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Book The Arts

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  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book The Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arts

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  • Author : Hamilton Easter Field
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book The Arts written by Hamilton Easter Field and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Connoisseur

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  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain

Download or read book The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain written by David Kemp and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-01-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in Worcester? Where is the National Bagpipe Museum? (Hint: not in Scotland) Was Pointius Pilate born in Pitlochry? The answers to these questions and literally thousands more are to be found in David Kemp's fascinating guidebook, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain. Nowhere else will the discerning traveller find so much diverse and essential information about British culture gathered together in one volume. With the author as your witty and knowledgeable guide, take a tour through nearly fifty cities, from Penzance to Perth, from London to Cardiff and Belfast. Each city section begins with a concise, readable history and a guided walk around the town, planned to take in as many of the significant local sights as can comfortably be included. Next are exhaustive listings, including telephone numbers and addresses, of everything a culturally curious visitor might want to seek out: theatre, art galleries, museums, antique markets, antiquarian and other bookstores, restaurants, lcoal fairs and festivals and more. Finally, under the headings of Artistic Associations and Ephemera, each section concludes with an entertaining collection of local lore, gossip, legend and anecdote.

Book Art Market Research

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  • Author : Tom McNulty
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2013-12-27
  • ISBN : 0786466715
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Art Market Research written by Tom McNulty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research skills are reviewed, and advanced methods are explored in a chapter devoted to basic market research. Because the monetary value of artwork cannot be established without reference to the aesthetic qualities and art historical significance of our subject works, two substantial chapters detail the processes involved in researching and documenting the fine and decorative arts, respectively, and provide annotated bibliographies. Methods for assigning values for art objects are explored, and sources of price data, both in print and online, are identified and described in detail. In recent years, art historical scholarship increasingly has addressed issues related to the history of art and its markets: a chapter on resources for the historian of the art market offers a wide range of sources. Finally, provenance and art law are discussed, with particular reference to their relevance to dealers, collectors, artists and other art market stakeholders.

Book Art   Auction

Download or read book Art Auction written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated London News

Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fonthill Recovered

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  • Author : Caroline Dakers
  • Publisher : UCL Press
  • Release : 2018-05-16
  • ISBN : 1787350452
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.

Book Applied and Decorative Arts

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  • Author : Donald L. Ehresmann
  • Publisher : Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Applied and Decorative Arts written by Donald L. Ehresmann and published by Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management

Download or read book The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management written by Jonathan Reuvid and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management offers authoritative and jargon-free advice on how to structure personal and business-related finances, incorporating commentary and analysis of both the traditional (asset management, property, etc) and alternative (forestry, fine wines and antiques) investment options that are increasingly available to those with sufficient capital. At the same time, the book offers guidance on key issues such as taxation and inheritance planning, as well as special chapter on philanthropy and charitable giving. The book concludes with a new regional directory of investment managers and independent financial advisers across the UK.

Book Antiques

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  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

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Book Library Catalog

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1040 pages

Download or read book Library Catalog written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art Gallery

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  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book The Art Gallery written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art and Auctions

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  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Art and Auctions written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Year s Art

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  • Release : 1941
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Year s Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Antique Dealer and Collectors  Guide

Download or read book The Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lives of Chinese Objects

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  • Author : Louise Tythacott
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2011-06-01
  • ISBN : 0857452398
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Lives of Chinese Objects written by Louise Tythacott and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.