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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts
A tour through the Yale University Art Gallery’s holdings of
American art, one of the most exceptional museum collections of its
kind This volume presents an engaging selection of highlights and
introduces readers to the richness and diversity of the Yale
University Art Gallery’s holdings of American art. An
introductory essay outlines pivotal moments in the
three-hundred-year history of collecting, exhibiting, and teaching
with American art at Yale and commemorates the fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of the Friends of American Arts at Yale, whose
support continues to ensure the excellence of the collection. The
more than one hundred object entries that follow create a narrative
that charts the multiplicity of experiences and accomplishments of
artists and artisans living and working in North America—from the
earliest days of European settlement to the present. Among the
catalogued objects are works by some of the best-known names in
American art as well as recent acquisitions and masterpieces that
represent diverse American identities. A dazzling range of media is
displayed, including paintings and sculpture, medals, prints and
drawings, photographs, jewelry, furniture, and decorative arts.
Each object is illustrated with a full-page image and is
accompanied by a one-page discussion that focuses on its
contribution to the history of American art. Â Â
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
With over 200 scroll saw patterns to bring to life, this must-have
resource will keep you scrolling throughout the year. With
insightful sections covering the scrolling basics to assist
beginners as well as more challenging projects for advanced
scrollers this book offers a wide range of projects in various
scroll saw styles.
For any keen woodturners out there who want to do more turning but
are short of time, 30-Minute Woodturning is the perfect book as it
has an enticing variety of projects which can all be completed in
30 minutes. Even for those working at an intermediate level, this
book provides you with something to aim for without compromising
safety and it will help beginners to build their skills. Each of
the 25 projects also has plans for four variations included so
there are a total of 100 designs to whet your appetite. Most of the
projects require only basic turning tools and workshop accessories
that nearly every turner will have. A list of tools and materials
required is included for each one, along with drawings with
dimensions. Projects include: candlestick holder doorstop
decorative bird box toadstool spatula honey dipper bud vase square
edge plate
An explosion of patination methods from beginner to advanced skill
levels! Patina offers a collection of over 300 metal patination
recipes, application instructions, and full-sized samples for
anyone working in metals, including jewelers, sculptors, and metal
artisans. This all-skill-level book covers steel, stainless steel,
copper, brass, bronze, silver, and aluminum. Neatly organized by
metal type then by color for ease of reference. Patina discusses
variables that affect the overall metal coloration such as surface
preparation, chemical formula, application method, and more.
Cross-references take you to the variety of patination techniques
offered, including immersion, brush application, spraying, fuming,
layering, using resists, hot and cold applications, and more. All
recipes feature step-by-step illustrated instructions. Patina also
discusses safety issues and handling and disposing of hazardous or
corrosive materials as well as proper ventilation. This book is an
inspirational resource, a how-to guide, and a book that you have
long been waiting for.
Learn how to master hundreds of knotting and braiding techniques to
create stunning jewellery and accessories. Written by renowned
jewellery crafter and first Ambassador for Swarovski Elements,
Dorothy Wood, The Knotting & Braiding Bible is the essential
guide to knotting and braiding techniques for jewellery craft. The
book covers kumihimo (braiding), plaiting, knotting (including
macrame) and fusion, with techniques for adding beads, using
different cords/wire and attaching findings. All the instructions
have step by step photography to make them suitable for beginners.
Choose from a selection of contemporary jewellery, accessories and
home decor projects to create beautiful gifts and home decorations.
Influenced by the currently very popu-lar do-it-yourself movement,
the contemporary design scene is increasingly shaped by a creative
fusion of production and consumption. When it comes to the
development of a self-made furniture culture, this book project
combines for the first time design history research and consumerism
theory with numerous historical and contemporary construction
instructions and interior design recommendations. Across five
chapters, design history and everyday culture are vividly and
closely examined. What are their ori- gins? Which media and
channels are used to pass on experiences and prac-tical
instructions? Who exchanges in-formation with whom and under what
circumstances? And what has changed since the advent of the era of
digital modernity?
From medieval pilgrim badges and Renaissance hat decorations to
jewelled brooches and twentieth-century political pins, brooches
and badges are often more than practical or decorative dress
fasteners; they are expressions of identity. Focusing on the
V&A(1)s world-famous collection, Brooches & Badges explores
the evolution of these intricate and versatile works of art, and
the way in which changes in dress have dictated their use.
- First book to chronicle the life and artwork of June Schwarcz, a
pioneer craftsperson in the enamel and decorative arts fieldJune
Schwarcz (1918-2015) was among the most innovative artists working
in the contemporary enamels field. Best known for her electroplated
metal sculpture embellished with rich enamel color, she produced an
extensive body of work that, while linked to long-standing
vessel-making traditions, defied convention. In a field known for
visual opulence, preciousness, and adherence to traditional craft
practices, Schwarcz was a renegade. She learned enameling on her
own and adopted a highly experimental approach to process,
inventing new ways of creating sculptural objects in metal and
unorthodox strategies for their embellishment. Believing in the
power of opposing principles, she created forms that were at once
raw and elemental, elegantly composed, and lushly beautiful. A
seminal figure in the American craft field, Schwarcz led enameling
workshops across the country and influenced several generations of
young and emerging artists. She also played a central role in the
craft community of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lived and
worked for more than fifty years. June Schwarcz: Artist in Glass
and Metal is the first publication to investigate Schwarcz's work
in depth. It explores the rich trajectory of her career along with
the sources and influences that helped shape and define her
singular vision. It also investigates the themes and subjects that
intrigued her as it examines the role she played in advancing
enameling in America in the late twentieth century. This lavishly
illustrated publication celebrates the extraordinary body of work
Schwarcz created over a period of sixty years.
Showcasing marbled paper, paste paper, fold-and-dye papers, and
more, this book reveals a little-known arts phenomenon from its
grass roots in the 1960s to artistic heights in the following
decades Pattern and Flow chronicles the flourishing of American
decorated paper arts beginning in the 1960s and extending to the
2000s, with an ongoing legacy today. As knowledge and skills were
shared across a grass-roots community in the 1960s, decorated paper
became increasingly popular, with centers for the study of the book
and paper arts emerging across the United States, and artists
developing new, innovative styles of paper. The book begins with an
introductory essay outlining the history of decorated paper arts in
America up to the 1960s, followed by a chronological narrative,
which surveys the development of the field and introduces the
artists working from the 1960s to the 2000s, and an illustrated
reference section with essential biographical and professional
information for each artist. Designed to be an immersive
experience, Pattern and Flow conveys the vivid visual world of
American decorated paper, celebrating the variety and variations
that are key features of the art. Stunning illustrations show
designs with intricate, tessellated patterns and others that flow
with forms and waves that seem liquid; some explore subtle, muted
tones, while others are explosive in their use of brilliant colors.
Distributed for the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Grolier Club, New York (January
17-April 8, 2023)
Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's
The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great
Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between
producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design,
and explores what effect dialogues surrounding these transactions
had on the standardisation of furniture production during this
period. This was an era, before mass production, when domestic
furniture was made both to order and from standard patterns and
negotiations between producers and consumers formed a crucial part
of the design and production process. This study narrows in on
three main areas of this process: the role of pattern books and
their readers; the construction of taste and style through
negotiation; and daily interactions through showrooms and other
services, to reveal the complexities of English material culture in
a period of industrialisation.
Pairing experienced master artists with eager learners, folklife
apprenticeships in Virginia help ensure that a particular art form
is passed on in ways that are conscious of history and faithful to
tradition. With "In Good Keeping: Virginia's Folklife
Apprenticeships," author Jon Lohman and photographer Morgan Miller
chronicle the first five years of the program, capturing the
masters and apprentices at work. The participating master artists
comprise some of Virginia's most celebrated practitioners of folk
traditions both old and new to Virginia -- from canning to snake
cane carving, from bluegrass fiddling to broom making, from
flatfooting to kathak dancing. The apprentices learn their chosen
craft not in classrooms or lecture halls, but in their traditional
contexts -- such as local dance halls, churches, woodshops,
stables, and garages. Helping to ensure that Virginia's treasured
folkways remain in good keeping for years to come, the Folklife
Apprenticeship Program offers new life and vibrancy by engaging new
learners and reinvigorating the lifelong masters.
Richly illustrated with photographs and featuring the voices of
participants in apprenticeships from a diverse range of traditions
across the commonwealth, the book provides a window into not only
the traditional artistic processes and tricks of the trade, but
also the practitioners' reflections on the significance of their
craft, their motivations for maintaining and teaching it, and the
very concept of the tradition itself.
The perfect pocket-sized companion for those travelling and
thinking about purchasing jewellery or stones. Renee Newman, author
of the highly respected gem and jewellery guides including 'Diamond
Ring Buying Guide' and 'Gold and Platinum Jewelry Buying Guide',
has written a concise buying guide covering gems, gold and platinum
that's a perfect handy reference. Here is important information on
how to select jewellers and appraisers; a chapter on notable gem
sources and which countries are noted for specific gems;
information on coral, ivory and amber; precautions one must take
when buying from an unfamiliar source; and customs regulations,
duties and how to use lab reports. This guide will become an
indispensable resource that will be used time and time again.
Art Nouveau developed a new, international style in architecture
and handicrafts from the 1880s onward, which sought to replace the
forms of historicism with plant ornamentation and functional
construction. This comprehensive reform of the arts produced rich
floral ornaments in Paris and Brussels and became an expression of
national identity in Barcelona. This volume illuminates the origins
of this current and its manifestations in France, Belgium, and
Spain.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna became an epicentre for new
thought. A multi-disciplinary environment emerged where music,
writing and intellectual thought all flourished, often brought
together in the capital's famous coffee houses. This was the time
of Freud and Wittgenstein, of Mahler and Schoenberg, and of the
Secession (1897-1905), the modern movement led by Klimt, Josef
Hoffmann and Koloman Moser that aimed to bring different arts
together in a `Gesamtkunstwerk', a total work of art; of
Jugendstil, Vienna's Art Nouveau; and of the Wiener Werkstatte, the
workshop founded in 1903 by Moser and Hoffmann that revolutionized
the decorative and graphic arts. There have been many exhibitions
and publications devoted to this efflorescence, and even more
monographs devoted to its key players. None, however, brings
together a selection of visual material from across the different
artistic disciplines as significant as this current volume, curated
and authored by three leading scholars of the period. The book
covers all areas of production: painting and drawing; decorative
arts and crafts; applied art and book design; fashion, photography
and architecture. In each section the illustrations take the lead,
creating an invaluable visual reference point for all those eager
to identify a given category of the arts within this period,
particularly in the field of the decorative arts, from ceramics to
glass, silverwork, furniture, jewelry; and graphic arts, from book
design to posters and postcards. There are also many less familiar
works in the field of fashion and photography, and a particular
focus is given to the role of women in all disciplines of the time.
Using over 290 crisp color images, 25 detailed line drawings, and
concise text, Bruce Helmreich guides readers through the steps
necessary to build a hand-hammered copper weathervane. This
step-by-step guide transforms a sheet of copper into a fully
functioning weathervane.Folk art subjects used in American
weathervanes are shown, including domesticated and wild animals,
birds, occupations, patriotic themes, and transportation. Create
your own design or use the complete set of plans included to
produce a traditional rooster weathervane. Using basic tools (tin
snips and hammers), ageless techniques, and sheet copper available
at your local sheet metal shop, this book will teach you how to
make a weathervane that will serve your roof for years. Whether you
are an experienced metal worker, or a woodworker who is looking for
a challenge, this is the book for you.
Create uniquely artful words with secrets from Joanne Sharpe!
Joanne Sharpe--author of the popular book The Art of Whimsical
Lettering--has gathered together 55 of her favorite hand-drawn
alphabets for this light-hearted collection. Follow simple
illustrated steps to replicate each style...no lengthy instructions
or extensive practice required. Any "imperfections" only add to
their charm! Try your hand at letterforms inspired by feathers,
flowers, postage stamps, vintage type, doodles, taxi cabs,
chalkboards and more. Equally exciting are the variety of media
used, from colored pencils and markers to paints and inks. Looking
to add an artful touch to the world around you? These letters are
perfect for personalizing anything from family calendars and daily
planners to wall art, art journals, cards and one-of-a-kind gifts.
You can even use the techniques and inspiration in this book to
invent completely original alphabets of your own. With this A to Z
guide, there's no limit to the statements you can make! Awesome
alphabets--55 in all, ranging from basic block and stick letters to
fanciful illustrated fonts Beginner-friendly instructions--Each
alphabet is broken down into just a few simple steps Creative
variety of tools and media--pens, markers, brushes, inks, paints,
colored pencils, fountain pens, cardstock and much more
The art of welding wrought iron has been practiced by village
smiths in their forge fires for centuries. Gas and electric arc
welding are however comparatively recent developments. This
introductory book explains the process as it has been developed and
used in industry, and its applications to model engineering.
Welding, by oxy-acetylene or electric arc, is a skill in increasing
demand and one for which the basics can be learned without great
difficulty. In this book, the author sets out the basic techniques
and the art for oxy-acetylene welding, brazing, flame-cutting and
electric arc welding with mild steel, cast iron, stainless steel,
copper, brass and aluminium etc in sheet plate or cast form.
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