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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Catalogue des estampes et des dessins anciens et modernes, composant la collection de M. l'abbé G. de Miaux ...
Author: Philostratus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Catalogue de la collection de dessins, estampes anciennes et modernes, livres a figures et sur les arts, portraits peints, Christ en ivoire, etc., composant le cabinet de feu M. Simon
Author: Auguste SimonPublisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : fr
Pages : 240
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When I Was a Photographer
Author: Felix NadarPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029456
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The first complete English translation of Nadar's intelligent and witty memoir, a series of vignettes that capture his experiences in the early days of photography. Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer—and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist—Félix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. Composed as a series of vignettes (we might view them as a series of “written photographs”), this intelligent and witty book offers stories of Nadar's experiences in the early years of photography, memorable character sketches, and meditations on history. It is a classic work, cited by writers from Walter Benjamin to Rosalind Krauss. This is its first and only complete English translation. In When I Was a Photographer (Quand j'étais photographe), Nadar tells us about his descent into the sewers and catacombs of Paris, where he experimented with the use of artificial lighting, and his ascent into the skies over Paris in a hot air balloon, from which he took the first aerial photographs. He recounts his “postal photography” during the 1870-1871 Siege of Paris—an amazing scheme involving micrographic images and carrier pigeons. He describes technical innovations and important figures in photography, and offers a thoughtful consideration of society and culture; but he also writes entertainingly about such matters as Balzac's terror of being photographed, the impact of a photograph on a celebrated murder case, and the difference between male and female clients. Nadar's memoir captures, as surely as his photographs, traces of a vanished era.
The Orientalists
Author: Lynne ThorntonPublisher: www.acr-edition.com
ISBN: 9782867700835
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, numerous painters succumbed to the charms of the Orient. Travel to distant lands was easier, and artists brought back voluptuous images filled with sun and colour. This title studies almost 150 painters, from Delacroix to Ziem. It features many lesser known masters and is suitable for collectors.
Catalogue de dessins anciens et modernes, eaux-fortes & livres d'estampes, etc., composant le célèbre cabinet de feu monsieur L. Dupper Wz. à Dordrecht
Author: Bohemian Versus Bourgeois
Author: César GrañaPublisher: New York, Basic Books
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author: Robert WodrowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Catalogue d'estampes anciennes et dessins composant la magnifique collection de feu M. Emile Galichon
Author: Emile Louis GalichonPublisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : fr
Pages : 134
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Léonard Bourdon
Author: Michael J. SydenhamPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205884
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Lonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807 illustrates the ways in which one individual was affected by and influenced the long and turbulent course of the French Revolution. It also rescues an active, intelligent and interesting man from a prolonged period of scholarly neglect and redeems his reputation from being perceived as a particularly cruel revolutionary terrorist. Sydenham follows Bourdon’s political career from the final days of the old monarchy through Bourdon’s active participation in the Revolution. Bourdon was always aware that political development must be accompanied by educational change, and his lifelong interest in education is an integral part of his story. Bourdon left remarkably few personal papers. During the painstaking exploration for details of his life, several critical as well as unfamiliar events of the period have been illuminated, suggesting that similar misrepresentations of many other relatively unknown French revolutionaries have distorted current understanding of this period, crucial to the growth and development of modern democracy.