American Rococo 1750 1775

Author : Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie Greene Bowman
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9780870996313

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American Rococo, 1750-1775 by Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie Greene Bowman Pdf

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by, and held at, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this volume examines the American (i.e. British colonial) manifestations of the European rococo style. Following an introductory chapter, separate chapters are devoted to architecture, engravings, silver, and furniture, plus iron, glass, and porcelain grouped together as factory products. Illustrated are 173 objects (many in color) that are part of the exhibition, and some 50 related objects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie Greene Bowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 0870996304

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American Rococo, 1750-1775 by Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie Greene Bowman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:429605370

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American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament by Anonim Pdf

Author : Morrison H. Heckscher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633900819

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American Rococo by Morrison H. Heckscher Pdf

Author : Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie G. Bowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073922439

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AMERICAN ROCOCO, ˜1750-1775œ (SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY TO SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE), ELEGANCE IN ORNAMENT. by Morrison H. Heckscher,Leslie G. Bowman Pdf

Author : Joclyn M. Oats
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000406108

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An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History by Joclyn M. Oats Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Pennsylvania Dutch
ISBN : 0271047437

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Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America by Anonim Pdf

Author : GauvinAlexander Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351540377

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The Spiritual Rococo by GauvinAlexander Bailey Pdf

A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious d?r and spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetics and culture. Why did the Rococo, ostensibly the least spiritual style in the pre-Modern canon, transform into one of the world?s most important modes for adorning sacred spaces? And why is Rococo still treated as a decadent nemesis of the Enlightenment when the two had fundamental characteristics in common? This book seeks to answer these questions by treating Rococo as a global phenomenon for the first time and by exploring its moral and spiritual dimensions through the lens of populist French religious literature of the day-a body of work the author calls the ?Spiritual Rococo? and which has never been applied directly to the arts. The book traces Rococo?s development from France through Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil, and South America by following a chain of interlocking case studies, whether artistic, literary, or ideological, and it also considers the parallel diffusion of the literature of the Spiritual Rococo in these same regions, placing particular emphasis on unpublished primary sources such as inventories. One of the ultimate goals of this study is to move beyond the clich?f Rococo?s frivolity and acknowledge its essential modernity. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, The Spiritual Rococo not only integrates different art historical fields in novel ways but also interacts with church and social history, literary and post-colonial studies, and anthropology, opening up new horizons in these fields.

Author : David Hackett Fischer,Harmondsworth Professor of American History and Fellow David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0195162536

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Liberty and Freedom by David Hackett Fischer,Harmondsworth Professor of American History and Fellow David Hackett Fischer Pdf

The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.

Author : Paul C. Gutjahr,Megan L. Benton
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Book design
ISBN : 1558497625

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Illuminating Letters by Paul C. Gutjahr,Megan L. Benton Pdf

What do we read when we read a text? The author's words, of course, but is that all? The prevailing publishing ethic has insisted that typography?the selection and arrangement of type and other visual elements on a page?should be an invisible, silent, and deferential servant to the text it conveys. This book contests that conventional point of view. Looking at texts ranging from the King James Bible to contemporary comic strips, the contributors to Illuminating Letters examine the seldom considered but richly revealing relationships between a text's typography and its literary interpretation. The essays assume no previous typographic knowledge or expertise; instead they invite readers primarily concerned with literary and cultural meanings to turn a more curious eye to the visual and physical forms of a specific text or genre. As the contributors show, closer inspection of those forms can yield fresh insights into the significance of a text's material presentation, leading readers to appreciate better how presentation shapes understandings of the text's meanings and values. The case studies included in the volume amplify its two overarching themes: one set explores the roles of printers and publishers in manipulating, willingly or not, the meaning and reception of texts through typographic choices; the other group examines the efforts of authors to circumvent or subvert such mediation by directly controlling the typographic presentation of their texts. Together these essays demonstrate that choices about type selection and arrangement do indeed help to orchestrate textual meaning. In addition to the editors, contributors include Sarah A. Kelen, Beth McCoy, Steven R. Price, Leon Jackson, and Gene Kannenberg Jr.

Author : Rosemary Troy Krill
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759119468

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Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 by Rosemary Troy Krill Pdf

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library is renowned for its decorative arts collection. An indispensable guide for curators, educators, interpreters, and students of decorative arts, this revised and enhanced edition includes a color CD of the impressive black and white photographs of the Winterthur collections that illustrate the book.

Author : Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576076484

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Material Culture in America by Helen Sheumaker,Shirley Wajda Pdf

The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.

Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1469 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136787584

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Encyclopedia of Interior Design by Joanna Banham Pdf

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Myronn Hardy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781611484946

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Catastrophic Bliss by Myronn Hardy Pdf

This collection of poetry discusses themes such as war, place, love, and history.

Author : Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781312703131

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Dering Letters Volume 1 by Patricia and Edward Shillingburg Pdf

The Dering letters involve members of the family from 1733 to 1838. Henry Dering arrived in America in the mid-1600. He began as a bar keep in a small village in New Hampshire and ended up as a merchant in Boston, a business that he left to his only son, who in turn left it to his two sons. The business was lost to fire and bad credit and Thomas took his wife and child to the 1,000 acre estate on Shelter Island the wife and her sister had inherited.Three generations lived and worked there through the Revolution and the beginnings of a new nation before a tragic death caused the family to sell.