Ceramics in America

Ceramics in America
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Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015058889729
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Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

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Copper and Bronze in Art

Copper and Bronze in Art
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 536
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ISBN-10 : 0892366389
ISBN-13 : 9780892366385
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Copper and Bronze in Art by : David A. Scott

This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.

Iron and Steel in Art

Iron and Steel in Art
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Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 1909492477
ISBN-13 : 9781909492479
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Iron and Steel in Art by : David A. Scott

- A comprehensive journey through the history of iron - Aims to become a main reference text on this subject - Of interest to enthusiasts of anthropology, iron-age and art This book will be of interest to all who seek to further their understanding of iron artefacts: their corrosion, conservation, and pigments based on iron compounds, which mankind has used for millennia. The authors take the reader through some of the latest observations on the occurrence and role of compounds of iron - from the hot water undersea vents where the presence of iron pyrites is thought to be vital to the emergence of life on Earth, to the discovery of jarosite on the surface of Mars, possibly indicating the presence of water; from the pyrophoric surprises one can have when dealing with iron artefacts taken from beneath the sea to the use of a blue oxide of iron as a pigment in mediaeval wall paintings; from rusticles on the Titanic to the analysis of coloring matter on the Turin shroud. The great variety of iron compounds is examined (from the simple oxides to the exotic green rusts, from Prussian blue to yellow jarosites), the corrosion of iron in different environments is discussed and a critical review of the many attempts to conserve iron is presented. This volume will serve as a useful textbook on the subject for many years.

Design

Design
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Publisher : Birkhäuser
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9783035603941
ISBN-13 : 3035603944
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Design by : Bernhard E. Bürdek

For students of design, professional product designers, and anyone interested in design equally indispensable: the fully revised and updated edition of the reference work on product design. The book traces the history of product design and its current developments, and presents the most important principles of design theory and methodology, looking in particular at the communicative function of products and highlighting aspects such as corporate and service design, design management, strategic design, interface/interaction design and human design.. From the content: Design and history: The Bauhaus; The Ulm School of Design; The Example of Braun; The Art of Design Design and Globalization Design and Methodology: Epistemological Methods in Design Design and Theory: Aspects of the Disciplinary Design Theory Design and its Context: From Corporate Design to Service Design Product Language and Product Semiotics Architecture and Design Design and Society Design and Technological Progress

Artbibliographies Modern

Artbibliographies Modern
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Total Pages : 604
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015042582034
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Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

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Medieval and Renaissance Art

Medieval and Renaissance Art
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Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822036317899
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Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Medieval and Renaissance Art by : Glyn Davies

This important and beautiful book accompanies the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum's spectacular new Medieval and Renaissance galleries. Among the textiles, paintings, sculpture, glass, metalwork, prints, manuscripts, furniture, ceramics and jewelry featured here are such renowned treasures as the Devonshire tapestries, the Leonardo Notebooks, Donatellos Ascension relief, the reliquary casket of St. Thomas Becket, and many more astonishing works. Organized thematically, the book explores the social contexts responsible for these captivating objects, both commonplace and precious, recovering the attitudes of makers and owners of the time toward artistic practice. Rather than adopting the traditional sharp distinction between the Medieval and Renaissance, the authors explore aspects of the whole of this long period in European design and manufacture: an approach that emphasizes the continuities and gradual developments that were often as significant as sudden upheaval. A general historical introduction to the social and political background is followed by chapters that explore concepts of art, workshops, and sales, the classical past, ornament, religious art, health and body, and the ways in which objects themselves express the attitudes of their owners.

Here

Here
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Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780593315927
ISBN-13 : 0593315928
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Here by : Richard McGuire

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision: the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. “A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century…. I guarantee that you’ll remember exactly where you are, or were, when you first read it.” —Chris Ware, The Guardian "In Here McGuire has introduced a third dimension to the flat page. He can poke holes in the space-time continuum simply by imposing frames that act as trans­temporal windows into the larger frame that stands for the provisional now. Here is the ­comic-book equivalent of a scientific breakthrough. It is also a lovely evocation of the spirit of place, a family drama under the gaze of eternity and a ghost story in which all of us are enlisted to haunt and be haunted in turn.” —The New York Times Book Review With full-color illustrations throughout.