Author: Jim Harter Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486136671 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 104
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Over 300 authentic, rare 19th-century engravings selected by noted collagist for artists, designers, decoupeurs. Machines, people, animals, more, printed one side of page. 25 scene plates for backgrounds.
Author: Jim Harter Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 048624959X Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 98
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Need a hand? Here are over a thousand! Over 1,100 images of hands in all shapes, sizes, and shades: writing, sewing, with pointing fingers, much more, all royalty-free. Drawn from rare 19th-century European and American books and periodicals, this treasury of hands will be perfect for spot illustrations and many other projects.
Author: Jim Harter Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486402642 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 392
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Hundreds of plant species — from lilies, lichens, and palms to mushrooms, mosses, and maples — supplemented by appendices on edible plants, medicinal herbs, and plants used in decoration and in graphic design. Indispensable source of inspiration and royalty-free graphics for designers and artists; a captivating compendium for botanists, gardeners, and collectors of old engravings.
Author: Jim Harter Publisher: Dover Pictorial Archive ISBN: 9780486467528 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 220
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This outstanding collection offers a fascinating, visually encyclopedic exploration of the body and the healing arts. In addition to hundreds of outstanding anatomical engravings, it features images from the general realm of medicine, including diseases and treatments. Artists, designers, students, medical professionals, and historians will find it an indispensable reference.
Author: Jim Harter Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486435220 Category : Anatomy, Artistic Languages : en Pages : 0
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A fascinating, visually encyclopedic presentation of all the major areas of medicine, this volume is an indispensible reference for artists and designers, doctors and nurses, students of medicine and anatomy, and historians. More than 4,800 rare, historic engravings encompass images from anatomy, general medicine, apothecary and pharmaceutical sciences, diseases, injuries, and more.
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486257532 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 12
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Superbly engraved floral wreaths, bouquets and nosegays composed of roses, daisies, lilies, violets, more; space for messages, names. Add authentic 19th-century note to gifts, cards, packages, more.
Author: Diane Schoemperlen Publisher: Biblioasis ISBN: 1927428823 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
New from the Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Marian Engel Award and the Governor General's Award for English Fiction Once touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and handbooks of bygone eras now read quaintly, if not comically—yet within their musty pages are often found phrases of uncanny evocative power. Scrupulously stitching such fragments together, in a sequel to the Governor General’s Award-winning Forms of Devotion, By The Book is a collection of verbal and visual collages whose alchemies transform long-dead texts into tales of enduring vitality. With her visually witty full-colour artwork and stories like “What Is A Hat? Where Is Constantinople? Who Was Sir Walter Raleigh? And Many Other Common Questions, Some With Answers, Some Without,” and “Consumptives Should Not Kiss Other People: A Handy Guide to the Care and Maintenance of Your Family’s Good Health,” Schoemperlen’s irreverent and ironic brand of nostalgia combines vintage kitsch with comic, creepy, unexpectedly moving yarns. Praise for By The Book “Diane Schoemperlen's By The Book is a bravura performance. Fragments, collage, assemblage, found poetry - none of the conventional words cover it for they miss the fantastic wit, the energy of humour, the divine ability to find comedic ore in the print detritus of our culture. She doesn't rescue texts; with her wicked sense of irony, she actually puts thought where there was none. She infects the banal with the virus of her own brain and makes it into art. Then she makes a picture of it—oh, dwell upon the details; there are whole novels lurking in the details.”—Douglas Glover Praise for Diane Schoemperlen "Schoemperlen's inventive language and narrative structures encourage readers to be free 'from the prison of everyday thinking."—New York Times Book Review "Lovely, clever [and] imaginative."—Wall Street Journal “Cuttingly witty ... Schoemperlen could almost form a school of piquant and inventive fiction with Julie Hecht, Janet Kauffman, and Lydia Davis.”—Booklist "There is no mistaking a Schoemperlen story—devoted to form, faithful to the mysteries of the everyday."—The Globe & Mail
Author: Owen Jones Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486155501 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
This sumptuous edition offers all 100 full-color plates from Owen Jones's definitive presentation of Chinese ornamentation and design, one of the most beautiful books on the decorative arts ever published. Now, over a centruy after its first publication, this remarkable work continues to provide an excellent, copyright-free source of authentic Chinese design and motifs. During the vast political tumult in China in the 19th century, many of the most exquisite examples of native art from the Ming, Ch'ing and earlier dynasties were spirited out of the country and sold into Western collections. One of the most spectacular of these assemblages was housed at London's South Kensington Museum (today The Victoria and Albert Museum). In the 1860s, the noted English designer and architect Owen Jones studed this collection in depth, particularly the wealth of superb examples of porcelain and cloisonné. He then meticulously rendered many of the most intriguing and beautiful designs in full color. These were published in his celebrated book, Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and Other Collections (1867). This volume offers painstaking reproductions of all one hundred original color plates from that work, which delighted the art world of the time and exerted a profound influence on the subsequent history of Western design. Now that visual inspiration is once again available to artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in this inexpensive high-quality edition. Moreover, any lover of fine art can enjoy the book as a splendid tribute to the glories of Chinese design—at a price far less than those commanded by extremely rare surviving copies of Jones's original work.
Author: Roberta Waddell Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486235158 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
Nearly six hundred photographs record the designs of one hundred seventy-five artists of Europe and America and provide a representative survey of the art nouveau style
Author: Robert Byrne Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743235797 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 673
Book Description
An irreverent selection of humorous quotes, one-liners, definitions, and quips features words of wisdom from contributors ranging from Goethe to David Letterman on such topics as families, philosophy, movies and television, and education.
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