Index of Art Sales Catalogs 1981-1985: Main index, October 7, 1984-December 23, 1985. Subject index
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Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
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A History of Interior Design
Author : John F. Pile
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Design
ISBN : 1856694186
Book Description
Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap.
Nineteenth-Century Design
Author : Clive Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 100035086X
Book Description
This is volume three in a four-volume edition of primary source materials that document the histories of design across the long nineteenth century. Each volume is arranged by appropriate sub-themes and it is the first set of primary sources to be gathered together in this comprehensive and accessible format. Design refers to more than simply products and personalities or even cultural ideas, it involves consideration of ways of design thinking and applications as well as the philosophies and the other disciplines that impinge upon it. Here, the third volume considers the issues of design production and practices including debates about the role of machine and craft, the impact of new materials and technologies as well as issues of marketing and mediation. The volumes will be of interest to a range of scholars and students, including those in art and design history, visual culture, and nineteenth-century material culture. They will also be of interest to a broad range of scholars working in areas including aesthetics, gender, politics and philosophy.
The Storyteller's Thesaurus
Author : Troll Lord Games
Publisher : Troll Lord Games
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781936822355
Book Description
Writers, game designers, teachers, and students ~this is the book youve been waiting for! Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different:
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and Symbols: The Ultimate A–Z Guide from Alchemy to the Zodiac
Author : Adele Nozedar
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0007283962
Book Description
Unlock the lost and hidden meanings of the world's ancient and modern signs and symbols with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. This is the biggest A-Z reference book on symbolic objects you'll ever find.
American Naive Paintings
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521443012
Book Description
One of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.
The Rational Optimist
Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0061452068
Book Description
For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. In his bold and bracing exploration into how human culture evolves positively through exchange and specialization, bestselling author Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. An astute, refreshing, and revelatory work that covers the entire sweep of human history—from the Stone Age to the Internet—The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
Kyffin Williams
Author : Nicholas Sinclair
Publisher : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Kyffin Williams RA (b.1918) is the central figure in contemporary Welsh painting and this book, the first monograph to be published on the artist, examines the full range of his work from the mid-1940s to the present day.From the outset of his career, Kyffin Williams took both the landscape and the people of North Wales as his subjects, and he has remained faithful to them for almost sixty years. He has realised, through his oil paintings, his watercolours and his drawings, the spirit of a mountainous landscape and its inhabitants that now form the cornerstone upon which we understand and visualise the essence of North Wales.Including an authoritative introductory essay by Ian Jeffrey, one of Britain's leading art historians, the book also profiles ten sites in North Wales where the artist has worked throughout his career. The inclusion of a range of location photographs by Nicholas Sinclair helps to explain both Williams' inspiration and how he interprets the world around him.Kyffin Williams encapsulates all aspects of Wales' most famous living artist and is consequently an invaluable resource for both scholars and art collectors.
Design: The Key Concepts
Author : Catherine McDermott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134361807
Book Description
This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Respected design writer Catherine McDermott draws from a wide range of international examples.
