Chinoiserie

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  • Author : Dawn Jacobson
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780714838366
  • Edition : New edition
  • ISBN : 0714838365
  • Is Eligible For Trade In? : Yes
  • Label : Phaidon Press Ltd
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Phaidon Press Ltd
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 240
  • Package Dimensions : 0.90 inches (Height) x 11.40 inches (Length) x 3.40 pounds (Weight) x 9.90 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 1999-02-04
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press Ltd
  • SKU : ACOMMP2_book_usedlikenew_0714838365
  • Studio : Phaidon Press Ltd

In the 18th century the taste for designs and architecture based on the ideas of Chinese design - 'chinoiserie' - became highly fashionable in Europe. This book celebrates the flowering of the style and shows its development through the 19th and 20th centuries.

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The recent fascination with China in the political and business realms is reflected too in fashion, and Chinoiserie explores a mix of 14th to 20th-century decorative styles based on European fantasies of "Cathay". Emphatically not historically correct, Chinoiserie is a style that grew out of a melange of travellers' tales, exaggerations, odd lots from India to Japan, and the European imagination of the exotic. This book is peopled with characters ranging from Marco Polo to Madame de Pompadour and P.T. Barnum. Profuse illustrations conjure the visions of Watteau and Boucher, pot painters in Delft and Minton, garden and kiosk designers from Britain to Poland and creators of 1920s movie palaces--the style's final incarnation. Tracing the history of commerce as well as the image, chapters cover the time when intercontinental travel and trade were difficult if not impossible, the flowering of French rococo Chinoiserie and its spread across 18th-century Europe. It looks also at the jardin anglo-chinois, the descendants of originally aristocratic styles in middle-class English and American homes, and finally the withering of the fantastic Cathay as more reliable information and objects arrived in the West from China in the 19th and 20th centuries. Should you be curious about the intricately carved dragon on a cinema ceiling or wallpaper peopled with "monkeys dressed as Chinamen," this smartly designed book written with verve, a love of the subject and an insider's point of view provides a jumping-off point for further study and includes a list of places to visit. --Alex Lawrence, Amazon.com

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