Author: Hôtel DrouotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : fr
Pages : 44
Book Description
Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement, anciennes faiences du Rhodes, de Deruta, etc., porcelaines de la Chine & du Japon, objets divers - émaux cloissonés, bronze, de barye, horloge de table du XVIe siècle, sièges et meubles, tapisseries du XVIIIe sìcle, tapis d'orient, tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, dessins, pastels par Ch. Coypel, Ducreux, Géricault, J. Stevens, Subleyras, A. Vollon, etc., gravures du dix-huitième siècle appartenant à M. C...
Author: Hôtel DrouotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : fr
Pages : 44
Book Description
Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Objets d'art et d'ameublement. Tableaux, gravures, porcelaines. Bronzes. Objets variés, meubles anciens et modernes Tapis
Author: Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement anciennes porcelaines de Sèvres, pate tendre de Saxe, de Chine, etc., jades et cristaux de roche chinois, objets de vitrine, éventails, râpes à tabac, sculptures, pendules, bronzes & meubles du XVIIIe siècle, du 1er empire et autres, vitrines meuble de salon en tapisserie du temps de Louis XV, tapisseries des XVIIe siècles gravures des écoles française et anglaise du XVIIIe si0ecle dépendent des collections de M. Édouard Chappey: Moyen âge et renaissance
Author: Edouard ChappeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques
Languages : fr
Pages : 136
Book Description
Objets d'art et d'ameublement anciens, tableaux et dessins anciens etc
Author: Objets d'art et d'ameublement anciens et modernes, orfèvrerie, tableaux, tapis d'Orient
Author: The Fine Private Library of the Late Oliver Henry Perkins, Des Moines, Iowa
Author: Oliver Henry PerkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Catalogue des étoffes & tapisseries, faïences, porcelaines, objets variés, sculptures, bronzes d'art, pendules et bronzes d'ameublement, meubles en tapisserie, tableaux
Author: Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, faïences italiennes, de Bernard Palissy et autres., précieuse salière en faience de Saint Porchaire, sculptures en marbre, en terre cuite, en bois et en ivoire, cheminmée monumentale en pierre, porcelaines de Sèvres, de Saxe, de Chine et du Japon, vitraux, orfèvrerie, matières précieuses, quelques tabelaux anciens, bronzes d'art et d'ameublement, magnifique mobilier en tapisserie de Beauvais, meubles en bois sculpté du XVIe siècle, tapisseries remarquables des Gobelins et de Beauvais, panneaux d ela savonnerie, meubles et tentures en tapisserie au point, beaux lustres en cristal de roche, meubles dépendant de la succession de Mme d'Yvon
Author: On Enlightenment
Author: D. David Charles StovePublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780765801364
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and human well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, political mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values has become the yardstick by which moral, political, and even scientific advances are measured. Indeed, most critiques of the enlightenment ideal point to failure in implementation rather than principle. By contrast, David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures. Stove is not insensitive to the many valuable aspects of enlightenment thought. He champions the use of reason and rationality, and recognizes the falsity of religious claims as well as the importance of individual liberty. What he rejects is the enlightenment's uncritical optimism regarding social progress and its willingness to embrace revolutionary change. What evidence is there that the elimination of superstition will lead to happiness? Or that it is possible to accept Darwinism without Social Darwinism? Or that the enlightenment's liberal, rationalistic outlook will ever lead to the kind of social progress envisioned by its advocates. Despite their best intentions, social reformers who attempt to improve the world as a whole inevitably make things worse. He advocates a conservative "go slow" approach to change, pointing out that today's social structures are so large and complex that any widespread social reform will have innumerable unforeseen consequences. For example, the welfare state may diminish individual initiative, the use of pesticides may increase the food supply while polluting the water supply, the popularizing of university education may lead to a decline in academic standards. Since government has a virtual monopoly on large-scale change, it follows, in Stove's view, that its powers must be limited in order to prevent large-scale damage. Instead, he argues that reforms, when they are to be made at all, must be realistic, local, necessary and never coercive. Writing in the conservative tradition of Edmund Burke with the same passion for clarity and intellectual honesty as George Orwell, David Stove was one of the most precise, articulate, and insightful philosophers of his day. "Never just an academic, Stove was also a prominent, often crotchety, public intellectual of a conservative and, all too often, reactionary bent, many of whose views were extremist on any account, and his targets were many. ... For Stove the important question about a belief is not whether it is extreme or mainstream, but whether it is true, or probable, or has sound evidentiary and/or rational credentials. In this he was surely right." -D. D. Todd, Philosophy in Review David Stove (1927-1994) taught philosophy at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He is the author of Against the Idols of the Age and Scientific Irrationalism, both available from Transaction. Andrew Irvine is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.