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Book A Kingdom of Images

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Fuhring
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2015-06-18
  • ISBN : 1606064509
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book A Kingdom of Images written by Peter Fuhring and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV’s reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries. A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.

Book Watteau s Soldiers

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  • Author : Aaron Wile
  • Publisher : Giles
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781907804793
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Watteau s Soldiers written by Aaron Wile and published by Giles. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new interpretation of Watteau's thoroughly modern vision of war in which the soldier's inner life comes foremost.

Book War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars

Download or read book War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars written by Mischa Honeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.

Book Exhibition of War Paintings by Soldiers of France

Download or read book Exhibition of War Paintings by Soldiers of France written by France. Haut commissariat aux États-Unis and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Paintings  A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art  Vol  2  Nineteenth Century

Download or read book French Paintings A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 2 Nineteenth Century written by and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1955 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ridpath s History of the World

Download or read book Ridpath s History of the World written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War Paintings   Drawings by British Artists

Download or read book War Paintings Drawings by British Artists written by Great Britain. Ministry of Information and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Paintings

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of Paintings written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Masterpieces of French Art

Download or read book The Masterpieces of French Art written by Louis Viardot and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Soldiers Do

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  • Author : Mary Louise Roberts
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-05-17
  • ISBN : 0226923096
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book What Soldiers Do written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.

Book Academy Notes

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  • Author : Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Academy Notes written by Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Drawings  XVI XIX Centuries

Download or read book French Drawings XVI XIX Centuries written by Gillian Kennedy and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Drawings XVI-XIX Centuries is a fully illustrated catalogue of fifty French drawings from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, drawn from the Witt collection at the Courtauld Institute Galleries. Instead of a conventional concentration on a particular school, chronological period or type of subject-matter, the keynote of the collection is variety: variety of function, style and technique. The selection of works in this book is intended to reflect that variety, and to highlight the remarkable richness of three centuries of French drawings.

Book The Masterpieces of French Art Illustrated

Download or read book The Masterpieces of French Art Illustrated written by Louis Viardot and published by Philadelphia : Gebbie. This book was released on 1883 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Magazine of Art

Download or read book The American Magazine of Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Magazine of Art

Download or read book American Magazine of Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: