well as the arts. Recourse to dreams,to the unconscious, to chance events, to automatism were crucial to the Surrealist undertaking. The long list of artists associated with Surrealism includes several whose influence and perennial popularity are today as pronounced as ever, among them Ernst, Miro, Duchamp, Magritte and Dali. The key documents included in this book, in addition to Breton's manifestos, are Eluard's Food for Vision; Dali's Conquest if the Irrational, Ernst's Beyond Painting; and articles from the Surrealist magazine La Revolution Surrealiste.
Artikelname: Surrealist Art (Alexandrian)
Artikelbeschreibung: Surrealism was a revolution. Unlike such other modern movements as Cubism and geometrical abstraction, it was not based on purely artistic innovation; its aim was nothing less than the liberation, in art and life, of the resources of the subconscious mind. Sarane Alexandrian traces the development of surrealism from its origins in the Dada anti-art revolt of 1916-20 to the death of its guiding spirit, Andre Breton, in 1966, which marked the end of its existence as a formal entity. He discusses and illustrates an astonishing variety of surrealist artists, including not only such giants of the movement as Dali, Miro, Duchamp, Tanguy and Magritte, but a host of other remarkable artists. The result is a thorough and sympathetic account of the one current within twentieth-century culture which devoted itself to the pursuit of a sense of magic.
Artikelname: The Arts and Crafts Movement
Artikelbeschreibung: This volume surveys the highly influential Arts and Crafts design movement in Britain, the United States of America and Europe. Although the styles adopted by the movement were diverse, its leading architects, artists and craft-designers - including William Morris and Edwin Lutyens in Britain, Frank Lloyd Wright and Gustav Stickley in America, Josef Hoffmann in Austria and Eliel Saarinen in Finland - were united in promoting the moral superiority of 'honest' design and natural materials in an industrial age.
Artikelname: The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design
Artikelbeschreibung: The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles emerging - Art Nouveau and the International Style. Nikolaus Pevsner brings a new clarity to an often confusing period, tracing - with the aid of nearly two hundred carefully chosen illustrations - the origins of modern ideas in architecture and the applied arts.
Artikelname: Victorian Architecture (Dixon)
Artikelbeschreibung: The buildings of Victorian Britain are perhaps the most varied and colourful in the country's architectural history. They mirror the great changes that were taking place in society and in technology; and they also express the delight of patrons and designers in almost every style from the world's past. The authors have organized their story by building types - houses, structures for entertainment, for industry and commerce, civic architecture, churches and schools - to show how the buildings sprang from the interplay between social forces, ideals, techniques and individual genius. The book also includes a unique dictionary of more than 300 architects of the period.
Artikelname: Victorian Gothic House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book
Artikelbeschreibung: As Linda Osband demonstrates in this fact-filled volume, the Gothic Revival caught the fancy of many Victorians who sought refuge in supposedly simpler days. Picturesque castles and cathedrals with spiky towers, high-gabled roofs and medieval ornament provided just the escape needed from all the rigours and gritty reality of the industrial revolution. A celebration of one of the most exuberant styles of the period, Victorian Gothic House Style provides the ideal source of inspiration and reference for anyone wishing to re-create or preserve Gothic houses and interiors with style and confidence, by combining specially commissioned photographs and extensive source material from contemporary catalogues with informative and practical text. Accompanied by an historical appreciation of the period in architecture and interiors, as well as through its influential designers, there is practical information on re-creating the effect plus a comprehensive list of stockists and suppliers.
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