Description: This major new work comprises more than 1,000 images that highlight the beauty, subtlety, simplicity or complexity of textiles created around the world. The juxtaposition of historical and contemporary examples highlights the skill and imagination of textile designers throughout history, as well as the remarkable range of achievements. Thematic illustrated sections present in-depth knowledge and sweeping insights into the role textiles have played throughout all human civilization, and illuminate the ways in which structure or surface decoration or embellishment enhance this most tactile of arts. With a definitive text by Mary Schoeser, drawing together knowledge gathered over a liftime of immersion in the textile arts, no other book in the vast literature on the subject has so comprehensively celebrated the spectacular and enduring appeal of textiles.
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EAN: 9780500516454
UPC: 9780500516454
ISBN: 9780500516454
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Brand: Thames & Hudson
Book Title: Textiles: the Art of Mankind
Item Height: 280mm
Item Width: 230mm
Author: Mary Schoeser
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 3270g
Number of Pages: 568 Pages
