No comments about Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series).

1 comments about Craft in the Machine Age 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft.

1. This book was published as a catalogue for a 1991 show at the American Craft Museum. The show's purpose was to look at Craft in the United States from 1920-1945. This was an exciting period when American industrial designers took many of the emerging ideas of European Modernism and gave these new theories a unique American character. This age known variously as Depression Modern, Streamline, Art Moderne and Art Deco.
   
   What makes this book interesting is that it focuses on craft. There are chapters on wood working, metal working, glass blowing, ceramics and textiles. As would be expected, this book covers the iconic works of the masters such as Teague, Deskey, Rhode and Wright. But there are also a number of less well known craftmen of the period. It is these more obscure figures that make this book compelling. Their contributions illustrate that fact that this was a movement as oppossed to the exceptional works of a few remarkable craftsmen.
   
   "Craft in the Machine Age" is filled with numerous photographs and has chapters on the different crafts written by museum curators and academics. As you would expect, it is a well made professional catalogue of a major art exhibition. This book is a must purchase for enthusiasts of American material culture in the years between the two World Wars. Highly recommended.

No comments about Rodin: The Shape of Genius.

1 comments about Eccentric Style (Icons Series).

1. From Europe, America, Asia and Africa this book gives a small picture of people that have brought to life their unique visions of what their environments/dwellings should look like.
   
   The book is quite short, 191 small pages, with pictures usually taking up two of them. It has a little bit of text explaining who built what and where it's located on a few separate pages, making it a nuisance having to jump back and forth, trying to figure out who made what. It would have been nice to have some in depth history on the buildings and their builders.
   
   Otherwise this book does have a bunch of quite eccentric buildings that you probably haven't seen in any other books. If your interested in this type of stuff, the price is right, so go for it.

No comments about Carving Country Characters: Step-by-Step Instructions for 18 Projects with 105 illustrations.

No comments about Ancient Indonesian art of the central and eastern Javanese periods.

No comments about Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York.

No comments about Faith Made Visible: Shaping the Human Spirit in Sculpture and Word.

1 comments about Playing Chess With the Heart: Beatrice Wood at 100.

1. Absolutely stunning, glorious and sensual black and white photos of Beatrice Wood.
   
   B. Wood conveys in her photos that life can be lived with enthusiasm and zeal at 100 years old.
   
   She inspires me on every level as a woman.
   
   A small yet magnificent book.

No comments about Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays.