Author: Walpole Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The ... Volume of the Walpole Society
Author: Walpole Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Annual Volume of the Walpole Society
Author: Walpole Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The ... Annual Volume of the Walpole Society
Author: The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies
Author: Susan G. BellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520234103
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Susan Bell recounts her thirty-year search for tapestries based on Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies (1405) that were listed as possessions of 16th C. European rulers, mostly women.
The Canadian Historical Review
Author: English Literature, Volume 2
Author: Louis A. LandaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400877334
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Enriching Architecture
Author: Christine CaseyPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1800083548
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Refinement and enrichment of surfaces in stone, wood and plaster is a fundamental aspect of early modern architecture which has been marginalised by architectural history. Enriching Architecture aims to retrieve and rehabilitate surface achievement as a vital element of early modern buildings in Britain and Ireland. Rejected by modernism, demeaned by the conceptual ‘turn’ and too often reduced to its representative or social functions, we argue for the historical legitimacy of creative craft skill as a primary agent in architectural production. However, in contrast to the connoisseurial and developmental perspectives of the past, this book is concerned with how surfaces were designed, achieved and experienced. The contributors draw upon the major rethinking of craft and materials within the wider cultural sphere in recent years to deconstruct traditional, oppositional ways of thinking about architectural production. This is not a craft for craft’s sake argument but an effort to embed the tangible findings of conservation and curatorial research within an evidence-led architectural history that illuminates the processes of early modern craftsmanship. The book explores broad themes of surface treatment such as wainscot, rustication, plasterwork, and staircase embellishment together with chapters focused on virtuoso buildings and set pieces which illuminate these themes.
Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas
Author: Julie F. CodellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429628072
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting’s subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version. Autograph replicas were considered originals, not copies, and were highly valued by collectors in Britain, America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Motivated by complex combinations of aesthetic and commercial interests, replicas generated a global, and especially transatlantic, market between the 1870s and the 1940s, and almost all collected replicas were eventually donated to US public museums, giving replicas authority in matters of public taste and museums’ modern cultural roles. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, and economic history.
The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences
Author: Adriana CraciunPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137443790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention, homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert commentaries. The collection of essays and exhibits is the result of collaborative debate by scholars from Europe and north America, who have together worked on the cross-disciplinary importance of material history in making sense of how past society was fundamentally transformed through the world of goods.
Author: