This specially designed card box with sliding tray contains artwork from Phaidons hugely successful iconic best-seller The Art Book: New Edition. On the front of each card is an image from The Art Book; on the back the accompanying text from the book gives information both about the work of art & its creator (each of the greeting cards is blank inside) Blue selection

Includes:: works by Fra Angelico Botticelli Brancusi Carracci Chagall Derain Gauguin Hopper Ingres Klee La Tour Marc Millet Miro Monet Nauman Oldenburg Pontormo Rego & Rossetti among others. Red selection

Includes:: works by Alma Tadema Audubon Basquiat Bonnard Caravaggio Degas Van Eyck Gilbert & George Goya Heron Klimt Morisot Pisarro Richter Seurat Thiebaud Tissot Turner & Waterhouse among others. A perfect gift for every occasion The Art Box means that you can share your favourite artworks with friends & family.



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This edition of The Art Book presents a new way of looking at art with children. It's an A
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This specially designed card box with sliding tray contains artwork from Phaidons hugely successful iconic best-seller The Art Book: New Edition. On the front of each card is an image from The Art Book; on the back the accompanying text from the book gives information both about the work of art & its creator (each of the greeting cards is blank inside) Blue selection

Includes:: works by Fra Angelico Botticelli Brancusi Carracci Chagall Derain Gauguin Hopper Ingres Klee La Tour Marc Millet Miro Monet Nauman Oldenburg Pontormo Rego & Rossetti among others Red selection

Includes:: works by Alma Tadema Audubon Basquiat Bonnard Caravaggio Degas Van Eyck Gilbert & George Goya Heron Klimt Morisot Pisarro Richter Seurat Thiebaud Tissot Turner & Waterhouse among others A perfect gift for every occasion The Art Box means that you can share your favourite artworks with friends & family.



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This specially designed card box with sliding tray contains artwork from Phaidons hugely successful iconic best-seller The Art Book: New Edition. The Art Box is fun informative & beautifully presented. Each postcard contains text from the bestselling The Art Book giving detailed descriptions on the work of art & its creator. The Art Box contains 100 postcards making art truly accessible. It is a perfect gift for every occasion allowing you to share your favourite artworks or display pieces at home. ...

Fiber artists art-to-wear designers & art quilters have a broad range of surface design products to choose from & can use a wealth of technique combinations to create art cloth. But while many artists know how to do one or two surface design processes few know how to combine processes on one surface effectively. In this title signature artist Jane Dunnewold teaches you methods for creating rich texture color & pattern integrated into an artistic whole. Art Cloth" offers up-to-date techniques & adds valuable new information from Janes years of teaching & experience as an artist. In addition to detailed step-by-step wet-media surface-design techniques Jane guides & inspires artists to new heights of creativity through sidebars with design tips exercises & project ideas that support the technical information." ...

This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of Art Decos expression through the graphic arts & illustration. Divided into three sections
- the movement its fashion & advertising
- the reader gains great insight into the artists & innovators that helped popularize the Art Deco movement such as Georges Barbier Erte Cassandre & Paul Colin. While the main focus for this intriguing book is centred on graphic art numerous examples of other forms of Art Deco are also featured. Nestled among the posters & paintings sculpture objets dart & jewellery assert their similarity whether through line form or theme. These echoes serve to show the creativity fertility of the period as styles & ideas traversed artistic media.

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Originating in early twentieth-century France Art Deco is a pastiche of artistic styles influenced by Cubism & Futurism Egyptology & the Orient Ballet Russes & the Bauhaus. Alistair Duncans exhaustive work surveys one of the most exhilarating periods of decorative art illuminating the cultural fabric of the period & discussing some of the centurys most influential artists & craftsmen & their works. From Edgar Brandts ornate ironwork for ocean liners to Rene Laliques celebrated perfume bottles to the Chrysler Building Art Deco" takes us on a dazzling tour of one of the centurys most vital decorative movements. Antique Collector praises the book as "lavishly illustrated with photographs of interiors as well as individual pieces...an invaluable book for collectors." 194 illus. 44 in color" ...

An explosion of new ceramic design in the late 1920s & early 1930s introduced vibrant colours & dramatic angular shapes to the breakfast tables of Britain & the world. Never before or since has there been such diversity in British ceramics as hundreds of manufacturers produced exciting new designs that embodied their enthusiasm for the 'bright new' age & continental modernism. Displaying an angular tea-set or a dinner service enamelled in a brilliant geometric pattern became proof that the owner was participating in the 'modern way' of living. Bay windows from John O' Groats to Land's End proudly exhibited the brightly coloured designs & impractical but glamourous ceramics from manufacturers such as Shelley Wilkinson's Wade Heath & Myott. This book also
Includes:: information on how to identify & date ceramics at a glance; all the major designers including Clarice Cliff Susie Cooper & Charlotte Rhead; contectual information on how ceramics were displayed in the home.
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Straddling two World Wars & the Great Depression ushering in the Jazz Age & the era of the automobile & skyscraper fomenting in the great cities of Europe & America & shaping everything from the Golden Gate Bridge to the humble desk lamp the story of Art Deco is the story of our modern world. In this book the most comprehensive account of the decorative arts of the Art Deco period ever assembled Alastair Duncan celebrates the styles rich variety of form & its diverse international roots as the very factors that make it a perennial favourite of modern collectors & designers. Sumptuously illustrated & written by one of the worlds leading experts Art Deco Complete" will be the definitive work on the subject for many years to come." ...

This popular celebration of roaring 1920s fashion is now available in paperback. From beaded evening dresses for dancing the Charleston to sporty outfits for golf the world of Hollywood & F. Scott Fitzgerald is conjured up in sumptuous pictures of stylish outfits for all occasions. A wealth of evocative illustrations from the V& As world-famous dress collection & from the stylish fashion magazines of the time recreates this glamorous era. ...