Title & Author:

The theory of decorative art : an anthology of European & American writings, 1750-1940 / edited by Isabelle Frank ; with translations by David Britt.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]

Description:

xiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-379) and index.
I. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE DECORATIVE ARTS: The Uses of Beauty: From "Preliminary Discourse to the 'Encyclopedia'" (1751) / Jean Le Rond d'Alembert -- From "Preliminary Ideas on the Theory of Ornament" (1785) / Karl Philipp Moritz -- "On Metal-Work" (1841) / A. Welby Pugin -- "The Lamp of Beauty" (1849) [and] "Modern Manufacture and Design" (1859) / John Ruskin -- "The Arts and Crafts of To-day" (1889) / William Morris -- "Where are we Going?" (1897-98) / Samuel Bing -- "Manifesto of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar" (1919) / Walter Gropius -- "Type-Needs: Type-Furniture" (1925) / Le Corbusier -- The Theory of Function: From "Concerning the Formal Principles of Ornament and its Significance as Artistic Symbol" (1856) / Gottfried Semper -- From "A Historical Grammer of the Visual Arts (1897-99) / Alois Riegl -- "Adornment" (1908) / George Simmel -- "On the Use of the Knife at Table" and "On the Use of the Fork at Table" (1939) / Norbert Elias -- II. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE DECORATIVE ARTS: The Artist-Designer and The Machine: "Art" (1751) / Denis Diderot -- "Art and Handicraft" (1797) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- "On Metal-work " (1841) / A. Welby Pugin -- "The Lamp of Truth" and "The Lamp of Life" (1849) / John Ruskin -- "Science, Art, and Industry" (1852) / Gottfried Semper -- "The Revival of Handicraft" (1888) / William Morris -- "Hand Work -- Machine Work" (1899) / Adolf von Hildebrand -- "The Importance of the Applied Arts, and their Relation to Common Life" (1892) / Walter Crane.
"The Decorative Arts and the Machine" (1895) / P. Rioux de Maillou "Observations Toward a Synthesis of Art" (1895) / Henry van de Velde -- "The Art and Craft of the Machine" (1901) / Frank Lloyd Wright -- "The Decorative Art of Today" (1925) / Le Corbusier -- The Theory of Technique: From "Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts" (1860) / Gottfried Semper -- From "Problems of Style" (1893) / Alois Riegl -- "Art and Craft" (1938) / R.G. Collingwood. III. ORNAMENT AND STYLE IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS: Ornament and its Principles: From "Reflections on the Origin, Growth, and Decline of Decoration in the Fine Arts" (1759) / Friedrich August Krubsacius -- From "Preliminary Ideas on the Theory of Ornament" (1793) / Karl Philipp Moritz -- "The Lamp of Sacrifice" and "The Lamp of Beauty" (1829) / John Ruskin.
"General Principles in the Arrangement of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts" (1856) / Owen Jones -- "Decorative Art and Its Dogmas" (1880) / Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer -- "Ornament in Architecture" (1892) / Louis Sullivan -- "Ornament and Crime" (1910) / Adolf Loos -- "Ornament" (1912) / Karl Grosz --The Theory of Style: "Ornament of Savage Tribes" and "Moresque Ornament" (1856) / Owen Jones -- "The Textile Art" (1860) / Gottfried Semper -- From "Lectures on Architecture" (1872) / Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc -- From "Prolegomena to a Psychology of Architecture" (1886) / Heinrich Wolfflin -- "The Geometric Style" (1893) / Alois Riegl -- "Forms in the Realm of Space" (1934) / Henri Focillon.

Summary:

This anthology contains significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-18th century to the 1940s. It offers a history of decorative art as it emerged in the west, and debates over how to define this type of art and fine art.

ISBN:

0300075510 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300075519 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300088051 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300088052 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Decorative arts.
Arts décoratifs.
decorative arts (discipline)
Angewandte Kunst
Ästhetik
Versieringskunst.
Theorieën.
Artes decorativas.
Decoration and ornament
Anthologie
Geschichte 1750-1940

Form/genre:

Anthologie.
Essays.

Added entries:

Frank, Isabelle, 1959- editor.
Britt, David (Translator), translator.
Frank, Isabelle, 1959-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214314
Call No.: NK25 .T4 2000
Status: Available