A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane's Museum

A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane's Museum
Author: Peter Thornton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1992
Genre: Architectural museums
ISBN:

For this book the curators have brought together 120 objects from Sir John Soane's Museum. A commentary accompanies each picture, relating the story behind the object's acquisition or arrangement.

John Soane

John Soane
Author: Gillian Darley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300086959

John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most influential and original of all English architects. In this lavishly illustrated biography, Darley places Soane's life and buildings side by side, and her insights into this complex man and his turbulent life add a great deal to the understanding of his extraordinary work. 235 illustrations, 75 in color.

Cultures of Collecting

Cultures of Collecting
Author: Roger Cardinal
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 186189421X

This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on collections that reflect a fascination with the "Other" and the marginal – the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious. There are essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane, Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters, one of the masters of collage. Others examine imperialist encounters with remote cultures – the consquitadors in America in the sixteenth century, and the British in the Pacific in the eighteenth – and the more recent collectors of popular culture, be they of Swatch watches, Elvis Presley memorabilia or of packaging and advertising. With essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, John Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.

Envisioning the Past

Envisioning the Past
Author: Sam Smiles
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1405137576

Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. Covers a wide variety of time periods and topics, from the Renaissance and the 18th century to the engravings, photography, and virtual realities of today Questions what we can learn from considering the use of images in the past and present that might guide our responsible use of them in the future Available within the prestigious New Interventions in Art History series, published in connection with the Association of Art Historians.

The Collector's Voice

The Collector's Voice
Author: Susan Pearce
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351964038

The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels. Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin

Encyclopedia of Interior Design

Encyclopedia of Interior Design
Author: Joanna Banham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1469
Release: 1997-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136787585

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inventing the Art Collection

Inventing the Art Collection
Author: Oscar E. Vázquez
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780271043951

The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts&—paintings, furniture, even ladies' fans&—increased sharply in nineteenth-century Spain, and new institutions and practices for exhibiting as well as valorizing &"art&" were soon formed. Oscar V&ázquez maps this cultural landscape, tracing the connections between the growth of art markets and changing patterns of collecting. Unlike many earlier students of collecting, he focuses not upon questions of taste but rather upon the discursive and institutional frameworks that came to regulate art's economic and symbolic worth at all levels of Spanish society. Drawing upon sources that range from newspaper reviews to notarial documents, V&ázquez shows how collecting acquired the power to mediate debates over individual, regional, and national identity. His book also looks at the emergence of a new state apparatus for arts administration and situates these social and political changes in the broader European context. Inventing the Art Collection will be of interest to historians and sociologists of Spain and Europe, as well as art historians and cultural theorists.

Shadow-Makers

Shadow-Makers
Author: Stephen Kite
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1472588118

The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history – to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context – tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious. Within a chronological framework encompassing medieval, baroque, enlightenment, sublime, picturesque, and modernist movements, a wide range of topics are explored, from Hawksmoor's London churches, Japanese temple complexes and the shade-patterns of Islamic cities, to Ruskin in Venice and Aldo Rossi and Louis Kahn in the 20th century. This beautifully-illustrated study seeks to understand the work of these shadow-makers through their drawings, their writings, and through the masterpieces they built.

Glorious Visions

Glorious Visions
Author: Helene Furján
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136786740

Strongly interdisciplinary in its scope, this book situates Soane’s house-museum within the broader context of early nineteenth-century British aesthetics, theories of taste, and cultural currents, viewing it as a cultural and artistic product as well as an architectural and museological one.

London

London
Author: Tim Adams
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2001
Genre: Art, English
ISBN: 9781892145079