An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History

ISBN-13: 9780367406561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 358 str.

Joclyn M. Oats

Opis

This book provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture history from antiquity to post-modernism. Following an immersive teaching model, it presents a nine-step methodology to help strengthen students’ visual literacy and quickly acquire subject area knowledge.

Spis treści

Part I: Furniture and the Built Environment　 Chapter 1 A Historical Perspective  Chapter 2 Construction Principles  Chapter 3 Piece Categorically  Part II: Understanding the Piece  Chapter 4 The Analysis of Form  Chapter 5 A Graphic Narrative  Part III: Object of Desire  Part III Introduction  Chapter 6 Antiquity: Egypt, Greece and Rome  Chapter 7 Renaissance: Italy, France and England  Chapter 8 18th Century: Italy, France and England　& America – Late Colonial  Chapter 9 Precursors to Modernism: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Viennese Secession American Arts and Crafts – Prairie Style & Craftsman Style  Chapter 10 Modernist Movements: 　Deutscher Werkbund, Bauhaus, De Stijl, International Style  Chapter 11 Early Modernist Designers and Architects:　Pierre Chareau (1883–1950), Eleen Gray (1879–1976), Jean Prouvé (1901–1984), Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999)  Chapter 12 Modernism in America and the European Connection  Chapter 13 Movements after Modernism: High-tech, Postmodermism, Deconstructivism  Chapter 14 Conclusion　

O autorze

Joclyn M. Oats is a tenured Associate Professor in the Design Department at Columbia College Chicago, USA. Joclyn has practiced architecture and interior design and served the College in an administrative capacity as coordinator and director for the BFA, Interior Architecture, MFA, Architectural Studies, and the MFA, Interior Architecture Programs for over a decade. Her teaching has covered a wide range of courses for both graduate and undergraduate levels: studio courses, technical courses, and architecture and design history surveys.