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Book Tentative Lists of Objects Desirable for a Collection of Casts  Sculptural and Architectural  Intended to Illustrate the History of Plastic Art

Download or read book Tentative Lists of Objects Desirable for a Collection of Casts Sculptural and Architectural Intended to Illustrate the History of Plastic Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tentative List of Objects Desirable for a Collection of Casts  Sculptural and Architectural  Intended to Illustrate the History of Plastic Art

Download or read book Tentative List of Objects Desirable for a Collection of Casts Sculptural and Architectural Intended to Illustrate the History of Plastic Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plaster Monuments

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  • Author : Mari Lending
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-14
  • ISBN : 0691239622
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Plaster Monuments written by Mari Lending and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth century, however, saw this issue differently. In a culture of reproduction, plaster casts of building fragments and architectural features were sold throughout Europe and America and proudly displayed in leading museums. The first comprehensive history of these full-scale replicas, Plaster Monuments examines how they were produced, marketed, sold, and displayed, and how their significance can be understood today. Plaster Monuments unsettles conventional thinking about copies and originals. As Mari Lending shows, the casts were used to restore wholeness to buildings that in reality lay in ruin, or to isolate specific features of monuments to illustrate what was typical of a particular building, style, or era. Arranged in galleries and published in exhibition catalogues, these often enormous objects were staged to suggest the sweep of history, synthesizing structures from vastly different regions and time periods into coherent narratives. While architectural plaster casts fell out of fashion after World War I, Lending brings the story into the twentieth century, showing how Paul Rudolph incorporated historical casts into the design for the Yale Art and Architecture building, completed in 1963. Drawing from a broad archive of models, exhibitions, catalogues, and writings from architects, explorers, archaeologists, curators, novelists, and artists, Plaster Monuments tells the fascinating story of a premodernist aesthetic and presents a new way of thinking about history’s artifacts.

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italy for Sale

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-08-14
  • ISBN : 9004680446
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book Italy for Sale written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian Renaissance art, objects, and even the idea of Italy itself figured heavily both in the dynamic international art market and in the eyes of the general public. The alternative objects that were actively dispersed and collected -- authentic works, pastiches, Renaissance-inspired counterfeits, and reproductions -- in the diverse media of paint, plaster, terracotta, and photography, had a tremendous impact on visual culture across social strata. These essays examine less studied aspects of this market through the lens of just a few of the countless successful sales of objects out of Italy.

Book New Series of Catalogues

Download or read book New Series of Catalogues written by Karl W. Hiersemann and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Record of the Convention

Download or read book Record of the Convention written by Western Arts Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of      books

Download or read book A Catalogue of books written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Committee to Enlarge Collection of Casts

Download or read book Special Committee to Enlarge Collection of Casts written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Inspire and Instruct

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  • Author : Christina Nielsen
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2021-02-03
  • ISBN : 1527565572
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book To Inspire and Instruct written by Christina Nielsen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, which derive from a symposium held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, tells the story of how medieval art was collected by both individuals and institutions in the American Midwest. This book will appeal to both medievalists and scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth century American history. In addition, it will also appeal to scholars who are interested in museum studies and the history of collecting. The essays in the first section, “Collecting and Displaying Medieval Art,” consider the formation of medieval art collections at influential cultural institutions in three of the most important centers of industry and culture in the Midwest: Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. The second section, “Medieval Art as Inspiration and Education,” examines the motives of both private donors and museum professionals in forming collections and establishing period rooms and cloistered spaces at museums in Toledo, Kansas City, and St. Louis, among others. At the opposite end of the spectrum was a new trend in curatorial practice, beginning in the 1930s, that favored the dismantling of period rooms and espoused displaying historical works of art in more distinctly modern settings, a theme that pervades section three, “Medieval Art and Modernism.” An essay on medieval art in Midwestern university art museums and another one that considers the impact of works from medieval collections in special exhibitions serve as a remarkable coda to the rest of the volume. Two appendices follow this, one that provides an overview of medieval art collections in Midwestern university museums and another which provides a biographical sketch of prominent dealers of medieval art from 1900-1950.

Book Secretary s Report

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  • Author : Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1879
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Secretary s Report written by Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1879 and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art Bulletin

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 654 pages

Download or read book The Art Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: Notes and reviews.

Book The Roof Garden Commission

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  • Author : Beatrice Galilee
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2017-04-13
  • ISBN : 1588396215
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book The Roof Garden Commission written by Beatrice Galilee and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met’s collection, drawing on the five thousand years of world history within its galleries, to create an elaborate ahistorical work. Set atop the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Villar Rojas’s installation transforms the space into a performative diorama, where banquet tables occupy an oversize black-and-white checkerboard floor punctuated by sculptures that fuse together human figures and artifacts found within the museum. The resulting juxtapositions put forth a radical reinterpretation of museum practices. This illustrated book is the fifth edition in a series that documents and contextualizes The Met’s annual rooftop commissions. The introductory essay by Beatrice Galilee explores the conceptual framework that informs Villar Rojas’s remarkable commission as well as his interventions around the world. While exploring the Museum, Villar Rojas took thousands of photographs of objects and moments of interest. A selection of these images is featured here alongside the artist’s commentary, offering a unique visual diary of Villar Rojas’s thought process as he developed this arresting installation.

Book The Dial

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  • Author : Francis Fisher Browne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Pennsylvania History

Download or read book Western Pennsylvania History written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City  New Jersey  August 1  1891

Download or read book Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City New Jersey August 1 1891 written by Free Public Library of Jersey City and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: