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Simon Swynfen Jervis has worked extensively as a curator, writer, and scholar of decorative arts. He has authored dozens of books, articles, guidebooks, and exhibition catalogues and organized exhibitions at British, European, and American institutions.
Racknitz, marshall of the court of Saxony and, by extension, his wonderful book, exemplify the German Enlightenment and what it was to be civilised in the late C18th. Some wonderful colour plates and black and white engravings. -- John Sandoe Books At once an artistic and cultural cross-examination A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture is not just an art survey of interior decoration and architecture, but a work of cultural and historical scholarship that should be in any world history or arts collection. -- Midwest Book Review Racknitz's masterpiece has been rescued from obscurity, translated, edited and lucidly, authoritatively and entertainingly explained to a twenty-first-century audience. --Christopher Rowell Furniture History Society The availability of Racknitz's text in translation makes an important contribution to our understanding of historicism in the applied arts. --Olivia Horsfall Turner Apollo This attractive and thorough scholarly presentation makes a contribution towards our understanding of Racknitz, the German Enlightenment and the origins of academic Orientalism in the German-speaking world. -- Alexander Adams Art
Still Waters & Wild Waves
The beautiful new book from printmaker...
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Glorious Lessons
John Trumbull, Painter of the American...
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