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Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Decorative Arts of Sumba written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892362219
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Decorative Arts written by Charissa Bremer-David and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1993-09-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521470684
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Western Decorative Arts: Volume 1 written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty Medieval, Renaissance, and later historic objects in a wide variety of media, encompassing metalwork, stained glass, enamels, ceramics, and jewels. Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as 'Saint-Porchaire', and, the centerpiece of the collection, the Suger chalice, an ancient sardonyx cup to which the Abbot Suger added a bejewelled golden setting in the twelfth century. Like other volumes in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art Collections,Western Decorative Arts includes a thoroughly researched entry for each object, together with an artist biography, up-to-date bibliography, and a technical analysis.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870990047
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book 19 Century America written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1970 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates and discusses 300 prime objects displayed in the 1970 exhibition of American decorative arts displayed during the Centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1970. Presented as a series of lavish room settings and galleries, the exhibit included pieces in the 19th century’s principal styles of furniture and decorative arts--Federal, Empire, Gothic, rococo, Renaissance, art nouveau, and reform. Objects featured in this book include various pieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and metalwork from the Museum’s American wing.
Author : Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 : 1915837154
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic artists channelled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly term the decorative arts or even the minor arts. In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material from the iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics and metalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. They are arranged under three headings. The first comprises general surveys of the field covering the content of these arts and confronting the challenges they present, such as the Islamic approach to three-dimensional sculpture. The second deals with questions of iconography and meaning, while the third comprises a series of studies devoted to specific media such as ivory, woodwork and numismatics. This volume therefore offers not only a general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt to explore their meaning; and finally, an in-depth focus on individual objects representing specific genres and media.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496831438
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Alabama Quilts written by Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–1950 is a look at the quilts of the state from before Alabama was part of the Mississippi Territory through the Second World War—a period of 268 years. The quilts are examined for their cultural context—that is, within the community and time in which they were made, the lives of the makers, and the events for which they were made. Starting as far back as 1682, with a fragment that research indicates could possibly be the oldest quilt in America, the volume covers quilting in Alabama up through 1950. There are seven sections in the book to represent each time period of quilting in Alabama, and each section discusses the particular factors that influenced the appearance of the quilts, such as migration and population patterns, socioeconomic conditions, political climate, lifestyle paradigms, and historic events. Interwoven in this narrative are the stories of individuals associated with certain quilts, as recorded on quilt documentation forms. The book also includes over 265 beautiful photographs of the quilts and their intricate details. To make this book possible, authors Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff and Carole Ann King worked with libraries, historic homes, museums, and quilt guilds around the state of Alabama, spending days on formal quilt documentation, while also holding lectures across the state and informal “quilt sharings.” The efforts of the authors involved so many community people—from historians, preservationists, librarians, textile historians, local historians, museum curators, and genealogists to quilt guild members, quilt shop owners, and quilt owners—making Alabama Quilts not only a celebration of the quilting culture within the state but also the many enthusiasts who have played a role in creating and sustaining this important art.
Author : Gerald W. R. Ward
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book American Decorative Arts and Sculpture written by Gerald W. R. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Decorative Art and Modern Interiors written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. S. Dimand
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Mohammedan Decorative Arts written by M. S. Dimand and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1930-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of Mohammedan decorative arts to appear in English, this publication from 1930 highlights The Metropolitan Museum of Art's strong Islamic art collection with over 170 works discussed. The diverse selection objects spans over twelve centuries and includes richly illuminated manuscripts, colorful glazed pottery, and intricate woven carpets, among others. Dimand contextualizes Mohammedan decorative arts within the history of Islam and its spread across the world, from the Middle East to Egypt and India.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394506
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Robert Lehman Collection, Volume XV: European and Asian Decorative Arts written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume catalogues more than 400 decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the 20th century.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arts & Decoration written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 838 pages
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Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shearjashub Spooner
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Total Pages : 626 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical History of the Fine Arts written by Shearjashub Spooner and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliot A. Knight
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320105
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Alabama Creates written by Elliot A. Knight and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts, pottery, visionary paintings, sculpture, photography, folk art, and abstract art have all contributed to diverse visions of Alabama’s culture and environment. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous. Published to coincide with the state’s bicentennial, Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists features ninety-four of Alabama’s most accomplished, noteworthy, and influential practitioners of the fine arts from 1819 to the present. The book highlights a broad spectrum of artists who worked in the state, from its early days to its current and contemporary scene, exhibiting the full scope and breadth of Alabama art. This retrospective volume features biographical sketches and representative examples of each artist’s most masterful works. Alabamians like Gay Burke, William Christenberry, Roger Brown, Thornton Dial, Frank Fleming, the Gee’s Bend Quilters, Lonnie Holley, Dale Kennington, Charlie Lucas, Kerry James Marshall, David Parrish, and Bill Traylor are compared and considered with other nationally significant artists. Alabama Creates is divided into four historical periods, each spanning roughly fifty years and introduced by editor Elliot A. Knight. Knight contextualizes each era with information about the development of Alabama art museums and institutions and the evolution of college and university art departments. The book also contains an overview of the state’s artistic heritage by Gail C. Andrews, director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Alabama Creates conveys in a sweeping and captivating way the depth of talent, the range of creativity, and the lasting contributions these artists have made to Alabama’s extraordinarily rich visual and artistic heritage.
