Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Not bad little book to introduce Nouveau. Good for getting to know about it.

This is a lovely book. The beautiful photographs and close-up detailing complement the well written text. This book is a pleasure.

In the Kindle PC app, the cover is the full height of my monitor. The images in the rest of the book are about half the height (and proportionally narrower width) of my monitor. Since some pages have multiple images, some of these images end up being about an inch tall on my 30 inch monitor.

Wanted more in this book, especially for something that calls itself “Essential”. A good intro overview though. Would’ve loved descriptions on differences in cultural variations on this style.

Very nice book, good quality of the pictures.

Tons of references if you're an artist

Awesome reference book to innovate new art projects.

I was prepared to be disappointed with this book from the outset, thinking that much like many recent titles in the last few years it would be a rehash once again of the same old French Nouveau Ad Posters, and Mucha's common works like "Princezna Hyacinta", "Seasons'', or ''Medee'' Theater Ad.However I was more then pleasantly surprised. The book itself is broken up into various European regions responsible for the many flavors of art nouveau the we know today.And within each division are many lesser known works and stand alone motifs that made this very savory reading for me personal. As a designer it is a joy to see the major elements broken down into their essential parts, offering a pretty good insight into how they made up the bigger picture and influenced everything from jewelry, architecture and fashion cementing it as byword for elegance. I cant recommend this book enough for people wanting to get a good base understanding of the art form, but I would hesitate to call it an essential reference. As its been mentioned before its more a primer then a deep delving of the many stunning works out and abroad. But that in and of itself does not detract from the many eye catching forms contained within.Definitely a good suggesting for those of the Art or Textile persuasions..

So many beautiful pictures, so many patterns and designs, its heaven for any artist.The quality of the pages are smooth, bright and even though its a soft cover the pages are still sturdy. I have another soft cover book that is just flimsy and doesnt feel good in my hands, but THIS is made to last for a long long time, I am extremely happy with this and can only recommend it to anyone who is looking for pretty designs.

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Love this book, full of exquisite colour examples of Art Noveau design.

So much in the book.

Beautiful reference. Lots of large full page colour images with little text. Has a wide variety of prints, patterns and texts. Perfect reference for artists