Art Nouveau Motifs CD-ROM and Book

by Dover Publications

Languid ladies, enchanting florals, and other designs add panache to any print project. All rendered in the sensuous, curvilinear style of Art Nouveau, these 421 black-and-white motifs can also be adapted for use as borders or corner pieces for a virtually unlimited number of art and craft uses.

Genres: Art

48 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 2002

About the author

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche. It publishes primarily reissues, books no longer published by their original publishers. These are often, but not always, books in the public domain. The original published editions may be scarce or historically significant. Dover republishes these books making them available at a significantly reduced cost.

Dover is well known for its reprints of classic works of literature, classical sheet music and of public-domain images from the 18th and 19th centuries. Dover also publishes an extensive collection of mathematical, scientific and engineering texts. It often targets its reprints at a niche market such as wood working.

Most Dover reprints are facsimiles by photo process of the originals, retaining the original pagination and typeset, sometimes with a new introduction. Dover will usually add new and more colorful cover art to its paper-bound editions. They retitle some books to make them more in line with modern usage and categorization. For example, the book Woodward's National Architect was retitled A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide.

Reviews

[Martin Hannon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bought as a means of saving some time, I found this somewhat disappointing, the art is (as I should have predicted) of the same quality as clip-art. Fine if you get excited about the native templates and effects that come standard with Photoshop or even MS Word, but, if you have the means, you'd get much better returns actually drawing from scratch.