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Pedigree and Panache
Author | : Shireen Huda |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1921313722 |
"Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses. Featuring absorbing case studies of key art auctions and major art auction houses in Australia (including Christies, Sothebys and Deutscher-Menzies) the work provides an overview of the origin and international development of art auctions. The development of the Australian marketplace is then explored, detailing colonial inception and continuing until Christies' withdrawal of its saleroom presence in 2006."--Provided by publisher.
Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author | : Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
ISBN | : |
Prices of Clothing
Author | : John M. Curran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Clothing and dress |
ISBN | : |
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author | : Devoney Looser |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801887054 |
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
The Silver Canvas
Author | : Bates Lowry |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000-02-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892365366 |
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
Slavery and the British Country House
Author | : Madge Dresser |
Publisher | : Historic England Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781848020641 |
The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.