Our Fathers Have Told Us
Title | Our Fathers Have Told Us PDF eBook |
Author | John Ruskin |
Publisher | Andesite Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2015-08-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781297790614 |
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"Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris "
Title | "Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris " PDF eBook |
Author | Ting Chang |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351538454 |
Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, Ting Chang explores the politics of mobility and cross-cultural encounter in the nineteenth century. This book takes a new approach to museum studies and institutional critique by highlighting what is missing from the existing scholarship -- the foreign labors, social relations, and somatic experiences of travel that are constitutive of museums yet left out of their histories. The author explores how global trade and monetary theory shaped Cernuschi's collection of archaic Chinese bronze. Exchange systems, both material and immaterial, determined Guimet's museum of religious objects and Goncourt's private collection of Asian art. Bronze, porcelain, and prints articulated the shifting relations and frameworks of understanding between France, Japan, and China in a time of profound transformation. Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris thus looks at what Asian art was imagined to do for Europe. This book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in art history, travel imagery, museum studies, cross-cultural encounters, and modern transnational histories.
Jules Verne
Title | Jules Verne PDF eBook |
Author | William Butcher |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-04-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781560259046 |
Highly readable narrative of a writing phenomenon. The world's most translated best-selling writer.
A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Title | A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Offner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Art and religion |
ISBN |
Rethinking Boucher
Title | Rethinking Boucher PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Lee Hyde |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780892368259 |
"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.
Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878
Title | Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878 PDF eBook |
Author | Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Decorative arts |
ISBN |
The Fourteenth Century
Title | The Fourteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Klara Steinweg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Painting, Italian |
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