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Ernst Haeckel Inspired by Nature - ebook Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 Ernst Haeckel was a doctor, marine zoologist, botanist, photographer, and an artist. He was well respected but controversial because of his beliefs in evolution. According to Edward Thomas Browne of the Linnean Society, Haeckel is responsible for many common zoology terms such as: Ontogeny, Phylum, Protozoa, Protista, Metazoa, Plankton, Coelom, and Gastrula.
[...]he was a prodigious and vigorous worker. Students flocked to his classrooms at Jena, and his courses of semi-popular lectures on Evolution were fully attended by all sorts and conditions of people, from far and near. In the prime of life he was a fine, handsome man, with a strong but charming personality, fearless in expressing his Evolutionary views, which were by no means favourably received by the multitude, and attempts were even made to eject him from his Chair of Zoology.
This publication includes biographical information from many sources along with 35 Plates that illustrate Radiolaria from his 1862 publication, Die Radiolarien (Rhizopoda radiaria) eine Monographie, a few from Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 and ten plates from from Kunstformen der Natur.
Creating Something Grand from Something Microscopic
In addition to his works, you will also find highlighted a work by Rene Binet, the entrance of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. Binet modeled the entrance after the Clathrocanium reginae. When you consider that microscopic sea fauna inspired a structure that used about 192 tonnes of metal and cost about 676,000 French fr., it certainly is worth viewing these illustration to see how they might be of inspiration to you.
Radiolaria are silica secreting zooplankton. Their size can range from about 100 micrometers to what is considered a very large size of 1-2 mm. The weight gained during maturation of a single Radiolarian is 0.1 micrograms. The dimensions of the Clathrocanium reginae are, in millimeters: cephalis 0.03 long and 0.04 wide with a thorax that measures 0.08 long and 0.12 wide. An image is included in the upcoming pages.
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Rene Binet Art Nouveau Architecture and Versailles Watercolors Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 This second volume includes some architectural projects such as the Porte Monumentale for the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and the Printemps department store. Also included are his watercolor paintings from "Versailles and the Trianons". See the first volume for a portfolio of his industrial and architectural designs.
René Binet was born in Chaumont, Yonne [Burgundy region] on the 14th of October, 1866 to Savinien Joseph Binet, a railway tracklayer and Marie Grosset, a housekeeper.
He attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), from 1886 until about 1892, and was a student of Victor Laloux. Binet was an architect, decorator, and painter. Perhaps his most culturally significant contribution was his design of the main entry for the Paris Exhibition of 1900, a commission that he won. He is considered an artist of La Belle Epoque, executing his designs in the style of Art Nouveau. Two Paris addresses are associated with the artist: 6 rue de l’Abbaye and 33 rue Bonaparte.
According to the Musée d’Orsay, René Binet “discovered Italy after winning, in 1893, the Chaudesaigues prize, which enabled young architects to spend two years there”. Along with Italy, Binet also traveled to Sicily, Algeria and Spain. The museum also attributes these trips to his interest in watercolor painting. According to the museum, he traveled frequently which provided him some relief from his rheumatism. In 1903, an exhibition, at the Galerie Paul Durand-Ruel in Paris, featured his watercolor paintings.
His work was also greatly influenced by the research and illustrations of Ernst Haeckel. Gustave Geffroy, in his forward to Esquisses décoratives, notes that Binet viewed the Clathrocanium reginae as the most beautiful and a perfect representation of the richness and logic of the Radiolaria family. Geffroy also points out that it is the Clathrocanium reginae that inspired the design of the Porte Monumentale [main entrance] of the Exposition Universelle of 1900. You can see illustrations of these geometric and microscopic sea creature skeletons in the upcoming pages and also in the separate editions of Haeckel’s works from delsc.
Binet died in 1911 in Ouchy, Switzerland.
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Illustrations of Katsushika Hokusai - ebook Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 Selected illustrations of Katsushika Hokusai with a forward by Sir Charles John Holmes, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery and the sixth Director of the National Gallery, from his book Hokusai (1901).
The prints include many from his Waterfalls series and Mount Fuji. Sketches and prints of birds, mice, flowers, snow scenes and beaches are also included.
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Hiroshige Prints (Ando, Ichiyusai, Utagawa) - ebook Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 Selected prints attributed and Ando Hiroshige who was also known by Ichiyūsai and Utagawa Hiroshige. You will also find an introduction from Frank Lloyd Wright reprinted from his catalog dated 1906. Subjects are the ocean, waves, people, fish,birds, a cat, boats, flowers and mountains. The pine tree or matsu can be found in many of these images.
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Art Nouveau Animal Decorative Designs - ebook Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 This publication includes translated quotes from Eugene Grasset and M.P. Verneuil along with ocean, fish, bugs, butterflies, and reptile Art Nouveau decorative designs by artists such as:
H. Bellery-Desfontaines
(1867 to 1909)
Édouard Bénédictus
(1878 to 1930)
Maurice Dufrène
(1876 to 1955)
Eugène Grasset
(1844 to 1917)
André Herpin
(1880 to 1940)
René Lalique
(1860 to 1945)
Mathurin Méheut
(1882 to 1958)
Alfons Mucha
(1860 to 1939)
M. P. Verneuil
(1869 to 1942)
Henri Vever
(1854 to 1942)
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The Women and Cats of Art Nouveau Artists - ebook Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 A collection of prints from Art Nouveau artists with women and cats as the subjects of these prints.
Artists include:
Jules Chéret • 1836 to 1932
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec • 1864 - 1901
Eugène Grasset • 1844 to 1917
Alfons Mucha • 1860 - 1939
Théophile Steinlen • 1859 – 1923
Louis Rhead • 1857 - 1926
M. P. Verneuil • 1869–1942
Paul Follot • 1875 – 1942
Paul Berthon • 1872 – 1909
Georges de Feure • 1868 – 1943
Edward Penfield • 1866 - 1925
Leonetto Cappiello • 1875 – 1942
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The Library of Eugene Grasset Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 The September edition is focused on the inspirations of Eugène Grasset through the publication of library items.
The pages included in this publication are from an estate sale catalogue. Although a little morbid, it does give the reader a clear indication of what he found inspirational. Arsène Alexandre quoted Grasset as saying -- “these are my friends of solitude and of work”.
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Art Nouveau Decorative Designs - ebook Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 This edition includes three artists with a focus on the more obscure French artists, MP Verneuil and Georges Auriol. Alfons Maria Mucha designs are included and, if you love Mucha, you will love Verneuil and Auriol's designs.
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Teodora Gheroghiu: Art Nouveau. Strauss, Zemlinsky, Ravel - CD musical Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 1 cd
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Top 100 Art nouveau / Bruxelles Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 Marie Resseler propose une découverte de l'Art nouveau à travers une approche thématique originale : métamorphose de la maison bourgeoise, quant l'architecte construit sa maison, maisons et ateliers d'artistes, au coin de la rue, l'Art nouveau pour les petits...
Cet ouvrage très documenté est agrémenté de nombreuses archives photographiques.
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L'Art Nouveau à Grenoble Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 Elodie Peiffer porte un intérêt particulier à l'Art Nouveau qui la séduit par son langage formel. Son affection pour cet art s'est principalement développée autour des créations dans les arts appliqués, mais s'est ensuite portée sur l'architecture. L'étude du Castel Béranger, d'Hector Guimard, et de la Villa Majorelle, d'Henri Sauvage et de Louis Majorelle, lui a permis de découvrir les particularités de l'architecture Art Nouveau.
Ce livre décrit la réception et l'adaptation de l'Art Nouveau à Grenoble dans l'habitat collectif, sujet qui n'a jamais été étudié auparavant.
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Strasbourg cedex
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L'héritage de l'Art Nouveau dans le Rhin supérieur - DVD Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 Le présent DVD propose un parcours riche et varié à travers l'Art Nouveau en Alsace, et plus largement dans le Rhin supérieur, par le biais de 40 bâtiments Art Nouveau filmés (plus de deux heures de vidéo), d'une base de plus de 300 photographies et de 13 propositions de séquences pédagogiques.
Discipline(s) : arts plastiques, histoire de l'art
Niveau(x) : collège, lycée, supérieur, grand public
Par Melissa Decaire, conception/réalisation audiovisuelle et Jean-Michel Koch (IA-IPR d'arts plastiques - académie de Strasbourg), coordination pédagogique.
DVD-vidéo/rom avec livret 4 pages et fichiers PDF
Prix : 19,90 €
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B-Bruxelles
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Le petit monde de l’architecte Henri Jacobs 1864-1935 Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 L’historien de l’art Franco Borsi a écrit qu’après Horta
et Hankar, Henri Jacobs a été l’architecte le plus intéressant de l’Art nouveau. Aussi à l’aise dans une
architecture privée élégante, raffinée dans l’harmonie des
matériaux et des couleurs, tout en restant classique dans le plan, que dans le logement social ou le logement moyen, où il privilégie le confort sans tomber dans la banalité et sans négliger l’apparence, il est, avant tout, le principal bâtisseur des écoles de Bruxelles, mais figure aussi parmi les principaux artisans de l’architecture scolaire en Brabant, se jouant des diverses contraintes et des
règlements émis par les différentes autorités.
Ce livre retrace le parcours de trois générations
de Jacobs : Henri Jacobs lui-même, son père, enseignant, et son oncle, architecte, qui s’illustrèrent particulièrement à Saint-Josse, grâce à qui il est allé à bonne école, puis son fils, Henri Aimé, qui grandira au milieu des tables à dessiner et prendra sa succession. Jacobs a connu le succès en son temps. Le livre s’efforce de mettre en évidence son
réseau de relations, de contacts, de clients, d’artistes, ce « petit monde » qui l’entoure durant toute sa carrière. Parmi ses proches, il faut relever Godefroid Devreese, le sculpteur, Privat Livemont, le peintre, et Paul Gilson,
le musicien.
Si ses principales réalisations se situent à Schaerbeek, où il est le principal architecte du Foyer schaerbeekois et où se dresse son chef-d’oeuvre, le groupe scolaire Josaphat, beaucoup sont aussi emblématiques de l’architecture bruxelloise en général, comme l’ancienne École normale
Émile André rue des Capucins, plusieurs écoles de Laeken, le groupe scolaire Félix Govaert à Auderghem, l’actuel Athénée d’Uccle I et l’école du square Marlow ainsi que d’autres bâtiments scolaires à Uccle, l’École en couleurs et l’école de la rue des Alliés à Forest, les deux écoles
de la rue Herkoliers et l’Athénée à Koekelberg. Mais il construit aussi en Brabant, de Hal à Rhode-
Saint-Genèse, de Londerzeel à Tirlemont, en passant par Grimbergen, Zaventem et Diegem. Ce livre est la première monographie consacrée aux Jacobs. Depuis plus de vingt ans, l’auteur, archéologue issue de l’Université libre de Bruxelles et active dans la protection du patrimoine bruxellois, qui consacre ses recherches à l’architecture scolaire en Brabant, s’intéresse à ces personnalités.
L’ouvrage révèle une importante liste chronologique
d’oeuvres, dont la plupart sont inédites, ainsi
que des encarts, mettant en lumière, soit des projets
ou des réalisations, soit des personnages, familiers,
entrepreneurs, clients que les Jacobs ont côtoyés.
Il constitue une approche nouvelle de l’architecture
bruxelloise de la fin du XIXe et de la première
moitié du XXe siècle, mettant en évidence les
hommes et les relations qui les lient.
360 pages
Format 24 x 16,5 cm
482 ill. en quadrichromie
Prix de vente: A 60
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Journal de l'Art Nouveau 1870-1914 Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999
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Mons
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La maison Léon Losseau à Mons Dates:01.01.2050-01.01.2999 35 pages
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