Furniture: A Concise History (World of Art) - Softcover

Edward Lucie-Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500201722 ISBN 13: 9780500201725

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

288p paperback, 274 illustrations, 29 in colour, from a Cambridge college library, clean and very little used

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Reseña del editor

In this illuminating history, text and illustrations combine to offer a view of furniture not as a succession of collectors' pieces, but as a statement about the society that created it. Edward Lucie-Smith offers insights into almost every period, from the prehistoric to the postmodern--from Neolithic tables to 1960s conversation pits, and from the ceremonial chairs of Egypt in the thirteenth century BC to the designs of John Makepeace. Throughout, the author has kept in focus the way in which people's lives, their self-images and preoccupations, as well as the organization and techniques of furniture-making, have affected the forms of these objects, which are so vital a part of our environment. 190 illus., 20 in color.

Biografía del autor

Edward Lucie-Smith is well-known as a poet, novelist, biographer, broadcaster, and critic, and he is the author of numerous books, among them The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms, Furniture: A Concise History, Movements in Art Since 1945, Symbolist Art, and Sexuality in Western Art (all in the World of Art series).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0500201722
• ISBN 13: 9780500201725
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216