The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain

The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain
Author: Leonard Williams
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain in three volumes is a study of ancient and medieval art on the Iberian Peninsula written with a goal to provide a clear and fairly complete account of the decorative arts and techniques from the country of Don Quixote. The work is divided in three parts: The first part deals with gold, silver, and jewel work, iron-work, bronzes and arms; The second part deals with furniture, ivories, pottery, and glass; and the final third part deals with Spanish silk, cloths and woolens, embroidery, tapestry and lace, with few additional accounts concerning different forms of artistic expression.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Hyde Park Public Library (Mass.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1905
Genre: Classified catalogs
ISBN:

A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2

A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2
Author: Albert Boime
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226063355

In this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art. Heavily illustrated, this volume is an invaluable social history of modern art during the Napoleonic era. Stimulating and informative, this volume will become a valuable resource for faculty and undergraduates.—R. W. Liscombe, Choice