Author: Manchester art treasures exhibPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art Treasures Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition
Author: Manchester art treasures exhibPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art Treasures Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857
Author: ElizabethA. PergamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135154280X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition became a touchstone for aesthetic, social, and economic issues of the mid-nineteenth century. Reverberations of this moment can be followed to the present day in the discipline of art history and its practice in public museums of Europe and America. Highlighting the tension between art and commerce, philanthropy and profit, the book examines the Exhibition's organization and the presentation of the works of art in the purpose-built Art Treasures Palace. Pergam places the Exhibition in the context of contemporary debates about museum architecture and display. With an analysis of the reception of both "Ancient" and "Modern" paintings, the book questions the function of exhibitions in the construction of an art historical canon. The book also provides an essential reference tool: a compiled list of all of the paintings exhibited in 1857 that are now in public collections throughout the world, with an analysis of the collecting trends manifest in their provenance.
A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 337516002X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
A Handbook to the British Portrait Gallery in the Art Treasures Exhibition
Author: Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857 (MANCHESTER)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition. Being a Reprint of Critical Notices Originally Published in "The Manchester Guardian."
Author: Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857 (MANCHESTER)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
A Handbook to the Paintings by Ancient Masters in the Art Treasures Exhibition. Being a reprint of critical notices originally published in "The Manchester Guardian." [Signed: G. S., i.e. George Scharf.]
Author: G. S.Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Forming the Library of Frederic David Mocatta
Author: Frederic David MocattaPublisher: London : Harrison
ISBN:
Category : Hebrew literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
William Blake
Author: G.E. Bentley Jnr.Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134782357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings
Author: Desire and Excess
Author: Jonah SiegelPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849829
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual material and literary texts to portray a culture in which art came to be thought of in powerful new ways. Ultimately, Siegel shows that artistic controversies commonly associated with the self-consciously radical movements of modernism and postmodernism have their roots in a dynamic era unfairly characterized as staid, self-satisfied, and stable. The nineteenth century has been called the Age of the Museum, and yet critics, art theorists, and poets during this period grappled with the question of whether the proliferation of museums might lead to the death of Art itself. Did the assembly and display of works of art help the viewer to understand them or did it numb the senses? How was the contemporary artist to respond to the vast storehouses of art from disparate nations and periods that came to proliferate in this era? Siegel presents a lively discussion of the shock experienced by neoclassical artists troubled by remains of antiquity that were trivial or even obscene, as well as the anxious aesthetic reveries of nineteenth-century art lovers overwhelmed by the quantity of objects quickly crowding museums and exhibition halls. In so doing, he illuminates the fruitful crises provoked when the longing for admired art is suddenly satisfied. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, biographies of early nineteenth-century writers including Keats and Scott, and the writings of art critics such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, and Wilde, this book reproduces a cultural matrix that brings to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.