Decorative Art of Victoria's Era
Author : Frances Lichten
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN :
Author : Frances Lichten
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN :
Author : Michael Snodin
Publisher : V&A's Design & the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900 S.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Decorative Arts
ISBN : 9781851774227
Now available in trade paperback for the first time, the V&A's acclaimed Design and the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900 has been published in three separate volumes. Victorian Britain 1837-1901 tells the story of design and the decorative arts in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. With an empire that embraced a fifth of the earth's land surface and a quarter of its people, Britain was the workshop of the world. London was rivalled only by Paris as a focus for international interest in design and the decorative arts and British products could be found across the globe. Victorian self-confidence seemed boundless, but optimism about the human capacity to transform the material world was matched by a spiritual disquiet that found powerful expression in design and the decorative arts. Victorians despaired at the endless tide of new things that surged forth from factory and workshop, they agonized about the way those things looked and they were disturbed by the degraded conditions endured by the workers who made them. Yet in their efforts to confront these problems, they produced some the masterpieces of Victorian design. Lavishly illustrated and unmatched in its coverage, this book explores design and the decorative arts from a number of points of view. It assesses their place in the wider history of Victorian Britain. It examines style, the question of how things looked. It asks who led taste; who decided what was to be considered beautiful, fashionable and desirable. It looks at how fashionable things - from houses to clothing - were used. It asks what was new, examining new products and innovations in the ways they were made. Together, the chapters provide an indispensable resource for the study of design and the decorative arts in Victorian Britain.
Author : Susan M. Wright
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9780854312504
Author : Martin Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781885444479
Drawn from Birmingham Museums Trust's incomparable collection of Victorian art and design, this exhibition will explore how three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers, such as Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, revolutionized the visual arts in Britain, engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them.
Author : Michael Snodin
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 9781851773381
Published to celebrate the reopening of the newly refurbished British Galleries in the Victoria and Albert Museum. This work tells the story of design and decorative art in Britain from the time of Henry VIII to the reign of Queen Victoria.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0870990047
This book illustrates and discusses 300 prime objects displayed in the 1970 exhibition of American decorative arts displayed during the Centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1970. Presented as a series of lavish room settings and galleries, the exhibit included pieces in the 19th century’s principal styles of furniture and decorative arts--Federal, Empire, Gothic, rococo, Renaissance, art nouveau, and reform. Objects featured in this book include various pieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and metalwork from the Museum’s American wing.
Author : David Crowley
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780715315156
This is an analysis of the work of all the major designers, architects Thomas Cubitt and George Gilbert Scott, harbinger of Modernism Christopher Dresser, the 'anti-Victorian' William Morris - and examination of the anonymous artifacts, from dolls' houses to tableaux morts, which decorated the victorian home. This book also offers an explanation of the complex interrelationship of different styles throughout the period: neo-Classicism, Renaissance Revival, French Rococo, Queen Anne and High Victorian Gothic. Also featured is a discussion of the influential role of the Royal family, as arbiters of taste and objects of veneration. Throughout, the generous format allows over 200 beautiful colour photographs and illustrations to be shown to their full potential. Alongside the art and architecture of the period are shown more unusual artifacts of the time. Overall this is an essential volume for anyone with an interest in the style and attitudes of the Victorian era.
Author : Michael Snodin
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 9781851774203
Tells the story of the design and the decorative arts in Britain from the end of the Middle Ages through the reigns of Henry VIII and the great Elizabethan era to the beginning of the 18th century.
Author : Moncure Daniel Conway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Travels in South Kensington is a memoir and travelogue by Moncure Daniel Conway. Conway was an American abolitionist minister and author who spent the larger part of his life in England and France. Here he examines the district of Kensington in London with a view to detailing its decorative art and architecture.
Author : Frances Lichten
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN :