Author: Margaret Diane Stetz Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874139921 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
It examines, too, the portrait as a marker both of celebrity and of modernity, in an age that ushered in the present by defining itself through advertising, public relations, and commodification."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Mary Ellis Gibson Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821419412 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 351
Book Description
Indian Angles is a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that writers in colonial India--writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities--experienced.
Author: Stacey J. Pierson Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1315311925 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 239
Book Description
This book presents the history of a gentlemen’s club in London that was founded in 1866 for the purpose of exhibiting private art collections. It takes the main exhibition themes as a starting point to explore approaches to art, connoisseurship and display in a unique setting.
Author: Alan Windsor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429614861 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 628
Book Description
Originally published in 1998, The Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900-1990 has been designed for people who enjoy, study and buy British art. The only portable dictionary-style guide to the life and work of modern British painters and printmakers, the book provides information on some 2,000 artists, as well as entries on schools of art, on museums, galleries and collections, on societies and groups, and critics and patrons who have influenced the development of modern art in Britain. Compiled by scholars, the entries are cross-referenced and each concise biographical outline provides the relevant facts about the artist's life, a brief characterisation of the artist's work, and major bibliographic references. Wherever possible, one or two suggestions for further reading are cited.
Author: Margaret Diane Stetz
Author: Mary Ellis Gibson
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Author: Stacey J. Pierson
Author: Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. Library
Author: Alan Windsor
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
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Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Author: Courtauld Institute of Art