{"product_id":"all-manner-of-murals-the-history-techniques-and-conservation-of-secular-wall-paintings-9781904982111","title":"All Manner of Murals: The History, Techniques and Conservation of Secular Wall Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Gowing | Robyn Pender\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Archetype Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Archetype Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerrifying beasts, imaginary landscapes, portraits and ornaments - \u003cem\u003eAll Manner of Murals\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the many ways we have decorated our day-to-day lives with wall paintings. Murals by their very nature must remain in and on the structures for which they were designed, inextricably at one with their surroundings, and so offer glimpses of vanished ways of living. Whether painted in a humble cottage or a grand palace, they illustrate the march not only of history, but of our view of ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt once strange and strangely familiar, the ancient wall painting emerging from under layers of whitewash has much to tell us about how our predecessors saw the world around them. The tradition of wall painting, arguably the oldest of art forms, continues to this day, and our descendants may find our own values and views reflected in the murals, private and public, that we leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 20 papers collected in this volume (from 3 symposia* hosted by the Stone and Wall Painting Group of the Institute of Conservation [ICON]) explore over 500 years of secular wall paintings, right up to contemporary work, looking at why and how they were painted, and the best ways of caring for them to ensure that future generations can also find in 'all manner of murals' a source of wonder and of kinship to their past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*The 3 UKIC symposia were entitled: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllusions of Grandeur: English Baroque wall paintings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowers of Fashion: Renaissance wall paintings in Britain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Traditions: 19th- and 20th-century secular wall paintings\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archetype Publications","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891979796631,"sku":"9781904982111","price":6050.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781904982111.webp?v=1781185351","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/all-manner-of-murals-the-history-techniques-and-conservation-of-secular-wall-paintings-9781904982111","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}