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Silver in American life : selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University edited by Barbara McLean Ward & Gerald W.R. Ward
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks NK 7112 .S45
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yale University. Art Gallery--Catalogs.
- Yale University.
- Silverwork--United States--Catalogs.
- Silverwork.
- Art--Private collections--Catalogs.
- Art.
- Silverwork--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 193 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : D.R. Godine, 1979.
- Summary:
- A humanistic study of the relationship between silver and American life.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Wilder Green and Alan Shestack
- Acknowledgments
- Smitten with the silver fever / Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W R Ward
- Six themes in American silver
- Mineral of that excellent nature: qualities of silver as a metal / William A Lanford
- You shall not crucify man on a cross of gold: silver and money in America / John P Burnham
- Most genteel of any in the mechanic way: American silversmith / Barbara McLean Ward
- From the shop to the manufactory silver and industry, 1800-1970 / Stephen K Victor
- Handsome cupboard of plate: role of silver in American life / Gerald W R Ward
- As good as sterling: art in American silver / Martha Gandy Fales
- Silver in American life / Barbara McLean Ward, Gerald W R Ward, and Kevin L Stayton
- Silver: Its Sources And Uses:
- Ores and mining
- Production and refining
- Attributes of the metal
- Many uses of silver: photography, industry, the arts
- Coins And Medals:
- Silver in commerce and trade
- American numismatic art
- Silver commemoratives
- Traditional Craft Practices:
- Tools and shop practices
- Apprenticeship
- Specialization
- Related crafts
- Design sources
- Mass Production And Craft Revival:
- Mechanization
- Industrialization
- Silver-plating
- Arts and crafts revival
- Contemporary artist-craftsmen
- Silver And Society:
- Religious ritual
- Presentations silver
- Domestic display and ceremony
- Silver in everyday life
- Objects of personal adornment
- Gallery Of American Silver:
- Three centuries of form and style
- Seventeenth century
- Baroque
- Queen Anne
- Rococo
- Neoclassical
- Victorian and revival styles
- Twentieth century
- Bibliography
- Index of silversmiths, designers, manufacturers, and retailers
- Photograph credits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Silver in American life.
- ISBN:
- 0879232889
- 9780879232887
- OCLC:
- 5202443
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