Download or read book An Attempt to Define the Principles which Should Regulate the Employment of Colour in the Decorative Arts written by Owen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patent Office Library Subject Lists New Series written by Great Britain. Patent Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Craft and Heritage written by Susan Surette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 19 original essays argues for a critical and sustained engagement between the fields of craft and heritage. The book's interdisciplinary and international array of authors consider how heritage and craft institutions, policies, practices and audiences encounter the constraints and opportunities of production, recognition and exhibition. Case studies spanning 125 years raise and address questions concerning authenticity and commodification, innovation and improvisation, diasporas and decolonization, global economies and national and professional identities. Authors also analyse mechanisms through which craft mobilises and has been harnessed by heritage processes and designations. Examples range from an Irish village at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the role of chronopolitics in contemporary Vietnamese pottery, to the invisibility of crochet within Swedish heritagisation processes and the application of game theory in a ceramics museum. With section one considering citizenship and identity, section two sustainability and section three dynamic craft in cultural institutions, Craft and Heritage interrogates how craft objects, makers and processes intersect with current heritage concerns and practices.
Download or read book Ornament and European Modernism written by Loretta Vandi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through Gottfried Semper, Alois Riegl, August Schmarsow, Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, and Hermann Muthesius, the contributors show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament is imbued with historical and social meaning.
Download or read book Grand Designs written by Lara Kriegel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.
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Download or read book Oxford Jackson written by William Whyte and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century one man changed Oxford forever. T. G. Jackson built the Examination Schools, the Bridge of Sighs, worked at a dozen colleges, and restored a score of other Oxford icons. He also built for many of the major public schools, for the University of Cambridge, and at the Inns of Court. A friend of William Morris, he was a pioneering member of the arts and crafts moment. A distinguished historian, he also restored dozens of houses and churches - and ensured the survival of Winchester Cathedral. As an architectural theorist he was a leader of the generation that rejected the Gothic Revival and sought to develop a new and modern style of building. Drawing on extensive archival work, and illustrated with a hundred images, this is the first in-depth analysis of Jackson's career ever written. It sheds light on a little-known architect and reveals that his buildings, his books, and his work as an arts and craftsman were not just important in their own right, they were also part of a wider social change. Jackson was the architect of choice for a particular group of people, for the 'intellectual aristocracy' of late Victorian England. His buildings were a means by which they could articulate their identity and demonstrate their distinctiveness. They reformed the universities and the schools whilst he refashioned their image. Essential reading for anyone interested in Victorian architecture and nineteenth-century society, this book will also be of interest to all those who know and love Oxford or Cambridge.
Download or read book An Encyclop dia of Architecture Revised with Alterations and Considerable Additions by W Papworth New Edition written by Joseph GWILT and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Architecture Historical Theoretical and Practical written by Joseph Gwilt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Library of the Division of Art at Marlborough House written by Museum of Ornamental Art. Library and published by London : George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode. This book was released on 1855 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Account of the Library of Art at Marlborough House with a Catalogue of the Principal Works written by Wornum and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire Building written by Mark Crinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.
Download or read book Catalogue of the library of the Pharmaceutical society of Great Britain Appended in the catalogue of the North British branch written by John William Knapman and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of decorative art written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabetical List of Books Added to the Central Lending Library Since the Publication of the Catalogue in March 1890 written by Croydon (London, England). Public libraries and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
