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Author: Warburg Institute. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 770

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Author: Helen Glaister
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000644278
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and tastemakers during the years leading to, during and following the Second World War. The Ionides Collection of European style Chinese export porcelain forms the nucleus of this study – defined by its design hybridity – offering insights into the agency of Chinese porcelain in diverse contexts, from seventeenth-century Batavia to twentieth-century Britain, raising questions about notions of Chineseness, Britishness, and identity politics across time and space. Through the biographies of the collectors, this book highlights the role of collecting Chinese art objects, particularly porcelain, in the construction of individual and group identities. Social networks linking the Ionides to agents and dealers, auctioneers, and museum specialists bring into focus the dynamics of collecting during this period, the taste of the Ionides and their self-fashioning as collectors. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of art history, history of collections, interior design, Chinese studies, and material culture studies.

Author: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc
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Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362219
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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This volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1062

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Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: William Watson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300073935
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This beautiful book is the second in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artefacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. It covers the most prolific and broad-ranging period of Chinese art history, from the Song Dynasty with its spectacular landscape paintings to the Ming Dynasty with its lovely pottery. William Watson considers architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts in equal balance. He follows styles and motifs as they are developed in each medium from one province to another and discusses materials and techniques as well as the iconography and function of every art form. He also explores relationships between one medium and another, tracing, for example, the influence of Buddhist iconography on sculptural traditions and on the architecture of temples and towers and showing how ceramic ornament affected the development of ornament in other media.

Author: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064576
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures’ visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex new creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period.

Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
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Category : Civilization, Hispanic
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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