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Arms and Armor Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Breiding Dirk H.

ISBN: HB: 9780876332924, Yale University Press, February 2020
312 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 415 colour illus.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's holdings of arms and armor are among the finest of their kind in the world. Presenting nearly 100 masterpieces from the collection, this lavishly illustrated volume includes complete armors and armor elements, swords,...

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American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Volume 1: Makers A-F

Garvan Beatrice B., Barquist David L., Agro Elisabeth R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229400, Yale University Press, January 2019
520 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 650 colour illus.

Beginning with Cesar Ghiselin in 1681, Philadelphia has a long and storied history of silversmithing that includes notable artists such as Joseph Richardson Sr. and Jr., Philip Syng Jr., and Olaf Skoogfors. Celebrating this legacy and showcasing the...

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American Art Pottery The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection

Frelinghuysen Alice Cooney, Eidelberg Martin, Spinozzi Adrienne

ISBN: HB: 9781588395962, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
384 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 420 colour illus.

During the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, from the late 1800s until World War I, American ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental and table wares to aesthetically and technologically innovat...

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American Glass The Collections at Yale

Gordon John Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9780300226690, Yale University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 190 colour illus.

Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, "American Glass" illuminates the v...

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Art of Iron Objects from the Musee Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen, Normandy

Morris Kathleen M., Bosc Alexandra, Cathelineau Anne-Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780300237047, Yale University Press, August 2018
112 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 65 colour illus.

For centuries, wrought iron was worked with care and craft into objects as diverse as shop signs, balcony railings, and dog collars. This handsome volume brings together thirty-six unique pieces of wrought iron from the celebrated collection of the M...

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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bussiere Jean, Lindros Wohl Birgitta

ISBN: PB: 9781606065136, Getty Publications, August 2017
510 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 56 line drawings

In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have m...

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American Furniture 2016 American Furniture Annual

Beckerdite Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780986385704, Casemate, Chipstone Foundation, June 2017
200 pp., 28.6x21.3 cm

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technol...

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American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago

McGoey Elizabeth, Barquist David L., Barter Judith A., Harvey Medill Higgins, Kane Patricia E., Wagner Ann, Ward Gerald W. R., Waters Deborah Dependahl, Wees Beth Carver, Bach Deborah Schmidt

ISBN: HB: 9780300222364, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2017
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 151 black&white illus., 196 colour illus.

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 colonia...

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Arts & Crafts Stained Glass

Cormack Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300209709, Yale University Press, August 2015
336 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Beautifully illustrated and based on more than three decades of research, "Arts & Crafts Stained Glass" is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthetics and production of stained glass in Britain and...

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Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland A History

Carruthers Annette

ISBN: HB: 9780300195767, Yale University Press, October 2013
468 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 100 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

This authoritative book is the most detailed account to date of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among...

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