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The Influence of Japanese Art on Design
Door Hannah Sigur
Categorie | Algemeen Kunst |
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Boeknummer | #292185 |
Titel | The Influence of Japanese Art on Design |
Auteur | Sigur, Hannah |
Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
Uitgeverij | Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith |
Jaar van uitgave | 2008 |
ISBN10 | 1586857495 |
ISBN13 | 9781586857493 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Original hardcover, price clipped dust jacket, a lot of illustrations in colour and b/w. |
Samenvatting | During America's Gilded Age (dates), the country was swept by a mania for all things Japanese. It spread from coast to coast, enticed everyone from robber barons to street vendors with its allure, and touched every aspect of life from patent medicines to wallpaper. Americans of the time found in Japanese art every design language: modernism or tradition, abstraction or realism, technical virtuosity or unfettered naturalism, craft or art, romance or functionalism. The art of Japan had a huge influence on American art and design. Title compares juxtapositions of American glass, silver and metal arts, ceramics, textiles, furniture, jewelry, advertising, and packaging with a spectrum of Japanese material ranging from expensive one-of-a-kind art crafts to mass-produced ephemera. Beginning in th... (Lees verder)e Aesthetic movement, this book continues through the Arts & Crafts era and ends in Frank Lloyd Wright's vision, showing the reader how that model became transformed from Japanese to American in design and concept. |
Pagina's | 222 |
Conditie | Goed |
Prijs | € 15,00 |
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