Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Clip Art

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...

This magnificent sourcebook of animal illustrations, meticulously reproduced from cuts taken from rare eighteenth-century publications, features a wondrous panorama of the animal kingdom -- from long-whiskered rabbits and stately reindeer to plumed pigeons, spiny-finned fish, and magnificently patterned conchs.
A comprehensive volume containing more than 600 accurately detailed reproductions of copperplate engravings, this collection depicts the full spectrum of the animal world. In addition to a broad sampling of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, and insects, the...

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.