Author: Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Vols. 1,3,5-8,10-14,17-21,74-28,32,34-35,38,42-43,1892-1956 are its Transactions.
Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Vols. 1,3,5-8,10-14,17-21,74-28,32,34-35,38,42-43,1892-1956 are its Transactions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Vols. 1,3,5-8,10-14,17-21,74-28,32,34-35,38,42-43,1892-1956 are its Transactions.
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America
Author: Jennifer Van Horn
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469629577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469629577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
Picturing Imperial Power
Author: Beth Fowkes Tobin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323389
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An interdisciplinary study of visual representations of British colonial power in the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323389
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An interdisciplinary study of visual representations of British colonial power in the eighteenth century.
John Townsend
Author: Morrison H. Heckscher
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391450
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391450
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Art & Industry in Early America
Author: Patricia E. Kane
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217846
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illustrations of beautifully constructed and carved objects—including chairs, high chests, bureau tables, and clocks—that demonstrate the superb workmanship and artistic skill of the state’s furniture makers.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217846
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illustrations of beautifully constructed and carved objects—including chairs, high chests, bureau tables, and clocks—that demonstrate the superb workmanship and artistic skill of the state’s furniture makers.
Tools: Working Wood in Eighteenth-century America
Author: James M. Gaynor
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879350987
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879350987
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Eighteenth-Century Furniture
Author: Clive Edwards
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045257
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The eighteenth century has been seen as a Golden Age of design and craftsmanship. This book goes well beyond these ideas and investigates the various developments in the infrastructure of the eighteenth-century furniture world.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045257
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The eighteenth century has been seen as a Golden Age of design and craftsmanship. This book goes well beyond these ideas and investigates the various developments in the infrastructure of the eighteenth-century furniture world.
Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Wees, Beth Carver
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394913
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394913
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Nothing provided
Everyday Life in Early America
Author: David F. Hawke
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060912510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060912510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
The Cabinet and Chair-maker's Real Friend and Companion, Or the Whole System of Chair-making Made Plain and Easy
Author: Robert Manwaring
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description