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    • Author/Creator:Murdoch, T. V. (Tessa Violet), author.
    • Title:Europe divided : Huguenot refugee art & culture / Tessa Murdoch.
    • ISBN:9781838510121
      1838510125
    • Publication:London : V&A Publishing, 2021.
    • Physical Description:320 pages : illustrations (color), maps ; 29 cm
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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: DA125.H84 M87 2021 (LC) Oversize
      • Status:Not Checked Out
       
    • Summary:"Huguenot artists designers and craftsmen who left France between 1530 and 1780 and settled and worked in the British Isles were part of an international diaspora. Beyond the French borders, they raised the quality of design and workshop practice, passing on skills to their apprentices, families and to successive generations, who continued to dominate output in the luxury trades. Although silver and silks are the best-known fields with which Huguenot settlers in the British Isles are associated, their contribution to architecture, ceramics, design, clock- and watchmaking, engraving, furniture, woodwork,sculpture, portraits and art education was also extraordinary. Marot, De Lamerie and Revere are instantly recognizable names, but this important and wide-ranging book looks, too at their lesser-known contemporaries, including CheĢron, Labelye and Le Marchand, whose work deserves greater recognition. The culmination of 40 years' research and featuring over 260 colour illustrations, 'Europe divided: Huguenot Refugee Art & Culture' provides fascinating insight into the motivation, resolve and achievement of the Huguenots in exile" -- bookjacket.
    • Variant and related titles:Huguenot refugee art & culture
      Huguenot refugee art and culture
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
    • Contents:The Huguenot Diaspora -- The reception of Huguenot artists, craftsmen and designers in the British Isles -- The Huguenots as educators -- Decorative painters -- Huguenot arcitects and engineers -- Huguenot metalsmiths -- Carvers, gilders, cabinetmakers and upholsterers -- Huguenot sculptors in France and beyond -- The taste for porcelain and ceramic manufacture in Britain and Ireland -- Huguenot goldsmiths and silversmiths in the British Isles, 1550-1780 -- Huguenot watchmakers and jewellers: the manufacture and international market for luxury goods -- Printmakers and sellers: designs, ornament and reproductive prints -- Huguenots and portraiture: allegiance, identity, loyalty and memory.
    • Subjects:Decorative arts, Huguenot--Great Britain.
      Decorative arts, Huguenot--Europe.
      Huguenots--Europe--Intellectual life.
      Huguenots--Social networks--Europe.
      Huguenots--Material culture--Europe.
      Decorative arts, Huguenot.
      Europe.