Book The Arts and Crafts of Newcomb Pottery (2013, Hardcover) FB2, MOBI, DJV
9780847840557 English 0847840557 Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this sumptuous volume is the first book to show the entire range of Newcomb Pottery's creative output in the context of American artistic and social developments in the early years of the modern era. While art pottery crafted at the Newcomb Pottery is among the most admired and collected of all American decorative arts, the enterprise that was the pottery is recognized as an exceptionally advanced social experiment for its time. Elegantly designed and profusely illustrated, this book celebrates the full range of objects created at the renowned Newcomb Pottery, founded by H. Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. From the 1890s to around 1940, this remarkable all-woman art school developed a recognizable style based in Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts aesthetics. All-new, brilliant photographs of 250 objects accompany newly researched essays by respected scholars of decorative arts, a timeline, and artist biographies and pottery decorators' marks., Accompanying a major travelling exhibition, this sumptuous volume is the first book to show the entire range of the Newcomb Pottery's creative output - its prized art pottery, textiles, metalwork and jewellery, bookbindings, and graphics - in the context of American artistic and social developments in the early years of the modern era. While art pottery crafted at the Newcomb Pottery is among the most admired and collected of all American decorative arts, the enterprise that was the Pottery is recognized as an exceptionally advanced social experiment for its time. Elegantly designed and profusely illustrated, this book celebrates the full range of objects created at the renowned Newcomb Pottery, founded by Sophie H. Newcomb College in New Orleans. From the 1890s to around 1940, this remarkable all-woman art school developed a recognizable style based in Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts aesthetics, creating exemplary art pottery, textiles, metalwork and jewellery, bookbindings, and graphics that have come to be keenly sought after. All-new, brilliant photographs of 250 objects accompany newly researched essays by highly respected scholars of decorative arts, a historical timeline, and biographies and makers' marks of the artists. The last major exhibition of Newcomb Art Pottery was nearly 30 years ago, and the two landmark books on Newcomb Pottery originate in the 1980s. Since then, objects from the Newcomb Art Pottery have risen dramatically in value and collectability, and the subject undergone significant reappraisal.
9780847840557 English 0847840557 Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this sumptuous volume is the first book to show the entire range of Newcomb Pottery's creative output in the context of American artistic and social developments in the early years of the modern era. While art pottery crafted at the Newcomb Pottery is among the most admired and collected of all American decorative arts, the enterprise that was the pottery is recognized as an exceptionally advanced social experiment for its time. Elegantly designed and profusely illustrated, this book celebrates the full range of objects created at the renowned Newcomb Pottery, founded by H. Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. From the 1890s to around 1940, this remarkable all-woman art school developed a recognizable style based in Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts aesthetics. All-new, brilliant photographs of 250 objects accompany newly researched essays by respected scholars of decorative arts, a timeline, and artist biographies and pottery decorators' marks., Accompanying a major travelling exhibition, this sumptuous volume is the first book to show the entire range of the Newcomb Pottery's creative output - its prized art pottery, textiles, metalwork and jewellery, bookbindings, and graphics - in the context of American artistic and social developments in the early years of the modern era. While art pottery crafted at the Newcomb Pottery is among the most admired and collected of all American decorative arts, the enterprise that was the Pottery is recognized as an exceptionally advanced social experiment for its time. Elegantly designed and profusely illustrated, this book celebrates the full range of objects created at the renowned Newcomb Pottery, founded by Sophie H. Newcomb College in New Orleans. From the 1890s to around 1940, this remarkable all-woman art school developed a recognizable style based in Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts aesthetics, creating exemplary art pottery, textiles, metalwork and jewellery, bookbindings, and graphics that have come to be keenly sought after. All-new, brilliant photographs of 250 objects accompany newly researched essays by highly respected scholars of decorative arts, a historical timeline, and biographies and makers' marks of the artists. The last major exhibition of Newcomb Art Pottery was nearly 30 years ago, and the two landmark books on Newcomb Pottery originate in the 1980s. Since then, objects from the Newcomb Art Pottery have risen dramatically in value and collectability, and the subject undergone significant reappraisal.