The Theory of Decorative Art An Anthology of European and American Writings, 1750-1940 Isabelle Frank, David Britt
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- Series:
- Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication date:
- 29 Dec 2000
- ISBN:
- 9780300088052
- Dimensions:
- 396 pages: 234 x 156 x 25mm
- Illustrations:
- 45 illustrations
Categories:
- Arts »
- Art Forms »
- Decorative Arts »
This anthology contains significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-18th century to the 1940s. It offers a history of decorative art as it emerged in the west, and reconstructs the debates over how to define this type of art and distinguish it from fine art.
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Jewels by Jar
Adrian Sassoon£25.00 -
History of Design
Pat Kirkham£50.00 -
A Deadly Art
Dirk Breiding£16.99 -
Magnificent Entertainments
Melanie Doderer-Winkler£40.00 -
Salvaging the Past
Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide£45.00 -
Paris, 1650-1900
Reinier Baarsen£175.00 -
40 Under 40
Nicholas R. Bell£35.00 -
A Modern World
John Stuart Gordon£50.00 -
American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960
Kenneth L. Ames£25.00 -
Cloisonne
Beatrice Quette£50.00 -
A Closer Look
Nicholas Penny£7.99 -
The Metropolitan Museum's Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts
Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide£30.00 -
Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery
Lucy Wood£125.00 -
Artistic Luxury
Stephen Harrison£40.00 -
The Art of Japanese Craft
Felice Fischer£11.99 -
The Cosmopolitan Interior
Judith Neiswander£35.00 -
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones
Caroline Arscott£40.00 -
New Bamboo
Joe Earle£16.00 -
Cameo Appearances
James David Draper£12.99 -
Art of the Royal Court
Rudolf Distelberger£45.00
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William Kent
Susan Weber£60.00 -
Confluences
Erin L. Hasinoff£25.00 -
Circus and the City
Matthew Wittmann£25.00 -
The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot
Nina Samuel£25.00 -
The American Circus
Susan Weber£40.00 -
Marimekko
Marianne Aav£25.00 -
Staging Fashion, 1880-1920
Michele Majer£25.00 -
American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960
Kenneth L. Ames£25.00 -
Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010
Earl Martin£45.00 -
Cloisonne
Beatrice Quette£50.00 -
Objects of Exchange
Aaron Glass£25.00 -
Dutch New York, Between East and West
Deborah L. Krohn£50.00 -
Fragile Diplomacy
Maureen Cassidy Geiger£65.00 -
James 'Athenian' Stuart
Susan Weber Soros£65.00 -
Bruno Mathsson
Dag Widman£40.00 -
Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts
Peter Barnet£50.00 -
Thomas Jeckyll
Susan Weber Soros£60.00 -
Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier
Stanislaus von Moos£37.50 -
Utopia and Reality
Cecilia Widenheim£37.50 -
The Art of Ceramics
Howard Coutts£45.00