About this title: This is a study which provides a definition of the Biedermeier style which goes beyond the decorative arts to include architecture, sculpture and painting. In the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, a confident middle class created its own style that reflected a time of political conservatism and retrenchment. Architects built public museums as monuments to the past, and sculptors created statues of members of society belonging neither to the aristocracy nor the military. Painting was characterized by a sober objectivity, while the decorative arts displayed an aversion to innovation, an avoidance of ...
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Description: Very Good. 3791316206 Publication Date: 1989. Folio-over 12" tall. Minor shelfwear to edges, but clean pages and sound binding. Many color plates, 271 pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Prestel Pub, Lakewood, New Jersey, U.S. A
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9783791316208ISBN:3791316206
Description: Quarto sized in color illustrated softcovers; 272 pps. with index of names, chronology. Illustrated with full color plates and black and white photographs. Fine. read more
Description: Very good. Now in paperback: the comprehensive pictorial study of a style highly prized by collectors in Europe and America. This copiously illustrated volume examines, in the wake of the NapoleonicWars, the output of Biedermeier artists craftsfolk in unpar. read more
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