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.

Download or read book Arts and Crafts Tiles Morris to Voysey written by Rob Higgins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to the tiles of the British Arts and Crafts, including tiles designed by some of the greatest names associated with the movement.

Download or read book Lancastrians written by Paul Salveson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new history of the great English county of Lancashire, exploring its people's impact on Britain and beyond.

Download or read book Made in Lancashire written by Geoffrey Timmins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new perspective on the Industrial Revolution providing far more than just an account of industrial change. Looks at the development of the economic structures and includes chapters on financing the revolution, technological change, markets and demand, transport and food. The final section looks at economic change and its impact and includes chapters on demography, the household, families, authority and regulation, and the built environment. Providing a complete summary of the various debates in the literature on this period, making a strong case for re-introducing a regional approach to the history of the age.

Download or read book The Design Encyclopedia written by Mel Byars and published by Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design has an increasingly high profile - figures like Philippe Starck are as venerated and well known as more traditional artists. But where the literature on fine art is vast, design is still conparatively ill-served. This encyclopedia provides an account of the still largely unknown story of design.

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Download or read book 5000 Years of Tiles written by Hans Van Lemmen and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, full-color exploration of tile art and production worldwide, from earliest times to the present day. The book is both an authoritative work of reference and a visual delight, ranging from ancient Greece, where the first fired roof tiles date from as early as the third millennium BC, to twentieth-century Mexico. Along the way we encounter stunning examples of the tiler's art: the enormous English medieval floor pavements from Byland Abbey and Clarendon Palace; figural tiles from China, intended to adorn roofs and ward off evil; the famous Iznik tiles from the Islamic world, with their richly decorative patterns; the highly stylised ceramic tiles of the Arts and Crafts movement; and the tiles created by some of the finest ceramic artists and potters of the twenty-first century. Placing the tiles firmly in their historical and cultural context, the book highlights both continuity and diversity, the dissemination of techniques and designs, and how tile art in one time and place has inspired and rejuvenated those in others. Tiles are also studied in terms of function as well as form, and the full range of architectural and practical purposes for which they have been used - from floors to roofs, stoves to bathrooms, cathedrals to metro stations - will be explored, along with the various techniques employed to create such versatile pieces. 5000 Years of Tiles is the essential, most comprehensive single volume for anyone interested in the ceramic, decorative, and architectural arts.

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Download or read book Tiles and Tilework of Europe written by Alun Graves and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey of the use of tiles in interior design through the ages, from the Gothic through to Art Deco and the Omega Workshops in the 20th century.

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Download or read book Salford at Work written by Peter Harris and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of the working life of the city of Salford and it's people over the last century and more.

Download or read book Charles Cundall 1890 1971 written by Paul Liss and published by Liss Llewellyn Fine Art. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to appear on the 20th century British artist Charles Cundall, this publication examines aspects of Cundall work done at home in England, abroad - Cundall made numerous painting trips to the continent, but also to the United States - and during the war. Well illustrated, the book also includes a chronology and a reproduction of a text by William Gaunt dating from the 1960s and commissioned for a book on Cundall that never came to be.