Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Framed
Author: Frank Cottrell BoycePublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330452922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Nine-year-old Dylan helps his parents run a failing petrol station in a small Welsh town and becomes a reluctant robber when he discovers some treasures being stored in a local abandoned mine.
Classified List ...
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Out of the Sun
Author: Esi EdugyanPublisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1487009887
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author’s lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us. In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience in global culture and history. Edugyan combines storytelling with analyses of contemporary events and her own personal story in this dazzling first major work of non-fiction.
4000-4999, Arts; 5000-5999, Theology; 6000-6999, Philosophy and education
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools
Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 504096322X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 2011
Book Description
Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery ... British School ... Temporarily exhibited at South Kensington. By R. N. Wornum. Revised by Sir Charles L. Eastlake. Twelfth edition
Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain
Author: Christopher WhiteheadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351883429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
During the mid-nineteenth century a debate arose over the form and functions of the public art museum in Britain. Various occurrences caused new debates in Parliament and in the press about the purposes of the public museum which checked the relative complacency with which London's national collections had hitherto been run. This book examines these debates and their influence on the development of professionalism within the museum, trends in collecting and tendencies in museum architecture and decoration. In so doing it accounts for the general development of the London museums between 1850 and 1880, with particular reference to the National Gallery. This involves analysis of art display and its relations with art historiography, alongside institutional and architectural developments at the British Museum, the South Kensington Museum and the National Gallery. It is argued that the underpinning factor in all of these developments was a reformulation of the public museum's mission, which was in turn related to the electoral reform movement. In a potential situation of mass enfranchisement, the 'masses' should be well educated; the museum was openly identified as a useful institution in this sense. This consideration also influenced approaches to collecting and arranging artworks and to configuring their architectural setting within the museum, allowing for displays to be instructive in specific ways. Dissatisfaction with the British Museum and National Gallery buildings and their locations led to proposals to move the national collections, possibly merging and redefining them. Again the socio-political usefulness of the museum was key in determining where the national collections should be housed and in what form of building. This rich debate is analysed with full references to the various forums in and out of Parliament. Part one covers these issues in a thematic structure, examining all of the national collections, their interrelationships and their gradual development of discrete (yet sometimes arbitrary) museological territories. Part two focuses on the individual case of the National Gallery, observing how museological debate was brought to bear on the development of a specific institution. Every architectural development and redisplay is closely analysed in order to gauge the extent to which the products of debate were carried through into practice, and to comprehend the reasons why no museological grand project emerged in London.