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Distribution General Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures Medieval
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Trustees of the Royal Armouries Dangerous Arts Arms as Art
Book SynopsisDangerous Arts portrays a world that combines art with conflict, death with beauty. Replete with gorgeous photography, it showcases works of art that adorned the great palaces of the world. These are objects made to kill but also to impress: a magnificent testament to craftsmanship, engineering and high fashion.
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Water Trade Building with Butterflies How to Build Stunning Sculptures from Simple Units Made by Folding Paper
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Richard Dennis Haslam M Arts and Crafts Book Covers
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Richard Dennis Publications Di George Tinworth
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University Press of New England American Furniture 2003 American Furniture Annual
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University Press of New England American Furniture 2004 American Furniture Annual
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Chipstone Foundation American Furniture 2005 American Furniture Annual
Book SynopsisAcknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.Table of ContentsConnoisseurship, Intention, and the Problem of Mannerism; Glenn Adamson; Early Rhode Island Turning; Dennis Carr and Erik Kyle Gronning; Fashioning Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley Town; Joshua W. Lane and Donald P. White, III; An Eighteenth-Century Price Book for Philadelphia Furniture; Alan Miller; Structure, Style, and Evolution: The American Windsor Armchair; David Pesuit; Neoclassicism in Norfolk, Virginia: The Early Furniture of James Woodward; Sumpter Priddy, III; New York Card Tables, 1800-1825; Philip D. Zimmerman.
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Museum of Contemporary Craft Unpacking the Collection Selections from the
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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.
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Chipstone Foundation Ceramics in America 2010 Ceramics in America
Book SynopsisNow in its tenth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context. The 2010 issue, which is intended to be a companion to the 2009 volume, will expand the discussion of the Moravian story by presenting a series of groundbreaking articles on other major centers of slipware production in the piedmont region of North Carolina. Setting a new standard for American ceramic studies, this transdisciplinary effort draws on archaeology, art history, religion, ceramics, technology, and many other areas of inquiry resulting in a substantively revised history of this much-admired North Carolina pottery tradition. Many examplesof highly decorative slipware and intriguing figural bottles are illustrated here for the first time with the precise color photography of Gavin Ashworth.The 2009 and 2010 Ceramics in America journals are centered on the traveling exhibit, Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenwa
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Chipstone Foundation Ceramics in America 2011 Ceramics in America
Book SynopsisA diverse range of essays, new discoveries and book reviews on the latest research of interest to ceramics scholars
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Chipstone Foundation Ceramics in America 2012 Ceramics in America
Book SynopsisNow in its twelfth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context.A partial list of articles coming in the 2012 edition: "History of Baltimore Porcelain" Barbara And Ken Beem"Stone-Ware of Excellent Quality, Alexandria Manufacture" Part I: The Pottery of John Swann Barbara H. Magid"Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Japanese Domestic Wares from British Columbia" Douglas E. Ross"The Stoneware of Early Albany: A Mystery Solved" Warren F. Hartmann "Paul Cushman: The Premier Albany Potter and His Fascinating Stoneware" Paul Cushman "Ceramics from the 1813 Prize Brig Ann Auction, Salem, Massachusetts" George L. Miller"Ceramics from the Tortugas Shipwreck: A Spanish Navio of the 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet" Sean Kingsley, Ellen Gerth, and Michael HughesPlus New Discoveries and six new book reviews.
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Chipstone Foundation Ceramics in America 2018
Book SynopsisA diverse range of essays, new discoveries, and book reviews on the latest research of interest to ceramics scholars.
£54.90
Chipstone Foundation American Furniture 2018
Book SynopsisAn annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts
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J & L Books Paper Airplanes The Collections of Harry Smith
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe extant collection numbers more than 250 specimens that [Smith] found on street, fished out of wastebaskets, or even, as one friend recalls, ran into traffic to retrieve... Many of the planes are annotated with the location and date of their discovery: "Prince nr Wooster 4-5-79"; "Bet 9th &10th Aves on 49th 4-24-79 In Playground." -- Albert Mobilio * Bookforum *These pieces of sculptural ephemera are artifacts of childhoods, and also of the eccentric and eager collector who sought to preserve them. -- Andrea Denhoed * The New Yorker *
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Legare Street Press A History of the Scottish Highlands Highland
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Old English Furniture China and Cut Glass
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Hassell Street Press The Anatomy of Lettering
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Legare Street Press The ABC About Collecting microform
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Legare Street Press Three Hundred Decorative and Fancy Articles for
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Hassell Street Press Italian Blown Glass From Ancient Rome to Venice
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Legare Street Press The Lace Embroidery Collector a Guide to
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Legare Street Press The Gentleman and Cabinetmakers Director
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LEGARE STREET PR Horizons
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Legare Street Press Lace Its Origin and History
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Legare Street Press The Medal Collector A Guide to Naval Military
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LEGARE STREET PR Grinling Gibbons and the Woodwork of His Age
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Legare Street Press Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch
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LEGARE STREET PR Interior Decoration for the Small Home
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Cambridge University Press Humanists and Bookbinders The Origins and Diffusion of Humanistic Bookbinding 14591559
Book SynopsisWhen it was first published in 1990, this book was an important study (the first for over sixty years) of north Italian and Parisian bindings by a distinguished authority who has elegantly considered the twin claims of ornament and patronage.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The Paduan antiquaries; 2. Italy: the fifteenth century; 3. The humanistic binding: Islamic sources; 4. The humanistic binding: classical sources; 5. Coins, medals and plaquettes: Italy; 6. Medals and plaquettes: northern Europe; 7. Filigree, facades and fortune; 8. The bindings of the Fontainebleau Library Census of historiated plaquette and medallion bindings of the Renaissance; Appendices: 1. The use of pasteboard in binding; 2. Bindings attributed to Felice Feliciano; 3. The Codex Lippomano: Jacopo Tiraboschi, Carmina; 4. Bindings attributed to Masone di Maio; 5. Fortune and Cupid in Padua; 6. Bindings of Greek and oriental manuscripts and printed books in the Fontainebleau Library, classified by type of ornament; 7. Jean Grolier's binders; Bibliography; Indices; Manuscripts; Books printed before 1600; Owners of books printed before 1600; General.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding
Book SynopsisIn the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior decoration. This book focuses attention primarily on the physical aspects of the binding and its construction principles. It is an expanded version of a series of lectures delivered by the author while Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1987, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Kingdom and the USA. It surveys the evolution of binding structures from the introduction of the codex two thousand years ago to the close of the Middle Ages. Part I reviews the scanty physical evidence from the Mediterranean heritage, the early Coptic, Islamic and Ethiopian binding structures and their interrelation with those of the Byzantine realm. Part II is devoted to a detailed analysis of Western binding techniques, distinguishing the carolingian, romanesque and gothic wooden-board bindings as the main typological entitTrade Review'Dr Szirmai has filled gap of long standing in the history of the book. No comprehensive study of medieval bookbinding structure exists and certainly not one that is so detailed and wide ranging... An excellent and extensive bibliography and a detailed index contribute to making this a first-rate work of reference... above all, this is the sort of book that is only produced once in a generation, if that often. All book historians owe Dr Szirmai an enormous debt of gratitude for having written it.’ The Library ’While comparisons are not possible with a book which stands alone in its scope and scrupulous presentation of its material, it can be said that more than anything published so far in this field, it stands as a statement of what is currently known of the subject... a mine of information, much of which is either available nowhere else or in journals or languages not accessible to any but the most dedicated researchers. It deserves to be on the shelves of any individual or institution that concerns itself with the medieval book.’ Nicholas Pickwood, TLS '... a book literally without peer... It is this passionate interest that has enabled (Szirmai) to assemble this remarkable history...' Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America ’Le ’Szirmai’ sera incontournable pour tout étudiant manuscrit.’ Veronika von Büren, Aevum '... a work of great scholarship.' Bookbinder ’... [a] major contribution to the study of bookbinding... Szirmai’s book [...] is the first to offer a comprehensive account of binding structures; from sewing, through edge trimming, to fastenings and furnishings... The detail, like the coverage, is astonishing... an absolute must for any library concerned with the art, history, and science of the book.’ ARLIS ’Every book restorer should be familiar with the knowledge in The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding... It should be available to every book restorer as an indispensable handbook... The book is a standarTable of ContentsContents: Part One: The Mediterranean Heritage: The first single-quire Coptic codices; The first multi-quire Coptic codices; Late Coptic codices; The Ethiopian codex; The Islamic codex; Byzantine codices; Part Two: The Medieval Codex in the Western World: Carolingian bindings; Romanesque bindings; Gothic bindings; Limp bindings; Bibliography; Index.
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Scholastic US Brush Pen Doodles
Book SynopsisDecorate and doodle anyway you like with 8 double sided colour pensin this calming reverse colouring style book of mindfulness andfree expression.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Design and Agency
Book SynopsisDesign and Agency brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. The authors set out to expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities and subjectivities through practice, while also investigating the distinctive contribution of design in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity. Individual chapters explore notions of agency in a range of design disciplines and historical periods, including the agency of women in effecting changes to the design of offices and working practices; the role of Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller in developing the design of a geodesic dome; Le Corbusier''s ''Casa Curutchet''; a re-consideration of the gendered historiography of the ''Jugendstil'' movement, and Bruce MaTrade ReviewDesign and Agency shows design (people, spaces and objects) to be powerful, politically engaged and, often, highly personal. Through a range of examples from the later nineteenth-century to the present, an international group of authors explores the role of the systems and institutions of design in constructing identities. This thoughtful and thought-provoking volume provides an agenda for design and its histories, and calls for a new ethical way of being, knowing and designing. -- Grace Lees-Maffei, Professor of Design History, University of Hertfordshire, UKIf action indeed speaks louder than words, we need to pay closer attention to the myriad ways power relations are manifested and performed in design culture. Through a delightfully diverse collection of case studies, Design and Agency helps us think more carefully about who and what are the moving forces in our designed world, and how, when, where, why, and to what degree these agents impact the design of our lives. -- Kjetil Fallan, Professor of Design History, University of Oslo, NorwayThe eighteen essays that make up this volume explore the plethora of ideas that arise from a consideration of the relationship between the concepts of agency and design. The ambitions of the editors and the contributors to (re)consider the traditional narratives and historiography of design have been fully realised. -- Penny Sparke, Professor of Design History, Kingston University, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Reassessing Design through Agency John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada SECTION I – Designing Identities Introduction Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada 1. Period Decor and the Negotiation of Social Relationships in the Home Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada 2. Designs on Modernity: Gertrud Loew’s Vienna Apartment and Situated Agency Sabine Wieber, University of Glasgow, UK 3. Gifted Design: Imperial Benevolence in the Needlework of Mary Seton Watts Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Concordia University, Canada 4. Beyond the Couch: Anna Freud and the Analytic Environment Amélie Elizabeth Pelly, Concordia University, Canada 5. Multum in parvo: Scale and Agency in the Thorne Miniature Rooms Erin J. Campbell, University of Victoria, Australia 6. Listening for Design: Agency and History in a Philips Aachen-Super D52 Michael Windover, Carleton University, Canada 7. Agency, Art and Architecture in Medical Murals by Mary Filer and Marian Dale Scott Annmarie Adams, McGill University, Canada 8. Duelling Over Domes: Jeffrey Lindsay and Buckminster Fuller Cross Struts and Sprits in the US Patent Office Cammie McAtee, National Gallery of Canada, Canada 9. Desperately Seeking Sunlight: Le Corbusier’s Casa Curutchet and The Man Next Door Mark Taylor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia SECTION II – Systems & Institutions of Design Introduction Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada 10. The Dry Goods Economist and the Role of Mass Media in the Creation of a Global Window Design Aesthetic at the End of the Nineteenth Century Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA 11. National Cash Register Company’s Boys’ Garden: Shaping Working-Class Childhoods and Future Workers, 1897-1913 Sara Nicole England, independent, Canada 12. Women as Agents of Change in the Design of the Workplace Lynn Chalmers, independent, Canada 13. Stand-in or Act-out: Period Rooms as Spaces of Agency Änne Söll, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany and Stefan Krämer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany 14. Agent Bruce Mau and the Audacity of Design Rachel Gotlieb, Sheridan College, Canada 15. From Indian to Indigenous Agency: Opportunities and Challenges for Architectural Design David Fortin, Laurentian University, Canada 16. Design History and Dyslexia Anne Massey, University of Huddersfield, UK 17. Textual Agency: Pitfalls and Potentials Jessica Hemmings, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 18. Design’s Performative Agency: Thoughts and New Directions for Materiality, Ontology and Identity-Making Ece Canli, Research Insitute for Design, Media and Culture, Portugal Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Thinking through Craft
Book SynopsisCo-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThis book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today''s visual arts, when high production values'' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft''s centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be ''inferior'' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft''s role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking Through CraftTrade Review'At a time when technical skill has been widely dismissed or outsourced in the production of art, Glenn Adamson crucially adds an entire spectrum of hand-crafted objects to the creative history of the post-war era. And at a time when theoretical frameworks have stagnated, these objects, in his hands, bring with them a fresh and sophisticated set of interpretive perspectives.' * Thomas Crow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University *'Adamson asks provocative questions about the marginalization of craft within the discourse of modernism. Best of all, he writes with a lucidity, energy and engagement that takes the reader with him all the way.' * Pennina Barnett, Goldsmiths College, University of London *'A highly original contribution, Thinking through Craft is both thoughtful and exacting about crafted objects and the lessons provided by the artists' time, labor and material inventiveness.' * Modern Painters *'A pathbreaking book" * Elissa Auther, University of Colorado *Throughout Thinking Through Craft, Adamson offers such provocative readings of both fine art and craft history that are likely to instigate radical new ways of thinking about each. * Maria Elena Buszek, for Surface Design *This book is ... full of thoughtful and pertinent analysis and achieves an impressive theoretical take on the role of studio craft within the history of modern art. * The Journal of William Morris Studies *A thoughtful, exciting and well-written book that touches on so many interesting ideas concerning craft. * Museum Anthropology Review *[R]ecommended to both art and design theorists and anyone else anxious to engage in theorizing about craft. -- Andrea Peach, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Supplemental "Homage to Brancusi" Wearable Sculptures: Modern Jewelry and the Problem of Autonomy Reframing the Pattern and Decoration Movement Props Chapter 2: Sensual Ceramic Presence: Peter Voulkos The Essence of Clay: Yagi Kazuo The Materialization of the Art Object, 1966-72 Breath Chapter 3. Skilled Learning by Doing: Teaching Modern Craft Thinking in Situations: Josef Albers Learning Architecture: Charles Jencks and Kenneth Frampton Chapter 4: Pastoral Regions Apart Two Versions of Pastoral North, South, East, West Chapter 5: Amateur "The World's Most Fascinating Hobby": Robert Arneson Feminism and the Politics of Amateurism Abject Craft: Mike Kelley and Tracey Emin Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Suffrage and the Arts
Book SynopsisMiranda Garrett is Exhibitions Manager at the Bank of England Museum, UK.Zoë Thomas is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Wider World at the University of Birmingham, UK.Trade ReviewThis insightful edited collection extends and enhances our understanding of the relationships between artistic endeavour, commercial enterprise and political activism ... An invaluable contribution to understandings of visual and material culture and art and business history, as well as to suffrage and women's studies. * History Today *I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which has been beautifully produced. In a series of engaging chapters the authors contribute significantly to our knowledge about the suffrage movement covering aspects of the campaign that have been often overlooked. It also gives a voice to the many women artists who are often lost in political histories or histories on women’s art. * Women's History Review *[The book's] careful curation presents an insightful study of the multiform ways in which art and politics intersected in the suffrage campaign, both harmoniously and problematically, giving a holistic and rounded impression of the intricate landscape that suffrage artists had to navigate. Furthermore, after celebrating the centenary of the Representation of the People Act last year, it once again places art and artists at the centre of a reinvigorated scholarship on British women and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. * Twentieth Century British History *A fascinating collection of engaging and informative essays that extend our knowledge about the centrality of the arts to the women's suffrage movement. * June Purvis, Emerita Professor of Women's and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, UK *This collection transforms our understanding of artistic contributions to the women’s suffrage campaign by detailing the experiences of artists, consumers, campaigners and propagandists. A genuinely pioneering work, it illuminates how women balanced their professional lives as artists with their feminist activism, as well as bringing to life the variety of visual culture designed and made during this period across Britain and Ireland. This innovative and timely collection should find a wide and appreciative audience. * Senia Paseta, Professor of Modern History at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry Introduction by Miranda Garrett and Zoë Thomas Part One: Institutional politics Chapter One: Zoë Thomas, ‘I loathe the thought of suffrage sex wars being brought into it’: Institutional conservatism in early twentieth-century women's art organizations Chapter Two: Liz Arthur, The artistic, social and suffrage networks of Glasgow School of Art's women artists and designers Chapter Three: Tara Morton, ‘An Arts and Crafts society, working for the enfranchisement of women’: Unpicking the political threads of the Suffrage Atelier, 1909–1914 Part Two: Enterprise and Marketing Chapter Four: Miranda Garrett, Window smashing and window draping: Suffrage and interior design Chapter Five: Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Our readers are careful buyers’: Creating goods for the suffrage market Chapter Six: Kenneth Florey, English suffrage badges and the marketing of the campaign Part Three: Paintings on display Chapter Seven: Rosie Broadley, Painting suffragettes: Portraits and the militant movement Chapter Eight: Krista Cowman, Suffrage attacks on art, 1913–1914 Part Four: Representing suffrage Chapter Nine: Joseph McBrinn, The spectacle of masculinity: Men and the visual culture of the suffrage campaign Chapter Ten: Janice Helland, An Irish harp and sleeping beauty: The politics of suffrage in the textile art of Una Taylor and Ann Macbeth Chapter Eleven: Chloe Ward, Images of empathy: Representations of force feeding in Votes for Women
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Materials Practices and Politics of Shine in
Book SynopsisAntje Krause-Wahl is Professor for Contemporary Art at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research focuses on Art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially in the US; artist's identity and education; painting and painting theory after 1945; gender studies (queer studies); interaction between art and digital culture; (artist) magazines, fashion and fashion photography.Petra Löffler is Professor for Theory & History of Contemporary Media at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany. Her research focuses on material culture, film and photography, affect theory and media ecology.Änne Söll is Professor for Modern Art History at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her areas of research include: art of the Weimar Republic, gender studies (masculinities), portraiture, fashion photography, video installations, artists magazines, museum architecture and period rooms.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction, Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany), Petra Löffler (Humboldt-University, Germany) and Änne Söll (Ruhr-University, Germany) Part I: Dissemination of Shine (in Popular Culture) 1. Gloss for all: Shiny Cars and Bemberg Silk in the 1920s, Monika Wagner (University of Hamburg, Germany) 2. Flickering Lights: Shine and Diversion in Weimar Cinema, Petra Löffler (Humboldt-University, Germany) 3. Matte Black/Pan Cake: On the Negation of Shine, Tom Holert (Harun Farocki Institute, Germany) Part II: Temporalities of Shine within Material Cultures: Between Nostalgia, Appropriation and Expropriation 4. Fabric of Light, Surface of Displacement: Lamé and its Shine in Early Twentieth-Century French Fashion, Mei Mei Rado (Parsons School of Design, USA) 5. Gleam: Rebranding Big Steel in Post-war America, Nicolas Maffei (Norwich University of the Arts, UK) 6. The Sheen of Shellac: From Reflective Material to Self-Reflective Medium, Elodie Roy (University of Glasgow, UK) Part III: Glimmer, Sparkle, Glitter – Performing Queer Identities 7. All that Sparkles and Shines: Deco, Dissidence and the Design of Glamorous Modern Interiors, John Potvin (Concordia University, Canada) 8. Cosmic Surfaces: Materiality and Portraiture in Queer Modernism, Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany) 9. Double Shiny: Leigh Bowery’s costume design for Because We Must (1987/1989), Alistair O’Neil (Central St. Martins, UK) 10. “Inevitable Plastic Palace”: A Surface Reading of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Barbara Reisinger (University of Vienna, Austria) Part IV: Shiny Surfaces in the Art of the 1960s (and beyond) 11. Against the Biological Metaphor: Robert Smithson’s Crystalline Figuration, Eva Ehninger (Humboldt University, Germany) 12. Shiny, Glossy and Smooth: Commodity Surfaces in 1960s and 70s Painting, Christian Spies (University of Cologne, Germany) 13. Finish Fetish: Judy Chicago in L.A., Kathrin Rottmann (Ruhr-University, Germany) 14. Shine on: The Mirror Ball as Art Object, Änne Söll (Ruhr-Universität, Germany) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art Borders and Belonging
Book SynopsisArt, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated conceptshouse, home and homelandare represented in contemporary global art. The volume brings together essays which explore the conditions of global migration as a process that is always both about departures and homecomings, indeed, home-makings, through which the construction of migratory narratives are made possible. Although centrally concerned with how recent and contemporary works of art can materialize the migratory experience of movement and (re)settlement, the contributions to this book also explore how curating and exhibition practices, at both local and global levels, can extend and challenge conventional narratives of art, borders and belonging. A growing number of artists migrate; some for better job opportunities and for the experience of different cultures, others not by choice but as a consequence of forced displacement caused economic or environmental collapse, or by poliTrade ReviewThis is a wonderfully curated collection of essays. The range of artistic material is rich, and the thematic focus on art’s unique potential to weave together experiences of migration, borders, homemaking and belonging is remarkably consistent, as is the authors’ innovative use of feminist and transnational perspectives to foreground female artists and engage with their works in close readings that are both intimate and trenchant. * Anne Ring Petersen, Professor of Modern Culture & Contemporary Art at the Department of Arts & Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *Whether they are from Cyprus, Palestine, Spain, Kazakhstan or elsewhere, artists who have relocated often make works that not only invoke the idea of a lost home but also an impetus to achieve a sense of belonging in their new places of abode. This orientation, so important in contemporary art, is explored eloquently and compellingly in Art, Borders and Belonging. * Brenda Schmahmann, Professor and SARChI Chair in South African Art & Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration, Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK) and Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University, UK) 1. Weaving Together: Narratives of Home, Exile and Belonging, Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK) 2. Parastou Forouhar: Materialising Pain and Beauty, Lydia Wooldridge (Bristol School of Art and University of the West of England, UK) 3. Deciphering Home Through Hajra Waheed’s Archival Investigations, Sarah Fox (Carleton University, Canada) 4. Re-creating the Place of Home in Remedios Varo’s La creación de las aves, Nadia Garcia (University College Cork, Ireland) 5. Identity and (Not) Belonging: Art and the Politics of British-ness in 1980s Britain, Imogen Racz (Coventry University, UK) 6. Aftershocks and (Un)belongings: Reflecting on Home Strike, Alexandra Kokoli (Middlesex University London, UK) and Basia Sliwinska (University of the Arts London, UK) 7. Crossing literal and conceptual borders: Nepantla practices of the borderlands in performance projects by Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Eva Zetterman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 8. Boundaries and belonging in Kazakh art: a case study of Red Butterfly by Almagul Menlibayeva, Aliya de Tiesenhausen (Independent Scholar, UK) 9. 'Arrival city' versus 'dysfunctional nation': Exhibiting the 'migration crisis' at the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale, Joel Robinson (The Open University, UK) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Life in the Georgian Parsonage
Book SynopsisAn innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption and lifestyle of Church of England clergy in the long 18th century, linking moral debates and popular representations of the clergy to the material culture of their houses and their motivations as consumers. By focusing on ethical and moral dimensions of consumer practices, it challenges established readings of consumption in the long 18th century as an essentially secular process in which goods were markers of wealth, status and taste, by bringing the clergyman into the frame their lives, their habits and their homes. Cross-disciplinary in its approach, combining material culture and religious and social history and sitting at the intersection of these fields, Life in the Georgian Parsonage fills a significant gap, enhancing in important ways our knowledge of this group as a crucial but understudied set of 18th-century consume
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Bloomsbury Academic Life in the Georgian Parsonage
Book SynopsisJon Stobart, FRHS, is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and the author of The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020), editor of A Taste for Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Johanna Ilmakunnas, General Editor of A Cultural History of Shopping, 6 volumes (Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-editor, with Christopher J. Berry, of A Cultural History of Luxury in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is also editor of Global Goods and the Country House (2023), author of Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Country House (2022) and co-author of Consumption and the Country House (2016).
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Author Solutions Inc How to Create Tree Sculpture STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FULLY ILLUSTRATED
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Harry N. Abrams Love Affairs with Houses Slipcase Edition
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Abrams 2020 Christmas with Southern Living Inspired
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Abrams Trimmings
Book SynopsisTrimmings details the history of Declercq’s passementerie, the fine art of detail in haute couture. In 1852, Joseph Bertaud bought a small trimmings factory in Paris that had been making passementerie since 1760. Although passementerie—the woven textile accessories adorning furniture and clothing in the form of a fringe, tassel, braid, crest, and beyond—reached France in the Middle Ages, the house continues to uphold the excellence and pass down the history of the Declercq Passementiers factory 170 years later. Having collaborated with major institutions such as Versailles and Chantilly and prestigious decorators and architects such as Jacques Grange, Patrick Frey, Franck Sorbier, Mathieu Lehanneur, Michel Charrière, Joseph Achkar, Jamie Drakeet, Gabhan O’Keefe, and François-Joseph Graf, the factory has withstood the test of time and adapted to the fluctuating fashions in vogue in decoration.
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Abrams What We Keep
Book Synopsis In What We Keep: Advice from Artists and Designers on Living with the Things You Love, gallerist Jean Lin presents an interior design book for collectors, would-be collectors, and design-loving hunter/gatherers who crave objects of beauty to display in their homes.Foreword by Asad Syrkett, editor-in-chief of Elle Decor Learn the refined art of display and get an insider’s education in collecting from gallerist Jean Lin. Follow in her footsteps and tour the unique and beautiful homes of more than a dozen dedicated collectors. Whether you're starting a new collection or wish to display an existing one, each chapter offers inventive ideas for styling and displaying favorite objects, along with a primer on materials, studio visits with ceramicists, textile artists, and woodworkers, and wisdom from some of today’s most fascinating artists and makers.Featured artists include:
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Xlibris Tuareg Jewelry
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Hodder & Stoughton Kirsties Vintage Home
Book SynopsisRe-using, restoring and upcycling, Kirstie shows how to transform vintage fabrics, furniture and other everyday things into modern day treasures using a range of crafting skills and techniques.Trade ReviewA beautiful guide to transforming a home by reusing and upcycling. * Woman & Home *If you're pining for a beautiful, envy-inducing home but don't have a huge budget, you need this book in your life. Written by property expert and queen of crafts Kirstie, it is swarming with inspiring ideas and projects... treasure of a book! * Closer *Craft queen Kirstie Allsopp's new book of vintage-inspired projects takes you through the process step-by-step, mergind old with new in a fun, creative way. * Let's Knit *Packed with practical techniques that can be adapted to suit your own objects and furniture... Kirstie's boundless enthusiasm is engaging and informative. * Sunday Mail *Craft queen Kirstie Allsopp returns this autumn with a fantastic new book of vintage-inspired projects to help you create your dream home. * Making *
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