The Penguin dictionary of decorative arts / John Fleming and Hugh Honour.
By: Fleming, John
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Contributor(s): Honour, Hugh.
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BookPublisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1979Description: 896 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0140510826.Subject(s): Decoration and ornament -- DictionariesDDC classification: 703
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Reference | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference | 703 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Reference | 00063035 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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Library Journal Review
Despite a title that would imply otherwise, this revised and expanded edition of the Dictionary of the Decorative Arts ( LJ 9/15/77) remains principally a guide to the decorative arts of Western Europe and North America from the Middle Ages to the present. Still, the volume has taken on a somewhat more international tone, with stronger sensitivity to the decorative traditions of Asia and the Americas demonstrated by new entries on African pottery, on the Crafts Revival, and on Peruvian textiles, for example. The authors have revised (and in some instances completely rewritten) the original text and have added some 600 new subject entries and 67 new color plates. Entries are concise and in many cases include recent bibliographical references as well as references to related topics covered elsewhere in the book. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.-- Janice Zlendich, California State Univ. Lib., Fullerton (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
John Fleming was born in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England on June 12, 1919. He read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. During World War II, he served with the Intelligence Corps and wrote articles for Architectural Review in his spare time. After the war, he qualified as a solicitor and served with the John Hilton bureau at Cambridge. The death of his parents enabled Fleming to follow his own inclinations by going to Italy to try his luck as a freelance writer.In the mid-1950's, he started writing and editing with Hugh Honour. For Penguin Books, they edited the series Style and Civilization. They also edited two more series for Penguin: Architect and Society and Art in Context. Together they wrote The Visual Arts: A History, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, and The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture with Nikolaus Pevsner. Fleming won two prizes in 1962 for Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome. He died on May 29, 2001 at the age of 81.
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