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Book French Rococo   b  nisterie in the J  Paul Getty Museum

Download or read book French Rococo b nisterie in the J Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and published by J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the tastes of the Museum’s founder, J. Paul Getty, who started collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection is particularly rich in examples created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris, including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696–ca. 1766), Jacques Dubois (1694–1763), and Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763). Working for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams. An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection’s acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze mounts and lacquer. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/rococo/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.

Book A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language written by Hermann Michaelis and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The J  Paul Getty Museum Guidebook

Download or read book The J Paul Getty Museum Guidebook written by W. R. Valentiner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1956-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of the original guidebook to the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection. The book introduces the collection, as divided into Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, and French decorative arts.

Book Dessins et tableaux anciens des XVIIe  XVIIIe et XIXe si  cles

Download or read book Dessins et tableaux anciens des XVIIe XVIIIe et XIXe si cles written by Me R. G. Boisgirard, Commissaire-Priseur and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bohemian Versus Bourgeois

Download or read book Bohemian Versus Bourgeois written by César Graña and published by New York, Basic Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Daguerreotype

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dominique de Font-Réaulx
  • Publisher : 5Continents
  • Release : 2008-09-01
  • ISBN : 9788874394661
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Daguerreotype written by Dominique de Font-Réaulx and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the development and rapid spread of Louis Daguerre's photographic invention in France by a variety of daguerreotypes drawn from the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.

Book The Book of Snobs

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  • Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The Book of Snobs written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jean Jacques Rousseau  Transparency and Obstruction

Download or read book Jean Jacques Rousseau Transparency and Obstruction written by Jean Starobinski and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Starobinski, one of Europe's foremost literary critics, examines the life that led Rousseau, who so passionately sought open, transparent communication with others, to accept and even foster obstacles that permitted him to withdraw into himself. First published in France in 1958, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" remains Starobinski's most important achievement and, arguably, the most comprehensive book ever written on Rousseau. The text has been extensively revised for this edition and is published here along with seven essays on Rousseau that appeared between 1962 and 1970.

Book The Commodity Culture of Victorian England

Download or read book The Commodity Culture of Victorian England written by Thomas Richards and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and theoretically sophisticated book reveals how capitalism produced and sustained a culture of its own in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "Richards provides a valuable account of the interaction between cultural and business development in Victorian England by focusing on the evolution of advertising. Through an examination of five case studies, ranging from how advertisers employed images of the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to their use of images of women just before WWI, he argues that the British developed a new type of culture in the mid and late-19th century--a new way of thinking and living increasingly based upon the possession of material goods, commodities. Revising the findings of some earlier scholars, Richards shows that 'cultural forms of consumerism . . . came into being well before the consumer economy did.' The 50 well-reproduced advertising images greatly enhance the value of this study." --M. Blackford, "Choice"

Book Concepts of Value in European Material Culture  1500 1900

Download or read book Concepts of Value in European Material Culture 1500 1900 written by Professor Bert De Munck and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the history of consumption and material culture, art history, and the history of collecting, to explore changing concepts of value from the early modern period to the nineteenth century and present a new view on the advent of modern economic practices. Jointly, they fundamentally challenge traditional historical narratives about the rise of our contemporary market economy and consumer society.

Book The French Academy

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  • Author : June Ellen Hargrove
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The French Academy written by June Ellen Hargrove and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume grew out of a symposium at the University of Maryland's Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.

Book Worlds of Production

Download or read book Worlds of Production written by Michael Storper and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four basic frameworks, or "possible worlds of production" are explored in this book. These frameworks underpin the mobilization of economic resources, the organization of product systems and forms of profitability. Case studies examine how possible worlds support innovative production complexes.

Book The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Download or read book The Luck of Barry Lyndon written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth Century Britain

Download or read book Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth Century Britain written by Maxine Berg and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Maxine Berg explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century. These new products, regarded as luxuries by the rapidly growing urban and middling-class people of the eighteenth century, played an important part in helping to proclaim personal identities,and guide social interaction. Customers enjoyed shopping for them; they took pleasure in their beauty, ingenuity or convenience. All manner of new products appeared in shop windows; sophisticated mixed-media advertising seduced customers and created new wants. This unparalleled 'product revolution' provoked philosophers and pundits to proclaim a 'new luxury', one that reached out to the middling and trading classes, unlike the elite and corrupt luxury of old. Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth Century Britain is cultural history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and domestic life inspired the industrial revolution and British products 'won the world'.

Book Tableaux et dessins des XVIIIe et XXe si  cles par ou attribu  s    Barnoin  B  raud  Chaplin  Chintreuil

Download or read book Tableaux et dessins des XVIIIe et XXe si cles par ou attribu s Barnoin B raud Chaplin Chintreuil written by Me R. G. Boisgirard, Commissaire-Priseur and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divisions of Labour

Download or read book Divisions of Labour written by Royden Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World of Possibilities

Download or read book World of Possibilities written by Charles F. Sabel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book retells the history of Western industrialization, revealing possibilities unexplored in the nineteenth century, variants of which have come to transform present day economies. It shows that economic actors have historically been more aware of the great strategic choices they faced than standard theory credits them with being, and this surprising acuity allows them to imagine and put into practice solutions which current theories of industrial organization have scarcely anticipated. The book is therefore at one and the same time a contribution to a substantive revision of the history of mechanized production and a propaedeutic in a form of explanation that approximates the knowledge of the actor to the knowledge of the theorist. The volume groups essays presented by a multinational team of historians and social scientists drawing on intensive primary research on a wide range of firms, regions, sectors and national economies in Western Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the 1990s.