Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Clip Art

This unusual Dover publication presents a singular opportunity to the artist, crafter, designer, illustrator, printer, or other user of letter designs to have always at hand a rich store of inspiration and a swipe-file. More important, you may reproduce any initial or alphabet in this volume free of charge, without asking permission. The work is all royalty-free; when you buy the book, you buy the reproduction rights to any individual part of it. The price is less than you would pay to professional archives for one copy of the letter.
There are 123 full-page plates including 91 complete...

"Throughout history, artists have grappled with the problem of depicting clearly and forcefully the principles of evil and suffering in human existence." With this view, the Lehners have collected 244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of devils and death from Egyptian times to 1931. Reproductions from Durer, Holbein, Cranach, Rembrandt, and many other lesser-known or unknown artists illustrate the fascinating history. The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries are stressed.
The book is divided into 12 chapters, each with a separate introduction. Most of the...

Ornament is the essence of Art Nouveau. Throughout their two decades of dominance, Art Nouveau artists concentrated on the ornamental and decorative potential of the flowing line in painting, printing, wallpaper, and all other fine and applied arts. Hundreds of thousands of carefully wrought designs embellished books, bookplates, furniture, and appliances. A fashionable home was a garden of graphic florals, petals, leaves, and stems.
Today, Art Nouveau is again attracting artists, designers, and craftsmen of all kinds, while these countless ornamental flourishes have perished with their...

Drawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection -- undoubtedly the largest royalty-free collection of its kind -- of devils, dragons, mythical creatures, fanciful beasts, animal-gods, totemic figures, and other supernatural beasts from the darker regions of man's imagination. Spanning many cultures and eras, the collection ranges from prehistoric rock paintings to the drawings of Max Ernst, from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame.
This volume incudes over 1,000 renderings of designs from ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East: winged...

Defining beauty in art as the result of man's pleasure in his work, the noted English poet, designer, craftsman and pioneer Socialist William Morris (1834-1896) spent most of his life enthusiastically expounding this view through his many attractive designs for interior furnishings.
The present book faithfully reproduces 40 of the most celebrated examples of Morris's work, reprinting in full color all the color plates from The Art of William Morris, published by George Bell & Sons in 1897. Included in this splendid, ready-to-use archive are richly detailed wallpaper designs...

Der fotografische Nachlass von Oskar und Olda Kokoschka umfasst rund 5.000 Fotos. Portrats bedeutender Fotografen und Fotografinnen, etwa von Brassai, Rene Burri oder Erich Lessing befinden sich darunter. Im Spiegel dieses aussergewohnlichen Kunstlers wird zugleich ein Stuck Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte sowie auch Fotogeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts erfahrbar.

This book offers the first comprehensive insight into the work of the Austrian painter, draftsman, and performer Norbert Nestler (1942 2014). His work deals with utopian spaces, for Nestler held visionaries in great esteem. This overview of Nestler s oeuvre includes numerous illustrations of his work and views of the exhibition as well as texts by the artist and curators.

Absences is the comprehensive documentation of the artistic works of Beatrix Bakondy. Her work is determined by the analysis of the space and its constitutive parameters. Bakondy explores, surveys, and samples the spatial coordinates related to architectural, political, or social contexts, and then presents these in the form of drawings, objects, photographs, videos, and large-scale interventions.