Author: Frances Lichten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Frances Lichten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Michael Snodin
Publisher: V&A's Design & the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900 S.
ISBN: 9781851774227
Category : Decorative Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Now available in trade paperback for the first time, the V&A's acclaimed Design and the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900 has been published in three separate volumes. Victorian Britain 1837-1901 tells the story of design and the decorative arts in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. With an empire that embraced a fifth of the earth's land surface and a quarter of its people, Britain was the workshop of the world. London was rivalled only by Paris as a focus for international interest in design and the decorative arts and British products could be found across the globe. Victorian self-confidence seemed boundless, but optimism about the human capacity to transform the material world was matched by a spiritual disquiet that found powerful expression in design and the decorative arts. Victorians despaired at the endless tide of new things that surged forth from factory and workshop, they agonized about the way those things looked and they were disturbed by the degraded conditions endured by the workers who made them. Yet in their efforts to confront these problems, they produced some the masterpieces of Victorian design. Lavishly illustrated and unmatched in its coverage, this book explores design and the decorative arts from a number of points of view. It assesses their place in the wider history of Victorian Britain. It examines style, the question of how things looked. It asks who led taste; who decided what was to be considered beautiful, fashionable and desirable. It looks at how fashionable things - from houses to clothing - were used. It asks what was new, examining new products and innovations in the ways they were made. Together, the chapters provide an indispensable resource for the study of design and the decorative arts in Victorian Britain.

Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Travels in South Kensington is a memoir and travelogue by Moncure Daniel Conway. Conway was an American abolitionist minister and author who spent the larger part of his life in England and France. Here he examines the district of Kensington in London with a view to detailing its decorative art and architecture.

Author: Martin Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781885444479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Drawn from Birmingham Museums Trust's incomparable collection of Victorian art and design, this exhibition will explore how three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers, such as Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, revolutionized the visual arts in Britain, engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them.

Author: G. A. and M. A. Audsley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155455
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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The last and one of the most important of the great chromolithographic collections of the Victorian era, this magnificent volume first appeared in 1892. Spans a wide spectrum of ornamental styles: Greek moldings and pilaster designs; medieval roof ornamentation, "masonry" patterns; Renaissance coffer and panel ornamentation; Japanese fret bands; and more.

Author: Michael Snodin
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851773381
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Published to celebrate the reopening of the newly refurbished British Galleries in the Victoria and Albert Museum. This work tells the story of design and decorative art in Britain from the time of Henry VIII to the reign of Queen Victoria.

Author: Michael Snodin
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851774203
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Tells the story of the design and the decorative arts in Britain from the end of the Middle Ages through the reigns of Henry VIII and the great Elizabethan era to the beginning of the 18th century.

Author: David Crowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715315156
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This is an analysis of the work of all the major designers, architects Thomas Cubitt and George Gilbert Scott, harbinger of Modernism Christopher Dresser, the 'anti-Victorian' William Morris - and examination of the anonymous artifacts, from dolls' houses to tableaux morts, which decorated the victorian home. This book also offers an explanation of the complex interrelationship of different styles throughout the period: neo-Classicism, Renaissance Revival, French Rococo, Queen Anne and High Victorian Gothic. Also featured is a discussion of the influential role of the Royal family, as arbiters of taste and objects of veneration. Throughout, the generous format allows over 200 beautiful colour photographs and illustrations to be shown to their full potential. Alongside the art and architecture of the period are shown more unusual artifacts of the time. Overall this is an essential volume for anyone with an interest in the style and attitudes of the Victorian era.

Author: Christopher Dresser
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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"Principles of Decorative Design" by Christopher Dresser. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.