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- Turn-of-the-Century Design: A Warped View
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Decorative Arts 1900s & 1910s (Varia)
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Turn-of-the-Century Design: A Warped View.......2001-05-05
The remark that this book "traces this aesthetic revolution..and is a compleling guide through the founding years of Modernism" rings false after even a cursery examination. Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great architectural geniuses of the period, is represented by a chair. Grueby Faience is given a reproduction, but Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck are not mentioned. Several of Otto Wagner's students are repesented, but he does not appear. Gaudi and Horta cannot be found. Josef Hoffmann, the great genius of Secessionism, is poorly represented and two of his most famous chairs are attributed to Kammerer. Tiffany appears to be a minor window designer. Etc. One suspects that the authors saved photos in a shoebox and threw this series together. This is a great idea that is unfortunately very slovenly assembled and ultimately serves to distort and flatten this inventive and extravegent period of architecture and art. Taschen and his authors should be ashamed of this endeavor.
REPRINTS FROM THE HIGHLY PRIZED DECORATIVE ART YEARBOOKS.......2001-01-18
TASCHEN's Decorative Art series spans the 20th century through the 1970s and carefully reproduces the best of Studio Magazine's Decorative Art yearbooks. Published annually from 1906 until 1980, the yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics, and remained on the cutting edge throughout its nearly eight-decade run. Since going out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have been highly prized by collectors and dealers. Preserving the yearbooks' original page layouts, TASCHEN's Decorative Art books bring you an authentic experience of each decade's design trends and styles. The now complete six-volume set is an essential addition to the comprehensive design library and the devoted collector will want them all.
Decorative Art 1900 ~ 1910s - This volume highlights the aesthetic transition from the Victorian era to the modern age at a time when `modern' was a genuinely new concept. Eschewing designs that displayed excessive ornamentation, this era of Decorative Art yearbooks showcased the work of progressive designers like Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Voysey, Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte.
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Art Deco buildings, with their highly ornate facades and dramatic forms, are a vital part of our surroundings. The movie theaters, hotels, apartment blocks, and other landmarks of the twenties and thirties preserve the visual identity of this unmistakable style in towns and cities the world over. This exploration of Art Deco architectural design embraces many different times and places in its visual and verbal account of the movement's origins, development, and influence. Various types of architecture, the author explains, were termed Art Deco, and their antecedents were mixed and often surprising: Arts and Crafts, fin-de-sicle Vienna, Cubism, Expressionism, and the Bauhaus. Art Deco's sheer exuberance ensured its success across the globe, and it adapted to the most diverse situations, as shown by examples ranging from offices in Europe and gas stations in America to maharajahs' palaces in India and imperial dwellings in Japan. Public buildings of all kinds--whether fountain or state capitol, skyscraper or bus terminal--bear witness to its decades of popularity. Despite its historic pedigree, Art Deco design is very much alive today. Post-modernism has borrowed its repertoire of motifs and idioms to produce what, in some cases, amounts to a full-blown revival. Many of the original buildings still survive, now restored to their former glory, to be admired and enjoyed. Sumptuously illustrated, this unrivaled study provides a comprehensive guide to the best loved of all twentieth-century architectural styles.
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Ornament and Abstraction
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The importance of ornament in the emergence and development of abstract art has long been underestimated. Indeed, such pioneers as Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian looked upon ornament as a sin in which abstraction should not indulge. Yet ornament had a decided if surreptitious impact on abstract art, this book demonstrates. Featuring four artists who help to highlight the role of ornament in the history of art-Kandinsky, Mondrian, Henri Matisse, and Frank Stella-this generously illustrated volume examines in depth the influence of ornament as a formal and methodical element in abstract art. The book begins with the innovative pictorial conception of Philipp Otto Runge, whose early nineteenth-century paintings featured the last genuine form in the history of ornament-the arabesque. The authors trace the influence of the arabesque and show how, side by side with the "royal way" of Cubism, arabesque abstraction opens up a second doorway to the world of non-figurative art. Following other lines of inquiry, the authors explore theoretical findings on the theme of ornament and what it reveals about the relation between abstraction and figurative art; modern artists' preoccupation with the ornamentation found in distant cultures (such as Matisse with the Orient and Oceania, Ad Reinhardt with Asian culture, and Josef Albers and Barnett Newman with pre-Columbian ornament); and ornamentation's relation to Minimalism, new media, digital technology, the Renaissance, and the Rococo. Showcasing a remarkable array of masterpieces, this book is a celebration of ornament and its impact on abstract art.
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A must for architectural historians, restoration specialists and vintage home enthusiasts: 1,095 late Victorian-era designs, superbly drawn or photographed, including egg and dart enrichments; bead, flute and ogee enrichments; drapery and drop ornaments; urns, vases and wreaths; eagles, lion heads and gargoyles; rosettes, ribbons, garlands and festoons; sunbursts, weather vanes and more.
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Pictorial archive of precisely detailed engravings of architectural elements — doors, windows, moldings, statuary, decorative stonework, columns, pedestals, rosettes and more — mostly from German Gothic churches, reprinted from a rare original 19th-century German volume, with new English translations of captions. Royalty-free.
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Entire contents of rare, Victorian-era sourcebook include 768 black-and-white monograms and related images, with designs for two-letter combinations — some simple, some intricate, others fanciful and formal. An abundant source of inspiration and unusual styles for artists, designers, craftworkers, typographers, printers, and publishers.
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Corner & Border Designs 1900 (Pepin Press Design Books)
Pepin Van Roojen
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- Great for ideas in 3D design
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Ornamental Design 1850 (Pepin Press Design Books)
Pepin Van Roojen
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Great for ideas in 3D design.......2000-02-22
This book containes hundreds of black and white drawings that make great texturemaps and ideas for objects in 3D design. The detail in the drawings is great.
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Mostly larger images, but still a good resource.......2001-05-31
As a graphic designer with a soft spot for period illustration, I love to collect the Dover books that feature Victorian and old-time copyright free images. I used a number of the images in this book, but since some were part of a larger scene and/or somewhat muddy in quality, they all needed a bit of digital touchup. I realize that the images are vintage, but it's hard to use them when the lines run together and some small details are little more than blobs. The large size of most images reflects their original use as multiple-vignette posters, but again this makes it difficult to isolate a single image from the larger overall scene. To conclude on a high note, it is a valuable collection of antique circus images and I do enjoy having it in my library. My client is also pleased with the amusing images I was able to glean for his website....
Mostly larger images, but still a good resource.......2001-05-31
As a graphic designer with a soft spot for period illustration, I love to collect the Dover books that feature Victorian and old-time copyright free images. I used a number of the images in this book, but since some were part of a larger scene and/or somewhat muddy in quality, they all needed a bit of digital touchup. I realize that the images are vintage, but it's hard to use them when the lines run together and some small details are little more than blobs. The large size of most images reflects their original use as multiple-vignette posters, but again this makes it difficult to isolate a single image from the larger overall scene. To conclude on a high note, it is a valuable collection of antique circus images and I do enjoy having it in my library.[...]
Circus Clip-Art.......1998-09-17
Part of Dover's wonderful Clip-Art series, OLD-TIME CIRCUS CUTS features 202 black/white illustrations from 1870-1950. These illustrations can be used in various projects. NOTE: This is a clip-art collection. The illustrations are NOT documented as to source or date.
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A big disappointment.......2007-04-20
I really enjoyed Kaffir Boy, I found it very engaging and interesting. My husband was born the same year as Mark in Cape Town. His upbringing was very different from Mark's as a white boy. As a matter of fact he was not even aware of apartheid until the early 90's. I figured I needed to read Kaffir Boy in America to find out what happened in Mark's life. It has been a huge disappointment. As one of the reviewers mentioned Mark continually pats himself on the back because he is so wonderful. I am about 75% through this book and all it has succeeded in doing is making me angry. He made stupid decison after stupid decision while living off of Stan Smith's money. He couldn't keep a scholarhip or stay on an athletic team because of his bad attitude. He changed undergrad colleges 4 times. Yes, Mark you have an attitude. I hope that you paid Stan back for the college education he bought you. I spent $50,000 on my education, I didn't have any help. Mark quit working on a master's in journalism at Columbia University while on a full scholarship because he didn't feel like finishing it. Wah, wah, wah. How many people would have loved an opportunity like that? Doesn't matter if you grew up in SA or the US or are black or white or purple, that is not an opportunity you just pass up. Mark, listen to your Momma. Jesus Christ is the only way you are going to be saved. Your own enlightenment because you think you are so intelligent isn't going to get you anywhere.
A New Life in America.......2007-02-19
Kaffir Boy in America is a great book by Mark Mathabane. It is an autobiography about an eighteen year old boy from South Africa, who gets a tennis scholarship in America. Mark is eager to go, so he can leave a place of such disaster. Though he goes through some struggles, all is well at the end. This is a great book about a new life in America!
A HugeDisappointment , Self Serving KAFFIR BOY IN AMERICA.......2005-07-27
Way to go Mark, 303 pages of patting yourself on the back, Boy your arm must hurt. I enjoyed "Kafir Boy" and was looking forward to reading what happened to Mark after he came to America. What happened Mark?
So silly...........2005-05-10
My main interest in this book is that I attended Dowling College at the same time as Mr. Mathabane. I recently re-read the sections of the book pertaining to the Dowling College Student Government Election scandal of 83 or whatever year it was and I had to laugh. I would almost call his original book a lie if he was able to sustain such outrage over something as minor as this. I would also say that I've never read such overwraught narrative in my life. When you read this book you will become embarrassed for Mr. Mathabane.
Much adjustment for Mark in coming to America.......2004-12-11
Having read the author's seminal work "Kaffir Boy", recounting the incredible hardships in the South African ghetto where he was raised, I was eager to learn more about how Mark Mathabane fared once he arrived in his so-called "promised land" and started the adjustment from a repressed third-world existence to one of opportunity and possibility in the US.
Two things struck me about this follow up account of his life which bear mentioning: the author continues with his unflinchingly honest style of revealing everything, good and bad, in his experience; and secondly, the adjustment was difficult, because of the obvious cultural differences (and some similarities) to South Africa, together with the author's intense personality (which could also be seen, arguably, as stubbornness). Mathabane is unquestionably well read, highly intelligent, highly motivated and has strong opinions. Those are not faults, although he does tend to be a little unnecessarily verbose at times (and this, despite him quoting writers who warn against such things); his opining and at times unwillingness to bend or compromise or adapt to others led him to change or discontinue college courses at least four times, and some would say, squander opportunities. That last point is in the end, probably unsustainable, since he has accomplished much, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams in reaching a wide and sympathetic audience for his story and work.
It is obvious that Mathabane, after having seen so much suffering and rising above it, does not want to be conventional, which led him to discontinue studies under scholarships at schools that most college students would covet the opportunity to attend. To his credit, he does not try to hide these issues, nor does he hide the, at times, incredulity and head-shaking from those well-meaning and intelligent friends, including Stan Smith and others, who question his decisions and direction.
Mathabane brought to light, at a very needed time, the struggles of South Africa under apartheid. I found him more compelling, more convincing and I felt more empathetic in reading his experiences in South Africa in "Kaffir Boy", than in his recounting of his new life in America in this book, although there are some good passages which shine light on how a form of apartheid, economic and power-oriented as much as racial, still exists in America today. In the end, people of various persuasions appear to have looked to Mathabane to argue their view, be it Christian, humanist, liberal or conservative. I don't think any one group is entirely comfortable with where he sits. It seems at times that he is a little conflicted about where his beliefs lie. It can be frustrating at times, but ultimately this is not a measured and resolute work of fiction, but a true story of this man's life, with all its faults, contradictions and accomplishments wrapped up together.
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Kaffir Boy in America.
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