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Decorative Arts

Art of German Stoneware Ceramics, 1400-1900 From the Charles W. Nichols Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hinton Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300179781, Yale University Press, May 2012
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Bold, bright, and functional, stoneware ceramics produced in the German-speaking centres of what is today Germany and the Low Countries were highly valued and widely traded in Europe and North America from the 16th through to the 18th century. In the...

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Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave

Molinski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780945323228, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2012
163 pp., 25.1x20.3 cm, throughout illus.

"Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind Weave" documents an exhibition of the same title organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art and visual artist Anne Wilson to investigate the global crisis of production and skill-based textile labor. This volume includes evoca...

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Ancient World

Amber and the Ancient World

Causey Faya

ISBN: PB: 9781606060827, Getty Publications, December 2011
144 pp., 22.4x17.4 cm, 63 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This title offers a fascinating look at the one of the ancient world's most prized substances. Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and lege...

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American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960

Ames Kenneth L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176872, Yale University Press, October 2011
320 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 250 colour illus.

The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genr...

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Apostles of Beauty Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago

Barter Judith A., Kelly Sarah E., Ruud Brandon K., Obniski Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300141139, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2009
208 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 220 colour illus.

The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design, and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. The movement's emphasis on aesthetic quality and a high level of craftsmanship, promoted as an ant...

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Art of Japanese Craft 1875 to the Present

Fischer Felice

ISBN: PB: 9780300142129, Yale University Press, October 2008
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 74 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

From Japan's first forays onto the international stage of world's fairs in the late nineteenth century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920 and 1930s, from the heady post-World War II period to the present day, Japanese crafts have exhibited a rich...

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American Presidential China The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Gray Detweiler Susan, Barquist David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300135930, Yale University Press, January 2008
91 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 6 black&white illus., 94 colour illus.

The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a fascinating story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. In this handsome book, which documents over 200...

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American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles

Gruber Safford Frances

ISBN: HB: 9780300116472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2007
464 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 158 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, from chair...

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American Decorative Arts MFA Highlights

Ward Gerald W. R., Gadsden Nonie, L'Ecuyer Kelly H.

ISBN: PB: 9780878466986, DAP, MFA Publications, August 2006
224 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 130 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "American Decorative Arts" features over 100 carefully selected masterpieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, base metals, coins and medals, basketry and sculpture from one of the world's preeminent collections. The M...

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Decorative Arts

Arts of Fire Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance

Hess Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780892367580, ISBN: HB: 9780892367573, Getty Publications, March 2006
184 pp., 26x20 cm, 70 colour illus., 1 map

Students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance easily fall under the spell of its achievements: its self-confident humanism, its groundbreaking scientific innovations, its ravishing artistic production. Yet many of the developments in Italian ceram...

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