127 Authentic Art Deco Patterns in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Reprinted from rare portfolios circa 1920: patterns combining flowers, fruits, leaves, butterflies, birds, animals, and people in bold, exotic designs.

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Great variety.......2007-05-08

This book is great for giving an all around idea of art deco textile, and art detail. However, I would have liked more information on the designers, years these were popular, the artists, etc.

Beautiful And Inspiring.......2002-07-12

This is an excellent selection of colorful graphic patterns in the deco genre, and should be a useful and inspiring resource to designers, students, and afficianados.

127 Authentic Art Deco Designs.......2000-03-31

This book represents early Art Deco Designs, perhaps even late Art Nouveau Designs. The strikingly remarkable feature is the color combinations, which show the early flavor of the period. These designs were taken from two portfolios of 1920's artists.

There is a full range of figures from antalope and mountian lion to flowers and people. Some of which are highly intricate and ornate, while others verge on the primative. As a source book for a decorative artist (me), it gives subject and theme for any period compositions which can be mounted.

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A Very Good Discovery.......2003-02-11

This modest little volume, almost devoid of text, is a nicely-printed collection of patterns by a lesser-known but very worthy deco stylist, Serge Gladky, who was apparently one of the pioneers of the movement. The restrained and intelligent color palette is perhaps the most striking feature of his work; his use of shapes is even more mathematical than a collection of patterns would imply. It's a useful and inspiring resource for designers and afficianados, and the material richly deserves to be preserved and presented.

Art Deco Patterns & Designs (International Design Library)

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Art Deco Patterns & Designs (International Design Library)
Phoebe Ann Erb
Manufacturer: Stemmer House Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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Art Deco Patterns: A Design Source Book
Paul Atterbury
Manufacturer: Studio Editions
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KVKDRY

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Art Deco Patterns: Design Sour
Jane Rogoyska
Manufacturer: Gramercy
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Binding: Hardcover

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Release Date: 1990-08-27

Art Nouveau Decorative Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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Art Nouveau Decorative Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Christian Stoll
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Original Art Deco Allover Patterns (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Original Art Deco Allover Patterns (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
William Rowe
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486261395

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Unique guidebook offers 59 fascinating, royalty-free graphics for immediate use. Full-page designs plus variants on opposite page accompanied by visual suggestions on how to adapt, develop and vary patterns. Ideal for use in textile, wallpaper, stationery, other design projects.

Gladky's Art Deco Patterns and Designs in Full Color

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Gladky's Art Deco Patterns and Designs in Full Color
Serge Gladky
Manufacturer: Dover Publications, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBTYYA

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In the 11 days following the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986, more than 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area surrounding the nuclear power plant. Declared unfit for human habitation, the Zones of Exclusion includes the towns of Pripyat (established in the 1970s to house workers) and Chernobyl. In May 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in the this dead zone. His richly detailed images move from the burned-out control room of Reactor 4, where technicians staged the experiment that caused the disaster, to the unfinished apartment complexes, ransacked schools and abandoned nurseries that remain as evidence of those who once called Pripyat home. Nearby, trucks and tanks used in the cleanup efforts rest in an auto graveyard, some covered in lead shrouds and others robbed of parts. Houseboats and barges rust in the contaminated waters of the Pripyat River. Foliage grows over the sidewalks and hides the modest homes of Chernobyl. In his large-scale photographs, Polidori captures the faded colors and desolate atmosphere of these two towns, producing haunting documents that present the reader with a rare view of not just a disastrous event, but a place and the people who lived there.

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Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl.......2007-01-09

Found this book on a movie set and was amazed at the images. Photographed in 2001, this book brings the horrors of Chernobyl to life. Another event in our life that should not be forgotton. An amazing pictorial.

An admirable photo book.......2006-05-18

The photos are poetic, well composed and beautifully printed. Those interested in images of Chernobyl, or in architectural photography, will find this worthwhile.

However, the book contains almost no text, and this weakens it. There is no discussion of the places shown in the photographs, or what happened in each setting. There is no pairing of before and after photographs. There is no discussion of how, technically, Polidori took the photographs. I would have preferred to see all three of these things.

There are other sources, of course. A recent issue of National Geographic used the 20th anniversary of the disaster as its cue to cover this ground (and with some very similar photos too). However, this was a missed chance by Polidori.

Also, I found the array of photographs of little houses being reclaimed by the forest to be less interesting than Polidori probably expected. The urban photos were much more compelling.

An amazing documentation of places abandoned (not by choice)........2005-10-31

Robert Polidori has captured in large format, cities which have now become ghost towns, due to the most devastating of nuclear accidents. The colors are muted in the photographs as they are in real life, with everything that's left covered in dirt, debris, and rubble. There may never be a full clean-up because of the radiation still present, which would put people at risk, and the fact that it will never be rebuilt anyway. It appears most of the shots were taken during cloudy days, and I am wondering if the mood would have been emphasized a tad further had some warmer light shined into the interiors.

The story of what happened is barely touched upon, but this book is a photo representation of what is left behind, and not a story about what happened. I have no problem looking elsewhere to find the history of the accident, and think the book stands alone as a stunning pictorial depiction of what can go wrong in the nuclear age. One of my favorite photo books in any genre.

I enjoyed seeing this, but it doesn't answer many questions.......2004-07-03

There is only one page of text in this book. Page 7, written by Elizabeth Culbert in New York City in April 2003, explains how Pripyat, a community of homes for workers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, was evacuated 36 hours after tons of radioactive material had been released, hauling 50,000 people away in a fleet of buses. "Mandatory evacuation continued over the next 10 days, forcing 116,000 people to depart from towns and villages within 30 kilometers of the plant--this area would be named the exclusion zone. . . . Today the elderly are allowed to stay; children are not. No one is permitted to live within a 10-kilometer radius of Chernobyl. Pripyat remains abandoned."

"Nearly 350,000 people were moved from contaminated regions of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, though hundreds of thousands still live in areas unsuitable for habitation--unsuitable not only because of radioactivity, but also because of severe socio-economic and psychological pressures. . . . With limited local capacity to deal with health, economic and environmental challenges, living conditions spiral downward." Thousands of Ukrainians would like the Chernobyl plant to reopen to provide jobs and power to the region. But the danger of the collapse of the existing structure over the "200 tons of uranium and a ton of radioactive plutonium" at Chernobyl make it a bad place to risk having more explosions so close.

The pictures are monumental, as only pictures of a catastrophe can come close to capturing the essence of the slow deterioration of nuclear decay. The picture on the cover, repeated on page 41, shows a farewell written on a red rectangle mounted on a light green wall. Very institutional colors and furnishings, but the paint on the walls is peeling, and plaster around the window fell over everything in the picture. The title of the book is written at the far edge of the ceiling:

Zones of Exclusion PRIPYAT AND CHERNOBYL.

The book is printed in Germany, and the photographer, Robert Polidori, was given the necessary visas and authorizations to enter the area around Chernobyl in Ukraine to take these pictures on June 6-9, 2001. Nearly at the end of the book, there is a picture, "Robert Polidori in the Unit 4 control room. Photograph by Konstantin Leifer, June 6, 2001." The page before that has captions for the other pictures in the book, starting with:

3-4 Sarcophagus over the Unit 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Pages 1 and 2 are blank, and the picture of the sarcophagus on page 3 only has text on a sign just below the barbed wire at the top of a gray block wall, but the text is too small and faint to read. There is a crane between the camera and the sarcophagus which looks like a combination of toothpicks. I assume the cranes in these pictures are now too contaminated to be used elsewhere, though this book does not have any pictures of them glowing in the dark. Page 4 shows the crane from another angle, closer to the side of a structure that is almost as large as the sarcophagus.

Page 5 has the title. Page 6 shows an entryway with a sign "Contamination Control Post" in English. Page 9 shows a mall with buildings that used letters of the Russian alphabet for their signs. Trees are growing, even in the cracks in the pavement. The pictures on pages 10-11 show buildings with the nuclear power plant in the background. A lightpost on page 11 has trees close enough to hide some of the power lines in the bottom corner of the picture, but there would not be power in the line, so the trees don't need to be trimmed. Pages 12-15 show electrical transfer stations with high-voltage wires, with the nuclear power plant in the background. There are still a few guards and a STOP sign at the nuclear power plant on page 17. Page 26 is blank except for the page number because the picture on page 27 is huge, showing the Unit 4 control room in the damaged condition that fate left it in. Page 28 is blank because it marks a transition to pictures of a kindergarten classroom that has been neglected for years. There were a lot of beds in the nursery on page 33, but the mattresses are falling apart. I think the doll on page 36 might have been posed, like the chair sitting on the top of a desk near a picture of Lenin and some kids on page 37. The dangling light fixture on page 39 looks as likely to crash down as the other metal channels lying about, and they don't look they were part of the ceiling. The library on page 49 is really messed up. A lot of people left their gas masks in the cafeteria on page 53.

Then there are pictures of an abandoned hospital, vacant residential buildings, vehicles that ought to be buried, old boats in the harbor, and small pictures of little places. Trees that used to grow around the nuclear power plant are now lying in rows of piles in fields of radioactive logs. This book makes the catastrophe seem pretty recent, compared to how long people ought to wait before these areas are populated again.

Extraordinary Work.......2003-10-11

I won't endeavor to describe this book any more than Amazon's editors. But, I will say that I've collected photography books for close to twenty years and this is one of the most beautiful I've seen. The work is extraordinary, both disquieting and alluring at the same time. Polidori's composition, use of color and eye for detail is indicative of not only classic artistic stylisation, but a sensitive soul as well. This is truly brilliant work!

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Amusing with a touch of whack

I lost weight because I stopped making it such a big deal

Socially irresponsible regardless of authors' intent

as if "pro-ana" websites aren't bad enough...

Funny, amusing and entertaining.

The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows About Dieting (And Won't Tell You!)
Patricia Marx , and Susan Sistrom
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Ever wonder how skinny women stay skinny?  (Hint: it's not their metabolism.)

Forget diet books.  You've read them.  You've tried them.  You've lost five pounds . . . and gained back six.  It's time you learned the truth about weight loss from those who know--the skinny women who have successfully (and secretly) dropped pounds and stayed slim.

Do skinny women skip breakfast? Taint half their portions with salt, pepper--or Clorox--to make sure they don't eat it? You bet they do.  You'll get the inside story on the dieting tricks, shortcuts, and closely guarded secrets of women who stay a perfect size 6 . . . forever.  From using depression to lose weight (God makes you miserable for a reason) to the calories you unintentionally consume in cough syrup . . . or by licking a stamp, everything you really need to know about losing weight is right here in the first anti-diet diet book.  So put on a pair of tight jeans (you'll find out why), say no to bagels, sprinkle sweetener and cinnamon on just about anything, and start reading.

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Amusing with a touch of whack.......2007-10-01

I borrowed this book from the library and is planning to purchase it. The book is funny, easy to read and very interesting but due to the tone of the author, it makes some of their advice questionable.

Overall, this book is very different from the past diet books I have read. The advice given are one-of-kind and best of all, everything is structured and organized very well.

I lost weight because I stopped making it such a big deal.......2004-05-08

This book tells it like it is. If you aren't discerning enough to be able to tell that some things are bad for you then you are probably the type that is having trouble in other areas of your life and should seek professional help.

The one thing that this book is, it's FUNNY. I lost about 35 pounds by reading it A LOT. Why? I ate less and I worked out. I did not do anything drastic. It helped me see that I didn't have to "address my psychological food issues" or "keep food diaries" or any of that other distracting drivel. All I had to do was stop shoving a bunch of crap down the old piehole and get off the damn couch. It is funny, it is honest, and I could relate to it. Buy the book to laugh and realize that being fat is not a huge lifelong, crybaby deal. It's something everyone deals with. And just think, in the time you read this review you could have eaten like a million calories.... I stopped you from doing that. Unless, you were eating while you read the review.... in that case you should get the book.

Socially irresponsible regardless of authors' intent.......2004-04-15

Although the spine reads 'Diet / Humor', the publisher's official categorization for this book is 'Women-Health and hygiene'. Regardless of the intended tone of the book, it's apparent that some people take the authors' bizarre advice to heart.

THE SKINNY features comical material interspersed with sincere advice that is, at best, of questionable value. Marx and Sistrom write from an ambiguous angle that seems to say, "This is insane and possibly dangerous, but if it works..."

The essential irony of THE SKINNY is well-evidenced in the Eating Disorders chapter (which, incidentally, is only one paragraph long). To quote: "If . . . your dieting habits are destructive or out of control, the advice in THE SKINNY is not for you." Actually, that's exactly whom this advice seems to be intended for! Reading this book, it's difficult to believe that the authors actually had their readers' best interests in mind.

THE SKINNY could serve as an interesting work for critical discussion, but to apply the bulk of its "wisdom" to one's life and dietary behaviors in actuality would be absurd.

as if "pro-ana" websites aren't bad enough..........2003-11-02

evidently someone thought it would be good to put all the ideas together and publish them. great!

this book isn't funny, or tongue-in-cheek. it's dangerous. i doubt anyone but the eating-disordered have bought this. well, maybe a few people who think that eating disorders are funny and who feel utterly insincere, who think it's a good conversation starter, they might have it too.

but for the most part, this book isn't funny, it's true. it's tips on self-destruction.

how the authors could write this, i'll never know. they have no concern for those who are slowly killing themselves. most eating disordered people wouldn't wish their hell on anyone, so all i can think is that this was intended for those who are already there.

thanks huns for enabling us...

Funny, amusing and entertaining........2002-08-11

This book is good, I laughed, I was amused and entertained. This is satire, permeated with truth. As a forever 'wannabe' skinny and never actually 'wannado', at some point most of the ideas( not all, in truth) offered occurred to me, they are just thougths in the twilight of reality. That's what makes the writing so readable, that is why one can identify with its absurdity. I can't really entertain the idea that someone thinks this is a diet book. It is all about laughing at ourselves, and benevolently forgiving our occasional stupidity by making light of it.

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