Looking at Art Nouveau from an international perspective, this text examines its origins and meaning within an art-historical, literary and social context. It covers all the major designers of the period and the environment in which they worked, describing the variation in forms and ideas expressed in key schools of thought. An important section ...
Studio Craft, in effect, started with the Arts and Crafts Movement, and developed throughout the 20th century. This work looks at studio arts from woodworking, ceramics and glass to jewellery, metalworking and textiles, and discusses the factors that have shaped their development. These range from philosophical considerations such as ethnicity, ...
Over the last three centuries the world has been modernized. From the first stirrings of industrialism to the definitive arrival of globalization, artists, craftspeople and designers have engaged with modernization in order to make sense of the transformations it continually imposes. They have been, by turns, brutally critical and profoundly ...
This stunning book will be on the wish-list of any woodworker and is must-have for any wood-artist's library. As the first book to catalogue the preeminent collection of American studio furniture owned by the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, "Studio Furniture" is a beautifully photographed chronicle of one of the most important movements in modern ...
This work contributes to the debate on adverse treatment of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. The text serves as a practical and theoretical resource for the training of teachers and other professionals. Drawing on case studies from his own experience, the author illustrates the relevant concepts of Jungian, psychoanalytic and ...
This attractive, small-format book highlights key elements of the richly ornamental style that took Europe and America by storm at the turn of the last century and became a major influence on all fine and decorative art forms. The book features short thematic sections and a rich selection of fabulous artworks in every medium, some well known and ...
This is the first full-scale survey of the art and life of Terry Setch (b.1936), a British painter recognised internationally as one of the most consistently radical artists of his generation. It provides a critical structure and historical perspective with which to explore Setch's artistic production over fifty years. Setch first came to ...
Ten new and important essays on design cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA; they range in subject matter from world fairs and everyday domestic objects to American West coast architecture and French and Italian furniture. With essays by Tim Benton, Gillian Naylor, Penny Sparke, Wendy Kaplan, ...
This guide to the history of Western art combines a comprehensive essay, outlining the development of the discipline and its major movements, with more than 300 detailed entries, organized alphabetically from Abstract Expressionism to Zeitgeist, on the movements, terminology, writers, bibliography and philosophy significant to the development of ...
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of ...
This attractive book highlights the key elements of Art Nouveau, a ground-breaking style which took Europe and America by storm by the turn of the last century.
This text considers the development of oil flows in the Mediterranean area. This involves a full consideration of major suppliers and potential producers, including Iraq and the Caspian. In the downstream phase of the industry the book considers the evolution of the refining industry, and the stresses caused by environmental concerns and poor ...
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of ...
Originally created to accompany the 2007 exhibition "Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, "Essential Modernism" brings into focus the foundation and meaning of Modernism as the defining movement of the twentieth century. Surveying objects and images from many media and industries, the book ...
This book is part of a series which sets out to provide a forum for the work that is developing internationally in the field of design and material culture. Placing everyday, mass-produced objects and decorative arts in their cultural, artistic and historical context, the series presents new sources and approaches to this subject in a concise form ...
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