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Title Objects, audiences and literatures : alternative narratives in the history of design / edited by David Raizman and Carma Gorman
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 184 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary In Objects, Audiences, and Literatures: Alternative Narratives in the History of Design, five art historians tap a variety of unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, interior design, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays consider both handcrafted and serially produced objects from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, including a japanned high chest from colonial Boston, German and Austrian Artistic Dress ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Design -- Philosophy
Design -- Public opinion -- History
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics in literature.
Industrial -- commercial art & design.
History of art -- art & design styles.
ART -- General.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics in literature
Design -- Philosophy
Design -- Public opinion
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Raizman, David Seth
Gorman, Carma
LC no. 2007390055
ISBN 9781443809467
1443809462
1282193015
9781282193017
9786612193019
6612193018