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Profound perplexity.(The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European and American Writings, 1750-1940)(Book Review)
Isabelle Frank, editor The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European & American Writings, 1750-1940. Yale University Press, 424 pages, $22.50 (paper)
"What are the decorative arts?" That is the first sentence of Isabelle Frank's introduction to her superb new anthology, The Theory of Decorative Art. In the "decorative arts" department at, for example, the Brooklyn Museum, one finds "period rooms" (including a re-creation of a seventeenth-century Dutch farmhouse), chairs, tables, beds, jars, dishes, pitchers, and sundry items of fine porcelain, glass, and silver. The period rooms, with their fine moldings, are indicative of the way most museums subsume ...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Fort, Megan Holloway April 1, 2009 700+ words
...ground, sculpture and decorative arts are rarely considered...Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, a new exhibition...aesthetic purposes, and decorative art as applied art created...thereby embracing the decorative arts as innately sculptural...
- Transplanted American decorative arts. (New England decorative art objects...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt December 1, 1997 700+ words
...on the move it is not surprising that so many examples of decorative arts created in New England have found a permanent home in Minneapolis...period-room settings, then the most popular way to display decorative arts in museums. Breck's successor, Russell Plimpton, also...
- Nineteenth-century English Gothic revival decorative arts in a private...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Levy, Martin June 1, 1995 700+ words
...twentieth century for the decorative arts of the Victorian...Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts, held in 1952 at...Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art, The Handley-Read...Collection, interest in decorative arts of the period had...
- Museum accessions.(American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation)(Organization...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Gustafson, Eleanor H. February 1, 2007 700+ words
...from the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation...understanding of, American decorative arts of the period between...of Prairie school decorative arts and architectural...Clearly the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation is...appreciation of the decorative ...
- Window, mirror, and prism.(Corning Museum of Glass decorative arts...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Filler, Martin January 1, 2009 700+ words
...major commitments to the decorative art--Atlanta's High Museum...to mind. Furthermore, decorative arts exhibitions habitually attract...However, the monothematic decorative arts museum might well point...likewise true of several other decorative arts venues, like the ...
- Decorative art takes centre stage at the Walker; this month sees the official...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Emmerson, Robin October 1, 2004 700+ words
...rather than with the decorative arts. When it opened...ranging collections of decorative art and antiquities given...s acquisitions of decorative arts were largely confined...responsibility for western decorative art (defined as from...
- Another impressive year for Decorative Arts results in fifth ARTS...
- Magazine article from: Home Accents Today December 1, 2003 700+ words
...just one of the ways Decorative Arts Inc. boosted an...s leadership, Decorative Arts has continually fine...customers are recognizing Decorative Art's ability to take...policy. This year, Decorative Arts introduced an astounding...
- IT'S NOT FAKE ANYTHING -- IT'S REAL DECORATIVE ART
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Peter C. Hotton, Globe Staff March 20, 1988 700+ words
...always inventing." Decorative art includes marbleizing...Another common form of decorative art is wood graining...another big part of decorative arts, and Paskauskas...with their own form of decorative art. It is
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