Monsieur Proust

Monsieur Proust
Author: Céleste Albaret
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2003-10-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781590170595

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author: The J. Paul Getty Muiseum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892360062

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 4 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum’s permanent collections of decorative arts. This volume includes an introduction and two articles by Gillian Wilson, Curator of Decorative Arts. Volume 4 also features articles by Jiří Frel, the Museum’s Curator of Antiquities; Edith Standen, Curatorial Consultant, Department of Western European Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Geraldine Hussman, California State University at Northridge; Jean-Luc Bordeaux, Professor of Art History and Director of the Fine Arts Gallery, California State University at Northridge; and Faya Causey, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Richelieu

Richelieu
Author: Christine Toulier
Publisher: Berger M. Editions
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368259

"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Author: Meredith Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351576062

Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.

Goldsmiths & Silversmiths

Goldsmiths & Silversmiths
Author: Hugh Honour
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1971
Genre: Art metal-workers
ISBN: 9780297003441

Studies of 50 goldsmiths and silversmiths from 10 countries and 11 centuries.

Cannibalismes disciplinaires

Cannibalismes disciplinaires
Author: Musée du quai Branly
Publisher: Musée du quai Branly
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Ce volume est issu du colloque "Histoire de l'art et anthropologie" qui s'est tenu du 21 au 23 juin 2007