Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385356938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
A List of Books, Photographs, etc, in the National Art Library, Illustrating Metal Work
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385356938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Acquiring Cultures
Author: Bénédicte SavoyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110544032
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
As more parts of the world outside Europe became accessible =– and in the wake of social and technological developments in the 18th century – a growing number of exotic artefacts entered European markets. The markets for such objects thrived, while a collecting culture and museums emerged. This book provides insights into the methods and places of exchange, networks, prices, expertise, and valuation concepts, as well as the transfer and transport of these artefacts over 300 years and across four continents. The contributions are from international experts, including Ting Chang, Nélia Dias, Noëmie Etienne, Jonathan Fine, Philip Jones, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Léa Saint-Raymond, and Masako Yamamoto.
The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom StammersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108807224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
A List of Books, Photographs, &c., in the National Art Library, Illustrating Metal Work
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metal-work
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: ohne AutorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846048313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Manual of the Furniture Arts and Crafts
Author: Axel P. JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
American Book Prices Current
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900
Author: Bert De MunckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317162390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' interplay between supply and demand. Yet this 'price-mechanism' is itself embedded in conventions and frames of reference which differed according to time, place and product type. Moreover, the dominance of the conventions of utility maximising and calculative homo economicus is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the history of consumption and material culture, art history, and the history of collecting, to explore changing concepts of value from the early modern period to the nineteenth century and present a new view on the advent of modern economic practices. Jointly, they fundamentally challenge traditional historical narratives about the rise of our contemporary market economy and consumer society.
A Delicate Matter
Author: Oliver WunschPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096675
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel portraits vulnerable to the slightest touch or vibration. In A Delicate Matter, Oliver Wunsch traces these artistic practices to the economic and social conditions that enabled them: an ascendant class of art collectors who embraced fragile objects as a means of showcasing their disposable wealth. While studies of Rococo art have traditionally focused on style and subject matter, this book reveals how the physical construction of paintings and sculptures was central to the period’s reconceptualization of art. Drawing on sources ranging from eighteenth-century artists’ writings to twenty-first-century laboratory analyses, Wunsch demonstrates how the technical practices of eighteenth-century painters and sculptors provoked a broad transformation in the relationship between art, time, and money. Delicacy, which began the eighteenth century as a commodified extension of courtly sociability, was by century’s end reimagined as the irreducible essence of art’s autonomous value. Innovative and original, A Delicate Matter is an important intervention in the growing body of scholarship on durability and conservation in eighteenth-century French art. It challenges the art historical tendency to see decay as little more than an impediment to research, instead showing how physical instability played a critical role in establishing art’s meaning and purpose.
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