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History of Design and Design Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 562

History of Design and Design Law

  • Categories: Law

For the first time, this book provides an up-to-date history of product design and product design law covering 17 countries — Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Russia, the United States, Brazil and Australia — selected for their innovative or influential approach to design or design protection. Each country is the subject of two chapters — one on the history of design and the other on the history of design law — authored by experts in design and intellectual property (IP) law. This unique interdisciplinary approach explains why and how various national design protection syst...

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1277

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise definitions on art forms and style. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms.

History of Japanese Art after 1945
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

History of Japanese Art after 1945

  • Categories: Art

English edition of key essays on Japanese art history History of Japanese Art after 1945 surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese art and is a foundational resource for students and researchers, spans a period of 150 years, from the 1850s to the 2010s. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific period and written by a specialist. The English edition first discusses the formation and evolution of Japanese contemporary art from 1945 to the late 1970s, subsequently deals with the rise of the fine-art museum from the late 1970s to the 1990s, and concludes with an ...

Japanese Studio Crafts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Japanese Studio Crafts

  • Categories: Art

A beautiful presentation of outstanding works of craft being created in Japan today.

Art in the Encounter of Nations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Art in the Encounter of Nations

  • Categories: Art

Art in the Encounter of Nations is the first book-length study of interactions between the Japanese and American art worlds in the early postwar years. It brings to light a rich exchange of opinions and debates regarding the relationship between the art of the two nations. The author begins with an examination of the Japanese margins of American Abstract Expressionism. Taking a contrapuntal approach, he investigates four abstract painters: two Japanese artists who moved to the United States (Okada Kenzo and Hasegawa Saburo) and two European Americans whose work is often associated with Japanese calligraphy (Mark Tobey and Franz Kline). He then looks at the work of two young scions of the cal...

Fashion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 756

Fashion

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Taschen

Illustrates a wide range of historical garments, underwear, shoes and fashion accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Mark Rothko
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 719

Mark Rothko

  • Categories: Art

This is the first volume of the catalogue raisonne of the work of Mark Rothko, the abstract artist. It documents Rothko's entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproducing all the works in colour. An introductory text investigates the essential features of Rothko's art.

Celebrating Moore
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

Celebrating Moore

  • Categories: Art

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Henry Moore's birth, this book features the most important and comprehensive single group of Moore's Drawings, graphics, and sculpture. More than 300 of Moore's acclaimed works are reproduced, along with fresh insights and personal anecdotes by colleagues. 290 color illustrations.

Takashi Murakami, Kaikai Kiki
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Takashi Murakami, Kaikai Kiki

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Actes Sud

Une présentation de l'oeuvre de cet artiste, considéré comme l'un des chefs de file du néopop japonais, créateur en 1993 de Mr Dob qui devient sa signature. Décliné en peintures, sculptures gonflables, T-shirts ou montres, ce personnage mi-drolatique mi-monstrueux connaît au Japon une notoriété sans précédent dans le monde de l'art contemporain.

The Age of Anxiety
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

The Age of Anxiety

  • Categories: Art

Presents a survey of recent works by nine artists from Kyoto and Tokyo. It includes a curatorial essay by Dompierre and contributing essays addressing questions of national, cultural and personal identity at a crucial point in Japan's history.