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Book Louis C  Tiffany and the Art of Devotion

Download or read book Louis C Tiffany and the Art of Devotion written by Patricia Pongracz and published by Giles. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume to explore the vast assortment of church decorations and memorials produced by the Tiffany Studios.

Book Louis Comfort Tiffany

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. Hanks
  • Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
  • Release : 2013-09-10
  • ISBN : 158093353X
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Louis Comfort Tiffany written by David A. Hanks and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal artist of the Gilded Age, Louis Comfort Tiffany is the best known and most widely collected figure in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American decorative arts. The splendid objects from the Driehaus Collection, installed as the inaugural exhibition of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, showcase a wide variety of Tiffany’s work in an architectural setting of the period. Newly commissioned photographs by John Faier highlight the subtle detail and rich coloring of each object, revealing why Tiffany is so revered as a designer. Essays by Richard H. Driehaus and David A. Hanks explore the collector’s vision and Tiffany Studios’s largely unknown legacy in Chicago. Vividly colored, enriched with ornament, and boldly scaled, the book provides an intimate look into the artistry and craftsmanship of Tiffany, and is a unique opportunity for collectors and enthusiasts alike to experience the objects as never before seen.

Book Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum

Download or read book Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum written by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was one of America's preeminent masters of the decorative arts. Although he is best known for his prodigious achievements in glass, especially for his vibrantly colored windows and lamps, Tiffany excelled in a wide range of media - mosaics, enamels, metalwork, ceramics, and jewelry - all handsomely represented in this publication by pieces from the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of Tiffany works. Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum, presents Tiffany's works in the context of his career, discusses his artistic themes and his devotion to nature, and sheds new light on his technical virtuosity. She has illustrated her text with many of Tiffany's water-color presentation drawings selected from the more than 400 in the Museum's collections. Many of these drawings, made by Tiffany and his artists over a period of forty years, are reproduced here for the first time.

Book Eternal Light

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  • Author : Catherine Shotick
  • Publisher : Giles
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781911282464
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Eternal Light written by Catherine Shotick and published by Giles. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present the first volume to focus exclusively on Tiffany's renowned ecclesiastical windows and the ideas and stories behind them.

Book Louis Comfort Tiffany

Download or read book Louis Comfort Tiffany written by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art Work of Louis C  Tiffany

Download or read book The Art Work of Louis C Tiffany written by Louis Comfort Tiffany and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1914 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The binding's embossed squares allude visually to Tiffany's work in metal, stained glass, jewelry and textiles. ... The book was included in the Cooper-Hewitt 2016 exhibit "Passion for the Exotic: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest." --Marilyn Braiterman.

Book Religion in Museums

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gretchen Buggeln
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-02-23
  • ISBN : 147425554X
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Religion in Museums written by Gretchen Buggeln and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and visual and material culture. Most museums throughout the world – whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums – include religious objects, and an increasing number are beginning to address religion as a major category of human identity. With rising museum attendance and the increasingly complex role of religion in social and geopolitical realities, this work of stewardship and interpretation is urgent and important. Religion in Museums is divided into six sections: museum buildings, reception, objects, collecting and research, interpretation of objects and exhibitions, and the representation of religion in different types of museums. Topics covered include repatriation, conservation, architectural design, exhibition, heritage, missionary collections, curation, collections and display, and the visitor's experience. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions, such as the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, at the British Museum.

Book Introduction to Art  Design  Context  and Meaning

Download or read book Introduction to Art Design Context and Meaning written by Pamela Sachant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics

Book Gustave Dor   and the Modern Biblical Imagination

Download or read book Gustave Dor and the Modern Biblical Imagination written by Sarah C. Schaefer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity through the lens of Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. First published in France in late 1865, Doré's Bible illustrations received widespread critical acclaim among both religious and lay audiences, and the next several decades saw unprecedented dissemination of the images on an international scale. In 1868, the Doré Gallery opened in London, featuring monumental religious paintings that drew 2.5 million visitors over the course of a quarter-century; when the gallery's holdings travelled to the United States in 1892, exhibitions at venues like the Art Institute of Chicago drew record crowds. The United States saw the most creative appropriations of Doré's images among a plethora of media, from prayer cards and magic lantern slides to massive stained-glass windows and the spectacular epic films of Cecile B. DeMille. This book repositions biblical imagery at the center of modernity, an era that has often been defined through a process of secularization, and argues that Doré's biblical imagery negotiated the challenges of visualizing the Bible for modern audiences in both sacred and secular contexts. A set of texts whose veracity and authority were under unprecedented scrutiny in this period, the Bible was at the center of a range of historical, theological, and cultural debates. Gustave Doré is at the nexus of these narratives, as his work established the most pervasive visual language for biblical imagery in the past two and a half centuries, and constitutes the means by which the Bible has persistently been translated visually.

Book Craft in America

Download or read book Craft in America written by Jo Lauria and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2007 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft

Book The art of Louis Comfort Tiffany

Download or read book The art of Louis Comfort Tiffany written by Tessa Paul and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Art in Motion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2019-01-22
  • ISBN : 0271083034
  • Pages : 499 pages

Download or read book Medieval Art in Motion written by Mariah Proctor-Tiffany and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this visually rich volume, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany reconstructs the art collection and material culture of the fourteenth-century French queen Clémence de Hongrie, illuminating the way the royal widow gave objects as part of a deliberate strategy to create a lasting legacy for herself and her family in medieval Paris. After the sudden death of her husband, King Louis X, and the loss of her promised income, young Clémence fought for her high social status by harnessing the visual power of possessions, displaying them, and offering her luxurious objects as gifts. Clémence adeptly performed the role of queen, making a powerful argument for her place at court and her income as she adorned her body, the altars of her chapels, and her dining tables with sculptures, paintings, extravagant textiles, manuscripts, and jewelry—the exclusive accoutrements of royalty. Proctor-Tiffany analyzes the queen’s collection, maps the geographic trajectories of her gifts of art, and interprets Clémence’s generosity using anthropological theories of exchange and gift giving. Engaging with the art inventory of a medieval French woman, this lavishly illustrated microhistory sheds light on the material and social culture of the late Middle Ages. Scholars and students of medieval art, women’s studies, digital mapping, and the anthropology of ritual and gift giving especially will welcome Proctor-Tiffany’s meticulous research.

Book Timeless Beauty

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  • Author : Charles Hosmer Morse Museum
  • Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-28
  • ISBN : 9780764351495
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Timeless Beauty written by Charles Hosmer Morse Museum and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany is most famous for his revolutionary and widely popular glass windows, lamps, and vases, but his contributions to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and design were so much more. Tiffany was also a painter, photographer, interior decorator, and designer of ceramics, enamels, and jewelry. This book presents more than 200 of the artist's works from the renowned Tiffany collection of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in chronological sequence, providing a biographical view of the man behind the famous glass.

Book The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany

Download or read book The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany written by Janet Zapata and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Comfort Tiffany's spectacular and highly individual Art Nouveau lamps, favrile glass bases, and stained-glass windows have long been admired throughout the world. Recently, however, his considerable accomplishments in other areas oaf the decorative arts have become more widely known--and equally praised. This new book is the first to concentrate on Tiffany's stunning work with fine jewerly and enamel.

Book The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany

Download or read book The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany written by Vivienne Couldrey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of Tiffany's rise and fall -- a man convinced of his own genius -- adventurous and talented enough to be unorthodox, feted, ignored and finally vindicated by time. Full-color illustrations reveal the full range of Tiffany's genius as a colorist, artist, designer and craftsman.

Book Corcoran Gallery of Art

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  • Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
  • Publisher : Lucia Marquand
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781555953614
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Book But Is It Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia Freeland
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2002-02-07
  • ISBN : 0191504254
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book But Is It Art written by Cynthia Freeland and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.