Book Description
Engaging survey of nearly 200 years of great native folk art: weathervanes, portraits, Indians, ship figureheads, toys, decoys, etc. 17th through 19th century. Styles, uses, technical information, makers. 68 illustrations.
Author : Erwin Ottomar Christensen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780486218403
Engaging survey of nearly 200 years of great native folk art: weathervanes, portraits, Indians, ship figureheads, toys, decoys, etc. 17th through 19th century. Styles, uses, technical information, makers. 68 illustrations.
Author : Albert Sack
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Rev. ed. of: The new fine points of furniture.1993.
Author : Joseph H. Ellis
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1584657855
A comprehensive look at American miniature bird carvings and the artists who made them
Author : Suzanne E. Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN :
Workers in Early American crafts selected their designs for applique work, ceramics, embroidery, quilting, stenciling, and wood carving from a variety of New World sources. This CD-ROM and book set reproduces 300 of these black-and-white motifs, including floral sprays, garlands, and wreaths, birds and animals, landscapes, and bowls of fruit.
Author : Nancy Ireson
Publisher : Companyédition Paul Holberton/The Barnes Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781911300878
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia from September 27, 2020 - January 10, 2021.
Author : Eric Sloane
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486425603
Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Tony Kubalak
Publisher : Linden Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781933502328
Presenting 10 projects -- from shaping the surface through layout to rough carving and detailed carving -- this guide explains the process of carving authentic motifs found on the most treasured pieces of 18th-century American furniture. Written with a two-pronged approach, the book first emphasises that these are learned skills and offers guidance while, secondly, providing all the complex details that serious carvers need to reproduce each element with confidence. Selected for their importance and popularity on museum-quality pieces, projects include the cabriole leg, Philadelphia-style ball and claw foot, carved foliage on knee, Philadelphia rosette, and Newport flame finial, among others.
Author : Frederick Wilbur
Publisher : GMC Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
"A primer for woodcarvers in the vocabulary of classical ornamentation, and the practical skills needed to carve it."--"Woodshop News." "Blueprints are provided for moldings, volutes, rosettes, and capitals. The geometry of these designs is celebrated as the author brings these ancient motifs into making present-day objects such as picture frames, mantelpieces, and gateposts."--"Chip Chats."
Author : Dirk Smidt
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1462909647
Asmat Art features the world renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New Guinea This book presents a full range of Asmat woodcarving art, but emphasizes the rare early shields and figure sculptures. Drums, canoe prowheads and the larger, more dramatic "objects" are also shown. Together with bisj poles, war shields are perhaps the most famous creation of Asmat artists, and these were carved throughout the region. It is in the design and construction of the shields that the variations in style region can most clearly be seen. Figure sculptures, of varying styles, are also well represented here, and a limited number of the huge ceremonial carvings, such as bisj poles and basu suangkus, have also been included. The cultural context in which these items play their part is described in detail in the introductory chapters. But it is not the intention of this book to be an ethnography. The focus is on the art pieces themselves.
Author : Anthony Petullo
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0252072774
A collection of self-taught and outsider art with a European representation of artists.