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Ader Tajan
Author: World Collectors Annuary
Author: Ader, Picard, Tajan
Author: Ader, Picard, Tajan (Paris)Publisher:
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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes
Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368747
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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"Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.
Making Up the Rococo
Author: Melissa Lee HydePublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367436
Category : Art criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look.
French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: Charissa Bremer-DavidPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363797
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories, the catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens, and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only complete lit à la duchesse surviving from the period. Among the magnificent textiles discussed in this lavish volume are the Emperor of China tapestry series, the whimsical Story of Don Quixote, and Boucher's cycle The Story of Psyche. A gatefold in the book opens to reveal a photograph of the stately twenty-nine-foot carpet commissioned for Louis XIV's Galerie du Bord de l'Eau at the Louvre, a piece never publicly displayed in this century. Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used, followed by a complete description and a condition statement. The accompanying commentary provides information on the literary, historical, and visual source of design imagery as well as the context of the textile's commission and production. In addition, each textile shown has a complete provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. For lovers of French decorative arts and connoisseurs of textiles, this book offers a study both of the art of tapestry- and textile-making and of the aesthetic tradition exemplified by these remarkable objects.
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 2132
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Ader, Picard, Tajan
Author: Ader, Picard, Tajan (Paris)Publisher:
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Personification
Author: Walter MelionPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004310436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 787
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Personification, or prosopopeia, the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or ‘face’, is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure’s cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited sustained scholarly attention. The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, France, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries. Personification is susceptible to an approach that balances semiotic analysis, focusing on meaning effects, and phenomenological analysis, focusing on presence effects produced through bodily performance. This dual approach foregrounds the full scope of prosopopoeic discourse—not just the what, but also the how, not only the signified, but also the signifier.
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