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Author : Erin J. Campbell,Stephanie R. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 1472577892
Author : Erin J. Campbell,Stephanie Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350279971
The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied social classes - including peasant, artisan, merchant, clergy, nobility, and rulers - resulted in differing needs for furniture. The social settings for furniture included official and private residences both grand and humble, churches and monasteries, and civic institutions, including places of governance and learning, such as municipal halls, guild halls, and colleges. This volume explores how furniture contributed to the social fabric within these varied spaces. The chronological range of this volume extends from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the early Renaissance, a period which exhibited a wide array of types, styles, and motifs, including Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance. Rural and regional styles of furniture are also considered, as well as techniques of furniture manufacture. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Author : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 1474206425
"A Cultural History of Furniture presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes spans 4,500 years of furniture in its physical, social and cultural context. Each volume discusses the same themes in its nine chapters: Designs and Motifs; Makers, Making and Materials; Types and Uses; the Domestic Setting; the Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations"--
Author : Erin J. Campbell,Stephanie Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350279964
The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied social classes - including peasant, artisan, merchant, clergy, nobility, and rulers - resulted in differing needs for furniture. The social settings for furniture included official and private residences both grand and humble, churches and monasteries, and civic institutions, including places of governance and learning, such as municipal halls, guild halls, and colleges. This volume explores how furniture contributed to the social fabric within these varied spaces. The chronological range of this volume extends from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the early Renaissance, a period which exhibited a wide array of types, styles, and motifs, including Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance. Rural and regional styles of furniture are also considered, as well as techniques of furniture manufacture. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Author : Claire I. R. O'Mahony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280205
Furniture is a unique witness to the transformations of private and public experience amidst the upheavals of the 20th century. How we work, rest and play are determined by the embodied encounter with furniture, defining and projecting a sense of identity and status, responding to and exemplifying contrasting social conditions, political and economic motivations, aesthetic predilections and debates. Assessing physical and archival evidence drawn from a spectrum of iconic and under-represented case studies, an international team of design historians collaborate in this volume to explore key methodological questions about how the production, consumption and mediation of furniture reveal shifting cultural habits and histories across diverse contexts amidst modernity. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Author : Sylvain Cordier,Christina M. Anderson,Laura Houliston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280113
The 18th century saw the height of court culture in Europe as well as the beginnings of its demise with conflicts such as the American and French Revolutions. The Scientific Revolution, which had begun in the preceding centuries, also ushered in a new intellectual era which advocated the use of reason to effect change in government and to advance progress in society. For furniture, this meant ever-higher standards of luxury in the designs, techniques and materials utilized for the best pieces, and more structure and specialization in the furniture-making process itself. Furniture also came into its own during this period as a collectable work of art on its own merits. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Author : Christina M. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Carroll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280045
The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift. Rooted in medieval beliefs and preoccupations, the exploration so characteristic of the period stemmed from religious motives but came to be propelled by commerce and curiosity as Europeans increasingly engaged with the rest of the world. Interiors in both public and private spaces changed to reflect these cultural encounters and, with them, the furniture with which they were populated. Visually, furniture of this period displayed new designs, forms and materials. In its uses, it also mirrored developments in science, technology, government and social relationships as prints became more widely distributed, the Wunderkammer developed and there was religious strife and resistance to absolute monarchical rule. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Author : Catherine L. Futter,Christina M. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280182
The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial developments resulted in a number of benefits from a growing middle class to efficiency, convenience and innovation across a range of fields from engineering to architecture. Alongside these improvements, the century began with the extended period of the Napoleonic Wars and was further disrupted by rebellions and revolutions both within Europe and in India, South America and other parts of the world. Slavery was abolished and urbanization increased dramatically. These myriad developments were reflected throughout the period in the proliferation of types of furniture, along with their categorization as 'industrial art' at the international exhibitions and world fairs and the increasingly adventurous range of materials that were sometimes used in their construction. Nonetheless, a strong antiquarian/historicist strand also prompted interest in the revival of past styles in areas of art and design, including furniture. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Author : Dimitra Andrianou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350279902
Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs and temples as narrated through the archaeological evidence. The earliest furniture can be seen as an attempt by humans to enhance their safety, comfort and social standing but it can also offer opportunities for understanding human behavior, values and thought: fine furniture was among the most valuable of possessions in the ancient world so it expressed power, wealth and status. It was appreciated as art, used in diplomacy (both as a gift and as tribute) and recorded as booty. At the same time, its practical and ceremonial uses yield important clues about the domestic environment and daily life in antiquity, as well as revealing aspects of sacred belief and funerary practices. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Author : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 9781472577849
"A Cultural History of Furniture presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes spans 4,500 years of furniture in its physical, social and cultural context. Each volume discusses the same themes in its nine chapters: Designs and Motifs; Makers, Making and Materials; Types and Uses; the Domestic Setting; the Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations"--
Author : Claire O'Mahony,Erin J. Campbell,Stephanie R. Miller,Christina M. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1304474668
Author : Joclyn M. Oats
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000406108
An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture history from Antiquity to Postmodernism. Following an immersive teaching model, it presents a Nine-Step Methodology to help students strengthen their visual literacy and quickly acquire subject area knowledge. Moving chronologically through key periods in furniture history and interior design, such as the Renaissance, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Modernism, it traverses Europe to America to present a comprehensive foundational guide to the history of furniture design. Part I addresses furniture within the context of the built environment, with chapters exploring the historical perspective, construction principles, and the categorization of furniture. In Part II, the author visually depicts the structural organization of the methodological process, a three-category framework: History, Aesthetics, and Visual Notes. The chapters in this part prepare the reader for the visual analysis that will occur in the final section of the book. The book is lavishly illustrated in full color with over 300 images to reinforce visual learning and notation. A must-have reference and study guide for students in industrial and product design, interior design, and architecture.
Author : Winston Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216117278
This book guides readers through 10 pervasive fictions about medieval history, provides them with the sources and analytical tools to critique those fictions, and identifies what really happened in the Middle Ages. This book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and stating they are wrong, this volume promotes critical historical analysis of those myths and how they came to be. Each of the ten chapters outlines a pervasive modern myth about medieval European history, describing "What People Think Happened" and "What Really Happened," and illustrating both trends with primary source documents. The book demonstrates that historical fictions also have a history, and that while we need to replace those fictions with facts about the medieval past, we can also benefit from understanding how a fiction about the Middle Ages developed and what that says about our modern perspectives on the past. Through this innovative presentation, readers are introduced to a wide range of sources, from Roman imperial perspectives on the "Fall of Rome" to songs of chivalry and chronicles of the Crusades, scientific treatises on the shape of the Earth and the creation of the universe and early modern stories and textbooks that developed or perpetuated historical myths.
Author : Eva Oledzka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 0712349731
Illuminated manuscripts are an excellent source of information about the interiors inhabited by people in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Artists regularly depicted the castles and palaces of the ruling classes, as well as the houses of ordinary people--merchants, craftsmen and peasants. This attractive new book is the first to study the subject in such depth, and it uncovers a wealth of little-known illuminations that help us to learn more about life at home, in workshops and elsewhere. The author presents manuscript miniatures as illustrations to an account of house interiors which includes their architectural features (such as windows, doors or fireplaces), furniture and other household objects. She concentrates on the social, cultural and stylistic aspects of Gothic domestic settings and presents them in the context of their Romanesque antecedents and Renaissance successors.
Author : Kenneth Hudson,Ann Nicholls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349014880
