Research Catalog

Title

• The Winterthur library revealed : five centuries of design and inspiration / Neville Thompson with Bert Denker ... [et al.].

Author

Winterthur Library

Publication

New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press in association with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, 2003.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Denker, Bert, 1946-
• Grolier Club
• Thompson, Eleanor McD.

Description

xi, 100 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.

Summary

"Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, The Winterthur Library Revealed: Five Centuries of Design and Inspiration includes essays and entries on the founding of the library and all aspects of its collections. Ranging from printed patterns of the 16th century to colonial-revival design drawings of the 20th, the five centuries of books, drawings, and ephemera illustrated within represent the work of artisans, manufacturers, advertisers, and countless other hands through which the material surroundings of our everyday lives have passed. Each highlights the ways in which library resources contribute greatly to the stories of decorative arts objects."--Jacket.

Subject

• Decorative arts > United States > History > Exhibitions
• Library resources > Winterthur > Exhibitions
• Rare books > Winterthur > Exhibitions
• United States > Sources > Exhibitions
• Winterthur Library > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies
• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, N.Y., Dec. 9,2003-Feb. 7, 2004 and at the Winterthur Museum, Delaware, May1-July 24, 2004.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Leslie Greene Bowman -- Introduction / Gary Kulik -- Ch. 1. Shaping the Field: Early Collecting and Scholarship / Lois Olcott Price -- Ch. 2. Shaping the Object: Designers and Makers / Bert Denker -- Ch. 3. Shaping the Market: Advertising and Distribution / Jeanne Solensky and E. Richard McKinstry -- Ch. 4. Shaping the Home: Consumers and the Domestic Shaping / Neville Thompson -- Ch. 5. Revealing the Meaning: Placing Objects in Context / Lois Olcott Price.

ISBN

• 1584561106 (pbk.)
• 1584561203

LCCN

^^2003054822

OCLC

52559164

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library