Download or read book Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture 1971 1991 written by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and published by Museum of Fine Arts Boston. This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition and catalogue, celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture.

Download or read book American Decorative Arts and Sculpture written by Gerald W. R. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Antiques Roadshow Collectibles written by Carol Prisant and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers tips on identifying, collecting, and caring for furniture, photographs, posters and illustration art, costume jewelry and wristwatches, dolls, toys, advertising and sports memorabilia, and glass and pottery.

Download or read book A Half century of Creative Collecting in the American Decorative Arts written by Alice Wincester and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection written by David B. Warren and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paintings by such prominent artists as John Smibert, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart are included, many of which are reproduced here in color for the first time. Exceptional examples of metalwork, including notable pieces by Paul Revere and the celebrated firm of Tiffany & Co., are joined by an extraordinary selection of prints, drawings, textiles, glass, and ceramics. This volume will be of great interest to the general public and collectors as well as to students and scholars.

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Download or read book Makers and Users written by Ann Smart Martin and published by Chazen Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book White House Collection of American Crafts written by Michael Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1995-04-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection, assembled in 1993, features the work of over seventy of America's leading craft artists, working in glass, metal, ceramic, fiber, and wood.

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Creation Out of Clay written by Brother Thomas and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely book presents essays and recent works in porcelain by Brother Thomas Bezanson, praised as "one of the greatest artists in the Western pottery world" by well-known Japanese ceramicist Tatsuzo Shimaoka. Brother Thomas explores his faith and the process of creation side by side with illustrations of the celebrated porcelain vases, plates, and tea bowls that are his life's work. The book also contains a nineteen-page photo essay on Brother Thomas at work in his studio by Bill Aron of Los Angeles, an introduction by Joan Chittister, and an illustrated index of the works of Brother Thomas now held in more than fifty museum collections around the world.

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Download or read book The Potter s Art written by Henry Glassie and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coming into being, the work of art, this very pot, creates relations--relations between nature and culture, between the individual and society, between utility and beauty. Governed by desire, the artist's work answers questions of value. Is nature favored, or culture? Are individual needs or social needs more important? Do utilitarian or aesthetic concerns dominate in the transformation of nature?" --from the Introduction The Potter's Art discusses and illustrates the work of modern masters of traditional ceramics from Bangladesh, Sweden, various parts of the United States, Turkey, and Japan. It will appeal to anyone interested in pottery and the study of folklore and folk art. Henry Glassie is College Professor of Folklore and Co-director of Turkish Studies at Indiana University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute; he has also served as President of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and of the American Folklore Society. Material Culture--Henry Glassie, George Jevremovic, and William T. Sumner, editors (Note: there is an accent egue on the c Jevremovic) Contents: The Potter's Art Bangladesh Sweden Georgia Acoma Turkey Japan Hagi Work in the Clay Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Download or read book Albert Paley written by Albert Paley and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Albert Paley, the definitive turning point in his studio career--from metalsmithing on the intimate scale to fabrication on the monumental scale of public artworks--came in 1973 when he won the commission for the gates of the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. Albert Paley: Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics and Decorative Arts includes a spectrum of Paley's works, maquettes, and proposals for major commissions, decorative arts, drawings, prints, and sculpture. Paley's projects range from the 260-foot bridge railings for the Main Street Redevelopment Project in his home, Rochester, New York, to the sculptural ornament of a gilt opera box handle for a Texas cultural compex. He orchestrates a team of professionals at his studio to create titanic sculptures, heroic archways, massive gates, and human-scaled functional objects such as ceremonial tables, desks, or lamps.

Download or read book American Furniture 1998 written by Luke Beckerdite and published by American Furniture Annual. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative arts.