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Book Brief van De Erven F  Bohn Haarlem aan Ch  Kleyn van Willigen  Suermondt

Download or read book Brief van De Erven F Bohn Haarlem aan Ch Kleyn van Willigen Suermondt written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brief van De Erven F  Bohn Haarlem aan F L  Kleyn

Download or read book Brief van De Erven F Bohn Haarlem aan F L Kleyn written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brief van De Erven F  Bohn Haarlem aan H Th  KLeyn

Download or read book Brief van De Erven F Bohn Haarlem aan H Th KLeyn written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ten Thousand Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Dermout
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2014-11-25
  • ISBN : 1590178823
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermout and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.

Book Colonial Collections Revisited

Download or read book Colonial Collections Revisited written by Pieter ter Keurs and published by Phoenix Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of colonial collecting is complex and full of contradictions. Collectors often appreciated the 'other' cultures where they obtained collections, but at the same time they had a close relationship with the colonial authorities who were willing to subjugate societies with military violence. This book addresses colonial collecting with examples from the Dutch East Indies and, by means of comparison, with a discussion about collecting in British India. Since the 1990s the phenomenon of collecting has become an important part of anthropological discourse. This development touches upon the foundations of the discipline, since it throws light on how the white colonizers dealt with local cultures, and thus on how the formation of the anthropological discourse took place. The study of collecting can help us to develop an anthropology of intentionality, instrumentality and desire, as Anthony Shelton argues in one of the contributions to this book. Objects do not stop 'to live' when collected. Margaret Wiener discusses the magic of the kris, which is influential even in Europe, far from the context in which the magic is created. Other chapters treat in detail the military entanglement with collecting in the Dutch East Indies. There is also attention for ethnographic collecting in the context of scholarly activities, particularly in the chapter by Ruth Barnes. The broad picture of colonial collecting ,as presented in this book, includes an analysis of the appropriation of the Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist culture by means of collecting Javanese antiquities, detailed descriptions of colonial wars (North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, Bali and Lombok) and a discussion of the cultural heritage of the Ethische Politiek. With contributions by Ruth Barnes, Francine Brinkgreve, Hari Budiarti, Brian Durrans, Wahyu Ernawati, Pieter ter Keurs, Susan Legêne, Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer, Anthony Shelton, Harm Stevens, David Stuart-Fox and Margaret Wiener.

Book Indonesia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pieter ter Keurs
  • Publisher : Kit Pub
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789068324945
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Indonesia written by Pieter ter Keurs and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their colonial rule over Indonesia, the Dutch collected art objects. For each object they exported to The Netherlands they had to leave a similar object in Indonesian care. In most cases the best quality objects remained in Indonesia. Thus a collection was built that consists of two complementary parts. This book describes the history of this collection and provides a unique insight into the way colonial powers collected art and at the same time tried to be just. In December 2005, the two halves of the collection were displayed together for the first time ever in De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. This book marks that historic occasion. The Dutch and Indonesian collections are the top two Indonesian Art collections in the world. This book shows the highlights of both these collections in relation to each other. All objects were photographed especially for this book; many of the objects are unique and have never been photographed before.

Book Rembrandt and His World

Download or read book Rembrandt and His World written by Christopher White and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italian and Spanish Art  1600 1750

Download or read book Italian and Spanish Art 1600 1750 written by Robert Enggass and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baroque period was crucial for the development of art theory and the advancement of the artistic academy. This collection of primary sources brings this important period to life with significant documents and texts. It conveniently assembles major texts, which are otherwise available only in scattered publications. The lives of leading artists--Caravaggio, El Greco, among others---are discussed by their contemporaries, while Bellori, Galileo, Pascoli, and others write on art theory and practice. The documents provide fascinating glimpses of the period's artistic self-image.

Book Bruegel to Rembrandt

    Book Details:
  • Author : William W. Robinson
  • Publisher : Harvard Art Museums
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780300093476
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Bruegel to Rembrandt written by William W. Robinson and published by Harvard Art Museums. This book was released on 2002 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents highlights from the collection of Maida and George Abrams, arguably the finest private collection of Dutch seventeenth-century drawings in the world. The works range from studies by renowned masters - including Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jacques de Gheyn II, Hendrick Goltzius, Hendrick Avercamp, among others - to drawings by lesser-known draftsmen whose contributions are essential to understanding the art of the period.

Book Dawn of the Golden Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wouter T. Kloek
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300060165
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book Dawn of the Golden Age written by Wouter T. Kloek and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in 1994, this offers a survey of the paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and applied art produced 1580-1620. The book contains five essays followed by a catalogue which reproduces work from the era along with data on the artists.

Book The Drama of the Portrait  Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain

Download or read book The Drama of the Portrait Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines theater and portraiture as interrelated social practices in seventeenth-century Spain. Features visual images and cross-disciplinary readings of selected plays that employ the motif of the painted portrait to key dramatic and symbolic effect.

Book The Annenberg Collection

    Book Details:
  • 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 Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by Philadelphia Museum (PA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caught between the Theatricality of the Baroque and the acute sensibility of Romanticism, art in Rome in the eighteenth century has long been a neglected area of study." "The grand scale and spectacular diversity of the period are comprehensively captured for the first time in this definitive history of the period, produced to accompany a major U.S. exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and documenting the work of over 150 artists. With over 450 illustrations, and texts by an outstanding array of experts from around the world, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century provides a massively authoritative survey of a fascinating era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Venice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Beddington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Venice written by Charles Beddington and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View-painting in eighteenth-century Venice began with the emergence of Luca Carlevarijs and ended with the death of Francesco Guardi in 1793. This title presents an overview of the artists then working in the city, and draws on the latest research and scholarship to illuminate the complex stylistic relationships between them.

Book Art from the Mayans to Disney

Download or read book Art from the Mayans to Disney written by Jean Charlot and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In memoriam J G  van Gelder  1903 1980

Download or read book In memoriam J G van Gelder 1903 1980 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Looking at Paintings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dawson William Carr
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Looking at Paintings written by Dawson William Carr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? What is a pentimento? This book offers definitions of these and other techniques, processes, and materials used by painters for centuries. Its numerous illustrations--chosen from the masterpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum and in London's National Gallery and other British institutions--provide a rich and informative history of the medium. Like other volumes in this series, Looking at Paintings presents concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by museum-goers. It will be invaluable to all those wishing to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the art of painting."--Back cover.