A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts

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By Nancy Odegaard and Gerry Wagner Crouse

Series: American Alliance of Museums

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A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts offers a precise and shared vocabulary for the parts of handcrafted decorative, domestic, and artistic items. Through 64 original 3D illustrations, this reference helps users learn, label, and discuss detailed craft objects clearly and objectively. It is organised into five sections covering decorative objects, domestic furnishings, artistic works and tools, jewellery adornment items, and accessory articles, making it an essential resource for anyone interested in visual history and craft details.
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This book is ideal for museum curators, conservators, librarians, artists, collectors, designers, registrars, and anyone with a deep interest in crafts, decorative arts, and material culture.

This full-color visual dictionary contains an unambiguous vocabulary for the parts of handcrafted decorative, domestic, and artistic items. Terminology for a broad array of object types is accompanied by original color illustrations.

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A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts provides a common and unambiguous vocabulary for the parts of handcrafted decorative, domestic, and artistic items. Terminology for a broad array of object types is presented alongside original 3D illustrations that facilitate objective referencing. The reference enhances learning, labelling, and discussing various craft items in great physical detail.

Sixty-four 3D graphic illustrations provide an effective visual format for identifying the vocabulary and location of the parts on individual objects.

The dictionary is divided into five major sections:

Decorative Objects such as a basket, jar/jug, and flatware.

Domestic Furnishings such as a bed with bedding, upholstered chairs, and tables.

Artistic Works and Tools such as books, prints, paintings, photographs, and sculpture.

Jewellery Adornment Items such as earrings, necklaces, pins, and watches.

Accessory Articles such as a hat, pipe, comb, and fan.

The thoroughness of the annotations makes this volume an essential tool for museum curators and conservators, librarians, connoisseurs, buyers and dealers; artists and crafts persons, collectors, designers, registrars, and anyone with an interest in visual history.

Series: American Alliance of Museums

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Praised for building on decades of scholarly work, this dictionary is recognised as an invaluable guide for using "just the right word" to describe intricate details in decorative arts. Esteemed professionals highlight its excellence as a resource for museum curators, registrars, and collection managers in cataloguing and condition checking artworks. The volume addresses the previous lack of a comprehensive and accessible compendium of terminology in the field.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538148877

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: American Alliance Of Museums

Illustration: 64 colour photos

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 282.0mm

Weight: 820g

Pages: 182

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About the Author

Nancy Odegaard is Conservator at the Arizona State Museum and Professor at the University of Arizona.
She utilized three scholar residency awards to conduct intellectual research on the parts or vocabularies for handcrafted domestic and decorative objects. In 2001 she conducted research while a research fellow at the Winterthur Library and Archives, in 2007 she continued research while a fellow at the Getty Conservation Institute, and in 2015 she added research as a fellow at ICCROM in Rome.
Her books have received three Kress Publication Awards from the AIC. She has published over 200 chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings, newsletter pieces, posters, and electronic media. She is an elected fellow of the AIC and IIC, and has been an active member in AAM, ATALM, ICOM.
Gerry Wagner Crouse has worked in illustration and graphic media for over 20 years. She has extensive experience and training with scientific line-drawing illustration as well as 3D animation graphics.
Her graphic artworks have been utilized by Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Buhl Planetarium, Houston Museum of Natural History Science Planetarium, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, and National Geographic Television. Currently, she works by contract with museums, tribal communities, contract resource management firms, planetariums, and educational agencies.

A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts