Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward and Jeannine Falino. Text by Gerald W.R. Ward, Jeannine Falino, Jane Port, Rebecca Ann Gay Reynolds.
Author : Wees, Beth Carver
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1588394913
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Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 030022236X
The history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago's superb collection embodies innovation and beauty from the colonial era to the present. In the 17th century, silversmiths brought the fashions of their homelands to the colonies, and in the early 18th, new forms arose as technology diversified production. Demand increased in the 19th century as the Industrial Revolution took hold. In the 20th, modernism changed the shape of silver inside and outside the home. This beautifully illustrated volume presents highlights from the collection with stunning photography and entries from leading specialists. In-depth essays relate a fascinating story about eating, drinking, and entertaining that spans the history of the Republic and trace the development of the Art Institute's holdings of American silver over nearly a century.
Author : Rosemary Troy Krill
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759119465
Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects. Many museums and historic sites display such collections to thousands of visitors annually. Guides, interpreters, educators, and collection managers will find this book a helpful summary and a guide to further research. This enhanced edition includes now includes a CD featuring beautiful color images of the more than 170 black-and-white photographs in the book, bringing the Winterthur collections to life on your computer and in your classroom. Published in cooperation with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Author : Swannee Bennett
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 168226131X
Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.
Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195335791
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Author : Tom McNulty
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1476613974
This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research skills are reviewed, and advanced methods are explored in a chapter devoted to basic market research. Because the monetary value of artwork cannot be established without reference to the aesthetic qualities and art historical significance of our subject works, two substantial chapters detail the processes involved in researching and documenting the fine and decorative arts, respectively, and provide annotated bibliographies. Methods for assigning values for art objects are explored, and sources of price data, both in print and online, are identified and described in detail. In recent years, art historical scholarship increasingly has addressed issues related to the history of art and its markets: a chapter on resources for the historian of the art market offers a wide range of sources. Finally, provenance and art law are discussed, with particular reference to their relevance to dealers, collectors, artists and other art market stakeholders.
Author : Lesley Wylie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1835535224
Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.
Author : Christina J. Hodge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107034396
This study examines the emergence of the middle class and consumerism in colonial America.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN :
