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Art Cars: The Cars, the Artists, the Obsession, the CraftThis offbeat guide is packed with photographs of unbelievable vehicles—like an auto that actually has a working waterfall. “You’ll smile your way through this book as you look at the vehicles that artists and bona fide eccentrics have created. I think of a book like this as a source of inspiration... [This is] a journey into the core of creativity. Just turn the pages and have a good time.” —Creative Crafter.... |
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Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and ThirtiesAn exploration of art deco architectural design, embracing many different times and places in its summary of the movement's origins, development and influence. Various types of architecture, the author explains, were termed art deco, and their antecedents were mixed and often surprising: arts and crafts, fin-de-siecle Vienna, Cubism, Expressionism and the Bauhaus. Patricia Bayer shows that art deco masterpieces can be seen and admired worldwide: from the skyscrapers of New York City to imperial ... |
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Art Deco Designs (Agile Rabbit Editions S.)This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is requi... |
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Art Deco Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)Rich archive of crisply rendered line drawings used in textiles, fashions, jewelry, and domestic accessories of the 1920s and '30s, selected from works by Erté, Edgar Brandt, Jeanne Paquin, and Paul Manship, among others. These distinctive designs will add a dazzling touch of the Jazz Age wherever they're applied. 213 black-and-white illustrations. ... |
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Art Deco Display Alphabets (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)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.... |
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Art Deco GraphicsThis book still stands as the most comprehensive survey on the dynamic graphic design in the three decades before World War II, when economic and political upheaval mixed with a wild pursuit of gaiety, luxury, modernism and elegance to produce a style known variously as Modern, Skyscraper, Jazz Style and, eventually, Art Deco. Patricia Frantz Kery covers in depth the style's sources and explores the decorative 'fine arts' that formed a bridge between the radical modern movements and Deco commerc... |
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Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs: 513 Original Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)Practical, affordable collection of 513 Art Deco designs — royalty-free and ready-to-use. Crisp black-and-white motifs combine stylized birds, insects, and floral elements with circles, squares, triangles, and other abstract forms. Inexhaustible source of design inspiration. 513 black-and-white designs. Publisher’s Note.... |
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Art Deco StyleThe dominant style in architecture and design of the 1920s and 1930s, Art Deco was an exuberant reaction to the austerity of the war years. Characterized by geometric shapes, stylized natural forms and the use of luxurious materials, and inspired by sources ranging from Ancient Egypt to the Ballets Russes, the style quickly spread from France to Britain, the USA and all over the globe during the 1930s. The fascinating text charts the various worldwide manifestations of Art Deco, and demonstra... |
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Art Deco: The Golden Age of Graphic Art and IllustrationWhile the main focus for this intriguing book is centred on graphic art and illustration, numerous examples of other forms of Art Deco are also featured. Nestled amongst the posters and paintings, sculpture, objects d'art and jewellery assert their similarity, whether through line, form or theme. These echoes serve to show the creativity fertility of the period as styles and ideas traversed artistic media.... |

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