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Material Theories
Author | : Elena Chestnova |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2022-06-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000594084 |
Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper’s classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style. This book demonstrates how Semper’s theories crystallised among his encounters with material things of the late 1840s and early 1850s. It examines several discursive frameworks and phenomena which shaped the attitude to artefacts in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and which were specifically pertinent to Semper’s evolution: archaeology and antiquarianism, the domestic interior, print media, collections, and the embodied relationship between the designer and their work. For the first time, this book examines the construction of a design theory not only as an intellectual endeavour but also as a process of confrontation with material things. It employs recent approaches to material culture, in particular Thing Theory, in order to show that Semper’s artefact references constituted his ideas, rather than simply giving impetus to them. It will be an important investigation for academics and researchers interested in interior design history, as well as scholars of material culture and history of design theory.
Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of 19th-Century Britain
Author | : Rebecca Wade |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1501332201 |
Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and contemporary sculpture. Based in Covent Garden in London, Brucciani built a network of fellow Italian émigré formatori and collaborated with other makers of facsimiles-including Elkington the electrotype manufacturers, Copeland the makers of Parian ware and Benjamin Cheverton with his sculpture reducing machine-to bring sculpture into the spaces of learning and leisure for as broad a public as possible. Brucciani's plaster casts survive in collections from North America to New Zealand, but the extraordinary breadth of his practice-making death masks of the famous and infamous, producing pioneering casts of anatomical, botanical and fossil specimens and decorating dance halls and theatres across Britain-is revealed here for the first time. By making unprecedented use of the nineteenth-century periodical press and dispersed archival sources, Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of Nineteenth-Century Britain establishes the significance of Brucciani's sculptural practice to the visual and material cultures of Victorian Britain and beyond.
Reports from the Commissioners
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Victoria and Albert Museum
Author | : Elizabeth James |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134271131 |
A comprehensive bibliography and exhibition chronology of the world's greatest museum of the decorative arts and design. The Victoria and Albert Museum, or South Kensington Museum as it used to be known, was founded by the British Government in 1852, out of the proceeds from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Like the Exhibition, it aimed to improve the expertise of designers, and the taste of the public, by exposing them to examples of good design from all countries and periods. 2,500 publications have to date been produced by, for, or in association with the V&A. The National Art Library, which is part of the Museum, has prepared this detailed catalogue, supplemented by a secondary list of 500 other books closely related to the V&A. The 1,500 exhibitions and displays recorded include those held in the main Museum and at its branches, the Bethnal Green Museum (now the National Museum of Childhood) and the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, and additionally those it has organized at external venues, in Great Britain and abroad. The exhibitions and publications are fully cross-referenced, and there are name, title and subject indexes to the whole work, as well as an explanatory introduction.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
Author | : Victoria and Albert Museum |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781884964954 |
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The History and Philosophy of Art Education
Author | : Stuart Macdonald |
Publisher | : James Clarke & Co. |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780718891534 |
Investigating the study of art and design education in Italy, France, Britain, Germany and the United States, this text traces the philosophies of teachers from the age of the guilds and the academies, setting them in the context of the general educationtheories of their times.
Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive
Author | : Rachel Bryant Davies |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2022-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350200360 |
Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams lead a cast of renowned scholars to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the mechanisms of power that have shaped the nineteenth-century archive, to ask: What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined? This landmark collection of essays will broach critical and topical questions about how the complex discourses of power involved in constructions of the nineteenth-century archive have impacted, and continue to impact, constructions of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, and beyond academic confines. The essays, written from a range of disciplinary perspectives, grapple with urgent problems of how to deal with potentially sensitive nineteenth-century archival items, both within academic scholarship and in present-day public-facing institutions, which often reflect erotic, colonial and imperial, racist, sexist, violent, or elitist ideologies. Each contribution grapples with these questions from a range of perspectives: Musicology, Classics, English, History, Visual Culture, and Museums and Archives. The result is far-reaching historical excavation of archival experiences.
Majolica Mania
Author | : Susan Weber |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0300251041 |
The first comprehensive study of the most important ceramic innovation of the 19th century Colorful, wildly imaginative, and technically innovative, majolica was functional and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its subject matter reflects a range of 19th-century preoccupations, from botany and zoology to popular humor and the macabre. Majolica Mania examines the medium’s considerable impact, from wares used in domestic settings to monumental pieces at the World’s Fairs. Essays by international experts address the extensive output of the originators and manufacturers in England—including Minton, Wedgwood, and George Jones—and the migration of English craftsmen to the U.S. New research including information on important American makers in New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia is also featured. Fully illustrated, the book is enlivened by new photography of pieces from major museums and private collections in the U.S. and Great Britain.