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Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780820312330
Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.
Author : Outlet,Robert Bishop,Patricia Coblentz
Publisher : Outlet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-01
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 051745257X
Examines American craftsmanship from Colonial times to the present and shows examples of ceramics, furniture, quilts, carpets, and prints
Author : David M. Sokol
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:39000005716068
Author : Nina Fletcher Little
Publisher : Society for the Preservation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0874518660
This matchless account of a superb collection of New England country arts of the 17th through the 19th centuries tells the story of the collection and describes the joys, pitfalls, and philosophy of collecting with grace, humor, and great knowledge.
Author : Rosemary Troy Krill
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759119468
Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects. Many museums and historic sites display such collections to thousands of visitors annually. Guides, interpreters, educators, and collection managers will find this book a helpful summary and a guide to further research. This enhanced edition includes now includes a CD featuring beautiful color images of the more than 170 black-and-white photographs in the book, bringing the Winterthur collections to life on your computer and in your classroom. Published in cooperation with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Author : Andrew Kelly
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813155692
The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Project—the visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, this ambitious initiative set out to discover and document an authentic American style in everyday objects. The curators of the Index combed the country for art of the machine age—from carved carousel horses to engraved powder horns to woven coverlets—created by artisans for practical use. In their search for a true American artistic identity, they also sought furniture designed by regional craftsmen laboring in isolation from European traditions. Kentucky by Design offers the first comprehensive examination of the objects from the Bluegrass State featured in this historic venture. It showcases a wide array of offerings, including architecture, furniture, ceramics, musical instruments, textiles, clothing, and glass- and metalworks. The Federal Art Project played an important role in documenting and preserving the work of Shaker artists from the Pleasant Hill and South Union communities, and their creations are exhibited in this illuminating catalog. Beautifully illustrated with both the original watercolor depictions and contemporary, art-quality photographs of the works, this book is a lavish exploration of the Commonwealth's distinctive contribution to American culture and modern design. Features contributions from Jean M. Burks, Erika Doss, Jerrold Hirsch, Lauren Churilla, Larrie Currie, Michelle Ganz, Tommy Hines, Lee Kogan, Ron Pen, Janet Rae, Shelly Zegart, Mel Hankla, Philippe Chavance, Kate Hesseldenz, Madeleine Burnside, and Allan Weiss.
Author : Anna Katz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300239942
A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 artists from across the United States, examining the movement's defiant adoption of art forms traditionally viewed as feminine, craft-based, or otherwise inferior to fine art. In addition to offering an overview of the Pattern and Decoration movement as it is commonly recognized, this volume considers artists of the period who are not typically associated with the movement. Rethinking the significance of patterns and the decorative in postwar American art, this panoramic view provides new insights into abstraction, feminism, and installation art. Essays explore the movement's feminist methods and values, including Miriam Schapiro's "femmage" practice; its impact on contemporary abstract painting; and its relationship to postmodern architecture and design. Artist biographies, an exhibition history, and reprints of historically significant writings further establish With Pleasure as the most expansive publication on the subject.
Author : Yale University. Art Gallery,John Stuart Gordon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0300153015
"Draws upon the renowned collection of American decorative arts at the Yale University Art Gallery to explore the appearance and dissemination of modern design in the United States. This catalogue organizes roughly 300 examples of silver, glass, industrial design, furniture, medals, jewelry, and printed textiles into thematic groups that chart the aesthetic and social trends that defined American design from the Jazz Age to the Space Age. The authors consider modernism broadly--from handmade luxury goods to mass-produced housewares--establishing a context for the objects within larger international developments in architecture, avant-garde art, and scientific innovation."--Publisher description.
Author : Philip D. Zimmerman,Catherine E. Hutchins
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1882650174
While demonstrating the high level of artistry attained by furniture-makers of the period, this selection in many ways reflects the evolving character of domestic life in America during a seminal period in the country's history.
Author : Amelia Peck,Carol Irish
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : 9781588390028
"This publication, which accompanies an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, contains a biographical essay and a catalogue of about one hundred designs for textiles, wallpaper, and other interior furnishings by Wheeler and her associates."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Stephanie L. Herdrich,Sylvia Yount,Daniel Immerwahr,Christopher Riopelle,Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397478
This timely study of Winslow Homer highlights his imagery of the Atlantic world and reveals themes of racial, political, and natural conflict across his career. Long celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) in fact brushed a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism, and the environment. This groundbreaking publication focuses, for the first time, on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas—in particular, The Gulf Stream (1899), an iconic painting long considered the most consequential of his career—revealing a lifelong fascination with struggle and conflict. The book also includes Homer’s depictions of rural life and the sea, in which he grapples with the violence of nature, as well as his Civil War and Reconstruction paintings of the 1860s and 1870s, which explore the unresolved effects of the war on the landscape, soldiers, and the formerly enslaved. Recognizing the artist’s keen ability to distill complex issues in his work, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents upends popular conceptions and convincingly argues that Homer’s work resonates with the challenges of the present day.
Author : Milton Wolf Brown,Theresa C. Brakeley
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000640833
A cultural history of American art from early Colonial times through the late twentieth-century, tracing the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the decorative arts, and featuring 752 black-and-white and color illustrations.
Author : Elizabeth Feld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111126764
Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Edward S. Cooke
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015024789813
This exhibition and catalogue, celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture.
Author : Ann Smart Martin
Publisher : Chazen Museum of Art
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0932900461
Here, American furniture and prints as well as English ceramics from a Milwaukee collection tell stories of stylistic change, regional preference, solutions of technological problems, and how Americans responded to English, European, Asian, and African influences.