A Cultural History Of Furniture In The Modern Age

Author : Claire I. R. O'Mahony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280205

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age by Claire I. R. O'Mahony Pdf

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 : Claire I. R. O'Mahony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280199

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age by Claire I. R. O'Mahony Pdf

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 : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 1474206433

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture: A cultural history of furniture in the Modern Age by Christina Marie Anderson Pdf

"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 : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 9781472577856

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture by Christina Marie Anderson Pdf

"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 : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 1474206468

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture: A cultural history of furniture in the Age of Exploration by Christina Marie Anderson Pdf

"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 : Christina M. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Carroll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280045

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration by Christina M. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Carroll Pdf

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 : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 1474206441

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture: A cultural history of furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry by Christina Marie Anderson Pdf

"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 : Joanne M. Ferraro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350103184

Get Book

A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age by Joanne M. Ferraro Pdf

Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and religious changes. The period witnessed dramatic religious reforms in the Catholic confession and the introduction of multiple Protestant denominations; the advent of the printing press; European encounters and exchange with the Americas, North Africa, and southwestern and eastern Asia; the growth of state bureaucracies; and a resurgence of ecclesiastical authority in private life. These developments, together with social, religious, and cultural attitudes, including the constructed norms of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, impinged upon the possibility of marrying. The nine scholars in this volume aim to provide a comprehensive picture of current research on the cultural history of marriage for the years between 1450 and 1650 by identifying both the ideal templates for nuptial unions in prescriptive writings and artistic representation and actual practices in the spheres of courtship and marriage rites, sexual relationships, the formation of family networks, marital dissolution, and the overriding choices of individuals over the structural and cultural constraints of the time. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.

Author : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 147420645X

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture: A cultural history of furniture in Age of Enlightenment by Christina Marie Anderson Pdf

"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 : Egon Friedell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351535809

Get Book

A Cultural History of the Modern Age by Egon Friedell Pdf

Volume three of A Cultural History of the Modern Age finishes a journey that begins with Descartes in the first volume and ends with Freud and the psychoanalytical movement in the third volume. Friedell describes the contents of these books as a series of performances, starting with the birth of the man of the Modern Age, followed by flowering of this epoch, and concludes with the death of the Modern Age. This huge landscape provides an intertwining of the material and the cultural, the civil and the military, from the high points of creative flowering in Europe to death and emptiness. The themes convey multiple messages: romanticism and liberalism opens the cultural scene, encased in a movement from The Congress of Vienna and its claims of peaceful co-existence to the Franco-German War. The final segment covers the period from Bismarck's generation to World War I. In each instance, the quotidian life of struggle, racial, religious, and social class is seen through the lens of the mighty figures of the period. The works of the period's great figures are shown in the new light of the human search for symbolism, the search for superman, the rise of individualism and decline of history as a source for knowledge. This third volume is painted in dark colors, a foreboding of the world that was to come, of political extremes, and intellectual exaggerations. The author looks forward to a postmodern Europe in which there is a faint glean of light from the other side. What actually appeared was the glare of Nazism and Communism, each claiming the future.

Author : Christina Marie Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 1474206425

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture: A cultural history of furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Christina Marie Anderson Pdf

"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 : Dimitra Andrianou,Christina M. Anderson,Catherine Futter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781472577870

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture by Dimitra Andrianou,Christina M. Anderson,Catherine Futter Pdf

"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 : Sylvain Cordier,Laura Houliston,Christina M. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1305450869

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture by Sylvain Cordier,Laura Houliston,Christina M. Anderson Pdf

Author : Christina M. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Carroll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280038

Get Book

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration by Christina M. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Carroll Pdf

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 : Andrew Teverson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350287600

Get Book

A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age by Andrew Teverson Pdf

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies, this volume uniquely examines creative applications of fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores how the fairy tale has become a genre that flourishes on film, on TV, and in digital media, as well as in the older technologies of print, performance, and the visual arts. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history, the visual arts and cultural studies, this book explores such themes and topics as: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.