Extensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades.
The Art of Tapestry tells the history of tapestry in Britain and Europe from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries through the National Trust's outstanding tapestry collection, which comprises nearly 650 tapestries in 60 properties.
The book includes individual entries on 50 of the National Trust's most important tapestries and an introduction tracing the history of tapestry production and patronage. This specific history is situated in a European context with sections on tapestry production and design in the Netherlands, France and elsewhere. Tapestry has always been an international medium, bringing together weavers, designers, patrons and raw materials of diverse origins, and the book reflects this by placing English production and patronage firmly within a European context.
While the history of princely collecting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has received outstanding treatment in recent exhibitions, the parallel history of tapestries bought and used by the European nobility and gentry has never been explored. The Art of Tapestry, published in association with the National Trust, is the culmination of a four-year research project undertaken by tapestry expert Helen Wyld. Beautifully illustrated throughout with much new photography, the book is an essential point of reference for specialists, while also having considerable appeal to the general reader.
Recenzijas
Examines the subject in technical and art historical terms and is profusely illustrated with images that convey the diversity and appeal of these remarkable - and sometimes undervalued - works of art. * Country Life * [ This] book offers a very original approach to the art of tapestry, based on example objects from this catalogue...The illustrations are of very high quality, revealing many unknown or lesser-known tapestries in British country houses and castles. * Textile History * The book will be enlightening for any country-house buff and decorator who wants to know more about the historic tapestries they encounter in English country houses. It will also be an essential reference for historians of English visual culture, providing a fascinating account of the rise and fall and rise again of tapestry as an art form in its own right and as a medium of traditional splendour. -- Tom Campbell, Director of the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco This beautifully illustrated book looks at how tapestries were made, how they were used as political tools and how they came into and out of fashion. [ ...] its a fascinating look at an art form that doesnt get the same attention as paintings. -- Tabish Khan * FAD Magazine *
Papildus informācija
Extensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Tapestry Technique
I: Art and Industry
II: Ritual and Presence
III: The Woven Image
IV: Tapestry and History
Appendix: Makers' Marks
Notes
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index
Helen Wyld studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute. She spent four years researching the National Trusts tapestry collection, funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and has worked as a curator for the National Trust for Scotland and as Senior Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She is now Senior Curator of Historic Textiles at the National Museum of Scotland, where she is responsible for Scottish and European textiles from the medieval period to 1850.
