The art of glass is a beautiful introduction to the art of glassmaking during its most innovative period of the 20th century. Website of victor arwas art gallery based in london. This fascinating history of art glass begins in the 1880s with the precursors to art nouveau, follows the creations of galle, daum and muller freres, looks at the iridescent glass of tiffany and loetz and patedevere creations from henri cros to argyroussea. Back in print after an absence of several years, the revised edition of victor arwas art deco offers a broad insight into the elements of this distinctive decorative style. Art nouveau to art deco 9781901092004 by arwas, victor and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Art deco by victor arwas 2000, hardcover, revised for. Our books cover a huge range of academic disciplines from mathematics, science and philosophy to art and literature as well as many works in other. Frontispiece, color and black and white illustrations throughout. Arwas viewed many private collections when performing his research, and the text and illustrations cover everything from furniture to jewelry to vases to sculpture and paintings. Arwas discusses the work of art decos leading french exponents ruhlmann, puiforcat, erte, dunand, fouquet, cassandre, boucheron, and icart, to name but a few as he traces the evolution of the style from its first appearance at the famed 1925 exposition des.
Art deco by victor arwas 1976, book, illustrated for sale. About the gallery the victor arwas gallery has specialised in original graphics etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, etc, posters, drawings, watercolours, paintings and sculpture of the period from 1880 to c. Meiliana betan rated it it was amazing may 27, 2017. Mar 16, 2010 victor arwas, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, was a largerthanlife personality, even for the london art world. Art deco by arwas, victor book the fast free shipping for.
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Victor arwas has 28 books on goodreads with 6717 ratings. He regularly exhibits and promotes both fine and applied arts at his editions graphiques gallery in london, and is the author of numerous books on the period, including glass. Art nouveau to art deco by victor arwas 1987, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. Art nouveau to art deco by victor arwas 1978, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. Art deco by victor arwas and frank russell internet archive. Arwas viewed many private collections when performing his research, and the text and illustrations cover everything from. They are the epitomy of their era, reflecting the excitement of the ballet russe, the expressionism of silent movies, the simplification of form in 20th century art and the sheer fun of the hyper realistic craftsmanship of their creators. Artforum victor arwass art deco is the most serious. Chryselephantine statuettes of the twenties and thirties.
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