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The Culture Vulture: A Guide to Style, Period, and Ism, Dunlap, Carol Book
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- ISBN
- 9780471144236
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0471144231
ISBN-13
9780471144236
eBay Product ID (ePID)
537446
Product Key Features
Book Title
Culture Vulture : a Guide to Style, Period, and Ism
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Topic
General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
93-001394
TitleLeading
The
Synopsis
The Culture Vulture A Guide to Style, Period, and ISM Can you tell pop art from dada? Are baroque and rococo, or existentialism and minimalism, all Greek to you? Would you like to be able to differentiate a Georgian manor house from a Tudor mansion, a Meissen cup from a Delft saucer? Anyone who reads is constantly coming across more or less arcane references to period and style. Even television has gotten into the act. One episode of the former series "Miami Vice" caught a character describing the upscale taste of a burglar: "This guy knows the difference between Baccarat and Lalique." Once museums were largely deserted and wonderfully peaceful places in which to browse. Now you must get a ticket and sometimes stand six deep to see a popular exhibit. Who are all these people? They are the culture vultures, and you, and perhaps the person next to you, are among them. Now The Culture Vulture, the book, brings more than 250 terms to your fingertips. No longer will you be in the dark wondering how a Biedermeier chair relates to a Victorian couch or what the difference is between a Bokhara and a Baluchi rug. Based on scholarly sources, this guide provides a readable and amusing synthesis of all those things you learned in school and forgot, with suggested readings should you care to delve further. The Culture Vulture is for the true dilettante (from the Italian dilettare, meaning to delight, charm), or one who finds pleasure in knowledge. We may not have the time or ability to become scholars, but we want to know more.
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