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ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Cabinet of Curiosities; Or, Wonders of the World Displayed
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Cabinet of Curiosities
Author: Colleen Josephine SheehyPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452908939
Category : Cabinets of curiosities
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance
Author: Julius von SchlosserPublisher: Getty Research Institute
ISBN: 160606679X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser’s biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.
Devices of Wonder
Author: Barbara Maria StaffordPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365906
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 13 November 2001 to 3 February 2002.
The Cabinet of Curiosities
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Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Museum of the Americas
Author: J. Michael MartinezPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505237
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.
Wonderstruck
Author: Brian SelznickPublisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 1407166557
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.
New World Objects of Knowledge
Author: Mark ThurnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781908857828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Lambton Worm
Author: Joseph WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chapbooks, English
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York
Author: Mercantile Library Association (N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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