Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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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 ephemeral surroundings. Art Nouveau motif seekers have been left with little choice but to resort to expensive archives of rare books. Here, taken directly from those rare books and periodicals, are 577 royalty-free authentic period designs specially chosen for artists and designers. The ornaments range in size from full-page illustrations to borders, head and tailpieces and decorative initials. All are in black-and-white line, clearly reproduced.
Many of the creations come from the influential English periodical The Studio (1894–1920) and the French Art el Décoration (1897–1910); others from a variety of original European sources, all identified. Artists represented include Gustav Klimt, George Auriol, Ethel Larcombe, and Will Bradley, along with hundreds of English. French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and American studio draftsmen, all identified when possible. The designs are grouped by subject matter: florals, landscapes, figures, etc. There are spot illustrations, bookplates, menus, title pages, and many, many swirling line forms.
Publisher : Dover Publications (September 1, 1980)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 0486240010
ISBN-13 : 978-0486240015
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.27 x 0.39 x 11.02 inches
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Customers find the illustrations amazing and great. They say the book is great for inspiration and a nice resource for artists. Opinions are mixed on the value for money, with some finding it well worth the cost, while others say the printing inks bleed.
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d. f. –
provides numerous b&w images for the $
i was impressed with the sheer amount of images given for the price. if your looking for line art featuring borders and corner pieces(and more), you can’t go wrong. excellent value
Jose Dominguez –
I love it
I love this book, is really beautiful, the drawings are is excellent, fabulous and the paper quality is good. Shipping was really fast
Lyle –
Great for inspiration
Absolutely wonderful collection of black & white Art Nouveau artwork. Great for inspiration. Though not in color, the pictures are sharp and clear. You might want to lock yours up though, my fellow artists keep wanting to “borrow” mine.
Spitfire –
Dover rocks!
This book offers the usual delightful images from Dover. A nice variety of images will allow me to use these for inspiration for drawing and needlework.
Adrian –
Great buy!
This is a great source book for Nouveau inspired designs. I use it for art applications, and take styling or character poses to model my artwork after. These are high quality reproductions or original artwork from the Art Nouveau period.
robert drawbaugh –
good for the price
the other Dover Pictorial Archive came with discs, which made it easy to import into my computer for design projects.due to the outstanding price i can understand why a disc was not included, so i was ready to scan the images i liked, but the paper they used for the book is low quality, the printing inks bleed and the true lines were lost, the images are some what blotchy. The book are great if your ready to rebuild the images in vector, but the images as is will not match up with the crisp edges of the fonts you use while designing. over all i’m happy because they were priced so low and i always re-build Dover work in illustrator, but if your looking to cut and past scanned images into photoshop, the Dover are will look soft.
Stitcher69 –
Wonderful Resource
This is a brilliant resource for designs, in my case sewing/embroidery. The Dover books came recommended by a better artisan than I am and I found that this book did not disappoint. I love art nouveau and this book is really superb.
Mike B –
Chalk full of Designs & Ornaments
This book has a very large variety of designs and ornaments for any artist or craftsman.Delivery was prompt.Well packaged,good condition.Would recommend to all interested in this type of book.
Rasa Morrison –
Filled with lots of well curated nouveau imagery! Love it so much
giada –
Arrivato nei tempi previsti, nessun danneggiamento. Libro con molti disegni di varie grandezze, perfetto per trarre ispirazione. Ci sono vari temi come Le cornici, l’alfabeto, le stagioni, le locandine, i menù. Trattandosi di riproduzioni di disegni fortemente contrassegnati dal tratto con ampie campiture nere anche particolareggiate non è adatto per essere colorato.
Anonyme –
Un ouvrage qui répond parfaitement à mes attentes. Des pages de dessins de style art nouveau. Une vraie synthese rassemblée en un livre.
Cliente de Amazon –
Este compendio de imágenes era justo lo que estaba esperando. Los diseños son hermosos, muchos de ellos son poco conocidos por lo que agrega valor a este libro.
JJ –
I would say that this is mainly a great book for designers due to the artwork solely being of black and white content, and also being quite abstract. The decorative panel borders that surround the paintings, or the unique art nouveau style lettering comes to mind when I refer to the abstract feeling of the designs on offer.I’ve found it especially helpful as an aide in working on my own ideas and designs, especially on my current project of redesigning certain elements of my local town of Bushmills through the Brighter Bushmills Group. With over 577 different illustrations, there’s certainly a lot to inspire the designer and art lover alike. It’s also a great book for finding out about new artists that you may not have been familiar with. For me, Fred H Ball comes to mind. I felt that his style was very similar to Mucha’s, especially the menu designs for restaurants.It’s probably possible to trace these designs, I have not done so personally, to add something art nouveau to your projects, be they for school, or for something more professional, but I am of the belief that really if one were to incorporate some of the design elements into their own work, it would be more advisable to scan in the particular design, print it out at a reasonable size suitable to you and work on it through using a lightbox. Why you may ask? The book is, at a glance anyway, roughly about A4 in size (or 8.5 x 11 inches) but there are virtually no full page designs. Instead you are more like to find anywhere between 4 and 8 designs to a page, so the images are small in that sense.I can’t recommend the book enough to you if you’re a lover of art nouveau and plan to use that style in your work, because it’s a great source of inspiration, especially in times when the old brain just can’t get into gear at the start of the artistic work day.