Auction catalogue, books of L. C. Wallach, 21 to 22 January 1965
Title | Auction catalogue, books of L. C. Wallach, 21 to 22 January 1965 PDF eBook |
Author | Hodgson & Co. (London). |
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Release | 1965 |
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Auction Catalog
Title | Auction Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | Christie, Manson & Woods |
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Release | 1965 |
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A Century of Artists Books
Title | A Century of Artists Books PDF eBook |
Author | Riva Castleman |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-09 |
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ISBN | 9780810961814 |
Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Auction catalogue, books of Gilbert Coleridge ... [et al.], 21 to 22 June 1954
Title | Auction catalogue, books of Gilbert Coleridge ... [et al.], 21 to 22 June 1954 PDF eBook |
Author | Sotheby & Co. (London). |
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Release | 1954 |
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Auction catalogue, books of C. D. Langworthy ... [et al.], 21 to 22 July 1932
Title | Auction catalogue, books of C. D. Langworthy ... [et al.], 21 to 22 July 1932 PDF eBook |
Author | Hodgson & Co. (London). |
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Release | 1932 |
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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Title | Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892367857 |
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Auction catalogue, books of P. L. Agnew ... [et al.], 20 to 22 January 1958
Title | Auction catalogue, books of P. L. Agnew ... [et al.], 20 to 22 January 1958 PDF eBook |
Author | Sotheby & Co. (London). |
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Release | 1958 |
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