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Historic Cutlery - Changing Shapes
Amme, Jochen
Hardback
01 Mar 2002
3897901676
9783897901674
664
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
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Book Details of Historic Cutlery - Changing Shapes
The more than 3500 individual items comprising the private cutlery collection introduced here are presented full-scale in approximately 450 colour plates. This is an unprecedented survey of changes and developments in cutlery from the Early Stone Age through the mid-20th century.Part 1 starts with Early Stone Age implements used for eating and continues on to the flatware used at 17th/18th-century tables. Part 2 deals with cutlery used for formal dining from the 18th century until early 19th-century Neo-Classicism. In Part 3 Historicizing cutlery is followed by its stylistic contemporaries and successors up to New Objectivity. This section focuses on Jugendstil/Art Nouveau with its treasure trove of forms and decoration designed and created by famous artists and makers.All items in the collection have been dealt with exhaustively in a scholarly catalogue, supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography and marks tables as well as person, place and subject indexes.Developments in eating utensils down through the ages have been treated to an opulent art-book presentation - meeting the highest standards of scholarship and beautiful to look at.