Arnoldsche - Böcker

This publication draws on sales catalogues and advertising brochures documenting the entire range of Ikora metalwork produced by WMF (W rttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG, Geislingen) from the early 1920s until the 1960s. Even during the first wo...

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Color in Knitting: By Designers, for Designers delves into the methods of constructing multicolour knits using knitting structures, techniques, and technologies. The book not only showcases the beauty of multicolour knitwear but also provides a so...

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The rising of the black youths 25 years ago, on the 16 June 1976, marks an historical turning-point in South Africa. For the first time, black students stood up against the apartheid regime of the government. Their protest set into motion the long...

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Twelve curious students travelled through Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and Hungary to document in texts and pictures local conditions and attitudes on the eve of EU entry. This text provides a documentary in words and pict...

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This book represents the first monograph on modern Norwegian photography from the 1970s to the present. It traces recent developments taking place in the four movements in photography: Subjectivism, Abstraction, Post-Modernism and Photorealism. Su...

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Over seven million Germans have emigrated to the US since the early 18th century. Today German-Americans represent the largest ethnic group in the land of unlimited possibilities: every third US citizen has at least one German ancestor. What is li...

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Fotosommer Stuttgart, the now internationally established forum for contemporary photography began eight years ago as an exhibition project organised by committed photographers. As the largest festival in the German southwest of national and inter...

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This publication reveals that the discrepancy that was claimed between art photography and the 'New Vision' of the avant-garde is not as pronounced as hitherto supposed Fillls a gap in the history of photography, presenting selected aspects of Pic...

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Photographs taken in Japan between the late Edo period and early Meiji periods found their way overseas, and played a major role in forming Westerners' image of Japan. Among these collections, the pictures gathered by the Swiss diplomat Aime Humbe...

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An unusual book about an unconventional artist and his explorations of the boundaries between jewellery and sculpture.

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The unique cultural landscape of southern Africa (Nambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa) is a highly dynamic and complex area where old traditions are confronted by explosive social and political upheavals. The resulting contradi...

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In 1932 Antonio Seguso and his sons Archimede and Ernesto joined forces with Napoleone Barovier and Luigi 'Olimpio' Ferro to found Vetretia Artistica Barovier & C.; the name of the firm was changed to Seguso Vetri D'Arte in 1937. The turbulent...

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From the 16th century until well into the 18th century, the commedia dell'arte, a popular Italian type of improvised comic theatricals, cast its spell on a large and diverse audience. Here an exuberant joy of living was reflected in a portrayal of...

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The result of an international interdisciplinary research project, this publication is the first comprehensive monograph of a ceramics factory in Lower Silesia, the Feinsteinzeugfabrik Julius Paul &Sohn in Bunzlau, active from 1893 to 1945. A part...

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Lotte Reimers' joining forces with Jakob Wilhelm Hinder and the extensive ceramics exhibition with which he was touring West German cities in 1951 marks the onset of her passion for this craft. Committed to making the public aware of ceramics as a...

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After the successful debut in the year 2000, Michael Erlhoff, Uta Brandes and Kobi Gantenbein again hosted the annual Design Summit, and in 2001 famous representatives of international design once more gladly answered the call to the Alpine villag...

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Bernhard Schobinger is a megastar of the contemporary jewellery scene. Whereas his earlier jewellery reveals the influence of Punk, more recent pieces tend to emanate an aura of mysticism. An example of the mischevious delight in experimenting is ...

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With contemporary advertising and sales catalogues as its sources, this book represents the first exhaustive survey of the Ikora and Myra lines in glass produced between the 1920s and 1950s by the Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG (WMF) at Gei...

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Balance is the theme of this year's Baden-Wurttemberg International Design Award: the products selected must offer consumers and viewers inner harmony and equilibrium. They were evaluated according to the following criteria: their ergonomic and de...

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Large firms are increasingly assuming the role of quasi public institutions. Business culture is, therefore, becoming a networking culture and a public space. Business consulting is shifting its focus from "market capital" to "socia...

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Pressure exerted by America in 1854 caused Japan to open its doors after 260 years of isolation. Wide receptiveness to everything Western was the driving force behind the modernization of Japan initiated by the Meiji government, yet it also induce...

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The great postwar German film director and producer Peter Schamoni will be seventy years old in 2004. A co-signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto in the 1960s he became one of the leading exponents of what was known as Young German Cinema. His sens...

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The Padua School originated from the Istituto Pietro Selvatico in Padua. The distinctive features of this jewelry are the use of gold reminiscent of the goldsmith's art in antiquity and a modern and abstract formal expression within the group. Mar...

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The appeal of precious stones has held people of all cultures and civilizations enthralled, it is a phenomenon that has lasted to the present day.

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The state of Kerala in south-western India possesses numerous temples, many of them unknown. From the twelfth century to the present, artists have been painting religious pictures in brilliant colours on the external walls of these temples. These ...

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Tradition and Modernism collide in Cairo - with a population of 20 million people, it is the largest city in the Arab world. In this vibrant environment an independent fashion scene established itself some years ago. Along with it, fashion designe...

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What is air? You don't think about air or even perceive it unless it has changed from its usual state. Air, that most ubiquitous of the four elements, was long the most inexplicable enigma, peopled by gods and their messengers, venerated as the ab...

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This book showcases some unusual costume designs from more than two centuries of European fashion history ranging from Neo-Classicism and Biedermeier to the late 20th century and including cutting-edge creations by European fashion designers as we...

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Goldscheider, a Viennese factory (est 1885), soon sped to the top of European ceramics makers. Figures and vessels of faience and terracotta as well as bronze and alabaster, all of top quality in respect of form and workmanship, were created in th...

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Features over 2500 objects such as metal, ceramics , glass, furniture and jewelry from the Art Nouvea movement that were included in leading international specialist journals.

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