Title & Author:

History of design : decorative arts and material culture, 1400-2000 / Pat Kirkham, Susan Weber, editors, the Bard Graduate Center ; project editor, Heather Jane McCormick ; with contributions by John Robert Alderman [and 26 others].

Publication:

New York : Bard Graduate Center : Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Description:

xiii, 698 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 666-673) and index.
1400-1600 : East Asia : China / Lee Talbot ; Korea / Lee Talbot ; Japan / Tomoko Sakomura -- India / George Mitchell -- The Islamic world / Aimée E. Froom -- Africa / Enid Schildkrout and Carol Thompson -- Europe / Marcus B. Burke, Andrew Morrall, and Maria Ruvoldt -- The Americas : Indigenous America: north / Norman Vorano ; Indigenous America: south / Dana Leibsohn and Barbara E. Mundy ; Spanish and Portuguese America / Jeffrey Collins -- 1600-1750 : East Asia : China / Lee Talbot ; Korea / Lee Talbot ; Japan / Tomoko Sakomura -- India / George Mitchell -- The Islamic world / Aimée E. Froom -- Africa / Enid Schildkrout and Carol Thompson -- Europe / Jeffrey Collins -- The Americas : Indigenous America: north / Norman Vorano ; Indigenous America: south / Dana Leibsohn and Barbara E. Mundy ; Spanish and Portuguese America / Jeffrey Collins ; British, French, and Dutch North America / David Jaffee -- 1750-1900 : East Asia : China / Rose Kerr ; Korea / Rose Kerr ; Japan / Sara Teasley -- India / John Robert Alderman -- The Islamic world / Aimée E. Froom -- Africa / Enid Schildkrout and Carol Thompson -- Europe : Europe 1750-1830 / Jeffrey Collins ; Europe 1830-1900 / Pat Kirkham and Amy F. Ogata -- The Americas : Indigenous America: north / Norman Vorano ; Indigenous America: south / Dana Leibsohn and Barbara E. Mundy ; Spanish and Portuguese America 1750-1830 / Jeffrey Collins ; Latin America / Pat Kirkham, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Christian A. Larsen, Jorge F. Rivas Pérez ; North America / David Jaffee -- 1900-2000 : East Asia : China / Rose Kerr ; Korea / Rose Kerr ; Japan / Tomoko Sakomura -- India / John Robert Alderman -- The Islamic world / Annette Hagedorn and Silke Bettermann -- Africa / Enid Schildkrout and Carol Thompson -- Europe and the Americas : Indigenous America: north / Norman Vorano ; Indigenous America: south / Dana Leibsohn and Barbara E. Mundy ; Latin America / Jorge F. Rivas Pérez -- Europe and North America 1900-1945 : Pat Kirkham, Amy F. Ogata, and Catherine L. Whalen ; Europe and North America 1945-2000 : Pat Kirkham, Christian A. Larsen, Sarah A. Lichtman, Tom Tredway, and Catherine L. Whalen.

Summary:

"Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated, the volume covers interiors, furniture, textiles and dress, glass, graphics, metalwork, ceramics, exhibitions, product design, landscape and garden design, and theater and film design. Divided into four chronological sections, each of which is subdivided geographically, the authors elucidate the evolution of style, form, materials, and techniques, and address vital issues such as gender, race, patronage, cultural appropriation, continuity versus innovation, and high versus low culture. Leading authorities in design history and decorative arts studies present hundreds of objects in their contemporary contexts, demonstrating the overwhelming extent to which the applied arts have enriched customs, ceremony, and daily life worldwide over the past six hundred years."-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780300196146 (hardback)
0300196148 (hardback)

Subject:

Decorative arts History.
Arts décoratifs Histoire.
DESIGN Decorative Arts.
ART Reference.
HISTORY World.
Decoration and ornament History.
Material culture History.
Decorative arts
Kunsthandwerk
Design
Dekorativ konst historia.

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Kirkham, Pat, editor.
Weber, Susan, 1954- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285830
Call No.: BIB 225755
Status: Available