Author: Halsey Cooley IvesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art
Author: Halsey Cooley IvesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2048
Book Description
The Nation Without Art
Author: Margaret Rose OlinPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803235649
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Case studies explore the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, whose efforts to use art to create a Jewish nationality in Palestine raise important issues of national identity, and the discovery in 1932 of the third-century Synagogue of Dura Europos, a symbol for scholars struggling against the Third Reich. Among those who supported or challenged concepts of Jewish art, Margaret Olin considers the nineteenth-century rabbinical scholar David Kaufmann, the philosopher Martin Buber, the critic Clement Greenberg, and the filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992449
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
One of three chronologically arranged catalogues that document the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of American paintings.
Perspectives on American Sculpture Before 1925
Author: Thayer TollesPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391051
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has long been renowned for its collection of American sculpture, in particular its world-famous American Neoclassical marbles. This volume contains eight papers presented at a symposium held at the Museum on October 26, 2001, upon the publication of American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The contributors, who include art historians, museum professionals, and independent scholars, offer a fascinating cross section of current thematic interests and scholarly approaches to American sculpture. Each contributor takes as their starting point a sculpture or group of sculptures in the Metropolitan's collection, presenting a wide variety of approaches to the study and understanding of these works.
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston
Author: Maureen MeisterPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653516
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
H. Langford Warren (1857-1917) was an important link in the chain of individuals who contributed to the architectural practice, theories of design, and the teaching of architectural history in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Best known in the Boston area, Warren first worked under the renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson before establishing his own practice. Friends and colleagues during this period included Charles Eliot Norton, the noted art historian, and Harvard's Charles Herbert Moore, a leading Ruskinian painter. Hired by Harvard University in 1893, Warren developed its architectural curriculum. In 1897 he helped found Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts. At the time of his death in 1917, Warren was Dean of the School of Architecture at Harvard and President of the Society of Arts and Crafts. At the turn of the century, Warren's philosophical vision offered a conservative and ethnocentric perspective attractive to many Bostonians and to a significant segment of Americans nationwide. According to this view, English culture was the basis of American culture. Through his work at Harvard and in the Arts and Crafts movement, he articulated and promoted an aesthetic guided by an attachment to the past, and he encouraged his students at Harvard to revive and reinterpret English and Anglo-American models. Another characteristic of Warren's aesthetic was "restraint," a quality generally attributed to the region's Puritan settlers. "Restraint" also meant a rejection of both the lavish ornamentation of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the more original styles such as Art Nouveau that were emerging at the turn of the century. Following the ideals of John Ruskin, William Morris, and later leaders of the English Arts and Crafts movement, Warren and his architect-colleagues promoted a close collaboration with the craftsmen who enhanced their buildings. The resulting building designs represent a significant contribution to the development of American Arts and Crafts architecture, complementing the proto-modern work of designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright. In fact, Arts and Crafts architecture in North America was extremely diverse. Meister examines the greater complexity of this architecture by exploring the eclectic historicism of Warren, a key figure in the movement that was centered in Boston.