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| Author | : James McAuley |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2021-03-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300252544 |
A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.
| Author | : Jessica Priebe |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2021-11-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1000470385 |
While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios. It discusses the types of objects he collected, the networks through which he acquired them, and their spectacular display in his custom-designed studio at the Louvre, where he lived and worked for nearly two decades. This book explores the role his collection played in the development of his art, his studio, his friendships, and the burgeoning market for luxury goods in mid-eighteenth-century France. In doing so, it sheds new light on the relationship between Boucher’s artistic and collecting practices, which attracted both praise and criticism from period observers. The book will appeal to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and French history.
| Author | : Jacques Derrida |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2021-04-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 022659002X |
Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida’s most inventive ideas about the making of visual artworks. The book is divided into three sections. The first demonstrates Derrida’s preoccupation with visibility, image, and space. The second contains interviews and collaborations with artists on topics ranging from the politics of color to the components of painting. Finally, the book delves into Derrida’s writings on photography, video, cinema, and theater, ending with a text published just before his death about his complex relationship to his own image. With many texts appearing for the first time in English, Thinking out of Sight helps us better understand the critique of representation and visibility throughout Derrida’s work, and, most importantly, to assess the significance of his insights about art and its commentary.
| Author | : René Rémond |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2016-11-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1512806072 |
The Gaullist regime in France has aroused much interest in the nature of French politics. This stimulating analysis of the conservative faction in France, revised by the author to include the government of General de Gaulle, should be of interest not only to students of that country's history and politics but also to general readers who would understand France's political tradition and where de Gaulle fits into it. This work is translated from the second and revised edition of La Droite en France: de le Première Restauration á la Ve République, published in Paris in 1963.
| Author | : Charles Fairfax Murray |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Bibliography |
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| Author | : Francis Haskell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Art |
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| Author | : Xavier Girard |
| Publisher | : Editions Assouline |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2014-07-16 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781614282563 |
The French Riviera of the 1920s and early '30s was a haven for artists and writers from the far reaches of the world. This book revitalizes the now-legendary tale of personalities such as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso, Picabia, Cocteau, and Gerald and Sara Murphy as they are caught between a desire for creation, the quest for happiness, and the looming darkness of World War II. Extraordinary images taken from personal archives reanimate the lifestyles and artwork of some of the most influential artists of the twentiety century.
| Author | : Janine Marsh |
| Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2017-05-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1782437339 |
Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride.
| Author | : Sandy Price |
| Publisher | : Three Rivers Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 9780609804117 |
Whether you are a first-time visitor to France or a seasoned Francophile, general tourist or serious collector, this guide to the flea markets of France is an essential companion on your travels. Sandy Price, a voracious flea marketer, has toured the French countryside to compile this exhaustive and comprehensive listing of flea markets. She has discovered exactly which markets--whether they are urban or rural, upscale or low-end--are the best for uncovering specific treasures from cafe au lait bowls and faience pottery to antique clothes and linens to war memorabilia and farm tools. Organized by region, markets are rated according to price range and quality of merchandise, scenic value, and nearby amenities. Far from being a dry catalog of lists and addresses, this guide provides colorful history and cultural information, invaluable collecting advice, travel tips, and restaurant recommendations that could only come from someone who has frequented the sometimes off-the-beaten paths to the flea markets of France. Exploring the Flea Markets of France is an indispensable sourcebook for anyone looking for authentic French treasures to bring back home. More than 200 market listings Descriptions of more than 30 popular French collectibles A handy English-French glossary of key phrases you'll need to know to bargain successfully Important packing, shipping, and customs information 9 maps
| Author | : Louise Tythacott |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2017-10-25 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 135162489X |
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.
