Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life

Description

This volume, comprising over 200 photographic illustrations, is mainly divided into the following sections: pottery and porcelain, sculpture and modelling, lacquer-ware, embroidery, metal technology, braided articles and miscellaneous handcrafts. all these products have been created by the artisans in the last ten years since the founding of new china. we have compiled them into this collection to mark the great tenth anniversary of the founding of new China. For several thousand years, Chinese arts and crafts have been handed down generation after generation by the laboring people. with the cultural and economic development of society and the superb skill of the craftsmanship, they have attained an exquisite standard of production, imbued with national tradition and local color. the arts and crafts of our country are the result of the assiduous labor, the ingenuity and the inherent wisdom of our ancestors. they are among the most valuable treasures in the rich heritage of Chinese art and culture.