The Practice of Art: A Classic Victorian Treatise

J D Harding

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Originally published in 1845 as The Principles & Practice of Art: With Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by the Author, this enduring guide is the work... Lees meer

The Art Nouveau Style Book of Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• To the general public, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is perhaps best known for his posters of Sarah Bernhardt and magnificent decorative panels suc... Lees meer

Theory of Colours

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• The wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established by the time the great German poet published his Theory of Colours in 1810. Nevert... Lees meer

101 Great Samurai Prints

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• One of the last great names in the Japanese ukiyo-e style, Utagawa Kuniyoshi was an undisputed master of the warrior woodblock print. Born in Tokyo in... Lees meer

Picasso

Gertrude Stein

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• For more than a generation, Gertrude Stein's Paris home at 27 rue de Fleurus was the center of a glittering coterie of artists and writers, one of who... Lees meer

Doré's Dragons, Demons and Monsters

Gustave Doré

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• One of the great book illustrators of all time, Gustave Doré created richly detailed, brilliantly imaginative scenes of legendary worlds filled with f... Lees meer

Mexican Painters

Mackinley Helm

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• From the monumental public frescoes of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Álfaro Siqueiros, to the canvasses and drawings of younger artist... Lees meer

Modern Artists on Art

A B Slomson, Robert L. Herbert

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• This rich, readable anthology contains 17 unabridged essays by some of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators. Chosen for their intrinsic qual... Lees meer

Japanese Warriors

Dover

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Born near Edo in 1807, Gyokuransai Sadahide was a gifted student of Utagawa Kunisada, one of Japan's most renowned woodblock artists. This vibrant com... Lees meer

Once Upon a Time . . . a Treasury of Classic Fairy Tale Illustrations

Jeff A. Menges

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• This enchanting gallery transports viewers to a fairy tale world -- an ageless fantasy realm inhabited by characters from favorite folktales and depic... Lees meer

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Gustave Doré, S T Coleridge

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evo... Lees meer

Doré's Illustrations of the Crusades

Gustave Doré

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Long regarded as the standard history of the subject, François Michaud's History of the Crusades, published in 1877, recorded over four centuries of p... Lees meer

Dulac's Fairy Tale Illustrations

Edmund Dulac

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• One of the most influential (and most prolific) illustrators of children's books during the early twentieth century, Edmund Dulac brought countless fa... Lees meer

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Wassily Kandinsky

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the ... Lees meer

Shakespeare Illustrated

Jeff A Menges

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• From the works of the English language's greatest playwright comes this stunning gallery of immortal scenes: Romeo and Juliet on the balcony, mad Ophe... Lees meer

Japanese Woodblock Bird Prints

Numata Kashu

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• In the 1880s, an economic boom in Japan encouraged a renaissance of traditional color woodblock painting. During this prosperous period, a well-born p... Lees meer

Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• In the brief span of his life and career, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) galvanized public attention in 1890s London with his exotic renderings of subject... Lees meer

Rackham's Fairy Tale Illustrations

Arthur Rackham

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Fifty-five lovely plates, reproduced from rare, early editions, include scenes from Irish Fairy Tales, English Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, Snowdro... Lees meer

The Life of William Blake

Alexander Gilchrist

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• One of the greatest Victorian-era biographies, Alexander Gilchrist's The Life of William Blake plays a key role in the history of Blake's work and its... Lees meer

The City

Frans Masereel

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• "An absolute song for an ongoing visit with timelessness." -- The New York Times This graphic novel by an Expressionist master offers a stunning depic... Lees meer

Engravings by Hogarth

William Hogarth

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• This book contains 101 of Hogarth's finest and most important engravings, including all the major series or "progresses" "The South Sea Scheme," A Har... Lees meer

Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Paul Gauguin

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• "These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality....They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurge... Lees meer

Graphic Worlds of Peter Bruegel the Elder

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Renowned for his effervescent and rollicking paintings of Flemish life, Peter Bruegel the Elder also holds a place among the world's finest engraving ... Lees meer

Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Shakespeare's incomparable romantic comedy takes on a new and vivid life in these brilliant images by one of the 20th century's leading illustrators. ... Lees meer