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Author : Graham Child
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book World Mirrors, 1650-1900 written by Graham Child and published by Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Weaver
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773525276
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 written by John C. Weaver and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the greatest reallocation of resources in the history of the world and an analysis of its effects on indigenous peoples, the growth of property rights, and the evolution of ideas that make up the foundation of the modern world.
Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195189485
Total Pages : 1277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise definitions on art forms and style. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms.
Author : Shayne Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113641536X
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Conservation of Furniture written by Shayne Rivers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems. The practical knowledge and experience of a team of conservators active in the field are bought together with theoretical and reference material from diverse sources and unified within a systematic framework. Specialist conservators from related disciplines cover diverse materials often incorporated into furniture.
Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787577
Total Pages : 3392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Interior Design written by Joanna Banham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 3392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.
Author : Helene Furján
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136786732
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Glorious Visions written by Helene Furján and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane’s house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today’s visitor is confronted by a dense, complex series of spaces, a strange accumulation of rooms, objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light, shadow, color, fiction and narrative, vistas, spatial complexity, the fragment, and the mirror to produce a spectacular space.
Author : Hope B. Werness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Symbolism of Mirrors in Art from Ancient Times to the Present written by Hope B. Werness and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains illustrations of mirrors dating from a mirror made in the second millennium before the common era to a postmodern mirror environment created in the late 1980s. Interdisciplinary sources including art history, mythology. An additional feature is the linking of mirrors with prose and poetry quotations from widely ranging sources (Zen koans to Woody Allen). With Illustrations.
Author : Paul Schuurman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004536671
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Concepts of War, 1650-1900 written by Paul Schuurman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the often explosive relation between war and ideas between 1650 and 1900, how the ideas of philosophers and generals have influenced war, and how war in its turn has influenced ideas.
Author : Matthew M. Reeve
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271086599
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole written by Matthew M. Reeve and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies.
Author : Lisa Beaven
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580442722
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque written by Lisa Beaven and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the seventeenth century and the neo-baroque in our contemporary world. The volume illuminates how, rather than providing rationally ordered visual realms, both the baroque and the neo-baroque construct complex performative spaces whose spectacle seeks to embrace, immerse, and seduce the senses and solicit the emotions of the beholder.
Author : Diana Silberman-Keller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mirrors Triptych Technology written by Diana Silberman-Keller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirror's figural imaginations have spread widely along the length of human history. A mirror's triptych technology, composed of three mirrored figures, each of which has individually been suggested by different mirror figures in the past, appears as an innovative mirror figure in Magritte's' La Reproduction Interdite: The Portrait of Edward James. The description, explicative and implicative analysis of this finding has been the central preoccupation of this work. The mirror's triptych technology includes chiasmus, the performance of criss-cross movements between opposing sides in a variety of directions; it adds a mirror that positions, en abyme, parts or entire reflections vis- -vis each other; moreover, it incorporates a mirror that changes the directions of causality, time and directionality. Three mirrors, bearing the singularity of each in their unique way of creating plurality, generate infinite and uncountable pluralities as they generate a "singular" mirror. With the mirror's triptych technology, the mirror of mimesis transforms its dance while endlessly playing, like interminable waves of water, with profundity; it interchanges directions, times and senses. Instead of repeating the verosimilarity of an imagined copy of reality, the mirror of mimesis acquires virtuality. Mise en abyme, metalepsis and chiasmus confound performance by adding a means for considering the undecidable. Mirror triptych technology then questions and destabilizes the traditional Mirror function and ads the possibility of envisaging it as a technology that instead of mimesis implies and promotes virtuality. Diana Silberman Keller research interests are on ideologies and education, post-structural critique, informal education, cultural studies, philosophy of the media and game studies. She has published numerous articles and books on informal pedagogy, ideology and education and textual and semiotic analysis of educational texts. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1992) and the European Graduates School (2007) have granted her Ph.D. titles. On 2008 she has been nominated associate professor at Beit Berl College, Israel by the Council of higher Education in this country and currently develops academic programs and research on New Media, Games Studies and Informal Education.
Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004387838
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Beyond Chinoiserie written by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth century. Beyond Chinoiserie addresses the complexity of this exchange. While the playful Western “vision of Cathay” formed in the previous century continued to thrive, a more realistic vision of China was increasingly formed through travel accounts, paintings, watercolors, prints, book illustrations, and photographs. Simultaneously, the new discipline of sinology led to a deepening of the understanding of Chinese cultural history. Leading and emerging scholars in the fields of art history, literary studies and material culture, have authored the ten essays in this book, which deal with artistic relations between China and the West at a time when Western powers’ attempts to extend a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile political interactions.
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Works of Art and Furniture written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804270
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: Labhardt to Zwischengoldglas; Index written by Gordon Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information drawn from Grove Art Online and new material written by G. Campbell. Cf. Preface.
Author : Elisa Ambrosio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311071177X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book China and the West written by Elisa Ambrosio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the hitherto little-studied medium of Chinese reverse glass painting. The first major survey of this form of East Asian art, the volume traces its long history, its local and global diffusion, and its artistic and technical characteristics. Manufactured for export to Europe and for local consumption within China, the fragile artworks studied in this volume constitute a paramount part of Chinese visual culture and attest to the intensive cultural and artistic exchange between China and the West.
