A catalogue of a collection of pictures of the Italian, Flemish & Dutch schools, the property of a bankrupt, to be sold without reserve - (by direction of the assignees), including historical works, landscapes, portraits, marine views, fruit & flower pieces, interiors, and various interesting subjects, the works of the following masters or their disciples: Geinaert, Schotel, Verbeckhoeven, A. de Drew, Robbe, Potter, V. der Bosch ... to which are added, some pictures of an agreeable character another property [1846].

A catalogue of a collection of pictures of the Italian, Flemish & Dutch schools, the property of a bankrupt, to be sold without reserve - (by direction of the assignees), including historical works, landscapes, portraits, marine views, fruit & flower pieces, interiors, and various interesting subjects, the works of the following masters or their disciples: Geinaert, Schotel, Verbeckhoeven, A. de Drew, Robbe, Potter, V. der Bosch ... to which are added, some pictures of an agreeable character another property [1846].
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Open Veins of Latin America

Open Veins of Latin America
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0853459916
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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably. This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende's inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

Discovering the Dutch

Discovering the Dutch
Author: Jaap Verheul
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2014-11-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9048526094
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What are the most salient and sparking facts about the Netherlands? This updated edition of 'Discovering the Dutch' tackles the heart of the question of Dutch identity through a number of essential themes that span the culture, history and society of the Netherlands. Running the gamut from the Randstad to the Dutch Golden Age, from William of Orange to Anne Frank, this volume uses a series of vignettes written by academic experts in their fields to address historical and contemporary topics such as immigration, tolerance, and the struggle against water, as well as issues of culture - painting, literature, architecture, and design among them. All chapters are written by academic experts in their fields who have extensive experience in explaining the many features of "Dutchness" to a foreign audience. Each chapter comes to life in vignettes that illustrate characteristic historical figures or essential aspects in Dutch culture and society from William of Orange and Anne Frank to Dutch cheese and the inevitable coffeeshop.

Selling Russia's Treasures

Selling Russia's Treasures
Author: N. I︠U︡ Semenova
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780789211545
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Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.

Art in Reproduction

Art in Reproduction
Author: Robert Verhoogt
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9053569138
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This illuminating study examines the cultural meaning of artistic reproduction in a refreshingly new context through its consideration of how three artists managed the reproduction of their work.

The Byzantine Achievement

The Byzantine Achievement
Author: Robert Byron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781604190267
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Robert Byron believed that the summit of ancient Greek civilization was not to be found in 5th century B.C.E. Athens, but in post-classical Byzantium, also called Constantinople by the Romans. Byzantine civilization was truly glorious, as we see by looking through Byron's fresh eyes. Byron was a brilliant writer and dashing figure whose life was cut short in WWII. The introduction is by Richard Luckett, Byron's biographer.

Everyday Aesthetics

Everyday Aesthetics
Author: Katya Mandoki
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 131713849X
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Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness and complexity of everyday life. She argues that in every process of communication, whether face to face or through the media, fashion, and political propaganda, there is always an excess beyond the informative and functional value of a message. This excess is the aesthetic. Following Huizinga's view of play as an ingredient of any social environment, Mandoki explores how various cultural practices are in fact forms of playing since, for the author, aesthetics and play are Siamese twins. One of the unique contributions of this book is the elaboration and application of a semiotic model for the simultaneous analysis of social interactions in the four registers, namely visual, auditory, verbal and body language, to detect the aesthetic strategies deployed in specific situations. She argues that since the presentation of the self is targeted towards participants' sensibilities, aesthetics plays a key role in these modes of exchange. Consequently, the author updates important debates in this field to clear the way for a socio-aesthetic inquiry through contexts such as the family, school, medical, artistic or religious traditions from which social identities emerge.