Fashion and the Art of Pochoir - The Golden Age of Illustration in Paris (Calahan April)(Pevná vazba)

Fashion and the Art of Pochoir - The Golden Age of Illustration in Paris (Calahan April)(Pevná vazba)

The 1910s and 1920s witnessed an outpouring of luxury fashion publications that used a hand-stenciling technique known as pochoir (French for stencil). This highly refined, painterly technique, which consists of applying layers of gouache paint or watercolor to achieve bold blocks of saturated

The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age (Dahl Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Fashion Illustration Book: The Art of Tanaka (Tanaka)(Paperback)

Kawaii and cool fashion illustrations showcased in the artist's first art collection book. Tanaka is an illustrator who's getting attention on social media with pop and cute (kawaii) fashion illustrations of young boys and girls. With 90K followers on Twitter and 120K followers on Instagram,

The Art of Cuphead (Studio Mdhr)(Pevná vazba)

Get transported back to the golden age of 1930s animation with an art book celebrating the acclaimed run & gun game, Cuphead Each page of this curated collection of artwork is designed to capture the vintage look and feel of the 1930's. Take a gander at the game's traditional hand-drawn

A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration (Lack H. Walter)(Pevná vazba)

Art meets science in this far-reaching catalogue of botanical illustration. Drawn from the vaults of the National Library of Vienna, these exquisite color reproductions range from 6th-century manuscripts to 19th-century masterpiecesand celebrate both the skill of botanical artists and the abundance

The Guerilla Art Kit (Smith Keri)(Pevná vazba)

We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved Time magazine to name 'You' their 2006 person of the year. But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds, we have not lost the urge to make our

Sick Rose - Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration (Barnett Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Presents a visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This volume combines detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest medical books, that forms a profoundly human reminder of mankinds struggle with disease. It features historic maps, pioneering

The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting (Wolf Norbert)(Pevná vazba)

This beautifully illustrated, expansive overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creative achievements of one of the most important eras in western art. The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in

The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics (Meisner Gary B.)(Pevná vazba)

The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its ubiquity among plants, animals, and even the cosmos. This gorgeous book--with layflat dimensions that closely approximate the golden ratio--features clear, enlightening, and

Maiden Voyages - women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel (Evans Sian)(Pevná vazba)

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the iconic ocean

Texas Jazz Singer, 25: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond (Mooney Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that she fell out of the cradle singing and all she ever wanted to do was to sing. And sing she did. She

Paris: Fashion Flair (Coulon Marc-Antoine)(Pevná vazba)

The glamour and excitement of the Parisian fashion scene explodes onto the page in these bold portraits and drawings of Paris by rising star and couture insider Marc-Antoine Coulon. With an unwavering hand and a riot of color, Marc-Antoine Coulon captures Paris fashion on and off the runway. His

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion (Davidson Hilary)(Pevná vazba)

The Perfect Gentleman: The Pursuit of Timeless Elegance and Style in London (Sherwood James)(Pevná vazba)

In an age of globalization with fashion trends that change by the day, the quality and workmanship of the great British luxury brands endure and flourish like never before. Valued for their craftsmanship, superlative quality, exclusivity, and the status they confer on their owners, these 'heritage

Black: The History of a Color (Pastoureau Michel)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture--from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and

1930s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook - Charlotte Fiell, Emmanuelle Dirix

From the turbulence of the 1930s emerged the Golden Age of Glamour.Framed by two world-changing events - the economic crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War - the 1930s saw new looks emerge and thrive, despite economic and social uncertainty.This was the decade of the bias cut, the

They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age (Ghez Didier)(Pevná vazba)

As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of 'concept artists' whose sole mission was to explore ideas and inspire their fellow animators. They Drew as They Pleased showcases four of these early

Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World (Petropoulos Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world​ ' Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting. . . . What

Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 (Madeline Laurence)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums, studios and salons. Featuring

The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (D'Alessandro Stephanie)(Pevná vazba)

The Art Institute of Chicago's opportunity to host the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show, in 1913 set a radical new course for modern and contemporary art in the United States. This monumental exhibition introduced audiences to some of the greatest avant-garde

The Master Painters of the Dutch Golden Age: Their Lives and Works in 500 Images (Hodge Susie)(Pevná vazba)

Named retrospectively, the Golden Age was a period when the new Dutch Republic had become the most prosperous nation in Europe, leading in trade, science and art. From 1600 for almost a century, more than four million paintings were produced there, and the accomplishments in realism and naturalism

Shellac and Swing!: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain (Lindsay Bruce)(Pevná vazba)

Shellac and Swing tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' from 1900-1955, when it helped to shape Britain's culture from the arts to warfare. The story focuses on the gramophone, the invention of Emile Berliner in the 1880s, but begins with a brief outline of the first attempts to

The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood (Rifkind Donna)(Pevná vazba)

The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its 'others'; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three

Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens (Stuttard David)(Pevná vazba)

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes