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Author: Cincinnati Art Museum Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300115806 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Author: Cincinnati Art Museum Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300115806 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Author: Hugo F. VanTerpool Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1625167938 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 395
Book Description
Angus Chinnery is a handsome and intelligent boy who grows into manhood fulfilling all his childhood promise. He migrates from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands to the USA in his early twenties with his young wife, who shortly thereafter annuls their marriage. Angus goes to live with his Uncle Ebbie and then enters the University of New York. He becomes a lawyer and works for a while at a New York law firm. Homesick for his native land, he returns to Tortola, where he marries a lovely girl. Together they raised a beautiful family, with two sons and two daughters. His business associate is a young lawyer from Jamaica, and together they build a close relationship and a prosperous firm. Angus can honestly say, "I Am Happiest When at Home." His part of the African diaspora has come to an end.
Author: J. Birje-Patil Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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After spending nearly four uneasy decades in her ancestral England and accompanied by her dead sister's daughter Camilia, Grace returns to the cantonment township of Mhow where she had spent a much-cossetted childhood and youth in her parents' establishment called Chinnery's Hotel. The fictional Mhow, with its polo tournaments, tent-pegging, ballroom dances, Masonic Lodge and whist drives serves as a prototype of cantonments between the wars, where the resident British live in appalling ignorance of the political realities which would dislodge and transplant them to war-ravaged England in 1947.The bleak post-war life in London feeds Grace's nostalgia for her childhood home.
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