Author: Robert Hunt (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Handbook to the Official Catalogues: an Explanatory Guide to the Natural Productions and Manufactures of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, 1815
Author: Robert Hunt (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Hunt's Hand-book to the Official Catalogues
Author: Robert HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Hunt's Hand-book to the Official Catalogues
Author: Robert HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Hunt's Hand-book to the Official Catalogues
Author: Robert HuntHunt's Hand-Book to the Official Catalogues of the Great Exhibition
Author: Robert HuntPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108072887
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Hunt's Hand-Book to the Great Exhibition (1851) displays a compelling enthusiasm for the modern world, technology and progress.
Hunt's Hand-Book to the Official Catalogues of the Great Exhibition
Author: Robert HuntPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108072892
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Colonising Egypt
Author: Timothy MitchellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete
Author: Sigfried GiedionPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363193
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
With Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcretre (1928)—published now for the first time in English—Sigfried Giedion positioned himself as an eloquent advocate of modern architecture. This was the first book to exalt Le Corbusier as the artistic champion of the new movement. It also spelled out many of the tenets of Modernism that are now regarded as myths, among them the impoverishment of nineteenth-century architectural thinking and practice, the contrasting vigor of engineering innovations, and the notion of Modernism as technologically preordained.