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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.
Author | : Joseph Alsop |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2023-10-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691252262 |
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.
Author | : Sarah E. Betzer |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Portrait painting |
ISBN | : 9780271048758 |
An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.
Author | : Ben-Ami Scharfstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226736113 |
People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.
Author | : Vishakha N. Desai |
Publisher | : Clark Art Institute |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This text explores the field of Asian art and its historiography, tensions, and possible future directions. It features essays by 14 leading authors specializing in Chinese, East Asian, Indian and Japanese art history, and considers what is meant by 'Asian art' and how it should be understood in relation to geopolitics.
Author | : George Wilkins Kendall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Kallir |
Publisher | : Penguin Putnam |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Contains one hundred illustrations representing the most significant aspects of the folk art tradition, with extensive footnotes and a biographical index of the major artists.
Author | : Max Marmor |
Publisher | : ALA Editions |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
"This bibliography supplements the greatest of modern art bibliographies, Etta Arntzen and Robert Rainwater's Guide to the literature of art history (ALA, 1980)"--Preface.
Author | : Rambharos Jha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Animals in art |
ISBN | : 9789380340135 |
"Waterlife features Mithila art, a vibrant delicate art form of folk painting from Bihar in eastern India. The artist Rambharos Jha grew up on the banks of the legendary river Ganga and developed a fascination for water and water life. In this book he creates an unusual artist's journal, adapting the motifs of the Mithila style to express his own vision. He frames his art with a playful text that evokes both childhood memory and folk legend."--Back cover.
Author | : Gregory Gibson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780156033084 |
From the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare book dealer, spies some intriguing photographs in the archive of a midcentury Times Square freak show, he knows he's on to something. It turns out he's made the find of a lifetime--never-before-seen prints by the legendary Diane Arbus. Furthermore, he begins to suspect that what he's found may add a pivotal chapter to what is now known about Arbus as well as about the "old weird America," in Greil Marcus's phrase, that Hubert's inhabited. Bob's ensuing adventure--a roller-coaster ride filled with bizarre characters and coincidences--takes him from the fringes of the rare book business to Sotheby's, and from the exhibits of a run-down Times Square freak show to the curator's office of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Will the photos be authenticated? How will Arbus's notoriously protective daughter react? Most importantly, can Bob, who always manages to screw up his most promising deals, finally make just one big score?