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Book The Art Salon in the Arab Region

Download or read book The Art Salon in the Arab Region written by Monique Bellan and published by Ergon. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Institutional forms of exhibiting and teaching art emerged in the Middle East and North Africa in late colonial and early post-colonial contexts. The book examines how the salon had an impact on the formation of taste and on debates on art, and discusses the transfers and cultural interactions between the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Following the institutional model of the Paris salons, art salons emerged in Algiers, Tunis and Cairo starting in the late 1880s. In Beirut, the salon tradition reached its peak only after independence in the mid-twentieth century. Baghdad never had a formal salon, but alternative spaces and exhibition formats developed in Iraq from the late 1940s onwards. As in Paris, the salons in the region often defined the criteria of artistic production and public taste. The impact of the salon also lay in its ability to convey particular values, attitudes and aspirations. At the same time, the values and attitudes promoted by the salon as well as the salon itself were often subject to debate, which led to the creation of counter-salons or alternative exhibition practices. The art salon helps us to understand changes in the art systems of these countries, including the development of art schools, exhibition spaces and artist societies, and gives insight into the power dynamics at play. It also highlights networks and circulations between the Arab region and Europe.

Book Duchamp

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juan Ramírez
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 1780231571
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Duchamp written by Juan Ramírez and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Duchamp's stature in the history of art has grown steadily since the 1950s, as several artistic movements have embraced him as their founding father. But although his influence is comparable only to Picasso's, Duchamp continues to be relatively unknown outside his narrow circle of followers. This book seeks to explain his oeuvre, which has been shrouded with mystery. Duchamp's two great preoccupations were the nature of scientific truth and a feeling for love with its natural limit, death. His works all speak of eroticism in a way that pushes the socially acceptable to its outer limits. Juan Antonio Ramirez addresses such questions as the meaning of the artist's ground-breaking ready-mades and his famous installation Etant donnés; his passionate essay reproduces all of Duchamp's important works, in addition to numerous previously unpublished visual sources. Duchamp: Love and Death, even is a seminal monograph for understanding this crucial figure of modern art.

Book Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art  Including Remainder interest and Promised Gifts

Download or read book Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Including Remainder interest and Promised Gifts written by John Elderfield and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of Matisse exhibitions at MoMA, publications on Matisse issued by MoMA, donors of works by Matisse in the MoMA collection; and detailed catalog notes.

Book Seurat  1859 1891

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  • Author : Robert L. Herbert
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 0810964104
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Seurat 1859 1891 written by Robert L. Herbert and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1991 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume which embodies an entire generation of scholarship on the artist. Seurat's brief but brilliant career is traced from his early academic drawings of the 1870s to the paintings of popular entertainments and the serene landscapes of his final years.

Book The Annenberg Collection

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1588393410
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Annenberg Collection written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations. -- From publisher.

Book Portraits by Ingres

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  • Author : Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0870998919
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Portraits by Ingres written by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om portrætter af den franske maler Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Book The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

Download or read book The Private Collection of Edgar Degas written by Julie A. Steiner and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue and its companion volume of essays are published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 1, 1997, to January 11, 1998.

Book The Fine Arts Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Fine Arts Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pierre Bonnard  the Graphic Art

Download or read book Pierre Bonnard the Graphic Art written by Pierre Bonnard and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tentoonstellingscatalogus. Met bibliografie en register.

Book The Robert Lehman Collection

Download or read book The Robert Lehman Collection written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced traditional and modern masters. This work catalogues 130 nineteenth- and 20th-century paintings that are part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It includes paintings by Ingres, Theodore Rousseau, and Corot among other early 19th-century artists. In addition to a group of early German drawings, this collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden. It discusses all drawings, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing it with comparative illustrations of related works.

Book Wallraf Richartz Museum  Cologne

Download or read book Wallraf Richartz Museum Cologne written by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallraf-Richartz Museum's malerisamling; med korte indledninger til de forskellige perioder

Book Picasso and the War Years  1937 1945

Download or read book Picasso and the War Years 1937 1945 written by Steven A. Nash and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing book draws upon new research and works that, in some cases were held out of public view in Picasso's own collection, to explore the critically important--but still under-studied--period of his life from the Spanish Civil War through World War II and the Nazi occupation of France. This span of years is marked by some of the most intensely personal and expressive work of his career. The subjects he painted changed dramatically in direct response first to the horrors of war and then the dangers and privations of life in occupied Paris, where, though branded a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he chose to remain until the Liberation.

Book The Cloisters

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  • Author : Elizabeth C. Parker
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
  • Release : 2012-10
  • ISBN : 9780300193497
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Cloisters written by Elizabeth C. Parker and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, The Cloisters celebrated its fiftieth anniversary as a branch museum of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Devoted to the art of medieval Europe, The Cloisters is a twentieth century museum designed in a style evocative of medieval architecture. Its combination of medieval and modern architectural elements, organized around arcades of five medieval cloisters, creates a unique and sympathetic context for the exhibition of sculpture, metalwork, textiles, and painting. This contextual approach has been enormously influential in introducing medieval art to the American public. The opportunity for both visitor and scholar to examine works of art in evocative settings has informed and inspired viewers since the Museum's opening in 1938. The collection continues to grow in a wide-ranging fashion, as exemplified by the recently acquired Langobardic reliefs and fourteenth-century stained glass from the Austrian castle chapel at Ebreichsdorf, which are examined here. A two-day scholarly symposium marked the fiftieth anniversary of The Cloisters, bringing together fifteen distinguished scholars from Europe and North America. Jointly sponsored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Center of Medieval Art, the symposium offered discussions of The Cloisters' history as well as concise papers emphasizing new research on specific works of art in the collection. Keynote papers by Ilene H. Forsyth and Willibald Sauerlander presented provocative critical reviews of the present state of research on Romanesque and Gothic art--the predominant strengths of the collection. Their appraisals and proposals for new directions of research confirm the rapidly changing and challenging state of medieval art scholarship. Symposium participants have revised their papers for publication, and contributions by members of the Museum's staff have been added. The twenty-two studies presented in this commemorative volume demonstrate the methodological diversity confronting the field of medieval art history. As a group, they offer an extraordinary tribute to the significance of The Cloisters Collection. (This title was originally published in 1991/92.)

Book Picasso  1905 1906

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  • Author : Pablo Picasso
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Picasso 1905 1906 written by Pablo Picasso and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition "Picasso, 1905-1906" has allowed an extension, albeit only a temporary one, ofthe permanent collections of the PicassoMuseum in Barcelona. It consisted infact of a compilation of the work whichcame immediately after Picasso's departurefrom Catalonia, in April 1904,at the end of his Blue Period. Throughthis exhibition, it has' been possible tosee the extent to which the artist's rootswere fixed in the Catalan art of the endof the century. At the same time, theartistic effervescence of Paris and hiscontacts with what was to become thevanguard of European culture stimulatedhim and encouraged his ceaseless, determined search for a new and originalform of painting which was to leadto a decisive change in his artistic language.

Book Degas Monotypes

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  • Author : Fogg Art Museum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Degas Monotypes written by Fogg Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emil B  hrle Collection

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  • Author : Lukas Gloor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-15
  • ISBN : 9783777437040
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book The Emil B hrle Collection written by Lukas Gloor and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully produced catalog of one of the great art collections of the modern age. Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and many others--between 1936 and 1956 the Swiss industrialist Emil Bührle (1890-1956) amassed an impressive collection of French Impressionism and more. As the owner of the largest weapons factory in his country he had close links to the world-changing events of World War II and the early Cold War. Initially Bührle acquired works almost exclusively in Switzerland; then, from 1951 onward, he rapidly expanded his collection, thanks in part to his business contacts in the United States. This book illustrates the colorful history of the Bührle collection, which includes a total of 633 works, and examines its importance to modern art collections in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. The survey is complemented by contributions from a number of authors who reflect on seventy masterpieces in the collection, from the old masters to Picasso.