This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideolo

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in

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A survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years

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