Product Description

With almost 5000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations, this dictionary provides a concise guide to the decorative arts of the West from the middle ages to the present day. Though mainly concerned with the furniture and furnishings of the European and North American private house, it also includes accounts of Chinese and Japanese pottery and porcelain, Peruvian pottery, Islamic metalwork and pottery, Turkish, Persian and other oriental carpets and many other objects which have influenced the development of the decorative arts in the West. John Fleming has contributed to "Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome", "The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture" and "A World History of Arto". Hugh Honour has published "Chinoiserie", "The Companion Guide to Venice", "Neo Classicism" and "Romanticism".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2485668 in Books
• Published on: 1977-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 930 pages

From Library Journal
Despite a title that would imply otherwise, this revised and expanded edition of the Dictionary of the Decorative Arts ( LJ 9/15/77) remains principally a guide to the decorative arts of Western Europe and North America from the Middle Ages to the present. Still, the volume has taken on a somewhat more international tone, with stronger sensitivity to the decorative traditions of Asia and the Americas demonstrated by new entries on African pottery, on the Crafts Revival, and on Peruvian textiles, for example. The authors have revised (and in some instances completely rewritten) the original text and have added some 600 new subject entries and 67 new color plates. Entries are concise and in many cases include recent bibliographical references as well as references to related topics covered elsewhere in the book. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.
- Janice Zlendich, California State Univ. Lib., Fullerton
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