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With auction prices of Tiffany lamps soaring, collectors are turning to Tiffany's highly desirable art glass, or Favrile glass. These luminescent vessels seize--and continue to hold--the imagination. Author Paul Doros explores the full range of remarkably diverse and innovative styles and forms that Tiffany Studios produced. Former Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Doros spent twenty-five years studying and researching the subject. His definitive account is accompanied by David Schlegel's masterly photography, which captures the exquisite delicacy of the "Flowerform" vases, the dramatically dripping golden flow of the "Lava" vases, the dazzling iridescence of the "Cypriote" vases, and much more. A must for all lovers of Tiffany, art glass, and the decorative arts.

A great Austrian symbolist, Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century--a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure.

Gustav Klimt's paintings mirror the complex relationship of the artist to society women of turn-of-the-century Vienna. As femme fatale or femme fragile, they were his life companions, lovers, muses, or models.

Each drawing lesson in this book starts with a basic shape, such as a rectangle or oval, and then progresses to a realistic drawing of tanks, aircraft, choppers, armored vehicles, and other military machines with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

Explores the techniques used by artists to puzzle, surprise, and tease those who are viewing their art.

Traces the course of the artist's development through text, illustrations, and 48 full color plates.

Traces Cassatt's development in portraying the daily lives of women through text and 48 full color plates.