Between Luxury And The Everyday

Author : Katie Scott
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781405131681
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Luxury and the Everyday written by Katie Scott and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together studies on the French decorative arts in the eighteenth century, extending from bookbinding, typography and engraving to those related specifically to the domestic interior: porcelain, upholstery and furniture. A collection of studies on the French decorative arts in the eighteenth century. Covers an extensive range of subjects from bookbinding, typography and engraving to porcelain, upholstery and furniture. Demonstrates how the advancement of knowledge in porcelain and loom technology resulted in new luxury goods to the glory of Absolutism. Looks at how Revolution demanded that political change be reflected in the details of everyday life, such as dress and furniture.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999613
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year One written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than 150 works of art that exemplify all these societies at the Year One are illustrated in color and explained in this volume. Historical summaries accompanied by maps briefly describe the nature of each culture and the flow of power and peoples during the period centering around the Year One.

Author : Julia Cameron
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330343589
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist's Way written by Julia Cameron and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book you can discover how to unlock your latent creativity and make your dreams a reality. It provides a 12-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self.

Author : Christine A. Jones
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644530740
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shapely Bodies written by Christine A. Jones and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France constructs the first cultural history of porcelain making in France. It takes its title from two types of “bodies” treated in this study: the craft of porcelain making shaped clods of earth into a clay body to produce high-end commodities and the French elite shaped human bodies into social subjects with the help of makeup, stylish patterns, and accessories. These practices crossed paths in the work of artisans, whose luxury objects reflected and also influenced the curves of fashion in the eighteenth century. French artisans began trials to reproduce fine Chinese porcelain in the 1660s. The challenge proved impossible until they found an essential ingredient, kaolin, in French soil in the 1760s. Shapely Bodies differs from other studies of French porcelain in that it does not begin in the 1760s at the Sèvres manufactory when it became technically possible to produce fine porcelain in France, but instead ends there. Without the secret of Chinese porcelain, artisans in France turned to radical forms of experimentation. Over the first half of the eighteenth century, they invented artificial alternatives to Chinese porcelain, decorated them with French style, and, with equal determination, shaped an identity for their new trade that distanced it from traditional guild-crafts and aligned it with scientific invention. The back story of porcelain making before kaolin provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of artisanal innovation and cultural mythmaking. To write artificial porcelain into a history of “real” porcelain dominated by China, Japan, and Meissen in Saxony, French porcelainiers learned to describe their new commodity in language that tapped into national pride and the mythic power of French savoir faire. Artificial porcelain cut such a fashionable image that by the mid-eighteenth century, Louis XV appropriated it for the glory of the crown. When the monarchy ended, revolutionaries reclaimed French porcelain, the fruit of a century of artisanal labor, for the Republic. Tracking how the porcelain arts were depicted in documents and visual arts during one hundred years of experimentation, Shapely Bodies reveals the politics behind the making of French porcelain’s image. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Meredith Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351576070
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Meredith Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.

Author : Hartwig Bohne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110758571
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tea Cultures of Europe: Heritage and Hospitality written by Hartwig Bohne and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served." -- Earlene Grey Tea has its very own significance in every consumer’s life. However, above all, tea represents enjoyment, the ritual of preparation and the appreciation of the moment. In this sense, tea creates hospitality and peace, tea brings people together to talk and to make time for each other. Tea needs time, tea spends time. In this pioneering book featuring hospitality embraced by tea culture, you will read of fascinating tea ceremonies, impressive tea china and comfortable tea houses as well as different national and regional tea-related habits in European countries. Nearly 50 contributions provide unique insights -- Samowars in the East, Dresmer blue porcelain in Germany, tulip glasses in Turkey and around, silver tea pots in Great Britain and, many more. The first tea plantations in Portugal or Georgia are discussed, as well as tea in arts, tea events, tea flavoured signature products, tea pairing and, impulses for entrepreneurship and education. Tea Cultures of Europe is written for tea lovers, educators and students, as well as industry practitioners (tea sommeliers, tea masters) and entrepreneurs.

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441110941
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in the Modern World written by Henri Lefebvre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his discussion on everyday life in France, Lefebvre shows the degree to which our lived-in world and sense of it are shaped by decisions about which we know little and in which we do not participate.

Author : John Armitage
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474402623
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Luxury Studies written by John Armitage and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distinctive and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical theorists John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led and media-related examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. Critical Luxury Studies offers a technoculturally inspired survey of the mediated arts and design, as well as a means of comprehending the socio-economic order with novel philosophical tools and critical methods of interrogation that are re-defining the concept of luxury in the 21st century.

Author : Joel Burges
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479821705
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time written by Joel Burges and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in relation to developments in post-1945 cultural theory and arts practices. Wide ranging and theoretically provocative, the volume introduces readers to cutting-edge temporal conceptualizations and investigates what exactly constitutes the scope of time studies. Featuring twenty essays that reveal what we talk about when we talk about time today, especially in the areas of history, measurement, and culture, each essay pairs two keywords to explore the tension and nuances between them, from “past/future” and “anticipation/unexpected” to “extinction/adaptation” and “serial/simultaneous.” Moving beyond the truisms of postmodernism, the collection newly theorizes the meanings of temporality in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic developments in the postwar period. This book thus assumes that time—not space, as the postmoderns had it—is central to the contemporary period, and that through it we can come to terms with what contemporaneity can be for human beings caught up in the historical present. In the end, Time reveals that the present is a cultural matrix in which overlapping temporalities condition and compete for our attention. Thus each pair of terms presents two temporalities, yielding a generative account of the time, or times, in which we live.

Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110725142
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest written by Ernst Wolff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by these ethical dilemmas. Fourth, the dimensions of the technicity of action are typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. In this study, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted to encompass the broad anthropological scope of this study and combine this bigger picture with detailed attention to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. This study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire spectrum of human action ranging from daily routine to the extreme of violent protest.