E W Godwin

Author : Edward William Godwin,Susan Weber Soros,Catherine Arbuthnott,Bard Graduate Center For Studies In The Decora,Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300080087

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E.W. Godwin by Edward William Godwin,Susan Weber Soros,Catherine Arbuthnott,Bard Graduate Center For Studies In The Decora,Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Pdf

In the first section of this work, ten scholars examine E.W. Godwin's life and career, discussing his diverse contributions as a design reformer. The second section presents a fully annotated selection of over 150 items that represent the formation and flowering of Godwin's oeuvre.

Author : Ayako Ono
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136625107

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Japonisme in Britain by Ayako Ono Pdf

Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world and beginning a process of thorough modernisation, some have said westernisation. The mastery of western art was included in the programme. This book examines the nineteenth century art world against this background and explores Japanese influences on four artists working in Britain in particular: the American James McNeill Whistler, the Australian Mortimer Menpes, and the 'Glasgow boys' George Henry and Edward Atkinson Hornel. Japonisme in Britian is richly illustrated throughout.

Author : Susan Weber Soros,Edward William Godwin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300081596

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The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin by Susan Weber Soros,Edward William Godwin Pdf

"Victorian architect designer E.W. Godwin (1833-86), tying himself neither morally nor aesthetically to a single style, approached design with what he called "judicious eclecticism." Seeking to design furniture appropriate to the needs of modern living, he grappled with the problems of affordability, utility, and function and experimented with modular and fitted furniture decades before it became popular in the mid-twentieth century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Godwin's furniture designs. Taking the form of a catalogue raisonne, the book documents and reproduces all known examples of his secular furniture and related furniture designs."--Jacket.

Author : Iain Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107020320

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Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece by Iain Ross Pdf

Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Author : Clive Edwards
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781803131047

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Collinson & Lock by Clive Edwards Pdf

Victorian furnishers and decorators Collinson & Lock were a model of the art furniture business of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This book is the first wide-ranging study of this once highly important company. It will give insights into the workings and productions of a London furnishing business in the period. It also provides information on a wide variety of topics including furniture design developments, interior design styles, business practices, working practices and techniques, and the firm’s customers and competitors. Clive Edwards first considers the structure of the London ‘art furniture’ trade and its development to locate the firm in its community. He then traces the growth of the firm’s business, its involvement with important international exhibitions, the designers they worked with, and the furniture and interiors they produced. This important book then outlines and discusses Collinson & Lock’s creations ranging from seminal pieces that were designed for an exclusive clientele, to those displayed at national and international exhibitions between 1871 and 1900, through to batch produced objects that still maintained the quality and design that the firm was famous for. The involvement of the firm with both public and private interior decoration commissions is also examined through case studies, including those in the Anglo-Japanese, Queen Anne, Old English, and Renaissance styles used in the later Victorian period. Drawing on the author's extensive knowledge of nineteenth-century furniture and interiors, this book meets a need for a fully researched and illustrated reference work on this famous firm. If you have an interest in the history of furniture and interior design, if you are involved with furniture collections either on a private basis or professionally, or you simply have an interest in the decorative arts and culture of the period, this book should be on your shelves.

Author : Devon Cox
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780711274532

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The Street of Wonderful Possibilities by Devon Cox Pdf

A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – London’s Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent. For Wilde, the street was full of ‘wonderful possibilities’, while for Whistler it was ‘the birthplace of art’, where a new brand of aestheticism was nurtured in his controversial White House. Modern masterpieces in art and literature flowed from the studios and houses of Tite Street, but this bohemian enclave had a dark side as well. Here Whistler was bankrupted, Frank Miles was sent to an asylum, Wilde was imprisoned, and Peter Warlock was gassed to death. Throughout its turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From the Aesthetic movement and its challenge to Victorian values, through the Edwardian struggle for women’s suffrage, to the bombs of the Blitz in the 1940s, it remained home to innumerable artists and writers, socialites and suffragettes, musicians and madmen. The Street of Wonderful Possibilities reveals this complex history, tying together private and professional lives to form a colourful tapestry of art and intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite Street and to a rapidly modernising London at the fin de siècle.

Author : Brenda Martin,Penny Sparke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134453016

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Women's Places by Brenda Martin,Penny Sparke Pdf

What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960, examines in detail the professional and domestic spaces created by women who had money and the opportunity to achieve their ideal. Set against a background of accepted notions of modernity relating to design and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book provides a fascinating insight into women's social aspirations and identities. It offers new information and new interpretations in the study of gender, material culture and the built environment in the period 1860-1960.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000067499533

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The British Architect by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1277 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195189483

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts by Gordon Campbell Pdf

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise definitions on art forms and style. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms.

Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3392 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136787577

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Encyclopedia of Interior Design by Joanna Banham Pdf

From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.

Author : Alexandrina Buchanan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781843838005

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Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation of Architectural History by Alexandrina Buchanan Pdf

The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" of architectural history.

Author : Elizabeth Lomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135970901

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Guide to the Archive of Art and Design by Elizabeth Lomas Pdf

The Archive of Art and Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum contains Britain's foremost collection of primary source material relating to art and design, particularly of the twentieth century. Established in 1978, the Archive holds over 200 archives created by individual artists, craftspeople and designers and businesses and societies involved in the manufacture and promotion of art and design products. The Guide describes each archive in detail, offering information about its creator, its contents, and related sources held both inside and outside the V&A Museum. It is an invaluable reference text for everyone with an interest in studying British art and design.

Author : Oscar Wilde,John Cooper
Publisher : CSM Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780989532716

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Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook) by Oscar Wilde,John Cooper Pdf

Including The Philosophy Of Dress by Oscar Wilde. The recent print version was the first this work had been for the first time it had been published in 128 Years, and in book form for the first time ever. Now this is the first ebook.The work now forms the centerpiece of this unique collection of Wilde's writings on dress. As a compendium this book also includes several rarely published period articles and letters by Wilde on dress and fashion, along with a related exchange of correspondence that forms an instructional discourse. In addition there are generously annotated and illustrated chapters that analyze the importance of dress in the historical context of the writing career of Oscar Wilde, and a comprehensive review of the influences, trends, characters and source material that informed the development of his dress philosophy.The whole constitutes a thorough examination of a previously overlooked aspect in the Wilde canon, which should prove to be of interest not only to Wildean scholars, but also to anyone who enjoys his style of writing. Oscar Wilde continues to be favorably reappraised as a one of the most culturally avant garde tastemakers of the late nineteenth century. In an ever fashion-conscious world it is fitting that the themes explored, like the author himself, are still relevant. In this respect the book will also be of historical value to fashion students, historians, and practitioners.

Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429873331

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An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance by Robert Leach Pdf

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people and ethnic minorities, as well as the theatres of the English regions, and of Wales and Scotland. Highly illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props. Continuing on from the Enlightenment, Volume Two of An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance leads its readers from the drama and performances of the Industrial Revolution to the latest digital theatre. Moving from Punch and Judy, castle spectres and penny showmen to Modernism and Postdramatic Theatre, Leach’s second volume triumphantly completes a collated account of all the British Theatre History knowledge anyone could ever need.

Author : Victoria Rosner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231507875

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Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life by Victoria Rosner Pdf

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf, Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literature in the creation of an experimental, embodied, and unstructured private life, which we continue to characterize as "modern."