Exploring Venice as a Narrative in Chiaroscuro Reviews forDream of Venice in Black and White "An enchanted Venice, in black and white, like a dream. But this is really the authentic Venice, a dream-reality that we must love and defend.” —Salvatore Settis, author, If Venice Dies “This remarkable anthology, thanks to the wintery season, the tones of black and white and the virtual absence of tourists, offers us the romantic melancholy, the poetry of reflections and the beauty of light …
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Dream of Venice Architecture
Winner of an IPPY Silver Award in Architecture Finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Award in Architecture An intimate journey through the remarkable Venetian urban landscape, this book reveals the architectural features that contribute to the incredulity of the beautiful city from the mysterious sotoporteghi to the complexity of Carlo Scarpa's "immaculate detailing". Evocative photographs complement the personal reveries contributed by 36 notable international architects and architectural …
Dream of Venice
The mysterious allure of the ancient floating city of Venice is captured in this book of evocative photography and beguiling words of a diverse group of contemporary Venetophiles. The luminous photographs, in both color and black and white, complement the intimate thoughts, memories, poems, and stories of notable contributors from the worlds of art, literature, design, cuisine, music, and filmmaking. Readers will want to listen to the silence of the canals and get lost in the ethereal mist of …
The Art of Mosaic Design: A Collection of Contemporary Artists
The Art of Mosaic Design Introduction: Mosaic design is a fascinating art based on paradoxes that must be embraced. Among these are the pieces, multiple objects of simplicity fused into a singular, complex wholeness; the irregularity that springs from deliberation;and more often than not, the creation that is wrought from destruction.Such paradoxes are put into context by the mosaicist when the principles of other visual arts are applied. By shaping tesserae like a sculptor, choosing colors …
Mosaic Art and Style: Designs for Living Environments
The journey that the author undertook for this publication actually started with her first book, The Art of Mosaic Design co-authored with Leslie Plummer Clagett. In the early 1990's JoAnn found herself looking for a book on modern-day mosaics and could not find anything. "I desperately wanted to read a book about contemporary mosaic art and there was nothing available." After combing through bookstores, she received first hand feedback that these stores did not have many present-day mosaic …