This luxuriously illustrated volume contains a rich and representative selection of images, drawn from throughout Erte's long and extraordinarily productive career. A detailed introduction to the artist's life and work is complemented by over 100 exquisite full-colour plates, which pay tribute to a "miraculous magician". Erte is a book to treasure.
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This Luxuriously illustrated hard cover book contains a rich representative selection of images, drawn throughout Erte's long and extraordinarily productive career. A detailed introduction to the artist's life and work is complemented by over 100 exquisite full colour plates, which pay tribute to a "miraculous magician". Erte is a book to treasure.
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Early in a career that began in 1912 when he was 19 years old, Romain de Tirtoff, the Russian - born artist who called himself Erte after the French pronunciation of his initials, was regarded as a 'miraculous magician,' whose spectacular fashions transformed the ordinary into the outstanding, whose period costumes made the present vanish mystically into the past, and whose decors converted bare stages into sparkling wonderlands of fun and fancy. When his career ended with his death in 1990, Erte was considered as 'one of the twentieth-century's single most important influences on fashion,' 'a mirror of fashion for 75 years,' and the unchallenged 'prince of the music hall,' who had been accorded the most significant international honors in the field of design and whose work was represented in major museums and private collections throughout the world.
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tribute to a "miraculous magician", 'Erte' is a book to treasure.,
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Inspirational full colour reproductions of Erte's finest costume designs.
Although perhaps best remembered for his fabulous and fantastical costumes, in fact Erte (or, to give him his rightful name, Romain de Tirtoff) created so much more, from fashion design with Poiret, costume & set design for hundreds of stage shows, as well as Hollywood movies such as the 1926 Ben Hur. This luxuriously illustrated volume contains a rich and representative slection of images, drawn from throughout Erte's long and extraordinarily productive career. A detail introduction to the artist's life and work is complemented by over 100 exquisite fullcolour plates, which pay tribute to a "miraculous magician". 'Erte' is a book to treasure.
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This review is from: Erte (Hardcover)
I really love this book! The are work is clear and colors are brilliant. Great text too;along with all the illustrations there is a very nice biographical section which is most informative. This is a lovely collection of the work of a creative, imaginative genius!
And the price is Amazon at its best!
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