Download or read book The English Miniature written by John Murdoch and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miniature and the English Imagination written by Melinda Alliker Rabb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function of the small-scale during the period from 1650 to 1765. Drawing on three interconnected areas of scholarship, Melinda Alliker Rabb analyzes the human capacity to supplement direct experience of the world through representation, in order to gain knowledge of that world and to attempt control over it. Assessing two kinds of miniature - the real and the imagined - allows rethinking of works by Swift, Pope, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and others, and shows how the fictional miniature can correspond meaningfully to the world of things. The phenomenon of scaling down objects as various as teapots, bureaus, globes, buckets, spoons, battlefields, and diving bells, has a relationship to large-scale events as various as financial revolution, globalization, scientific discovery, war and other events that challenge old modes of representation and demand new ones.
Download or read book Miniature and the English Imagination written by Melinda Alliker Rabb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.
Download or read book The English miniature written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perfect Likeness written by Cincinnati Art Museum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Download or read book Johnson s Dictionary of the English Language in Miniature written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Miniature written by Simon Garfield and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large. Here you will find the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the truth about the flea circus, a doll’s house made for a queen, eerie tableaux of crime scenes, miniature food, model villages and railways, and more. Simon Garfield brings together history, psychology, art and obsession, to explore what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modellers and fans, and teaches us that there is greatness in the diminutive.
Download or read book The English Renaissance Miniature written by Roy C. Strong and published by London : Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive survey of England's unique contribution to the art of the Renaissance: the portrait miniature. Arising out of the technical traditions of medieval manuscript illumination and inspired by the art of the Valois court, the portrait miniature, or limning (from' illumination') as it was then called, was to remain for a century the ideal vehicle for the expression of the cult of the Crown, an art form peculiarly suited to the ruling classes of post-Reformation England." -- Book jacket.
Download or read book Miniatures written by Richard Walker and published by National Portrait Gallery Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological guide to the English miniature, covering the period from the accession of Elizabeth I to the 19th century, and including detailed discussions of each example. It is published with over 100 examples from the National Portrait Gallery.
Download or read book Malice in Miniature written by Jeanne M. Dams and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dorothy Martin gets a call from her friend Ada Finch, whose gardener son has been arrested for the attempted theft of an antique dolls’ tea set from the Miniatures Museum at the imposing Brocklesby Hall, she doesn’t hesitate to offer her services to clear his name. But when theft leads to murder, Dorothy discovers there are big secrets hidden in the rooms filled with miniatures.
Download or read book The Oxford English Minidictionary written by Lucinda Coventry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford English Mini Dictionary written by Charlotte Buxton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use dictionary containing 90,000 up-to-date words, phrases, and definitions.
Download or read book On Longing written by Susan Stewart and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.
Download or read book The British Miniature written by Raymond Lister and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My First Bilingual Little Reader Level A written by Deborah Schecter and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of stories to help beginning readers and second language learners.
Download or read book The Portrait Miniature in England written by Katherine Coombs and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable account of the development of English miniature painting featuring masterpieces from the VandA's collection, which contains some of the finest examples in existence.
Download or read book Portrait Miniatures written by George Charles Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
