Author: Vimalin Rujivacharakul Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1611490065 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 235
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Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.
Author: Edmond de Goncourt Publisher: Parkstone International ISBN: 1780429282 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 256
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If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan-like necks of the women, the mysterious looks, evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient. If some scenes discreetly betray lovers’ games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic.
Author: Edmond de Goncourt Publisher: Parkstone International ISBN: 1783107715 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 421
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Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. Considered during his life as a living Ukiyo-e master, Hokusai fascinates us with the variety and the significance of his work, which spanned almost ninety years and is presented here in all its breadth and diversity.
Author: Edmond de Goncourt Publisher: ISBN: Category : French fiction Languages : en Pages : 420
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Renée is the spoiled daughter of a respectable, but untitled French family. She eschews convention until the deeds of her brother Henri make her realize the value of propriety.
Author: Katherine Ashley Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004490329 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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Edmond de Goncourt’s four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers’ joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot devices and themes, this study links the evolution of Goncourt’s fiction to wider literary debates surrounding Naturalism, Decadence and the renewal of the novel in fin de siècle France. In bringing Goncourt’s writings to an English-speaking public, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the literary history of late-nineteenth-century France.
Author: Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
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Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Author: Katherine Ashley