Decorative arts Books
D Giles Ltd Making it Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie
Book Synopsis'Making it Modern' features approximately 100 folk art objects acquired by the avant-garde sculptor Elie Nadelman and his wife, Viola, between 1919 and 1934, when the couple were forced to find a buyer for their vast collection of 70,000 pieces. Most were bought by the New-York Historical Society in 1937. This substantial volume presents all of the objects in full-colour plates, covering a huge range of geographic areas and media, including Pennsylvania German folk art, imposing large-scale wooden sculptures and oil portrait paintings, 19th-century metal and wooden toys, drawings and watercolours and household tools and small objects. Archival photographs reveal the way in which the Nadelmans exhibited their most treasured works in their own purpose-built Museum of Folk and Peasant Arts in Riverdale, NY in the 1920s and 1930s. 'Making it Modern' explores several key themes, notably the definition of folk art, both in the early 20th century and as it is generally accepted today, its influence on modernism and Nadelman's own sculpture, and the relationship between American and European folk art. This is a major contribution to the study and understanding of folk art, and to Nadelman's own appealing and engaging sculpture. AUTHOR: Margaret K. Hofer is curator of decorative arts, New-York Historical Society Roberta J.M. Olson is curator of drawings, New-York Historical Society SELLING POINTS: . A major contribution to the study and understanding of folk art, and to Nadelman's own appealing and engaging sculpture. . Explores the definition of folk art, its influence on modernism and the relationship between American and European folk art. 250 colour and 50 b/w illustrations
£32.00
D Giles Ltd Craft for a Modern World: The Renwick Gallery
Book Synopsis"Craft for a Modern World" highlights nearly 200 of the extraordinary craft objects held at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Nora Atkinson looks at the whole notion of what defines craft, and how attitudes towards it are continually changing, from the pioneering years of the studio craft movement through to new definitions and expressions of craft today.This fully illustrated new volume features works by artists including Matthias Pilessnig, George Nakashima, Albert Paley, Ron Fleming, Zack Peabody, Billie Ruth Sudduth, Todd Hope, Michael James, Toots Zynsky, Michael Sherrill, Patti Warashina, Merry Renk, Kim Schmahmann.
£31.96
Royal Collection Trust Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace
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£21.21
D Giles Ltd Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018
Book SynopsisDisrupting Craft presents the work of Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth, and Stephanie Styjuco, four artists who take innovative approaches to their selected mediums. They share a fascination with themes of identity, and the practise of their art as a means of engaging socially with communities in collective activity. The featured artists work in a remarkable variety of media including earthenware pottery, textiles and weaving, sculptural materials and woven plastic fabrics, and wood, metal and mixed media. Their visual sensibilities range from traditional African beaded culture, to digital media, the products of modern-day capitalist economies in the developing world, to post-industrial rust-belt of the American Midwest. Each is actively engaged in an artistic dialogue within their local and wider community, presenting mementos of bygone cultural eras and making sense of it for the present moment. Disrupting Craft is the second publication, and exhibition, devoted to the work of contemporary American craft practitioners and artists since the Renwick Gallery re-opened in fall 2015, following a major restoration and renovation.Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Abraham Thomas; Tanya Aguiñiga: Crafting Community, Designing Change by Annie Carlano; Sharif Bey: Blurred Borderlines by Abraham Thomas; Dustin Farnsworth: A Strange Inheritance by Abraham Thomas; Stephanie Syjuco: Pattern Recognition by Sarah Archer; Notes; Artists’ Biographies by Emily Peikin; Exhibition Checklist; Selected Bibliography; Image Credits
£21.21
Independently Published Visual Merchandising
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£40.09
De Gruyter Jugendstil in Berlin: Künstler - Räume - Objekte
Book Synopsis The first comprehensive account of Art Nouveau in Berlin introduces seven artists who shaped Art Nouveau here: Bruno Möhring, Alfred Grenander, Otto Eckmann, Henry van de Velde, August Endell, Theodor Schmuz-Baudiß and Peter Behrens. The second part unfolds a panorama of Art Nouveau works in both public and private spaces, which presented themselves to contemporaries but have largely disappeared today: public and private buildings, transportation buildings, design and furnishings of offices, stores and private homes. Art stores and department stores presented works and goods in Art Nouveau in a great variety and quality. It can be seen that Berlin was a center of Art Nouveau to a far greater extent than previously assumed.
£40.50
De Gruyter Kunstkammer: Weltsicht und Wissen um 1600
Book SynopsisDie Dresdner Kunstkammer im Residenzschloss bietet eine faszinierende Vielfalt von Sammlungsobjekten der Spätrenaissance und des Frühbarock. Dem Gründer der Kunstkammer, Kurfürst August (1526–1586), ist der einzigartige Bestand an schlichten und kunstvoll verzierten Handwerkszeugen zu verdanken. Dabei reicht die Bandbreite von Gartengeräten über Goldschmiede-, Tischler- und eisenbearbeitende Werkzeuge bis zu den sogenannten Brechzeugen (Werkzeug zum Aufsprengen oder Zerbrechen). Darüber hinaus stellt der Museumsführer aufwendig verzierte Kunstkammerschränke, zwei reich ausgestattete Augsburger Kabinettschränke, mit irisierendem Perlmutter eingelegte Tische, kostbare Brettspiele und Musikinstrumente neben filigranen Drechselkunststücken, Werken der Schatzkunst und Gegenständen aus fernen Kulturen vor. Zahlreiche bisher nicht publizierte Meisterwerke der Kunstkammer im Dresdner Residenzschloss
£21.38
de Gruyter Bastowerkstatt
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£25.20
Hirmer Verlag Gallery of Meissen Animals: Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden
Book SynopsisIn 1731, the elector-king Augustus the Strong of Saxony commissioned the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen to create several hundred life-size porcelain birds and other animals to adourn the Japanese Palace in Dresden. By January 1736, 412 birds and 160 quadrupeds had been delivered His Majesty.
£63.75
Hirmer Verlag Appropriations and Invention: Three Centuries of
Book SynopsisDrawing from the renowned collection of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, this catalogue examines the processes of appropriation and invention in the arts of Spanish America from the 1520s to the 1820s. The catalogue highlights Latin American masterpieces, including paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts, made shortly after the conquest and before the independence movements. Arranged regionally, the essays explore how artists found freedom despite colonial authority. While pleasing clients, many artists of Indigenous and African descent also reclaimed and reshaped the arts for themselves and their new colonial realities. Epilogue essays will consider modern and contemporary trends.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands: Vol. II
Book SynopsisThe ultimate source on fish hooks of the Pacific islands. The fish hook derives its form from its practical intention - to catch a fish. But in cultures where fishing is and always has been a main livelihood, the crafting of fish hooks becomes an art. "Fish Hooks of the Pacific islands Vol. II" completes the extensive and in-depth discourse of the first volume. Together they are the first extensive reference on Pacific fish hooks since the publication of Harry Beasley’s 1928 Pacific Island Record: Fishhooks, which was printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Much has been learned and discovered since then, and Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands gathers it all under one title with comprehensive new observations, research, attributions, identifications and colour photographs. This publication is the product of a collaboration by private collectors who have a common dedication to the art and knowledge of old Pacific cultures. In the making of this book, they have brought together an incredible quantity of information as well as images and details of the finest known examples from collections all over the world.
£127.50
Hirmer Verlag Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands: A Pictorial Guide to the Fish Hooks from the Peoples of the Pacific Islands
Book SynopsisThe fish hook derives its form from its practical intention - to catch a fish. But in cultures where fishing is and always has been a main livelihood, the crafting of fish hooks becomes an Art. This volume features more than 600 fish hooks used by the peoples of the Pacific Islands, with life-size illustrations and accompanying texts.
£97.50
Hirmer Verlag Franz Mayer of Munich: Architecture, Glass, Art
Book SynopsisFranz Mayer of Munich is one of the world’s foremost studios for mosaics and stained glass. Founded in 1847, it is dedicated to the restoration of historic works, as well as the execution of contemporary projects for artists and architecture from around the world. It is justly known for its commitment to maintaining the highest standards of quality.
£36.00
Skira Cartier Time Art (Chinese edition): Mechanics of passion
Book SynopsisFrom their forms to their movements, Cartier watches are unique. They are an enduring combination of the unexpected and the classical. This book chronicles Cartier’s constant quest for excellence in the manufacture of complicated watches. From a Tortue single push-piece chronograph, created in 1929, to a contemporary Santos 100 skeleton watch, Cartier interprets complications in its own inimitable way, always with a sense of design. Laziz Hamani’s photographs capture these objects of exceptional technicity while author and expert Jack Forster shares the spirit that motivates each craftsman, engineer and artist to create the most stunning complicated watches.
£37.50
Skira Thilo Westermann: Migrations
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£32.00
Skira Alcantara: The Material of Art
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£33.60
Skira Objects of Imagination: Contemporary Arab
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£36.00
Skira Editore Perfumes of the Orient Arabic edition
Book SynopsisHanna Boghanim and Agnès Carayon are exhibition curators at the Arab World Institute.
£999.99
Tara Books Sun and Moon
Book SynopsisPart of everyday life, yet rich in symbolic meaning, renderings of the sun and the moon are present in all folk and tribal art traditions of India. They are always in relationship with each other. Agrarian societies keep track of time by referring to markers in the seasonal variations of the sun, moon, and the planets. Over the course of time, they have also woven wonderful stories and myths around them. Here, for the first time, is a collection of unusual stories and exquisite art from some of the finest living artists, on this most universal of themes.
£22.40
John Wiley & Sons Inc Audel Promoting and Marketing Your Crafts
Book SynopsisProvides the craftsperson with the guidance needed to promote, market and sell his or her arts and crafts. The book offers a wide range of techniques, starting with a business plan, and explains the processes of obtaining media exposure, locating promotional tools, and selecting outlets.
£12.99
The University of Chicago Press Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture
Book SynopsisAssembles 13 key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism. Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, from painting to architecture.
£26.00
Indiana University Press Dressing with Purpose
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book deserves to become a central point of reference for anyone interested in traditional costume. -- Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe * Folklore *Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsMap of ScandinaviaA Note on Terms and Place NamesForeword, by Khristaan VillelaIntroduction: Can We Talk about Traditional Dress?, by Carrie HertzPart One: Folkdräkt in Sweden1. Swedish Folkdräkt, by Carrie Hertz2. They Are at Peace Here, Like Old Friends in Their Caskets: Traditional Dress Collections as Heritage-making, by Lizette GradénPart Two: Bunad in Norway1. Norwegian Bunad, by Carrie Hertz2. Headdress and Hijab: Bunad in Multicultural Norway, by Camilla Rossing3. The Transnational and Personalized Bunad of the Twenty-First Century, by Laurann GilbertsonPart Three: Gákti in Sápmi1. Sámi Gákti, by Carrie Hertz2. The Legacy of Ládjogahpir: Rematriating Sápmi with Foremother's Hat of Pride, by Eeva-Kristiina Harlin and Outi PieskiConclusion: The Future of Traditional Dress, by Carrie HertzBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
£22.79
Yale University Press Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art
Book SynopsisExplores one aspect of the collection of furniture that Sir William Lever bequeathed to the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight: pieces designed for human support, primarily seat furniture, but also beds, footstools and a coach model. This book also reviews the use of decorative treatments, different textiles, and a range of protective covers.
£198.00
Yale University Press Paris 16501900 Decorative Arts in the Rijksmuseum
Book SynopsisFrom 1650 to 1900 Paris was the undisputed centre of fashion and taste in Europe. This book traces the story of Parisian decorative arts from the reign of Louis XIV to the triumph of art nouveau, through a selection of 150 masterpieces from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Trade Review“Published to coincide with the much acclaimed reopening of the Rijksmuseum, this opulent book of over 600 pages presents a fascinating selection of the museum’s collections of more than 250 years of French decorative arts . . . this remains a magnificent contribution to scholarship on the subject.”—Bertrand Rondot, Apollo Magazine -- Bertrand Rondot * Apollo Magazine *“Handsome and beautifully illustrated, this catalogue provides the first in-depth study of the Rijksmuseum’s holdings in French early modern decorative arts. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice * Choice *"This opulent book displays its most important pieces, focusing on the exquisite craftsmanship that defined Paris for more than two centuries – from Boulle marquetry to Lalique glassware. Fascinating on technique, as well as on the historical Dutch taste for French work."—Apollo Magazine * Apollo Magazine *‘Despite the ambitious scale of the project, Baarsen has succeeded in producing a ravishing, scholarly and eminently readable book that will be enjoyed by anyone interested in the decorative arts.’—Helen Jacobsen, Burlington Magazine -- Helen Jacobsen * Burlington Magazine *
£189.00
Yale University Press The Rise of Everyday Design
Book SynopsisTrade Review“an invaluable catalog.”—Edward Rothstein, Wall Street Journal“[The book] serves as both an introductory text and, for those well-read on the movement, one offering new dimensions to this vast subject”— Roger Dunn, Art Newspaper“This book is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, a great repository, likened to ‘an old attic filled with the most wondrous things’, at the University of Texas in Austin. It starts with the British origins of the Arts-and-Crafts movement, but the greater part describes its (to British readers) less familiar flourishing in the USA.”—CountryLife“It serves as both an introductory text and, for those well-read on the movement, one offering new dimensions to this vast subject”— Roger Dunn, The Art Newspaper“It is not a conventional catalogue, but the extended captions form a record of an exhibition and most of the contributions add usefully to discussion of how the Arts & Crafts Movement evolved in the 20th century” —Annette Carruthers, DAS
£45.12
Yale University Press Kensington Palace
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This beautiful, easy to read, volume of history is a book anyone would love to own” —Wendy Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective“Kensington Palace gathers a sumptuous array of photographs, sketches and oil paintings of the 300-year old stately building complex.” — Ian Thomson, Evening Standard“This compelling upstairs-downstairs history of the 'home for homeless royals' is lavishly illustrated with architectural drawings, state beds, artworks from the Royal Collection, and a near-psychedelic (for 1749) depiction of fireworks over the Thames at Whitehall.” — Apollo, Off the Shelf“Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society is, as one would expect from a Yale University publication, an erudite account of the history and royal residents who have lived there” – Robert Golden, Majesty“Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society, [. . .] is the first modern account of this remarkable, relatively little-known building. Generously produced, with chapters by Historic Royal Palaces curators, it is an intellectual counterpart to the opening up of the palace to its gardens in 2012” —Country Life“This handsome volume, written by curators (both past and present) of Historic Royal Palaces…helps to refurnish and repopulate the rooms while offering a comprehensive account of the palace and its residents.”—Jonny Yarker, The Burlington Magazine
£52.25
Yale University Press With Pleasure
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[O]utstanding, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of art and its possibilities.”—Carter Ratcliff, Hyperallergic
£49.50
Yale University Press Ernest Gimson
Book SynopsisTrade Review“. . . explores how [Gimson] adapted his observations of nature into buildings and objects. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with photos of surviving works alongside Mr. Gimson’s sketches.”—Eve Kahn, New York Times“Excellent...Unearths work by Gimson that is not recorded even in the archives of the SPAB.”—Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph“[An] insightful survey of the life and work of Arts-and-Crafts designer Ernest Gimson”—Clive Aslet, Country Life“In their impeccably researched and engaging new biography, Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe explore in depth Gimson's place at the heart of the handcraft movement that emerged in Britain thanks to the impetus of William Morris and flourished until the First World War”—Roisin Inglesby, Apollo Magazine“Outstanding”—Ancient Monuments Society“Building on its predecessors, Ernest Gimson is now the standard account of his life and achievements, fully worthy of his 2019 centenary.”— Simon Swynfen Jervis, Furniture History Society Newsletter“The authors build on previous scholarship, draw together threads and expand context with admirable thoroughness, bringing it all beautifully into concert...There is scholarly coverage of every context for Gimson’s development, without losing sight of the man himself.”—Lindsey Shaw-Miller, Art History “This book really brings Gimson’s work to a whole new audience and gives him the accolade he deserves.”—Lynne Pardoe, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Magazine“The book is tightly organised and edited, extensively annotated and referenced, and wonderfully illustrated with high-quality colour and monochrome plates. It itself is both beautifully crafted and serviceable: a highly readable, scholarly account of its subject’s life and work.”—Nick Knight, Leicestershire Historian“This comprehensive study...is the product of three authors and it is greatly to their credit that you would not know it from their authoritative and seamless text... As a ‘life and work’ it will not be bettered.”—Julian Holder, Architectural History
£49.50
Yale University Press The Eternal Feast Banqueting in Chinese Art from
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£33.60
Yale University Press Becoming America
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChosen as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020
£38.00
Yale University Press American Art
Book SynopsisA tour through the Yale University Art Gallery’s holdings of American art, one of the most exceptional museum collections of its kind
£38.00
University of California Press Taste and Power
Book SynopsisThis work explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-17th to the early-20th century. Analyzing furniture makers, sellers, buyers and arbiters, the book reveals how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as economic and social transformations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life PART ONE The Paradox of Absolutism: The Power of the Monarch's Limits 1. The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism 2. Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church 3· Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power PART TWO From Style to Taste:Transitions to the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime 4· Revolutionary Transformation: The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime 5· The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge 6. The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor PART THREE The Bourgeois Stylistic Regime: Representation, Nation, State, and the Everyday 7· The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic 8. Style in the New Commercial World 9· After the Culture of Production:The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship 10. Style, the Nation, and the Market: EPILOGUE The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer Bibliography General Index Index of Names
£28.05
University of California Press In the Vanguard
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Churning out “great art” was not, finally, the school’s main contribution. What was created during those short, sweet summers had more to do with the very conditions of creativity. It was something more mercurial and harder to pin down but — on all the evidence presented by this show and its excellent catalogue — very, very enviable." * The Wall Street Journal *"The authors, who are both curators of American art, deliver the only complete retrospective of Haystack. No other scholarly literature exists on Haystack’s foundational years or on the connection of the artists that were essential to the early leadership of the school. This publication is recommended for all academic art libraries and essential for any school with a decorative arts or a master of arts program." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD Director’s Foreword MARK H. C. BESSIRE Introduction: The Generosity of an Idea PAUL SACARIDIZ Prologue: Mary Beasom Bishop and Francis and Priscilla Merritt in Flint, 1946–51 STEFFI IBIS DUARTE The Best Ideals of Socially Useful Living: Haystack, 1950–60 M. RACHAEL ARAUZ Inscriptions in History: Haystack, 1961–69 DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD Plates Chronology M. RACHAEL ARAUZ AND DIANA JOCELYN GREENWOLD WITH SHEA SPILLER Haystack Instructors, 1951–69 Checklist Sources and Notes Index Lender List Photography Credits
£39.10
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas IndianMade Navajo Culture in the Marketplace
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£23.70
Northwestern University Press Meaning of Moderen Art Northwestern University
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£19.16
University of Pennsylvania Press Framing Fraktur
Book SynopsisFraktur is a manuscript-based folk art tradition brought from Europe by German-speaking immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the seventeenth century. Framing Fraktur takes a unique approach to the study of traditional fraktur by connecting it to the work of contemporary artists who similarly combine images with texts.
£27.90
University of Hawai'i Press Royal Hawaiian Featherwork N Hulu Alii
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£41.25
Getty Trust Publications Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J.Paul
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£26.12
Getty Trust Publications The History of Alexander the Great
Book SynopsisReproduces 14 images from a 15th century manuscript, now in the J. Paul Getty Musuem. The commentary places the manuscript within its context as an account of Alexander's life.
£109.25
Getty Trust Publications The Stammheim Missal
Book SynopsisThis missal from the mid-12th century was used in the Church's liturgical rites. The major illuminated pages are reproduced along with a text that explains the iconography and historical context of the manuscript. The essay explains the profound theological statements found in the imagery.
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the European decorative art in the Getty Museum. It features photographs of each object, and identifies its creator or manufacturer, its materials, and the date it was created. Provenance information is provided for each object along with a bibliography of related reading.
£52.25
Getty Trust Publications The Spitz Master A Parisian Book of Hours
Book SynopsisA study of the Spitz book of hours, one of the finest French manuscripts in the collections of the Getty Museum, painted in the International style. Gregory Clark places the manuscript in the turbulent context of Parisian culture around 1420. All the book's miniatures are reproduced in colour.
£16.14
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library Decorated Book Papers
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1942, this book remains one of the standard works on its subject. Loring, a collector and maker of decorated papers, explores the extensive history and use of decorated papers in the book arts. Appendices are devoted to the art of marbling, the preparation of paste papers, and a listing of some early makers of decorated paper.
£35.66
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rugs Guitars and Fiddling Intensification and
Book SynopsisRugs handwoven in southern Mexico, luthier-made guitars, and southern US fiddle styles experience parallel changes, all absorbing just enough of the complex flavours, dynamics, and rhythms of modern life to translate inherited folklore into traditions that can be widely celebrated today.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rugs Guitars and Fiddling
Book SynopsisRugs handwoven in southern Mexico, luthier-made guitars, and southern US fiddle styles experience parallel changes, all absorbing just enough of the complex flavours, dynamics, and rhythms of modern life to translate inherited folklore into traditions that can be widely celebrated today.
£26.06
University Press of Mississippi Pieces of Freedom
Book SynopsisThe history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey, they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1909) and Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968). Lewis''s and Fuller''s sculptures--and their visual narrative of a people''s strength and humanity in the face of oppression--present a textured historical diorama of Black life during an era of transformative, yet sorrowful, events. In this book, Lee Ann Timreck integrates Lewis''s and Fuller''s visual narrative with oral narratives of the newly emancipated, all set within the historical context of Recon
£79.20
University of Massachusetts Press The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies
Book SynopsisCombining comfort, simplicity and craftsmanship, Windsor chairs have long been prized by collectors. Introduced from England in the early 1700s, the Windsor style took hold in America first as seating for the well-to-do and later as the favourite chair of the general population. Included in the Windsor family are stools, tables, settees, high chairs, cradles and candle stands, but the greatest variety is found in the chairs, which range from comb-back to bow-back to step-down versions. Their makers took advantage of the natural properties of different woods for particular components of the chairs, employing hickory, red oak, or ash for bent parts, maple for turnings and pine for seats. This book documents all these features and styles with narrative descriptions and photographs of the 198 pieces under discussion. It also provides 34 full-page drawings (and lists of measured parts) which amateur furniture makers can use as blue-prints for creating Windsor reproductions.
£44.20
University Press of Mississippi Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things
Book SynopsisFire-cat masks, earth mother icons, henna tattoos, ankhs, and water altars--these objects may sound like the inventory in an ancient druid's sanctuary. But they are part of the sacred reliquary created by contemporary artists and practitioners of Neo-Pagan ritual.Calling themselves ""witches"" and ""pagans"" and drawing inspiration from pre-Christian polytheistic worship, the practitioners of Neo-Paganism have often been misunderstood by outsiders. In the uninitiated, their art and iconography have inspired fear.In featuring the works of ten artists, Sabina Magliocco's Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars unlocks the meanings of this religion's creativity and symbolism and makes its sacred nature understandable to non-specialists.A stunning array of color plates and halftones will touch the imagination of insiders and outsiders alike, revealing the imaginative skills of some of the movement's most celebrated artists, as well as amateurs working at home with family and friends.These masks and altars, earrings and necklaces create one of the Neo-Pagan movement's most striking features--its ritual art. Yet this is one of the first books to focus on these spiritual objects rather than on the sociology and psychology of the followers. The odd array of costumes and jewelry, as well as the juxtaposition of neo-primitive and medieval-looking styles, troubles outsiders and contributes to the movement's undeserved reputation for attracting eccentrics. Yet its sacred art is part of one of the most flourishing contemporary traditions in the United States.
£29.71
