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Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.






Publications

Bard Graduate Center publishes award-winning exhibition catalogues, books, and journals focusing on scholarship in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

Contemporary Artists
Publications
Barbara Nessim
An Artful Life


Publications
Waterweavers
A Chronicle of Rivers

Publications
Sheila Hicks
Weaving as Metaphor

Publications
Richard Tuttle
What Is the Object?
BGCX
Publications
Ritual and Capital
BGCX
2020

Publications
What is Research?
BGCX
2021

Publications
What is Conservation?
BGCX
2023

The catalogue explores the cast-iron industry from a socio-economic and political perspective and provides a comprehensive examination of cast-iron work from 1800-1850. The flourishing of the cast iron industry during the first half of the 19th century under the aegis of the Prussian government, and the manner in which the industry became a major contributor to that nation’s economic development is examined in the catalogue. The history of the cast-iron industry is traced as well, from the manufacture of a diverse array of domestic objects to the construction of major engineering and architectural innovations.

Table of Contents
Foreword
Susan Weber Soros

Introduction
Derek E. Ostergard

The Iron Revolution in Britain, 1750-1825
Michael Stratton

The Road to Industrialization: Prussia, 1814-1848
Kenneth D. Barkin

Commerce and Industry in the Habsburg Empire in the Age of Matternich, 1815-1841
Leon Botstein

Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Berlin Cast Iron, 1810-1841
Ursula Ilse-Neuman

The Central European Cast-Iron Industries
Elisabeth Schmuttermeier

The Beginnings of Cast-Iron Garden Furniture Production
Georg Himmelheber

A History of Cast-Iron Jewelry
Brigitte Marquardt

A Passion for Antique Gems
E. Bryding Adams

A History of Cast-Iron Technology and the Prussian Iron Art Industry
Albrecht Pyritz

German Sculpture and Cast Iron: Berlin as Epicenter
Helmut Borsch-Supan

Catalogue of the Exhibition
Elisabeth Schmuttermeier and Derek E. Ostergard

Appendix: A Directory of Central European and British Cast-Iron Foundries
Compiled by Lisa Arcomano and Michael Stratton

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
Images