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Baroque Baroque
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A Treasure..........2005-09-04
After over ten years in my collection, this book continues to inspire and enthrall me. I was originally lured in by the books' physical beauty (gold and hot pink...who could refuse?), but the text, too, keeps me coming back. It is highly imaginative by way of subject, but also by way concept and design.
With this book Mr. Calloway introduced me to a whole world of seemingly "obscure" artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers that I may not have discoverd and enjoyed quite so soon in my life (for this I say THANKS!). I was an art history student in college at the time, and I certainly wasn't learning about this sort of "Baroque", while studying Bernini.
My favorite "discoveries" from this book include:
Jean Cocteau (J'adore!), Elsa Schiaparelli, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean, Derek Jarman, Pierre et Gilles, Edith Sitwell and Clough Williams-Ellis' Portmeirion in Wales. It set me on path in my life searching for the overlooked, the strange and georgeous things that Calloway's British perspective and knowledge helped bring to my attention. If the lives and works of these figures interest you, than this "dandy" of a book is for you. Explore the obscure, enjoy the sublime, dream the dreams of kings...beauty will never die, only inspire us to survive.
all about 20th century's taste for decorative flamboyancy.......2000-04-15
The book is about the decorative arts and tendencies in fashion, portraiture, phtography, and in cinema. As such, it covers the entire ten decades of the 20th century, with a heavy emphasis on the British stuff -- Cecil Beaton's very "gay" sensibilities for the theatre and later, of course, Peter Greenaway's Caravaggioesque obsessions in film. Some very elegant and justifiably famous photographs are reproduced here, including those shot for Dior and Co. Also valuable are some rare photo-stills taken from cinema. But, on the whole, the book relies on the idea that the "Baroque" is a state of mind, therefore anything flamboyant goes. The book does well showcase the fundamental difference between the works done during the high Baroque period and the 20th century obsession for the bizzare. While the former almost always bore the virility of taking delight in excess, the latter appears to be decidedly Narcissistic, regurgitative and effete. The book shows to what extent the European sensibility has become "Chinese" in modern times with its incessant wistful harking back to a fixed style of pre-conceived form of elegance and behavior.
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Choose from a lush array of highly embellished ornaments, including individual decorations, rosettes, and borders. This generous selection of 188 black-and-white engravings features florals and foliates, fruit, birds, shells, and other dazzling images. Reproduced from hard-to-find 17th- and 18th-century sources, these unusual images will enliven any project.
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Not bad . . . but.......2007-02-13
This is a good collection, I just wish the images came in vector format. They are all in photoshop Tiff format.
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Handsome collection features broad range of styles favored in centuries past by printers and designers. Includes scores of stylish scrolls, headpieces, tailpieces, cupids, wreaths, floral borders, and other designs. An eminently useful, royalty-free archive for printers, artists, advertisers, and designers, these attractive designs will also appeal to craftworkers. 350 black-and-white illustrations.
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Savor the sophistication of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Renaissance and Baroque styles with over 75 elegant designs. Inspired by fanciful, organic shapes that were popular during these periods, the motifs are based on designs from America, England, France, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Turkey, and Persia.Well known for her thorough hand quilting, Gwen has had diverse experience as a quilting designer, teacher, and magazine columnist. Working with her many sketches made from museum collections, Gwen has adapted the shapes to be compatible with quiltmaking.The motifs can be hand or machine quilted, embroidered, appliqud, or stenciled. Their asymmetrical shapes make them especially suitable for free-motion machine quilting. Their adaptability allows for adjustmentsthe designs can be enlarged, rearranged, and used in blocks or borders. A bonus Nine-Patch quilt pattern provides a canvas on which to compose a classic arrangement of magnificent designs.
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great designs and great information.......2007-05-05
besides the excellent designs, which have been made contemporary without being overly simplified, and are shown as outline embroidery, applique and quilting, there is some first rate information on quilt marking and for adapting the designs to various uses.
there are two simple projects with very complete instructions and photos of three quilts using the designs.
this is an excellent resource volume, but not an instruction book. the author assumes the reader has the knowledge and experience to use the designs in whatever way she wants. beginnning quilters or embroiderers could certainly use the designs in their projects, but should not expect information on basic quilting or embroidery techniques.
Over 70 designs inspired by 16th and 17th century motifs from museum collections around the world.......2006-03-07
Gwen Marston's Needlework Designs packs in over 70 designs inspired by 16th and 17th century motifs from museum collections around the world. These full-page patterns can be hand or machine quilted or stenciled and provide a versatile range of applications: two quilt projects reinforce the designs, while tips and ideas provide options on handling transfers.
Gwen Morston's Needlework Designs.......2006-02-21
This book has great designs to use as applique, quilting motifs and other needlework.
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Baroque Ornament and Designs (Dover Design Library)
Jacques Stella
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Copyright-free architectural ornaments, decorative motifs and border elements, engraved after drawings by l7th-century French artist. 46 illustrations.
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The Baroque, for many the most thrilling architectural style ever created, was born in Rome and reached its apogee in the work of three geniuses—Gianlorenzo Bernini, Francesco Castello Borromini, and Pietro Berretini da Cortona. Perhaps the greatest student of the Baroque was Anthony Blunt, who spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of the buildings and their importance to us now. This elegant and concise introduction to the style and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978, and represents a summation of his work. Many of the ravishing images included have not been republished since the beginning of the 18th century.
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Ornamental Cartouches (Dover Design Library)
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74 elaborate ornamented frames by famed Baroque artist; ideal settings for announcements, invitations, other communications. Royalty-free.
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Classicism and the Baroque in Europe (History of Decorative Arts)
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Painterly Enlightenment: The Art of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724-1796 (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)
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ASIN: 0807829560
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Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) was an Austrian fresco painter known for his bold use of color. Although he has been recognized in the Central European regions where he worked, Maulbertsch has remained outside the general canon of art history. With Painterly Enlightenment, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann recovers the story of Maulbertsch, offering the first comprehensive English-language study of the long-neglected artist.
Kaufmann situates Maulbertsch as a fresco painter at a time of transition to easel painting, a colorist at a time when color was not fully appreciated by contemporary observers, and an interpreter of religious themes at a time when secular subjects were becoming more popular. In this analysis, he is shown caught between the intellectual forces of the Enlightenment and the waning power of the traditional church, thus helping to illuminate the relationship between the Enlightenment and the arts. Kaufmann provides a thorough foundation for the fresh recognition of one of the great painters of eighteenth-century Europe, a leading fresco painter who is a colorist worthy of comparison to the best of his contemporaries, including the celebrated Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
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Too much enlightenment ..........2005-11-25
Kaufmann acknowledges as one of his central aims to introduce Franz Anton Maulbertsch to art historians outside Central Europe, who are, he says, not yet sufficiently aware of his outstanding achievements. A good idea, he thinks, to make him palatable to newcomers is to disperse the aura of 'strangeness' surrounding him - "The present book", he says, "aims to make the apparently strange seem familiar." To me, this seems all wrong - who, e.g., would try to proselytize for Goya by playing down the sheer extravagance of his imagaination and trying, so to speak, to domesticate him? And do believe me, Maulbertsch, in his most visionary moments is in his own peculiar way not far behind Goya, and thus the very thing to do to make his claims to the pantheon of art history truly convincing would be to celebrate Maulbertsch's strangeness and exuberant fancy.
Kaufmann, sadly, has for most of the time a quite different aganda. He focuses on the way Maulbertsch was influenced by enlightenment, the rise of neo-classicism and all the concomitant theories; that is, he 'familiarizes' him by linking him to certain intellectual debates of his times. But unfortunately these were influences that on the whole forced Maulbertsch to rein in his more imaginative sallies und in many cases - especially in large-scale fresco painting - diluted his artistic capabilities. How a great painter of the 2nd half of the 18th century, trained in the school of late baroque extravaganza, tried to come to terms with the emerging ideas of clarity, sobriety and dignity, makes of course a fascinating story, but as the focus of a beginner's guide to Maulbertsch is does not seem particularly suitable. Art historians conversant with the wider horizons of Central European painting might even point out that some of Maulbertsch's colleagues achieved better results when trying to strike a compromise between Baroque training and the neo-classicist demands of the day. The merits of later Maulbertsch have always been a point of some controversy; his dazzling virtuosity in the early stages of his career has never been seriously doubted by anyone looking into his oeuvre.
To what extent Maulbertsch got involved in late 18th century debates is, by the way, a terrain well trodden over in German language Maulbertsch scholarship. Perhaps it is not surprising that so many scholars have set their hearts on it and that Mr Kaufmann has been eager to join their rank: You can fill quite a lot of pages by going lovingly over all those contemporary theories, programmes and reviews that make up the 'discourse' sourrounding late Maulbertsch (or should I rather say the 'discursive haze'?), whereas it is much harder to untangle the various threads that have gone into creating the unique stylistic bravura of Maulbertsch in his heyday.
Still, you might fo course argue that it is good thing to bring Maulbertsch to the notice of the English speaking world at all; and after all there are lots of illustrations (covering all stages of Maulbertsch's career), some of which might indeed make the reader fall in love with Maulbertsch's strangeness in spite of Mr Kaufmann's attempt to tame and civilize him. Regrettably, quite a few of the pictures are of such staggeringly poor quality that it is hard to understand how they could possibly be compatible with the standards to be expected from a unviersity press; pictures that look as if they had been printed in some East European backwater town of the 1960s.
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