Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Warburg Institute. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 770
Release: 1967
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN:

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 686
Release: 1962
Genre: Brazilian literature
ISBN:

Catalogue of the Library

Catalogue of the Library
Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1962
Genre: Civilization, Hispanic
ISBN:

The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts

The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author: Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.

Library Catalog

Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1062
Release: 1960
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Handbook of International Futurism

Handbook of International Futurism
Author: Günter Berghaus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 984
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 311027356X

The Handbook of International Futurism is the first reference work ever to presents in a comparative fashion all media and countries in which the movement, initiated by F.T. Marinetti in 1909, exercised a particularly noteworthy influence. The handbook offers a synthesis of the state of scholarship regarding the international radiation of Futurism and its influence in some fifteen artistic disciplines and thirty-eight countries. While acknowledging the great achievements of the movement in the visual and literary arts of Italy and Russia, it treats Futurism as an international, multidisciplinary phenomenon that left a lasting mark on the manifold artistic manifestations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. Hundreds of artists, who in some phase in their career absorbed Futurist ideas and stylistic devices, are presented in the context of their national traditions, their international connections and the media in which they were predominantly active. The handbook acts as a kind of multi-disciplinary, geographical encyclopaedia of Futurism and gives scholars with varying levels of experience a detailed overview of all countries and disciplines in which the movement had a major impact.

The Lives of Chinese Objects

The Lives of Chinese Objects
Author: Louise Tythacott
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0857452398

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.