Presents the numerous painters who succumbed to the charms of the Orient.

The Orientalists: Painter Travellers Pocket Colour Series

Arts & Photography

Thornton, Lynne

History & Criticism

Acr Edition

Brings together more than 150 artists who depicted the lives of Oriental women.

Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting: Pocket Colour Series

This book begins by presenting the specifity of Moroccan decoration, and in it, we will examine three main elements of traditional Moroccan decoration as used in architecture: calligraphy, floral arabesques, and geometric designs. The latter element will make up the bulk of this book. You will find information here that will help you more thoroughly understand what you see, and those who truly love this type of decoration will quickly be able to create their own arabesques. The section dealing with plane geometric decoration which is the many-faceted world of polygonal arabesques, includes part of Jean-Marc Castéra's previous book, Géométrie douce, but with the addition of photographs. For the following section, dealing with the tridimensional aspects of geometric decoration, muqarnas, his study was greatly aided by a recent discovery in the world of geometry and physics, called non-periodic tiling and "quasicrystals". This book contains a series of keys, but the gilded door needs to be illuminated so the desire to discover more - and see more - may be awakened. It is for this reason that there are so many drawings and photos in this book. Contents: Preface - Introduction: Some milestones in the history of Islam; Calligraphy; Floral arabesques - A world of stars: Introduction; Presentation of the method; Stars; Other stars; Additional motifs - Muqarnas: Introduction; Muqarnas in Morocco; Applications and analyses - Creation: Craftsmen and techniques; Chemmassiats; Main Moroccan sites for decorative works - Bibliography; Credits. Text in French.

Arabesques: Art décoratif au Maroc (French Edition)

Castera, Jean-Marc

Architecture

A complete overview of Gerome's life and long career.

Jean-Leon Gerome: His Life, His Work 1824-1904 (PocheCouleur, No. 21)

Ackerman, Gerald M.

This monograph spans the entire life and work of Jean-Leon Gerome and is composed of two parts: a biographical appreciation and a catalogue of his paintings, prints and sculptures. The study of the artist's life is based on three ancient monographs, the perusal of the contemporary press and the recollections of students and friends. This catalogue is the result of 25 years of research. Approximately 700 paintings and 70 sculptures have been inventoried through archives, old State documents, catalogues and correspondence with collectors.

Jean-Léon Gérôme: Monographie révisée et catalogue raisonné mis à jour (French Edition)

Illustrates a wide variety of of costume designs. Text in English and French,

Berber Costumes of Morocco: Traditional Patterns

Rabat, Marie-Rose

Sorver, Frieda

Decorative Arts & Design

Shafik Gabr has one of the finest private collections in the world of Orientalist art: this rare book highlights his impressive collection. ACR Internationale, 2008. First edition. Quarto; 304 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and front board; illustrated dust jacket; publisher's original illustrated slipcase. With 80 superb color plates on art paper (several full or double page). Pristine quality, clean and tight, no markings; dust jacket bright and fresh; slipcase shows no shelfware. A scarce copy of an important work on Orientalist art. Artists featured include: David Roberts, Ludwig Deutsch, Carl Werner, et al.

The Shafik Gabr Collection

Gabr. Shafik

Starting with sand and mixed ashes but also with a mastered fire- the devil is not that far away-, they produce light that their breath shapes in precious objects. Since ancient times, glass makers are like real alchemists. The Ancient régime did not make a mistake: while painters were submitted to a corporation, musicians nothing more then domestic helps, théâtre folks were usually excommunicated by the Church, glassmakers could enjoy numerous advantages from the king.Somewhere in the middle of the 19th century, due to the enormous industrial production and the urge to do things fast and cheap, quality was not always guaranteed. It is however in this context that a few designers started to transform odrinary common objects in masterpieces that can master statues and paintings.One often says about Emile Gallé that thanks to him, in just a few years, In France in the second half of the 19th century, the glass became more than just an utility art. True, he was the great inventor in this area but numerous discoveries and rediscoveries headed their way since years and a révolution never starts by accident. You need the right scientific and industrial circumstances, economic and political convergences who make it possible for an artist to do just that in that precise domaine, to surprise the général public.Emile Gallé was just the right man at the right place with the right attitude.Others have taken over and one century and a half later, the world lives more than ever in the age of glass. The material became more important, not just a nice accessory but some kind of total environment at the point were it s industry makes us even forget that it s also an artistic expression we tend to banalise.

Le Verre: Art & Design. Encyclopédie du Verre en France

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Delaborde, Yves

Antiques & Collectibles

A monograph on the work of Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau: The Assembler of Dreams (PocheCouleur (Paperback))

Mathieu, Pierre-Louis

The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth century drawing course. It contains a set of almost two hundred masterful lithographs of subjects for copying by drawing students before they attempt drawing from life or nature. Consequently it is a book that will interest artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of drawings. It also introduces us to the work and life of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue. The Drawing Course consists of three sections. The first consists of plates drawn after casts, usually of antique examples. Different parts of the body are studied in order of difficulty, until full figures are presented. The second section pays homage to the western school of painting with lithographs after exemplary drawings by Renaissance and modern masters. The third part contains almost sixty académies or drawings after nude male models, all original inventions by Bargue, the lithographer. With great care, the student is introduced to continually more difficult problems in the close observing and recording of nature. Practiced professional artists will see at once the problems of representation that are approached by Bargue, and they will delight in his solutions. Figure painters will copy the plates to keep in tune; so to speak, much as pianists practice the exercises of Czerny before performing Beethoven. Art students will find it a practical and progressive introduction to realistic figure drawing. Art historians can learn by studying these drawings just what was prized in late nineteenth century figure painting. They will recognize the reliance upon tradition by the use of antique sculptures as models in the first part: Antiquity is here used, not to impose a classical style, but as an aid in seeing the structure of the human body with clarity and intelligence. The result is a convergence of Classicism and Realism. There are no numerical proportional charts, perspective boxes or geometrical schemata to memorize. All the techniques and schemata are developed out of and for the object or person in view. The drawings are splendid; beautiful; not simply products of assiduity, but of careful observation and the wish to transcribe and communicate the beauty of nature and light, as well as the manifold appearances of the human body. These are objectives that will touch and move any careful reader of drawings, and the figurative arts. Text in French.

Charles Bargue et Jean-Léon Gérôme: Cours de dessin (French Edition)

Study & Teaching

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