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Book Colouring Chinoiserie

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Sim
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
  • Release : 2016-06-15
  • ISBN : 9789814751070
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Colouring Chinoiserie written by William Sim and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia). This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - 50 original illustrations- Chinese-theme colouring book for adults- Features familiar objects and icons drawn with a whimsicaltouch- Taps on trend of colouring as an activiy to relieve stress- Author availablefor in-store activities in Singapore

Book The New Chinoiserie Coloring Book

Download or read book The New Chinoiserie Coloring Book written by K P Singh and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Chinoiserie Coloring Book is a love letter to wallpapers, textiles, and ceramic art of the 18th century. Highly detailed illustrations are drawn with extra fine lines to help you produce finished art that is ready to frame. You'll find this collection of thirty stylized motifs presented in two ways: conventional black-outline coloring pages, and a new style of light-outline coloring pages. This new style gives colorists room to develop their own level of detail as the printed line recedes into the background. Whichever style of print you prefer, the additional copy of each design can be used to reduce bleed-through or for experimenting with techniques. While some people might consider this collection appropriate for advanced colorers-the fine lines are easily drawn over-and will still look great with a looser, more abstract approach to coloring. Included in your purchase is a link to download five of the illustrations as free printable greeting cards. ______________ K.P. Singh is an illustrator and fine artist. Her contemporary homage to chinoiserie is expressed through her bespoke hand-painted wallpapers and textile designs. She incorporates flora and fauna from her home in Southern California into this lovingly crafted, new chinoiserie collection. This is her first coloring book. ______________ Subjects include: birds, trees, lemons, chrysanthemums, peonies, tulips, tulipieres, vases, urns and ginger jars, tea cups, tropical foliage, butterflies and moths, tigers, snakes, a little porcelain doggy, portrait and landscape style compositions, repeating patterns, and symmetrical patterns. Take advantage of the unique, hand-drawn art and extra copies of each image by applying the designs to your embroidery, cross stitch, or watercolor projects. To do so, apply graphite or transfer paper to the back of the image and use a pen or stylus to press the design through. For tips on how to transfer these designs to watercolor paper and tutorials on painting techniques, check out the link provided in the book.

Book Islamic Chinoiserie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kadoi Yuka Kadoi
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2019-07-31
  • ISBN : 1474469671
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Islamic Chinoiserie written by Kadoi Yuka Kadoi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century marked a new phase in the development of Islamic art. Trans-Eurasian exchanges of goods, people and ideas were encouraged on a large scale under the auspices of the Pax Mongolica. With the fascination of portable objects brought from China and Central Asia, a distinctive, hitherto unknown style - Islamic chinoiserie - was born in the art of Iran.Highly illustrated, Islamic Chinoiserie offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic interaction between Iran and China under the Mongols. By using rich visual materials from various media of decorative and pictorial arts - textiles, ceramics, metalwork and manuscript painting - the book illustrates the process of adoption and adaptation of Chinese themes in the art of Mongol-ruled Iran in a visually compelling way. The observation of this unique artistic phenomenon serves to promote the understanding of the artistic diversity of Islamic art in the Middle Ages.Key Features*Covers various media of decorative and pictorial arts from Iran, Central Asia and China*Deals with a diverse range of issues related to the East-West artistic relationship in the Middle Ages*Features in-depth studies of style, technique and iconography in Iranian art under the Mongols*Includes 125 illustrations, 24 in colour

Book Chinoiserie

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  • Author : Richard Hayman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-06-24
  • ISBN : 178442465X
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book Chinoiserie written by Richard Hayman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinoiserie, a decorative style inspired by the art of the Far East, gripped Britain from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Despite taking its name from the French word for 'Chinese', the style also incorporated influences from other Asian countries, helping to shape the period's popular fantasy of the 'exotic Orient'. Wealthy consumers jostled to obtain imported wallpaper, lacquered cabinets and hand-painted porcelain, while domestic manufacturers such as Royal Worcester and Chippendale met demand with mass-produced items of their own. Though interest in the style waned as the Gothic Revival took hold, many examples of Chinoiserie have been preserved. In this beautifully illustrated book, Richard Hayman tells the story of this fascinating phenomenon, and explores the profound impact of Chinoiserie on the material culture of the West.

Book British Modernism and Chinoiserie

Download or read book British Modernism and Chinoiserie written by Anne Witchard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. Traditionally defined as a decorative style that conjured a fanciful and idealized notion of China, chinoiserie was revived in in London's avant-garde circles, the Bloomsbury group, the Vorticists and others, who like their eighteenth-century forebears, turned to China as a cultural and aesthetic utopia. As part of Modernism's challenge to the 'universality' of so-called Western values and aesthetics, the turn to China would contribute much more than has been acknowledged to Modernist thinking. As these 10 new chapters demonstrate, China as an intellectual and aesthetic utopia dazzled intellectuals and aesthetes, at the same time the consumption of Chinese exoticism became commercialized. The essays show that from cutting-edge Modernist chic to mass culture and consumer products, the vogue for chinoiserie style and motifs permeated the art and design of the period. --Provided by publisher.

Book Colouring the World

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  • Author : William Sim
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
  • Release : 2015-11-16
  • ISBN : 9789814677967
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Colouring the World written by William Sim and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia). This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy more art therapy with artist William Sim as he travels to the great cities of the world in Colouring the World.Grab your pens and color pencils and relax as you explore his beautiful and intricate illustrations. Leave your worries behind and color your stress away.

Book The Materiality of Color

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Feeser
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351542737
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book The Materiality of Color written by Andrea Feeser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written on the aesthetic value of color, there are other values that adhere to it with economic and social values among them. Through case studies of particular colors and colored objects, this volume demonstrates just how complex the history of color is by focusing on the diverse social and cultural meanings of color; the trouble, pain, and suffering behind the production and application of these colors; the difficult technical processes for making and applying color; and the intricacy of commercial exchanges and knowledge transfers as commodities and techniques moved from one region to another. By emphasizing color's materiality, the way in which it was produced, exchanged, and used by artisans, artists, and craftspersons, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation, and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts. This book captures color's global history with chapters on indigo plantations in India and the American South, cochineal production in colonial Oaxaca, the taste for brightly colored Chinese objects in Europe, and the thriving trade in vermilion between Europeans and Native Americans. To underscore the complexity of the technical knowledge behind color production, there are chapters on the 'discovery' of Prussian blue, Brazilian feather techn?and wallpaper production. To sound the depths of color's capacity for social and cultural meaning-making, there are chapters that explore the significance of black ink in Shakespeare's sonnets, red threads in women's needlework samplers, blues in Mayan sacred statuary, and greens and yellows in colored glass bracelets that were traded across the Arabian desert in the late Middle Ages. The purpose of this book is to recover color's complex-and sometimes morally troubling-past, and in doing so,

Book Manning on Decoupage

Download or read book Manning on Decoupage written by Hiram Manning and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear explanations of every step of every procedure by man who probably knows more about craft than anyone. 91 drawings, over 100 photographs. Index.

Book The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Architectural Space in Eighteenth Century Europe

Download or read book Architectural Space in Eighteenth Century Europe written by Meredith Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.

Book The Night Voyage

Download or read book The Night Voyage written by Daria Song and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl delivers gifts across the world with the help of her toy train’s conductor in this gorgeous coloring book for all ages—the third installation of the magical Time series It’s the night before the little girl’s birthday, and she’s surrounded by gifts—but there are too many! Suddenly, she’s swept away by her toy train conductor, who has come to life to help the little girl give her presents away to children around the globe. From evocatively illustrated paper cranes, bicycles, and trolleys to cityscapes, hot air balloons, and star-filled skies, The Night Voyage is a magical and imaginative adventure from Korean artist Daria Song. The Night Voyage has extra-thick craft paper and a removable—and colorable!—jacket. Featuring gorgeous gold foil on the cover and a customizable dedication page, The Night Voyage is perfect for anyone looking to add some magic into their lives. Unleash your creativity with Daria Song’s whimsical Time series: THE TIME GARDEN • THE TIME CHAMBER • THE NIGHT VOYAGE

Book The Spur

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 696 pages

Download or read book The Spur written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harper s Bazaar

Download or read book Harper s Bazaar written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bulletin

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  • Author : Needle and Bobbin Club
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 554 pages

Download or read book The Bulletin written by Needle and Bobbin Club and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Domestic Embroidery   Elizabeth to Anne

Download or read book English Domestic Embroidery Elizabeth to Anne written by A. J. Wace and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “English Domestic Embroidery” is a detailed account of the history and development of embroidery in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This highly-readable account looks in detail at the emergence and subsequent popularity and influence of needlework in England, exploring notable figures, companies, trends, and developments. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating information, “English Domestic Embroidery” is highly recommend for readers with an interest in the colourful story of English needlework, and it is not to be missed by collectors of related literature. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on embroidery.

Book Behind Closed Doors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amanda Vickery
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2009-11-17
  • ISBN : 0300188560
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Amanda Vickery and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. The basis of a 3-part TV series for BBC2. “Vickery is that rare thing, an…historian who writes like a novelist.”—Jane Schilling, Daily Mail “Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible…This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship.”—Lisa Hilton, The Independent “If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review

Book The Stanforth Secrets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jo Beverley
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2010-02-02
  • ISBN : 110118485X
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Stanforth Secrets written by Jo Beverley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Wedding, a classic Regency romance back in print and in trade paperback for the first time. Though the widowed Chloe Stanforth loves her house by the sea, a series of puzzling incidents has left her unsettled and anxious to find a new home. Her situation is complicated by the arrival of her husband's cousin, for whom she has long harbored a deep and guilty attraction. Back from the war, Justin Delamere hopes he can finally woo Chloe, until he suspects her guilty of treason-and murder. Can he trust the woman he's always desired, and can Chloe surrender her most private secrets to the man who controls her freedom and now her heart?