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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Burlington Magazine
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
Author: Anna M. Stoddart
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Portrait of a Woman in Silk
Author: Zara Anishanslin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.
Victorian Glass
Author: Geoffrey Wills
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Connoisseur
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Examples of Chinese Ornament
Author: Owen Jones
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Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Added title page in colors, with ornamental border.
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Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Added title page in colors, with ornamental border.
Art and Instinct
Author: Samuel Alexander
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Shock of the Old
Author: Michael Whiteway
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
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Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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"Published in conjunction with Christopher Dresser's first comprehensive museum retrospective, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, then traveling to the Victoria and Albert Museum, this extensively illustrated survey affirms his achievement as the first professional industrial designer - in effect, the inventor of the modern-day career of product designer. Dresser (1837-1904) trained both as a designer and a botanist, deriving his design vocabulary initially from observations of nature. As the first European designer to visit Japan in an official capacity, he made comprehensive study of Japanese art during his four-month visit. The experience confirmed his belief in the supremacy of form over ornament and resulted in designs that were truly radical in relation to contemporary Victorian taste. Dresser was also a pioneer in his vision of industry as a means to spread the tenets of good design, working with over fifty manufacturers in a wide variety of media to produce an astonishing range of reasonably priced, widely available consumer goods." "Seven essays from leading specialists in the field explore the impact of Christopher Dresser's theories and work in the context of his contemporaries such as Pugin, Owen Jones, and Godwin. His achievement is seen in relation to the late industrial revolution and the development of modern design. The 300 illustrations illuminate the vast scope of his output, from Gothic-Revival cast-iron Coalbrookdale hall stands and the stark, geometric forms of James Dixon & Sons silver plate to the experimental and highly innovative shapes and glazes of Linthorpe ceramics. The catalogue also features previously unattributed designs for textiles, wallpaper and glass, and expands the sum of Dresser scholarship into new and illuminating areas."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
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Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Published in conjunction with Christopher Dresser's first comprehensive museum retrospective, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, then traveling to the Victoria and Albert Museum, this extensively illustrated survey affirms his achievement as the first professional industrial designer - in effect, the inventor of the modern-day career of product designer. Dresser (1837-1904) trained both as a designer and a botanist, deriving his design vocabulary initially from observations of nature. As the first European designer to visit Japan in an official capacity, he made comprehensive study of Japanese art during his four-month visit. The experience confirmed his belief in the supremacy of form over ornament and resulted in designs that were truly radical in relation to contemporary Victorian taste. Dresser was also a pioneer in his vision of industry as a means to spread the tenets of good design, working with over fifty manufacturers in a wide variety of media to produce an astonishing range of reasonably priced, widely available consumer goods." "Seven essays from leading specialists in the field explore the impact of Christopher Dresser's theories and work in the context of his contemporaries such as Pugin, Owen Jones, and Godwin. His achievement is seen in relation to the late industrial revolution and the development of modern design. The 300 illustrations illuminate the vast scope of his output, from Gothic-Revival cast-iron Coalbrookdale hall stands and the stark, geometric forms of James Dixon & Sons silver plate to the experimental and highly innovative shapes and glazes of Linthorpe ceramics. The catalogue also features previously unattributed designs for textiles, wallpaper and glass, and expands the sum of Dresser scholarship into new and illuminating areas."--BOOK JACKET.
British Glass, 1800-1914
Author: Charles R. Hajdamach
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9781851491414
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Comprehensive survey of the greatest period in the history of British glass
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9781851491414
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Comprehensive survey of the greatest period in the history of British glass
The English as Collectors
Author: Frank Herrmann
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781585740000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For those interested in the history of art collecting, this book is a unique source of information. There is a growing awareness not only of the importance of collecting as a factor in the history of art, but also how vital the details of provenance are on items traded in the art market. The author has gone to the most revealing sources to produce, in effect, a history of collecting in England and a study of the gradual emergence of the museum as a national institution. The book also contains a most useful and detailed bibliography of collecting history.
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781585740000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For those interested in the history of art collecting, this book is a unique source of information. There is a growing awareness not only of the importance of collecting as a factor in the history of art, but also how vital the details of provenance are on items traded in the art market. The author has gone to the most revealing sources to produce, in effect, a history of collecting in England and a study of the gradual emergence of the museum as a national institution. The book also contains a most useful and detailed bibliography of collecting history.