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Languages : de
Pages : 0
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Masterpieces of 19th-Century Decorative Art
Author: 1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art
Author: Victoria CharlesPublisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 178310953X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
From ancient Sumerian pottery to Tiffany stained glass, decorative art has been a fundamental part of the human experience for generations. While fine art is confined to galleries and museums, decorative art is the art of the every day, combining beauty with functionality in objects ranging from the prosaic to the fantastical. In this work, Albert Jacquemart celebrates the beauty and artistic potential behind even the most quotidian object. Readers will walk away from this text with a newfound appreciation for the subtle artistry of the manufactured world.
Nineteenth-century Decoration
Author: Charlotte GerePublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The author takes a detailed look at the design and decoration of domestic interiors in Europe and America during a period that has never before been considered in its own right. The homes protrayed include those of aristocrates and artists, members of fashionable society and the bourgeoisie. Their salons, studios, bedrooms, libraries, and bathroom - from architectural framework to choice and arrangement of furniture, to the minutiae of personal taste - provide fascinating insights into the domestic life and fashion of the time.
The Grammar of Ornament
Author: Owen JonesPublisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517624869
Category : Decoración
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Drawing on all his first-hand experience as well as his clearly-articulated theories and teaching practice, Jones set to work on a vast, near-encyclopedic reference of ornamental style, form and color that would encompass all his knowledge and ideas on decorative art, and act as a source-book and inspiration to others. The result was The Grammar of Ornament, first published in 1856. It has been described as "monumental" and a "lavish cornucopia of decorated surfaces". Certainly as a comprehensive gathering together of ornamental splendour there had never been, nor probably has been since. Here are Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian and Greek styles, Roman, Byzantine, Arabian, Turkish, Indian, Chinese, Celtic, Medieval, Renaissance. Full-page plates in superb color panels, borders, corners, columns, capitals and illuminated manuscripts."--BOOK JACKET.
Important 20th Century Decorative Arts
Author: Christie's19 Century America
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870990047
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Vital Art Nouveau 1900
Author: Jiří FronekPublisher:
ISBN: 9788074670541
Category : Art nouveau
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vital Art Nouveau 1900 presents a selection of the most outstanding works of Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, all of which are on permanent display at the Prague Municipal House. This volume establishes the Art Nouveau arts and crafts as part of the forward-looking trends and emancipation efforts that evolved in the late nineteenth century; as a reformist art movement, Art Nouveau strove to achieve a unity between art and life, aspiring to overcome the Romantic duality of beauty versus reality, or "the truth of life." These rebellious artists not only forced a break with the rigidity of existing art practices, but also regenerated forms of artistic expression that many considered to be stagnant. Infused with the popular aesthetic theories of the times, such as Vitalism and Spiritism, the Art Nouveau aesthetic answered and responded to the new zest for life that swept nineteenth-century society as a whole. Masterpieces of decorative art exhibited at the famous Paris World's Fair of 1900 are reproduced in this volume in color, alongside a variety of works ranging from paintings, poster art, magazines and ceramic works to jewelry, glassware and furniture.
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts
Author: Charissa Bremer-DavidPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892364556
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
The Grammar of Ornament
Author: Owen JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Decorative Art of Victoria's Era
Author: Frances LichtenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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