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Cargando... Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Homepor Lucinda Hawksley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 5 stars for the illustrations. ( ) This is a big book in form. Half of it is composed of arsenic usage in human history and history of wallpaper industry, mostly of 19th century England. The other half mixed within are examples of wallpapers, again mainly from second half of 19th century, and mainly from England, by which I amused quite pleasantly. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Beautiful to look at and compelling to read, this book is a highly original and captivating volume that interleaves facsimile sections of alluring, arsenic-laden wallpapers with thought-provoking narrative. It is tracing the arresting story of the use and effects of the toxic pigments ingrained in popular wallpapers of the nineteenth century. Hawksley presents the history of Scheele's green and schweinfurt green, pigments created using arsenic, which produced the vibrant shades whose brilliance made them instant favourites with wallpaper designers and householders alike. With the aid of contemporary case studies and reports in the press, she reveals how, by the middle of the century, manufacturers were producing millions of rolls of arsenical wallpaper, with devastating consequences for those working in their factories and for those living in rooms decorated with the deadly designs. The wallpaper sections display dazzling long-lost work from the great designers and printers of the age, including Christopher Dresser, Corbiere, Son & Brindle, Charles Knowles & Co. and Morris & Co.--whose owner was famously dismissive of the fatal effects of living with arsenic-filled wallpapers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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