The Joys of Collecting
Title | The Joys of Collecting PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Paul Getty |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1606060872 |
Originally published: New York: Hawthorn Books, 1965.
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts
Title | Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Charissa Bremer-David |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1997-11-13 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892364556 |
This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections
Title | The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections PDF eBook |
Author | John Walsh |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1997-12-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892364769 |
Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty
The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections
Title | The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Edward Newton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Book collecting |
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Collection of papers by the famous American book collector on the delights of collecting.
The Private Life of Books
Title | The Private Life of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Wessells |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2014-09-15 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN | 9780976466093 |
The Book of (More) Delights
Title | The Book of (More) Delights PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Gay |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2023-09-19 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1643755471 |
From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
The Pleasures of Collecting
Title | The Pleasures of Collecting PDF eBook |
Author | Gardner Callahan Teall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Art objects |
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