Author: Jean Joseph Marquet de VasselotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Chinese Ceramics
Author: Jean Joseph Marquet de VasselotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Orientalist Aesthetics
Author: Roger BenjaminPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520924401
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a lush body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists never before discussed in English. The painter-critic Eugène Fromentin tackled the unfamiliar atmospheric conditions of the desert, Etienne Dinet sought a more truthful mode of ethnographic painting by converting to Islam, and Mohammed Racim melded the Persian miniature with Western perspective. Benjamin considers armchair Orientalists concocting dreams from studio bric-à-brac, naturalists who spent years living in the oases of the Sahara, and Fauve and Cubist travelers who transposed the discoveries of the Parisian Salons to create decors of indigenous figures and tropical plants. The network that linked these artists with writers and museum curators was influenced by a complex web of tourism, rapid travel across the Mediterranean, and the march of modernity into a colonized culture. Orientalist Aesthetics shows how colonial policy affected aesthetics, how Europeans visualized cultural difference, and how indigenous artists in turn manipulated Western visual languages.
The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking
Author: Kimberley AdamsPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781579905729
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A guide to the popular craft offers beadmakers instructions for how to torch, wind, and cool beads; directions for creating various designs, including barrels, cones, and discs; and strategies for achieving a variety of colors and patterns.
Giphantia
Author: Charles-François Tiphaigne de La RochePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368900536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
New Paths
Author: Cyril William BeaumontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Kaj Franck
Author: Kaj FranckPublisher:
ISBN: 9789529878758
Category : 1900-2000
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Jewels of Lalique
Author: René LaliquePublisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Showcases the work of the Art Nouveau glass craftsman and jewelry designer.
Michael Glancy
Author: Barry FriedmanPublisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN: 9783897903449
Category : Glass art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Michael Glancy is widely recognised as a prominent innovator in the field of studio glass. After studying with the critically acclaimed glass artist Dale Chihuly, he found his own artistic personality by combining different techniques: Glancy works with
American Glass
Author: George Skinner McKearinPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780517001110
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Reference to types of glass and the history of numerous glass houses.
Author: