Backemeyer Sylvia Ed (3 results)

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: large sewn PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine, with only slightest wear to corners, old pencil price on front endpaper. BACKEMEYER, SYLVIA, ed. . Making their mark: art, craft and design at the Central School, 1896-1966. London: Herbert Press, 2000, 160pp., . Beautifully illustrated throughout, mostly in color. - Tracing the history of the Central School of Art, from its first principal, onwards, this book shows how the school began and developed educational theories that had far reaching effects on the development of arts and crafts in Britain - CONTENTS: Making an impression / Joanna Selborne -- 'Visual language': the growth of graphic design / Sylvia Backemeyer -- Following the thread: textiles / Mary Schoeser -- Morris Kestelman and Fine Art teaching at the Central School / Sylvia Backemeyer -- William Johnstone and the Central School / Alan Powers -- From three-dimensional craft to industrial design / Stuart Evans -- Central Ceramics: Dora Billington and Gilbert Harding Green / Alison Britton -- Half a century of theatre design / Anna Buruma -- Enid Marx at the Central School in the 1920s / Cynthia R. Weaver -- Spreading the word / Mary Schoeser -- A student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1936-1940 / Margare Till -- Edward Wright: teaching and experiment / Ken Garland -- From the first number of Central Papers 1930 / Bridget Wilkins -- Roy Coulthurst, industrial designer -- Anne Hechle, calligrapher -- Biographies of Central School staff and students -- Selected general reading on Central School staff and students -- List of Royal Academicians -- List of Royal Designers for Industry. 9780713652611 ISBN 0713652616. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 128 pp illustrated in colour and bw, silver covers, black titles and endpapers. Silver covers have a few indentations otherwise clean and sound.

Card 127pp illus.nr Fine.