Author: Joseph William ZaehnsdorfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
ABC of Leather Bookbinding
Author: Edward R. LhotkaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584560289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This work is an illustrated manual that shows step-by-step the art and science of fine leather bookbinding. The author learned the ancient craft from one of England's foremost binders, Alfred de Sauty. In this informative work, he takes the reader through the intricacies of traditional leather binding. Every step is illustrated, along with a short, clear explanation. To lessen confusion, Lhotka doesn't explain all the different ways a procedure may be done; he concentrates on his way, as taught by de Sauty. Edward Lhotka began bookbinding in 1924 apprenticed to Alfred de Sauty. During the next 48 years, Lhotka rose from journeyman to assistant manager of the fine binding department of the famous R.R. Donnelley & Sons. As a teacher, he has taught hundreds the fine art of hand binding after hours at Donnelley's.
The Topkapi Scroll
Author: Gülru NecipoğluPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding
Author: J. A. SzirmaiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781138247321
Category : Bookbinding, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An expanded version of a series of lectures, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Kingdom and the USA, this major volume surveys the evolution of binding structures from the introduction of the codex two thousand years ago to the close of the Middle Ages.
Craft in America
Author: Jo LauriaPublisher: Potter Style
ISBN: 0307346471
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft
Author: Edward Johnston
Author: Lewis Foreman DayClothing Sacred Scriptures
Author: David GanzPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110558602
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.
ABC of Leather Bookbinding
Author: Edward R. LhotkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The author, Edward R. Lhotka, shares the leather bookbinding techniques he learned and perfected during his forty-eight years at the R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company's "Extra Bindery" in Chicago. For twelve of these years (1924-1935) Lhotka was an apprentice and journeyman under the tutelage of the master bookbinder, Alfred de Sauty.
A Century of Artists Books
Author: Riva CastlemanPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 9780810961814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
