Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Purchase of the Past written by Tom Stammers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust written by Janell Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or other collectible), Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment written by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy in Europe then differed vastly from today's unadorned and anonymous laboratory experiments. Science was cultivated for a variety of purposes in many different places; scientific instruments were built and used for investigative and didactic experiments as well as for entertainment and popular shows. Between the culture of curiosities which characterized the seventeenth century and the distinction between academic and popular science that gradually emerged in the nineteenth, the eighteenth century was a period when scientific activities took place in a variety of sites, ranging from academies, and learned societies to salons and popular fairs, shops and streets. This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth-century: entertainment and utility. Experimental demonstrations were attended by apothecaries and craftsmen for vocational purposes. At the same time, they had to fit in with the taste of both polite society and market culture. Public demonstrations were a favourite entertainment for ladies and gentlemen and a profitable activity for instrument makers and booksellers.
Download or read book Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty first Century Language conservation museology written by Zahi A. Hawass and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive three-volume set marks the publication of the proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, held in Cairo in 2000, the largest Congress since the inaugural meeting in 1979. Organized thematically to reflect the breadth and depth of the material presented at this event, these papers provide a survey of current Egyptological research at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The proceedings include the eight Millennium Debates led by esteemed Egyptologists, addressing key issues in the field, as well as nearly every paper presented at the Congress. The 275 papers cover the whole spectrum of Egyptological research. Grouped under the themes of archaeology, history, religion, language, conservation, and museology, and written in English, French, and German, these contributions together form the most comprehensive picture of Egyptology today.
Download or read book Sculptors and Design Reform in France 1848 to 1895 written by Claire Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging distinctions between fine and decorative art, this book begins with a critique of the Rodin scholarship, to establish how the selective study of his oeuvre has limited our understanding of French nineteenth-century sculpture. The book's central argument is that we need to include the decorative in the study of sculpture, in order to present a more accurate and comprehensive account of the practice and profession of sculpture in this period. Drawing on new archival sources, sculptors and objects, this is the first sustained study of how and why French sculptors collaborated with state and private luxury goods manufacturers between 1848 and 1895. Organised chronologically, the book identifies three historically-situated frameworks, through which sculptors attempted to validate themselves and their work in relation to industry: industrial art, decorative art and objet d'art. Detailed readings are offered of sculptors who operated within and outside the Salon, including S?n, Ch?t, Carrier-Belleuse and Rodin; and of diverse objects and materials, from S?es vases, to pewter plates by Desbois, and furniture by Barbedienne and Carabin. By contesting the false separation of art from industry, Claire Jones's study restores the importance of the sculptor-manufacturer relationship, and of the decorative, to the history of sculpture.
Download or read book Great French Tales of Fantasy Contes fantastiques c l bres written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included are Trilby, or the Elf of Argyll, by Charles Nodier, Théophile Gautier's The Amorous Dead Woman, as well as works by Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
Download or read book Contes Fantastiques C l bres written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of enchanting tales spotlights the works of 5 outstanding French writers prominent during the 19th century. Included are Trilby, or the Elf of Argyll, by Charles Nodier, Théophile Gautier's The Amorous Dead Woman, as well as works by Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Informative introduction and notes.
Download or read book Bibliomania written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Bibliomania Or Book madness Containing Some Account of the History Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease In an Epistle Addressed to Richard Heber written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliomania Or Book Madness a Bibliographical Romance in 6 Parts written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of William Earl of Shelburne Afterwards First Marguess of Lansdowne With Extracts From His Papers and Correspondence written by Edmond George Fitzmaurice and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Impressions of French Modernity written by Richard Hobbs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Encounters with modern life: a painter's impressions of modernity - Delacroix, citizen of the 19th century, Michele Hannoosh. Second Empire impressions: curiosite, John House-- on his knees to the past? Gautier, Ingres and forms of modern art, James Kearns-- "Le peintre de la vie moderne" and "La peinture de la vie ancienne", Paul Smith. Innovating forms: matter for reflexion - 19th-century French art critics' quest for modernity in sculpture, David Scott-- visual display in the realist novel - "l'aventure du style"-- dirt and desire - troubled waters in realist practice, Alan Krell. Modernity and identity: the dancer as woman - Loie Fuller and Stephanie Mallarme, Dee Reynolds-- the "atelier" novel - painters as fiction, Joy Newton-- to move the eye - impressionism, symbolism and well-being, circa 1891, Richard Schiff." (résumééditeur)
