Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
Rizzoli International Publications Brand New
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening book about the 1980s New York art scene, its far-reaching effects on contemporary art, and the rise of some of the biggest names in the art world today. This groundbreaking book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn, tells the story of the evolution of New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s—from a DIY counterculture in the East Village to a legitimate gallery business in SoHo. Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists’ focus on commodities and consumerism began as satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in “brand-new” types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. In a book full of visual surprises, newly commissioned essays shed new light on this pivotal period: curator Gianni Jetzer provides a compre
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Rizzoli Jennifer Guidi Heliocentric
Book SynopsisThis vibrant monograph commemorates Jennifer Guidi's first exhibition with Gagosian and her first in Asia.Jennifer Guidi's sand paintings mix oil paint with sand to create surfaces of color and texture. Evolving from her earlier figurative works, these abstract sand paintings evoke the traditions of landscape and naturalist painting. Accomplished by applying a thick layer of sand to the painted ground and then making precise marks while the sand is still wet, the paintings' luminous qualities and their textured relief register and generate minute shifts in perception, creating their own sense of ambient light. These physical and tactile emanations are based on her observations of light in Los Angeles, where she lives and works, and where hazy skies caused by the atmospheric conditions of the West Coast, as well as the city's man-made pollution, make for extra-brilliant sunsets.The fourteen paintings in the exhibition also include Guidi's first triangular-shaped c
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Rizzoli International Publications Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg Florida
Book SynopsisHighlights from this small but exceedingly well-curated museum on the Gulf Coast of Florida, which boasts a world-class encyclopedic art and photography collection. The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a hidden gem, housing a well-respected and comprehensive art collection with more than 18,000 objects—a place where visitors can see a Monet, Vigée Le Brun, and a Tibetan Buddha from the fourteenth century all in one place. Founded by Margaret Acheson Stuart (1896–1980), the museum reflects her vision of providing outstanding examples of world art in an inviting, elegant setting. More than 200 works of art from all areas of the permanent collection are highlighted here, including examples by Morisot, Rodin, O’Keeffe, Kehinde Wiley, and Edward Steichen, as well as ancient Greek and Roman, Asian, African, Mesoamerican, and self-taught art, and decorative arts, including Tiffany glass. A special section is devot
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Rizzoli The Queens Pictures
Book SynopsisThis tour-de-force of Britain’s Royal Collection provides a very rare opportunity to see an art trove not readily accessible to the world at large—most of the paintings are not normally available for public viewing, including several that have never been publicly exhibited since entering the collection.While it is known that the Crown has one of the world’s great collections of Leonardo’s, visitors to the Royal Academy’s recent Charles I exhibition were amazed by the richness of the Royal Collection and its many unseen works. This extraordinary volume reveals more of the unparalleled collection that is housed in thirteen historic royal residences, from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, where the Royal Family regularly reside, to spaces specifically devoted to the public display of art, the Queen’s Gallery and Hampton Court Palace.It comprises more than a million objects, including 7,000 painting and 180,000 watercolors, draTrade Review"Even at 500 pages, the new illustrated book “The Queen’s Pictures” (Rizzoli Electa) can cover only a fraction of the million-plus artworks in Britain’s Royal Collection. (The book kept its planned title after the death of Elizabeth II last September.) “The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew” (circa 1602-4). . .has a Cinderella story. Acquired in the 17th century, it was long thought to be a copy of a lost original by Caravaggio. In 2006, scholars determined that it was the original, transforming it into a star of the collection." —WALL STREET JOURNAL
£56.00
Rizzoli International Publications Cocktails with a Curator
Book SynopsisJoin the curators of the Frick as they present engaging histories of works of art paired with creatively inspired cocktails—a crash course in art history and a delightful introduction to the treasures of the esteemed New York collection.Based on the critically acclaimed video series of the same name, Cocktails with a Curator is a collection of lively and informative essays. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, and porcelain—from medieval times through the glorious Renaissance to the early twentieth century—are discussed for their exemplary status. The creators are some of the greatest artists and include Rembrandt, Vermeer, Whistler, Manet, Velázquez, and Veronese, and the stories (of both artists and subjects) are tantalizing. Cocktails, with recipes, are thematically paired with the works: a Jaded Countess (absinthe, vodka, lemon juice, and simple syrup) with Ingres’s portrait Comtesse d’Haussonville; a classic Pimm’
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Whitechapel Gallery Centenary Review
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Whitechapel Gallery Tobias Rehberger
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Whitechapel Gallery Josiah McElheny The Past Was a Mirage Id Left Far
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Whitechapel Gallery Think Twice Twenty Years of Contemporary Art from
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Whitechapel Gallery Jasper Johns Shadow and Substance
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Whitechapel Gallery The Best is Not Too Good for You
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£13.46
Whitechapel Gallery Ulla von Brandenburg Sweets Quilts Sun Works
Book SynopsisUlla von Brandenburg, who lives and works in Paris, is one of the most innovative contemporary artists in France, whose multifaceted practice includes black-and-white film, installation, performance, drawing and painting. Her work explores approaches to theatre and the stage, and uses rules of performance to engage with moments in history through stories, rituals and symbols.
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Whitechapel Gallery Is This Tomorrow
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£21.24
Whitechapel Gallery Enrique VilaMatas Cabinet dAmateur an Oblique
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Whitechapel Gallery Maria Fusco Nine Qwerty Bells Fiction for Live
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Whitechapel Gallery In the Eye of Bambi
Book SynopsisValeria Luiselli (b. Mexico City, 1983) lives in New York. She has written for The New York Times, McSweeney's, Dazed & Confused and Granta, and her published books include the novels Faces in the Crowd (2012), The Story of My Teeth (2015) and Lost Children Archive (2019), and a collection of essays: Sidewalks (2013). Luiselli received a National Book Foundation 5 under 35' award in 2014, and teaches literature and creative writing at Hofstra University, New York.
£13.49
Whitechapel Gallery Fifty Years of Art The Hiscox Collection 19702020
Book SynopsisWhitney Hintz is Curator of the Hiscox Collection. Laura Smith is Curator at Whitechapel Gallery
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Whitechapel Gallery The Travel Bureau Paulina Olowska selects from
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Whitechapel Gallery The Unseen Hurvin Anderson selects from the
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£999.99
Whitechapel Gallery Moving Bodies Moving Images
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£21.24
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Art of the Renaissance Bronze 15001650 The Robert
Book SynopsisThis new and extended version of the first edition retains the entries written by Anthony Radcliffe with a few additions or corrections, and an entry that he drafted on the miniature cannon signed by Orazio Antonio Alberghetti has also been incorporated.Trade ReviewAntiques Magazine, 11th June 2005: 'Those who own the first edition will be itching to get their hands on this update.' 'This far reaching and comprehensive survey.' 'Perhaps the highpoint for catalogues of private collections of paintings and works of art was reached in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century... although a very different sort of book, this new catalogue... sits firmly within that tradition.' - Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Acknowledgements Part One: Bronze Objects Made for Use Part Two: The Revival of the Antique Bronze Statuette Part Three: New Developments in Venice Part Four: New Developments in Florence and North of the Alps Part Five: Small Bronzes By and After Giambologna Part Six: Barthélemy Prieur Part Seven: Florentine Seventeenth-Century Bronzes Interpreting the Bronzes: A Technical View by Shelley Sturman Bibliography Abbreviations
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Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Kandinsky Drawings Catalogue Raisonnesketchbooks
Book SynopsisVasily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and, at the age of thirty, decided to study painting in Munich. He moved to Paris in 1934 and continued to draw and paint until his death in 1944. This volume catalogue raisonne of Kandinsky's drawings publishes many drawings and presents insights into the artist's creative process.Trade Review'If writing art history can be scientific, this is an excellent model... It is an achievement which sponsors, museums, collectors, salerooms and scholars will celebrate.' John Milner, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface Personal Perspectives: Kandinsky's Sketchbooks, 1889-1943 Brief Biography Explanatory Notes CATALOGUE RAISONNE Addendum Appendix I Decorative Arts Appendix II Works included but not illustrated in the Kandinsky Catalogues Raisonnes of Oil Paintings and Watercolors Select Bibliography Kandinsky Exhibitions Photographic Acknowledgements Index
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Saqi Books Rembrandt Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age
Book SynopsisA beautifully produced catalogue of the Louvre Abu Dhabi exhibition, it includes over 100 artworks by Rembrandt and other key Dutch artists, and texts by key curators in the field
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Saqi Books Rembrandt Vermeer et le siecle dor hollandais
Book SynopsisA beautifully produced catalogue of the Louvre Abu Dhabi exhibition, it includes over 100 artworks by Rembrandt and other key Dutch artists, and texts by key curators in the field.
£28.00
Museum of Modern Art Workspheres Design and Contemporary Work Styles
Book SynopsisWorkspheres is the catalogue of MoMA's Spring exhibition devoted to the way we work and the role of design in creating effective solutions for work tools and environments in the near future. The exhibition features nine concepts for work tools and environments designed to represent solutions to the specific needs of nine unique sets of work ambitions, problems, skills and requirements. Each has been assigned to individual teams of architects and designers and is based on extensive research in consultation with an international advisory group. This catalogue not only represents the exhibition, but also expands upon it. While the main body of the volume is devoted to the nine models, the history of workplace design and an analysis of offices, both national and global, will also be included in a series of six essays by internationally known designers. In addition to history and cultural differences, the publication also addresses such themes as individuality within a work organization, co
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Museum of Modern Art Fast Forward Modern Moments 1913 2013
Book SynopsisFeatures artwork produced during six years, from 1913 to 2013. This title provides an overall sense of the innovations and achievements of the last century. It also features a reading of major work from the period, complemented by an exploration of that years aesthetic zeitgeist.
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Ben Uri Gallery and Museum Bombergs Relevance
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Ben Uri Gallery and Museum Outside in or Inside Out Dora Holzhandler A
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Ben Uri Gallery and Museum Chagall and His Circle
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Ben Uri Gallery and Museum Out of Chaos Ben Uri 100 Years in London
Book SynopsisMarking the remarkable century of Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, from humble beginnings in London''s East End in 1915 to a fully-fledged mainstream art museum, under its banner ''Art, Identity and Migration'', this publication vividly illustrates rarely-seen masterworks from its collection by some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, including Soutine, Chagall, Auerbach, Bomberg, Kitaj and Kossoff. Further highlights include the ''Whitechapel Boys''; Les Peintres Juifs de L''Ecole de Paris, Official War artists from both conflicts; mid-century émigrés influencing the direction of the arts, and contemporary artists making ground-breaking work across new media. This unique collection, primarily of artists born into the Jewish faith, many shaping modern British, European and American art history, represents a distinct visual survey of artistic and social life in Britain and the cultural heritage of British Jewry. A range of texts provides a fascinating context for a collectionTable of ContentsChairman's Foreword: Out of Chaos: Shaping the future from the past; Introduction to the Ben Uri Collection: A century of engagement with British and European Art Catalogue; 1 Whitechapel Boys; 2 Soutine, Chagall and the School of Paris; 3 Forced Journeys; 4 Postwar; 5 School of London; Chronology of Ben Uri; Notes; Bibliography; Legacy of Teachers.
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Glasgow Museums Publishing ShOUT
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Hurtwood Press Gilbert George London Pictures
Book SynopsisGilbert & George's London Pictures are their largest group of works, inspired by a collection of 3,712 newspaper posters amassed by the artists. This catalogue documents the 202425 exhibition at The Gilbert & George Centre. Gilbert & George's London Pictures, created in 2011, are their largest group of works, inspired by a collection of 3,712 newspaper posters carefully amassed and sorted by the artists over several years. In their words, London is the most important part of our inspiration. It is all that surrounds us', and the artworks articulate the magnificence and sordidness of London life. The posters' headlines announce violence, passion, misery and greed, a veritable torrent of human existence. Writer and novelist Michael Bracewell's essay, written in 2011, considers how Gilbert & George came to know London by roaming the streets as Dickens did a century earlier, absorbing the city in exact proportion to the manner the city absorbed them. He depicts the London Pictures as the
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Artwords Press Documenta 11
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COLONY As If Something Once Mentioned Now Plain to See
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Dent-De-Leone Lile De La Repetition
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£10.18
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture Petal Power Floral Fashion and Women Designers at
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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit PostIndustrial Complex
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State University of New York Press Anonymous
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Errant Bodies Techno Casa 5 Doormats
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC What are Exhibitions for An Anthropological
Book SynopsisInge Daniels is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.Trade ReviewThe text and illustration of this book are attractive, even beautiful. The writing is very clear, and the material on the variety of visitors and their responses is both original and rich. * George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine, USA *Given that exhibitions are such a constant presence in our contemporary world, it is surprising how rarely we concern ourselves with what they actually do. But Inge Daniels, a thoughtful, scholarly and responsible anthropologist, asked - what are the consequences of an exhibition? If we provide more opportunities for interaction, and more fully engage the senses of our visitors, what then will they take away from this experience? The major contribution of this book is to show how anthropology itself, when astutely deployed, can provide a means to answer fundamental questions that apply to all exhibitions. * Daniel Miller, UCL, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: What Are Exhibitions For? SPREAD 1: The AHJ booklet: A practical tool to study exhibition visitors Chapter 1. Representational and Performative Knowledge SPREAD 2: Mike - 'There is a connecting memory in my feet' Chapter 2. Photography, Exhibition Design and Atmosphere SPREAD 3: Sue - 'Photography students have been very surprised to learn that what appears to be an actual window is in fact an illusion' Chapter 3. Similarities and Stereotypes SPREAD 4: Jen - 'I was very interested in anime and manga' Chapter 4. To Learn or Not to Learn SPREAD 5: Natasha - 'And I have been putting them in the dishwasher' SPREAD 6: Natalia - 'It's in our shower because it's very useful; Molly - 'It is something I found and can't give away' Chapter 5. Photography, Performance and Play SPREAD 7: Ali - 'I never found England a very interesting place' Conclusion: Exhibitions as Technologies of the Imagination? Notes References
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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Graysons Art Club The Exhibition Volume II
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Rowman & Littlefield Treasures of the Civil War
Book SynopsisThe fate of the nation during the Civil War rested with a handful of political, military and cultural leaders. Some had formal wartime roles that demanded leadership of them; some had the challenges of leadership thrust upon them. Each vowed to create a more perfect country for their respective causes. All played a role in charting the future course of the nation during its greatest crisis. To honor the efforts of these extraordinary leaders, and to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg National Military Park and the Gettysburg Foundation launched a special exhibit called Treasures of the Civil War: Legendary Leaders Who Shaped a War and a Nation, a distinctive collection of more than 90 artifacts and powerful displays, accompanied by this limited-edition gallery book. Treasures of the Civil War gives a rare glimpse into the professional and personal sides of several key wartime leadersan up-close loTrade ReviewThis is a handsome book that any Civil War buff would be happy to display on a coffee table or bookshelf. Readers undoubtedly will find some photo and facets that are new. . . buyers will be pleased with this volume. * Civil War News *Table of ContentsForeword: A Story Both Poignant and Valorous by James M. McPherson Introduction: The great task remaining before us by Bob Kirby, Gettysburg National Military Park and Joanne M. Hanley, Gettysburg Foundation Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Finis Davis Robert Edward Lee Ulysses Grant George Gordon Meade John Fulton Reynolds George Edward Pickett Alexander Stewart Webb William Tecumseh Sherman George Armstrong Custer John Singleton Mosby Frederick Douglass Clara Barton
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Portraits for NHS Heroes
Book SynopsisAll royalties, a minimum of 2.50 from the sale of each book, will be paid to NHS Charities Together (registered charity no. 1186569) to fund vital projects.When the UK went into lockdown in March 2020 to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus, artist Tom Croft offered to paint an NHS key worker's portrait for free. Unsure how to help and offer his support, he wanted to capture and record the bravery and heroism of frontline workers who were risking their physical and mental health for our wellbeing. Tom suggested that other artists might want to do the same.He made his offer via video message on Instagram and was immediately contacted by Harriet Durkin, a nurse at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, who had contracted Covid-19 and, now recovered, was about to return to the frontline. Tom's portrait of Harriet, wearing PPE, was the first in what became a global art project.The response to the initiative was staggering and Tom personally paired up 500 artists and NHS workers in the Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Rosen Foreword by Adebanji Alade Foreword by Dr Jim Down Introduction by Tom Croft The Portraits Index of Artists
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Edinburgh University Press The IncurableImage
Book SynopsisAn inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial practice in contemporary Mexico
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Edinburgh University Press The Seljuqs and Their Successors
Book SynopsisSupported by colour images, charts, and maps, this volume examines how under Seljuq rule, migrations of people and the exchange and synthesis of diverse traditions accompanied architectural patronage, advances in science and technology and a great flowering of culture within the realm.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded
Book SynopsisDr. Leanne Zalewski has published articles on art collections, participated in numerous conferences on early Gilded Age art collecting, and received support for her research from the Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library, Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Collection, and the American Association of University Professors.Trade ReviewThis book is the definitive account of the passionate love affair between the opulent collectors of America’s ‘gilded age’ and the dazzling art made by 19th-century French academic painters. Richly textured, thoroughly researched, lavishly documented and vividly written; it is a real treat for readers. * Jan Dirk Baetens, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century Art History, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands *Leanne Zalewski's thoroughly researched book surveys relations among wealthy American collectors of French Academic art and international art dealers in the period between Paris's 1867 Universal Exposition and Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition. Analyzing auction catalogs, media, markets, private collections, and dealers' stock books, Zalewski presents a fascinating, innovative contribution to studies of art collecting and the art market. * Julie Codell, Professor of Art History, Arizona State University, USA *The famed ‘Gilded Age Picture Rush’ spurred the creation of renowned American private and public collections. Examining this pivotal moment, Zalewski provides a thoughtful and theoretically significant contribution to the History of the American Art Market. * Agnès Penot, PhD, Independent Researcher, USA *With impeccable research that evokes the temper of the times, Leanne Zalewski has produced an essential study on what she has coined as ‘the Gilded Age Picture Rush’, a cultural moment when American collectors were finding their way in the international art market and defining their roles as cultural leaders. In doing so, she offers a wealth of detail through specific examples that illuminate marketing, dealing, and exhibition practices, while never losing sight of the overarching theme of the book which promotes the view that American collectors embraced a uniquely philanthropic approach to their collecting, aiming to have their collections benefit the general public through the institutionalization of art collections for the benefit of many. This is a much needed and significant contribution to the literature on the history of collecting in the United States. * Inge Reist, Director Emerita of the Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library, USA *Zalewski’s engaging narrative of America’s cultural coming of age after the Civil War comprises a cast of privileged collectors, astute dealers, salon artists and diverse publications — some well known today, most less so — who transformed American taste from the provincial to the worldly. The 'Gilded Age picture rush' introduced contemporary French academic art as a standard for artistic excellence, starting from the Paris Exposition of 1867. Ironically, that important chapter in French art began to lose its critical favor by Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, a judgment that is only now being redressed. Zalewski describes in fascinating detail an important, if often overlooked, period in American art history. * J. David Farmer, Director of Exhibitions, Dahesh Museum of Art, USA *In her richly detailed study, Zalewski demonstrates that a turn towards French academic and Barbizon school painting exemplified the ‘Gilded Age picture rush’ from 1867 to 1893, in a welcome contribution to the scholarship of collecting, art markets, and the institutionalization of artistic culture in the United States in the later 19th century. * Catherine B. Scallen, Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita in the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editor's Introduction Acknowledgments Preface Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Paris’s Guiding Light: The Universal Exposition of 1867 3. “Paris is for Sale” and Americans are Buying 3. Purchasing Ideologies: Seven New York Collections 5. Marketing the Collections: Loans, Periodicals, Books, and Prints 6. From Private Collection to Public Good: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 7. Conclusion: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 Bibliography Index
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Monacelli Press For What Its Worth
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Africa World Press Space Currencies In Contemporary African Art
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