A Personal Touch
Author: Veena Duncker
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by Mienke Simon Thomas, Eric Turner, Lynn Springer Roberts, Veena Duncker, Reinhard Sanger.
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Silver in America
Author: Charles L. Venable
Publisher:
Published: 1995-02
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the history and development of the American silver industry. It chronicles the work of firms such as Tiffany, Gorham, Meridan Britannia, and Reed and Barton, along with that of makers such as Whiting, Wendt, Wood and Hughs, Scheibler, and Gale.
History of Design
Author: Bard Graduate Center
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-12-10
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 0300196148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years
Vanishing Beauty
Author: Madhuvanti Ghose
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0300214847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewelry and ritual objects offer a material record of vanishing ways of life. Used as portable forms of wealth, as personal adornment, and in religious practice, they represent a broad spectrum of cultures. The majority comes from the Himalayan region, including Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia, and other pieces hail from Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The catalogue showcases stunning works--including delicate amulet boxes, other Tibetan Buddhist artifacts, and ornate Turkmen jewelry--through dramatic photography undertaken specifically for this publication. With five essays placing the objects in the contexts of their native regions, Vanishing Beauty offers a beautiful presentation of creativity and craftsmanship from across Asia.
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Author: Joan M. Marter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 3140
ISBN-13: 0195335791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwentieth-Century Pattern Design
Author: Lesley Jackson
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2007-02-08
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781568987125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Twentieth-Century Pattern Design combines photographs - including many newly published images - with soundly researched text, creating an essential resource for enthusiasts and historians of modern design. The book also serves as a creative sourcebook for students and designers, inspiring new flights of fancy in pattern design."--Jacket.
Antique Trader Oriental Antiques & Art
Author: Mark Moran
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-08-18
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1440225095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLOSE YOURSELF in the mysterious allure of the Far Easy with Antique Trader Oriental Antiques & Art, 2nd Edition by Mark Moran and Sandra Andacht. This wide-ranging guide to Asian treasures provides you with the information you need to catalog and evaluate your collection. Each section includes historical backgrounds, current values, and detailed descriptions of plethora of objects ranging from apparel and textiles, rugs and carpets, Chinese porcelain and pottery, to furniture, paintings, Japanese armor and weaponry, and Southeast Asian ceramics. • Chinese Porcelain & Pottery • Japanese Ceramics • Furniture • Ivory, Horn, Shell, Tortoiseshell • Lacquer • Rugs & Carpets • Glass • Jewelry • Cloisonne
Modernism in American Silver
Author: Jewel Stern
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780300109276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design
World Silver and Monetary History in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Author: Dennis O. Flynn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1040231381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection reflects the evolution of a revisionist argument. The price revolution was indeed a monetary phenomenon, but Professor Flynn's position is not based upon mainstream monetary theory. Silver mines financed the Spanish Empire and Japan's consolidation. Ming China was the world's primary silver customer; Europeans acted as middlemen globally, including massive trade over the Pacific via Manila. American mines nearly led to the destruction of nascent capitalism in Europe (reverse of arguments by Hamilton, Keynes, Wallerstein and others). Silver-market disequilibrium caused silver's gravitation toward China; bullion did not flow to Asia due to European trade deficits. Such conclusions stem from application of the Doherty-Flynn model developed in the mid-1980s. Economic theory is normally applied to economic history; in contrast, development of the Doherty-Flynn model was a response to inadequate conventional theory. Theory emerged from history; its application back to history yields startling historical reinterpretations.
