Special feature boxes include: - Inside the Artist, focusing on achievements of particular artists - Schools and Movements, identifying artistic movements within that time period - Tools and Techniques, looking at the artist's materials - Masterpiece, providing a keen analysis of a particular work or collection - Connections, examining key stylistic influences among cultures or individual artists. The final volume includes the comprehensive set index, and each individual volume contains a glossary and valuable references. Volume 1: Ancient and Classical Art Volume 2:...
Special feature boxes include: - Inside the Artist, focusing on achievements of particular artists - Schools and Movements, identifying artisti...
This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particular designs as fixed and given, by looking at the process of evocation it finds an open and continuing dialogue between things, their makers and their consumers. This is not, however, to diminish the role of design in shaping human consciousness. The contributors do not view objects as blank carriers onto which humans project prior psychic dramas, but rather, place crucial importance on the precise materials from which they are made, their social,...
This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particula...
This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particular designs as fixed and given, by looking at the process of evocation it finds an open and continuing dialogue between things, their makers and their consumers. This is not, however, to diminish the role of design in shaping human consciousness. The contributors do not view objects as blank carriers onto which humans project prior psychic dramas, but rather, place crucial importance on the precise materials from which they are made, their social,...
This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particula...