The Decorative Arts Deconstructed.(Review)
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 9/1/2001
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Author: Mayor, Alfred
Denis Diderot did it first in his magisterial Encyclopedie in which, as this worthy successor states, "the clear beam of the Enlightenment was shone on the gloom of the medieval workshop, dispelling many of the mysteries that surrounded the crafts." The plates from the earlier work are used frequently as illustrations in this dictionary of materials and techniques in the decorative arts. As Lucy Trench, the chief editor of this book, writes: "Much of the 18th-century technology that ...
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