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Book Chinoiseries

Download or read book Chinoiseries written by Mary A. Vance and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinoiseries

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  • Author : Bernd H. Dams
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Chinoiseries written by Bernd H. Dams and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents 50 of Bernd Dams and Andrew Zega's expert watercolour illustrations, focusing on Chinoiseries pavilions. 36 of the works delve into the past, reconstructing exceptional historical structures from the 17th to the 19th century, with a predominately French style.

Book Chinoiserie

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  • Author : Dawn Jacobson
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 1999-03-30
  • ISBN : 9780714838366
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Chinoiserie written by Dawn Jacobson and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing a wide range of interest areas from architecture to objets d'art, this sourcebook details the history of one of the most enduring styles, Chinoiserie.

Book Beyond Chinoiserie

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  • Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2018-11-01
  • ISBN : 9004387838
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Beyond Chinoiserie written by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Chinoiserie, historians of art, literature, and material culture address artistic relations between China and the West during the nineteenth century, a time when Western powers’ attempts at extending a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile interactions.

Book British Modernism and Chinoiserie

Download or read book British Modernism and Chinoiserie written by Anne Witchard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.

Book Thomas Burke s Dark Chinoiserie

Download or read book Thomas Burke s Dark Chinoiserie written by Anne Veronica Witchard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Perilism that circulated in Britain at the fin-de-siècle, a demonology of race and vice masked by outward concerns about degenerative metropolitan blight and imperial decline. Anne Witchard's interdisciplinary approach enables her to displace the boundaries that have marked Chinese studies, literary studies, critiques of Orientalism and empire, gender studies, and diasporic research, as she reassesses this critical moment in London's history. In doing so, she brings attention to Burke's hold on popular and critical audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. A much-admired and successful author in his time, Burke in his Chinatown stories destabilizes social orthodoxies in highly complex and contradictory ways. For example, his writing was formative in establishing the 'queer spell' that the very mention of Limehouse would exert on the public imagination, and circulating libraries responded to Burke's portrayal of a hybrid East End where young Cockney girls eat Chow Mein with chopsticks in the local cafés and blithely gamble their housekeeping money at Fan Tan by banning Limehouse Nights. Witchard's book forces us to rethink Burke's influence and shows that China and chinoiserie served as mirrors that reveal the cultural disquietudes of western art and culture.

Book The Wrightsman Collection  Vols  3 and 4  Furniture  Snuffboxes  Silver  Bookbindings  Porcelain

Download or read book The Wrightsman Collection Vols 3 and 4 Furniture Snuffboxes Silver Bookbindings Porcelain written by and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1970 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Interior Design

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Interior Design written by Joanna Banham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 3392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.

Book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals  Bud City Planning F

Download or read book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Bud City Planning F written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.

Book Boom Magazine 029   May 2015

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  • Author : Boom Magazine Asia
  • Publisher : Boom Magazine Asia
  • Release : 2015-05-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Boom Magazine 029 May 2015 written by Boom Magazine Asia and published by Boom Magazine Asia. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to May, mes chéris. Le French May has come around again, so, naturally, this month is absolutely rammed with things to do - check out our calendar for the month (P4) in which we’ve covered the best gigs, art shows, club nights and even film releases. On our cover we have French-Vietnamese hip hop instrumentalist Onra, who tells us his story in A-Side (P16), and Melbourne cool kid Courtney Barnett chats to us about her phenomenal new album in B-Side (P20). Oliver Clasper gets up close and personal with house music legend Marshall Jefferson before his set at Club 18 in On The Decks (P32), and our second Aussie act of the issue is up and coming soul act Hiatus Kaiyote (P34). As always, check out our music recommendations in Mixer (P50). French urban artist Invader takes over Hong Kong for the fourth time in Flipside (P24), and we ditch our summer diets in Boom’s Kitchen (P28) with a hearty battle between three of HK’s most popular steak-frites restaurants. Looking for somewhere different to get away? Peruse our guide to the best spots in Yogyakarta for a scenic break (P44), and get your monthly Zodiac fix from Thierry Chow (P62). Our Hidden Tracks section journeys through beauty, drink and music; be sure to check out Sync Sing Sin’s interview with Rinse FM producer Scratcha DVA in Notes from the Underground (P58). It’s going to be a fantastic month - see you around, BOOMers!

Book Sights and Insights

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  • Author : Mary N. Harris
  • Publisher : Edizioni Plus
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 8884924677
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Sights and Insights written by Mary N. Harris and published by Edizioni Plus. This book was released on 2007 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Across the Oceans

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  • Author : Irmengard Rauch
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824816933
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Across the Oceans written by Irmengard Rauch and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reframing Japonisme

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  • Author : Elizabeth Emery
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2020-09-17
  • ISBN : 1501344641
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Reframing Japonisme written by Elizabeth Emery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japonisme, the nineteenth-century fascination for Japanese art, has generated an enormous body of scholarship since the beginning of the twenty-first century, but most of it neglects the women who acquired objects from the Far East and sold them to clients or displayed them in their homes before bequeathing them to museums. The stories of women shopkeepers, collectors, and artists rarely appear in memoirs left by those associated with the japoniste movement. This volume brings to light the culturally important, yet largely forgotten activities of women such as Clémence d'Ennery (1823–1898), who began collecting Japanese and Chinese chimeras in the 1840s, built and decorated a house for them in the 1870s, and bequeathed the “Musée d'Ennery” to the state as a free public museum in 1893. A friend of the Goncourt brothers and a fifty-year patron of Parisian dealers of Asian art, d'Ennery's struggles to gain recognition as a collector and curator serve as a lens through which to examine the collecting and display practices of other women of her day. Travelers to Japan such as the Duchesse de Persigny, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Laure Durand- Fardel returned with souvenirs that they shared with friends and family. Salon hostesses including Juliette Adam, Louise Cahen d'Anvers, Princesse Mathilde, and Marguerite Charpentier provided venues for the discussion and examination of Japanese art objects, as did well-known art dealers Madame Desoye, Madame Malinet, Madame Hatty, and Madame Langweil. Writers, actresses, and artists-Judith Gautier, Thérèse Bentzon, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mary Cassatt, to name just a few- took inspiration from the Japanese material in circulation to create their own unique works of art. Largely absent from the history of Japonisme, these women-and many others-actively collected Japanese art, interacted with auction houses and art dealers, and formed collections now at the heart of museums such as the Louvre, the Musée Guimet, the Musée Cernuschi, the Musée Unterlinden, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Book Pagodas in Play

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  • Author : Adrienne Ward
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0838756964
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Pagodas in Play written by Adrienne Ward and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly Enlightenment and secular reform initiatives. Its focus on the texts and performance practices of opera, an entertainment form accessible to a wide public, reveals cultural operations and identities harder to detect in non-fictional reformist writings, the texts traditionally privileged to explain Italian mediations of Enlightenment ideas. In its close reading of nine libretti of the most salient Settecento operas treating China (opere serie and opere buffe by authors including Metastasio, Zeno, Goldoni and Lorenzi), Pagodas in Play differentiates Italian iterations of Chinese culture from French and English counterparts. It further challenges certain tenets of orientalism, showing how it operates when nationalist and/or colonialist projects are absent, and how orientalist practices in eighteenth-century Italy exhibit early on the complexity some scholars locate only in the twentieth century. Adrienne Ward teaches Italian literature and culture at the University of Virginia.

Book The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin  v  23  no  1  Summer  1964

Download or read book The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 23 no 1 Summer 1964 written by Jacob Bean and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1964-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Chinoiserie in California Collections

Download or read book French Chinoiserie in California Collections written by Patricia Sears Plumb and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinoiserie

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  • Author : Francesco Morena
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Chinoiserie written by Francesco Morena and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The taste for chinoiserie, which originated and developed in the West during the 17th century, reinterpreted the themes, ornamentation and decorative techniques of the Far East and China. This volume is the first published on Italian Chinoiserie, a style developed slightly later in Italy than at other European courts, but which flourished rapidly and spectacularly during the 18th century when a passion for the Orient heavily influenced the rococo style. Throughout the peninsula many of the Italian courts - from the Bourbons in Sicily and Campania to the Savoys in Piedmont, from the Veneto to papal Rome and including Florence and the Medici, later Lorraine, Grand Duchy - indulged their enthusiasm for chinoiseries creating some intriguing works of art. No field was left untouched and the author of this volume has taken pains to cover them all: from architecture (the Chinese Palace at Palermo) to interior decorative painting (the rooms frescoed by Tiepolo in Vicenza and the 'Chinese' rooms of Naples and Palermo), from ceramics and porcelain (the Capodimonte Porcelain Room) to cabinet making (Venetian lacquered furniture in particular, but also the Lacquer Room in Turin), to fabrics and all other decorative arts. ILLUSTRATIONS 200 colour & 95 b/w *