The Rare Art Traditions
Title | The Rare Art Traditions PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Alsop |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 750 |
Release | 2023-08-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691252254 |
A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.
The Rare Art Traditions
Title | The Rare Art Traditions PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Alsop |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 691 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780500233597 |
Rare Art Traditions. The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena
Title | Rare Art Traditions. The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wright Alsop |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Ethiopia
Title | Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Aaron Silverman |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
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Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity presents the work of fifteen contemporary Ethiopian artists and essays on Ethiopia's artistic traditions by twelve scholars from various countries and academic disciplines.
Into the White
Title | Into the White PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher P. Heuer |
Publisher | Zone Books |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2019-05-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1942130147 |
How the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination. European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North—a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination—offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “non-site,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts—and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art's very legitimacy. In Into the White, Heuer uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earth—long before the nineteenth century Romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, he argues, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and impossible to be mastered, something beyond the idea of image itself.
Drawing from the City
Title | Drawing from the City PDF eBook |
Author | Teju Behan |
Publisher | Tara Books |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 2018-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9789383145966 |
Folk singer and self-taught artist draws her incredible journey from rural poverty to a life in art.
The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated
Title | The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | George Wilkins Kendall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 118 |
Release | 1851 |
Genre | Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
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