The Art Nouveau Style Book of Alphonse Mucha (eBook)

Alphonse Mucha (Autor)

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2012
80 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-13227-3 (ISBN)

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Rare design portfolio by high priest of Art Nouveau. Jewelry, wallpaper, stained glass, furniture; figure studies; plant and animal motifs, much more. All 72 stunning plates from Documents Décoratifs in original color.

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To the general public, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860–1939) is perhaps best known for his posters of Sarah Bernhardt and magnificent decorative panels such as "e;The Seasons"e; — works that continue to grow in popularity and value as the resurgence of interest in Art Nouveau increases. Among graphic artists and commercial designers, Mucha is praised for the innovative style books that pioneered the use of Art Nouveau in commercial packaging, design, and ornament.The most important of these style books was Documents Décoratifs, published in 1901 at the height of Mucha's fame as the high priest of the Art Nouveau movement. While the artist's fame rests largely on his posters, it is in the smaller works of the style books, or design portfolios, that the refinement of his technique can best be appreciated. The present volume, carefully reproduced from an extremely rare and valuable set of originals, contains all 72 plates of the Documents Décoratifs portfolio. Included are designs for jewelry, wallpaper, stained glass, furniture, and tableware; figure and botanical studies; and a selection of Mucha's famous panneaux décoratifs. Eighteen of the plates are in full color, while the remaining 54 are reproduced in two or more color tones.In addition to numerous innovative designs for practical and decorative objects, the elegant draftsmanship and meticulous execution that characterized all of Mucha's work is evident in studies of langorous nudes, portrait sketches, delicately rendered plant and animal motifs, exquisite modeling of drapery and cloth, and the flowing, fantastic forms created as experiments in pure design. In the Foreword by Gabriel Mourey, specially translated for this edition, Mucha's own philosophy of art, and the relation of the Documents to the rest of his work, receive an appreciative and informative discussion.Hitherto available only in scattered sources, or in the libraries of wealthy collectors, the complete Documents Décoratifs is now available in this inexpensive one-volume edition. Lovers of Mucha's work, admirers of Art Nouveau, and the application of that style to the decorative arts, will want to own this fine royalty-free collection by one of the greatest masters of the technique."e;[Documents Décoratifs is] . . . an encyclopedic source for Mucha's style in every branch of decorative and applied art and one of the few books on design where even individual plates are sought after by collectors."e; — Marina Henderson, The Graphic Style of Alphonse Mucha

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 240 x 240 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Schlagworte: Art historians • Bood • books on art historians • books on bood • books on card stocks • books on chagall • books on clip arts • books on colorists • books on color plates • books on craftspeoples • books on czech artists • books on czechoslovakia • books on designs • books on dovers • books on draperies • books on eastern europes • books on escher • books on famous pieces • books on famous posters • books on florals • books on graphic designers • books on individual artists • books on interiors • books on jewelries • books on jugendstils • books on line drawings • books on markers • books on masterworks • books on motifs • books on nouveaus • books on nsfws • books on nudes • books on ornaments • books on postage stamps • books on prague • books on prints • books on quantities • books on reproductions • books on silhouette • books on silverwares • books on sketches • books on stencils • books on vectors • books on wallpapers • card stock • Celtic • Chagall • Clip Art • coffee table art • Coloring • colorist • color plates • craftspeople • czech artist • czechoslovakia • decorative • Designs • Dover • draftsmanship • drapery • Eastern Europe • Escher • famous pieces • famous posters • florals • full-page • glossy • graphic designers • Individual artists • Interior • Jewelry • Jugendstil • line drawing • Markers • Masterworks • mexican artists • motifs • nouveau • nsfw • Nudes • Ornament • postage stamps • Prague • preliminary • prints • Quantity • Reproductions • Rom • sarah mucha • Silhouette • silverware • Sketches • slav epic • Stencil • Vector • Wallpaper
• ISBN-10: 0-486-13227-7 / 0486132277
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-13227-3 / 9780486132273