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Silhouettes are an ancient art form dating back to cave paintings in the Paleolithc age. In the 18th and 19th centuries-at the height of their popularity-they served as an inexpensive form of portraiture, capturing the essence of the subject with a minimum of detail. This splendid sourcebook, meticulously compiled by Carol Belanger Grafton, reproduces scores of charming silhouettes from a number of rare sources, allowing craftworkers, designers, and commercial artists to incorporate the copyright-free designs into a diversity of projects. Over 803 motifs depict a broad range of subjects: animals engaged in a variety of activities, children playing and reading, couples embracing, the human profile and figure, and much, much more. All appear in striking forms that emphasize the silhouette's power to make a simple, yet bold, graphic statement.
Dover Original. 803 black-and-white illustrations. 128pp. 8 3/8" X 11 1/4", December 1999, Paperbd.
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