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Art History RSS FeedsFwenz.Info - Now You Really Can Build Your Own Successful Online Business At Virtually Zero Cost...Feed Source: Furniture 700 -- 1700 The social history of the decorative arts by Eric Mercer - Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1969: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: decorative endpapers: 183 pages including index: Black and white and colour illustrations, some full-page. Synopsis: As part of a series examining the social history of the decorative arts in Europe and North America , this volume examines a thousand years of furniture history. The author, Eric Mercer, examines the links with social conditions; the effects of hous... Musical Instruments and Their Decoration by Christopher Rueger - Seven Hills Books, 1986: first in this edition: slip cased hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 8 x 9 inches tall: 163 pages: colour and black and white illustration throughout, many full page plates. Synopsis: A survey of four centuries of European decorated musical instruments and the part played by cabinetmakers, painters, sculptors, inlay specialists, and instrument makers. Among the instruments described are harpsichords, clavichords, ... Art Deco (Essential Art) by Iain Zaczek - Parragon 2000, first of this edition: hardcover in dust jacket: 234 pages: colour illustrated throughout. Synopsis: An examination of the Art Deco movement and the wide range of exquisitely designed objects of the period including architecture, furniture, paintings, posters, clocks, porcelain, pottery, and other decorative and utilitarian household objects. The book includes a detailed commentary on 120 specified works, and the text is sup... Jack Vettriano: A Life by Jack Vettriano; text by Anthony Quinn - Pavilion 2004: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 9 x 11 inches tall: 190 pages: colour illustrated throughout: many plates full-page. Synopsis: A compilation of work by the successful and famous Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, self taught former mining engineer whose art has been exhibited in Edinburgh, London, South Africa and Hong Kong. The book includes more than 30 new images exhibited in his 2004 exhibition, recently discovered ... British racing prints 1700-1940 by Charles Lane - The Sportsman's Press, London, 1990: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 8.5 x 11 inches tall: 200 pages including index: Black and white and colour illustrations. Synopsis: A comprehensive study of three centuries of British Racing history linking Royal patrons, noble owners, classic races they sought to win, and the artists and engravers whose prints recorded the racing scenes . Short biographies of the artists ar... The dictionary of portrait painters in Britain up to 1920 by Brian Stewart .Mervyn Cutten - The Antique Collectors Club, 1997: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 8.5 x 2 x 11 inches tall: 502 pages: decorative coloured endpapers: black and white reproductions and colour plates, some full-page . Synopsis : a dictionary listing more than 5000 portraitists who worked in Britain from the early 16th to the early 20th centuries, contaiing genealogical information,(some previously unpublished ) 76 full colour illustration... Dog painting 1840 -- 1940 a social history of the dog in art by William Secord - The Antique Collectors Club 1992: first edition hardcover in dust jacket approximately 8.5 x 1.25 by in 11.25 inches tall: 366 pages including index: Black and white and colour plates. Synopsis: An exploration of the presentation of the dog in art from its origins in Greek and Roman art to the art of the 20th-century ; with emphasis on the period 1840 -1940 and examination of the evidence of evolution in some 50 breeds of dogs. The ... From Giotto To Cezanne by Michael Levey - A World of Art Library book. 324 pages. 549 plates in full colour. Ink inscription on title page. ... Mary Potter- A Life Of Painting by Julian Potter - 128 pages ... The English Sunrise by Brian Rice and Tony Evans - Matthews Miller Dunbar 1972: first edition board book : no dust jacket. Contents 75 colour plates showing the use of the sunrise motif in architecture; the decorative arts; advertising ; antique, utilitarian and personal objects. Each of the 76 examples is listed with geographic site on the final two pages . Condition: very clean and good throughout. ... Posters by Bevis Hillier - Hamlyn publishing 1974: claret coloured hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 7 x 10 inches tall: 298 pages including index: 170 pages of black and white illustration: 40 pages of colour. Synopsis: A fully illustrated, comprehensive and detailed history of the poster and the wealth of international poster artists ; with sections on the Prehistory of the Poster ( origins, Greek poster panels, Roman hoardings, Caxton's 147... Mrs Hurst dancing and other scenes from Regency life 1812 -- 1823 by Paintings by Diana Sperling. text by Gordon Mingay - Victor Gollancz 1981: first edition: signed by the owner of the original sketches, Neville Ollerenshaw: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 9.5 x 9 inches tall: 74 page coloured reproductions with descriptions on facing page: 6 page historical and descriptive introduction. Synopsis: The reproduction of 70 pictures painted by Diana Sperling between 1812 and 1823, depicting daily events in the lives of her family, friends and neigh... Catalogue of Fine Chinese Paintings property of the Estate of Dr Ip Yee, Hong Kong sold for benefit of charity, 1984 by Sothebys - Sothebys 1984; soft cover: dust jacket. Contents:high quality catalogue of 154 Chinese paintings , all illustrated in monochrome or black and white, featuring the works of Bi Long, Bian Shoumin, Chen Baoshen, Chen Hengke, Chen Hongshou, Chen Jiayan., chen shifa, Da Chongguang,Dong Qichang, Huang Shen,Hua Yen, Zou Yigui, Zhou Hao, Leng Mei, Jiao Bingzhen, Wang Yuanqi, Wang Hui, Zha Shibia... The picture history of painting from cave painting to modern times by H W Janson and Doro Jane Janson - Thames and Hudson, undated but believed circa 1960: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 10 x 13 inches tall: 319 pages including index: over 500 illustrations, many full-page with 103 in colour. Synopsis: A comprehensively illustrated panorama of the art of painting through the ages. Contents: Part one. How painting began: images and imagination. The magic pictures of the cavemen. Pictures for the dead: Egypt. Pic... Copyright © 2008, Fwenz.Info. All Rights Reserved. |