A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts provides a common and unambiguous vocabulary for the parts of handcrafted decorative, domestic, and artistic items. Terminology for a broad array of object types is presented alongside original 3D illustrations that facilitate objective referencing. The reference enhances learning, labeling, and discussing various craft items in great physical detail. Sixty-four 3D graphic illustrations provide an effective visual format for identifying the vocabulary/location of the parts on individual objects. The dictionary is divided into five major sections: -Decorative Objects such as a basket, jar/jug, flatware -Domestic Furnishings such as a bed with bedding, upholstered chairs, tables -Artistic Works and Tools such as books, prints, paintings, photographs, and sculpture -Jewelry Adornment Items such as earrings, necklaces, pins, and watches -Accessory Articles such as a hat, pipe, comb, and fan The thoroughness of the annotations makes this volume an essential tool for museum curators and conservators, librarians, connoisseurs, buyers and dealers; artists and crafts persons, collectors, designers, registrars and anyone with an interest in visual history.
Nancy Odegaard is Conservator at the Arizona State Museum and Professor at the University of Arizona. She has over forty years of experience working with and describing material culture, including countless condition and conservation and treatment reports, exhibit labels, catalog cards, over 100 museum surveys. She has utilized three scholar residency awards to conduct intellectual research on the parts or vocabularies for handcrafted domestic and decorative objects. In 2001 she conducted research while a research fellow at the Winterthur Library and Archives, in 2007 she continued research while a fellow at the Getty Conservation Institute, and in 2015 she added research as a fellow at ICCROM in Rome. She has maintained an ongoing effort to continue to add to and update her notes through existing glossaries in art history and decorative arts, craft manufacture guides, interviews with specialists, and conservation reference materials. Her published books include: Curating Human Remains: A Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions, 2006; Old Poisons New Problems: Information and Resource Guide for Contaminated Cultural Materials in Museum Collections, 2005; Material Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and Archaeology, 2nd edition, 2005. Material Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and Archaeology, 2000. A Guide to Handling Anthropological Museum Collections, 1991; Training for Collections Care and Vol 1. Archaeology & Ethnology, 1990. She has received three Kress Publication Awards from the AIC. She has published over 200 chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings, newsletter pieces, posters, and electronic media. She is an elected fellow of the AIC and IIC, and has been an active member in AAM, ATALM, ICOM. Gerry Wagner Crouse has worked in illustration and graphic media for over 20 years. She has extensive experience and training with scientific line-drawing illustration as well as 3D animation graphics. She has worked for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Buhl Planetarium, Houston Museum of Natural History Science Planetarium, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, and National Geographic Television. Currently, she works by contract with museums, tribal communities, contract resource management firms, planetariums, and educational agencies. Her work examples include: NASA MMS Mission Outreach, 2015 Houston Museum of Natural History; Construction of Pueblo Grande, 2017 Paleowest Archaeology; Artifact Documentation for Repatriation, 2017 - present, Gila River Indian Community.
Dedication Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Decorative objects 1. Basket 2. Bells 3. Bottle, Beverage 4. Bottle, Case 5. Bowl/Porringer 6. Candlestick, Glass 7. Candlestick Metal and Douter 8. Cup/bowl 9. Cutlery Knife 10. Flatware 11. Jar/Jug 12. Lamp, Oil with Oxidation Surface 13. Saucer/Plate 14. Stemware, Goblet 15. Teapot 16. Vase (Amphora) 17. Vase, Glass Section II: Domestic Furnishings 1. Bed and Bedding 2. Bed, Child's Cradle 3. Chair, Straight 4. Chair, Upholstery 5. Furniture, Case 6. Rug 7. Rug Foundation 8. Table, Drop-leaf 9. Table, Pedestal 10. Table, Side 11. Window and Coverings Section III: Artistic Works and Tools 1. Book 2. Frescos 3. Mosaic 4. Painting, Auxiliary Support for Canvas 5. Painting (Layers) on Canvas 6. Painting, Frame Molding Profile with Canvas 7. Painting on Wood Panel / Icon 8. Print 9. Print Package 10. Print/Artwork Frame (Reverse) with Hardware 11. Photograph and Slides 12. Sculpture, Armature (Miniature) on Column 13. Sculpture, Figure (Life Size) on Platform 14. Sculpture, Metal Cast (Colossal Size) on Acropodium/Pedestal 15. Sculpture, Portrait Bust (Life-Size) on Socle 16. Sculpture, Statue/Herm (Heroic Size) 17. Artist Tools for Applying 18. Artist Tools for Carving and Modeling 19. Artist Tools for Cutting Section IV: Jewelry Adornment Items 1. Bolo 2. Bracelets 3. Buckles 4. Earrings 5. Neck Jewelry 6. Pins 7. Rings 8. Sartorial Jewelry 9. Watches Section V: Accessory Articles 1. Buttons 2. Combs 3. Eyeglasses 4. Fan 5. Flag 6. Hat 7. Pipes 8. Umbrella/Parasol About the Authors
With roots in the quest for orderly terminology by pioneer conservator (and Monuments Man) George Stout, beginning in 1938, and continuing through the Getty's Art and Architecture Thesaurus of the 1980s, a 21st-century vocabulary is now available in A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts. We thank respected conservator Nancy Odegaard and talented graphic illustrator Gerry Crouse for this guide to 'just the right word' to describe the indescribable details of candlesticks, frames, historical jewelry, and much much more. -- Joyce Hill Stoner, PhD, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Material Culture, University of Delaware This visual dictionary is an excellent resource for curators, registrars, and collection managers for use in condition checking artworks or cataloging collections. -- Diana Pardue, Chief Curator, Heard Museum As anyone involved in the cataloging of decorative arts knows, there are myriad ways for objects to be described. Nowhere, however, can one turn to an easily understood and comprehensive compendium of commonly employed terms. This volume sets out to change that by defining easily understood descriptive terms for common classes of material objects. These terms are then tied to exploded drawings of common classes of decorative arts to show the reader how they might be employed. Finally, a resource that provides a common descriptive terminology for everyday use. A must for the bookshelf of museum curators, serious collectors and auction professionals. -- C. Wesley Cowan, Vice Chair, Hindman LLC and Founder Cowan's Auctions LLC
