Author : Eva Wilson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486253392
Over 400 images of papyrus, sun god Re, lotus, scarabs, plant scrolls, many other authentic motifs. Notes. Captions.
Author : J. O'Kane
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486155870
Voluminous, diversified collection of ornamental two-, three-, and four-letter combinations — all in a rich variety of styles, many incorporating crowns, coronets, and ancient and modern alphabets. 130 black-and-white plates.
Author : Dover
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486484467
Drawn from a 20th-century French collection, this volume interprets classic motifs of ancient Egypt in a dynamic Art Deco style. Hundreds of images include serpents, scarabs, and mythological creatures as well as a profusion of stylized flowers. Individual motifs can serve as striking spot illustrations, and dozens of borders and panels can be used as repeating patterns.
Author : Eva Wilson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 048625819X
Beautifully rendered from book illustrations, pottery, metalwork, carvings, and other sources, these 280 black-and-white designs include geometrics, florals, and animal and human figures in circular, hexagonal, rectangular, and other shapes.
Author : Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486274853
Over 1,000 royalty-free illustrations of animals, birds, insects and creatures both real and fanciful as depicted in dozens of design traditions from Ancient Egyptian to Early American. Chinese dragons, Indian elephants, Egyptian scarab beetles, and hundreds more, arranged by category and identified by captions. Indispensable source of ready-to-use animal art for artists, illustrators, craftspeople, more.
Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 1993-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0486277208
371 illustrations adapted from Egyptian sources, depicting gods and pharaohs, priests and priestesses, ordinary people, plants and animals, scenes of state occasion, battle, funerary custom, domestic life, and more.
Author : Jessica Winegar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804754774
Ethnographic study of cultural politics in the contemporary Egyptian art world, examining how art-making is a crucial aspect of the transformation from socialism to neoliberalism in postcolonial countries.
Author : Katsushika Hokusai
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486497585
Kasushika Hokusai was among the foremost ukiyo-e artists of his generation, and his Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji ranks among the best-known series of Japanese woodblock prints. This edition presents a full-color reprint of that enduring masterpiece, plus the artist's later black-and-white series, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji. A must for all lovers of Japanese art.
Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 019968278X
Explores the variety of arts produced in Egypt over a span of 3,500 years. Examing the stories behind these objects and buildings, Riggs looks not only at what they can tell us about ancient Egyptian life, but also how their legacy continues to shape the contemporary world.
Author : Margaret A. Murray
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0486148823
More than 120 photographs and diagrams depict the magnificent ruins of the Temple of the Sphinx, the great temples at Abu Simbel; and other extraordinary structures. 122 halftones and black-and-white line illustrations.
