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8 boeken uit de Paul Hamlyn Cameo Art Series
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• African Masks
• Art Nouveau
• Indian Miniatures
• Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts
• The French Empire Style
• The Age of Rococo
• Decorative Ironwork
• Villas and Palaces of Europe

• Indian Miniatures

"Pictorial art ranks as one of India's foremost arts with literature, the theatre and music. At one extreme there are the great cycles of mural paintings, in temples and palaces, and at the other there are the miniature paintings which, in spite of their size, are still able to express profound psychological values.
The full flowering of miniature art began when India came into direct and violent contact with Islam, and reached its highest peak of splendour during the Mogul empire between 16th and 18th centuries."

• The Age of Rococo

"The first half of the 18th century is perhaps the most exquisitely stylish period in European art. This was the time of Louis XV and Madame de pompadour, of Watteau's fetes glantes and Tiepolo's allegories, of Sevres and Meissen porcelain, of Oeben's and Riesener's furniture. The Rococo was an aristocratic style, and one after another the courts of Europe followed the lead of Versailles until Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Austria, Italy and Spain had all taken it up."

• Decorative Ironwork

"A brief glance at the illustrations in this book is enough to reveal the amazing virtuosity of the blacksmith's art, an art which has modestly flourished from the Middle Ages to the present day.
In the Middle Ages, heavy wooden doors were reinforced and incidentally decorated with ironwork mounts, hinges and bolts. Later, ironwork began to be used in churches for screens across the choir and around chapels and tombs.
By the Renaissance, craftsmen were also producing splendid lamp-holders, fire-screens, gates and coffers.
In 18th-century France, the outstanding craftsman was Jean Lamour, smith to the court of King Stanislas at Nancy where examples of his workmanship can still be seen."

• Art Nouveau

"Late in the 19th century artists and designers were searching for an alternative to the ponderous Victorian style which then predominated. William Morris with his Arts and Crafts Movement was the first to strike out on his own, and he was followed by three mildly dissimilar men who were to have a strong influence on the whole of European art: the Scottish architect-designer Charles Rennie Macintosh, the English artist Aubrey Beardsley, and the eccentric Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi.
The new style was based on graceful plant-forms, and the distinctive sinuous shapes appeared everywhere, from the entrances of the Paris Metro to the strangely elegant glass and furniture. The delicacy of the lines gives a feminine air to most Art Nouveau design, a feeling echoed by such artists as Mucha, Maillol and Limt, who often portrayed women."

• The French Empire Style

"French art during the first fifteen years of the 19th century was obsessed with the god-like figure of Napoleon. Every painting and every object was intended to celebrate his glory. The society of the Empire period was quite different from that of the first feverish post-revolutionary years. The new establishment was no longer content with the delicate whims of the earlier Directoire style; it now wanted extravagant decoration, triumphal furnishings and monumental architecture. Gold, bronze, mahogany and silk were the materials of the Empire style."

• African Masks

To Western eyes African masks have a sinister, secret life of their own. The astonishing vigour of the carving and the often highly coloured decoration add to the feeling that these masks are more than just tribal regalia. In fact, a mask does not represent an emotion: it is that emotion. As the author says, it is not the portrait of a man, who fears, who fights, or who dies, but it is Fear, War, Death.

This fascinating book reveals, perhaps for the first time to the ordinary reader, the backgroudn of the Negro artist and his place and function in the tribe.
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• Villas and Palaces of Europe

Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1969, colour photographic plates throughout, hardcover, dust-jacket
"The social background of an age had important influence on the design of its great houses; thus the elegant but comparatively small Palladian villas of the Veneto were as much a product of 16th-century Venetian society as the grand chateaux of the Loire were a reflection of the elaborate French court.
Palladio was the first European architect to seek and achieve an intimate relationship between a building and its landscape, conceived as integrated elements, and it is the evolution of this idea which links and yet contrasts the magnificent villas and palaces described here."

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