Download or read book Empire of Style written by BuYun Chen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production. This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/empire-of-style

Download or read book Empire Style Designs and Ornaments written by Joseph Beunat and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete reprinting of one of Beunat's later and more complete catalogs, showing and again making available over 900 individual ornaments and designs. There are many repeatable linear patterns, both horizontal and vertical, for frames, friezes, dividers, furniture decoration, figures and scenes based on mythological and biblical motives, plus many more forms.

Download or read book Empire Style written by Bernard Chevallier and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design.

Download or read book French Furniture from the Renaissance to the Empire Style written by Joseph Aronson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a treatise on French furniture from the renaissance to the Empire style. A fascinating book full of detailed photographs and interesting information, this text will greatly to appeal to anyone with an interest in French furniture and is sure to be of considerable value to collectors of antiquarian furniture literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Introduction', 'French Renaissance', 'Provincial French', 'The Regal Age Of Louis XVI', 'Regency', 'France: After Louis XVI', 'The Classic Revival Under Louis XVI', and 'The Antique Empire Style'. We are proud to republish this antiquarian text now complete with a new introduction on the history of furniture.

Download or read book The French Empire Style written by Alvar Gonzalez Palacios and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empire Stylebook of Interior Design written by Charles Percier and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition: the "bible" of First Empire style in interior decor, one of the most important and influential sourcebooks in the history of French design, reprinted from the rare 1812 edition, and essential reading for interior designers, architects, and architectural and social historians.

Download or read book Alexey Shchusev written by Dmitrij Chmelnizki and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexey Shchusev (1873-1949) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Soviet Union, famous for Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow. Not only a gifted designer of many prominent buildings, his career was quite unique and closely intertwined with the turbulent course of Russian and Soviet history. He was one of the very few architects who managed to rise to the top of the architectural hierarchy under the tsars and then to repeat this success under Soviet rule. Already before the Revolution of 1917, Shchusev was an acclaimed Revivalist architect, wellknown for his church designs and Moscow's Kazan Station. In the 1920s, he became a renowned Constructivist. Following the official renunciation of Avant-Garde architecture ordered by Stalin, Shchusev swiftly became an advocate of Socialist Classicism, designing many projects in the dictator's favoured Empire Style in order to satisfy the Stalinist state's needs for monumental representation. Combining a scholarly study of Shchusev's career with stunning photographs this book traces the development of this artistically and politically gifted architect through the architectural and historical changes in the first half of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Empire Splendor written by Bernard Chevallier and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France's Empire period, guided by the grand visions of the Emperor Napoleon, was one of the most sumptuous and creative epochs in French art, architecture, and decoration. By 1800, Neoclassical architects Percier and Fontaine had left an indelible mark on the Imperial residences and on the palatial homes of the country's leading families. The elegant decorative sensibility of this period reflected a nostalgia for the treasures of ancient Rome and Egypt and resulted in the creation of stunning, opulent interiors to match equally regal facades. Empire Splendor is a gorgeous photographic odyssey through France's most splendid Neoclassical residences, including extravagant chateaus, beautiful urban palaces, and Napoleon's official domiciles. Renowned curator Bernard Chevallier leads a detailed, room-by-room tour through the finest Empire antechambers, bedrooms, libraries, salons, and beyond. This is a captivating visual experience for historians, decorators, and art lovers alike.

Download or read book Napoleon written by Ted Gott and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social change with the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the rise to power of the young Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine.

Download or read book Empire Style 1804 1815 written by Nietta Aprà and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empire Style written by Madeleine Deschamps and published by . This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The French Empire Style of Furniture A Discussion of the Technique and Characteristics of the Furniture Designers of This Period written by Roger De Felice and published by . This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antique book contains a comprehensive discussion of the technique and characteristics of the designers of Empire style furniture. Complete with easy-to-digest information and a plethora of detailed, authentic photographs, this book will be of great value to those with an interest in the furniture of this period and also makes for a worthy addition to collections of antique furniture literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Characteristics and Technique of the Style', 'Various Articles of Furniture and Their Use', and 'Images of and Descriptions of Furniture'. Many antique texts such as this are increasingly costly and hard to come by, and it is with this in mind that we are proud to republish this text here complete with a new introduction on the history of furniture.

Download or read book Styles of Ornament written by Alexander Speltz and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art World and Arts Decoration written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mahogany Antique and Modern written by William Farquhar Payson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Symbols of Power written by Odile Nouvel and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a remarkable book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Musee des Art Decoratifs in Paris, and is comprehensive compendium of the Empire Style in all its glory. Lavishly illustrated with superb photographs, many taken expressly for this book, it will be a landmark in the library of the history of the decorative arts and an essential reference for lovers of wonderful objects everywhere."

Download or read book The Delineator written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: