Alastair Duncan

The Encyclopedia of Art Deco

Art Deco is one of the most exciting chapters in the history of the decorative arts. Conceived in France before the First World War, it spread throughout Europe and had its greatest and most spectacular success in the United States. Myriad influences shaped the style - Cubism, Constructivism, Orientalism, the Ballets Russes, the Bauhaus - and its exponents included many of the century's most celebrated artists, designers and craftsmen.

Art Deco

Emile Gallé

Georges De Bartha

Discusses Emile Galle's designs for glass vases, bowls, and lamps and describes the techniques used by the artist in making glassware

Glass by Gallé

Included for the first time under one cover are all Galle's major works of furniture, both those he designed as unique pieces for an exclusive clientele and those he displayed at two World Expositions and at the annual Paris Salons between 1889 and his un

Gallé Furniture

This lovely volume features an informative text complemented by beautiful illustrations of Tiffany's stunning accomplishments, including the famous lamps, stained-glass windows, mosaics, jewelry, paintings, enamels, bronzes, and much more.

Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany

Explores the tradition of the streamlined design and reveals how it was manifested in the great buildings, furniture, and merchandise of the 1930s.

American Art Deco

mobili, decorazioni d'interni, design, pittura, grafica, scultura, arti applicate, gioielli

Déco

This book introduces novels by the Nobel Prize for Literature author, Claude Simon, giving emphasis to peaks in his literary achievement.

Adventures in Words

Claude Simon

Bruce M. Newman

Looks at unusual nineteenth and twentieth century furniture designs, and includes pieces made of horn, bamboo, twigs, and cast-iron

Fantasy Furniture

work on the subject for many years to come." "With over 1,000 illustrations in colour and black-and-white." --Book Jacket.

The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

Art Deco Complete

Jean H. Duffy

This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars from France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom reconsider the fifty years of Simon's fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel "Le Jardin des Plantes" (1997). From a variety of perspectives postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic contributors reflect on the central paradox of Simon's work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it. The layers of artifice in Le Jardin des Plantes and the nature of Simon's aesthetic are analysed in essays which explore intertextual resonances between Simon and Proust, Flaubert, Borges and Poussin. A complementary view of Simon's Photographies 1937-1970 shows that it too can be seen as form of indirect autobiography.

A Retrospective

Windows were the major emphasis of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work. Yet today, most Tiffany windows have never been seen by the public. Alastair Duncan has tracked down virtually every window still extant and has documented examples that have disappeared or been destroyed. Along with providing photographs of over 200 windows, more than half in color, Duncan describes how the glass was made and the windows constructed; Tiffany's designers and the workings of the Window Department; his critics and international exhibitions; window themes; signatures; chronology; and a complete list of all Tiffany windows.

Tiffany Windows

Every artistic discipline tackled by Tiffany is illustrated here, making this the perfect book for the collector and the enthusiast.

The Garden Museum Collection

Louis C. Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Tiffany's ecclesiastical and secular windows are examined in depth and pictured in lush color, as are many of his most elaborate and beautiful lampshades, vases, and smaller objects. Important works in private collections, rarely or never before pictured, are reproduced here.

The hundreds of illustrations featured in this work have been

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