Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950 – serie
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Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan
Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain
Häftad, 2016
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Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain traces the development of one of Japan's best-documented ceramic types, from its beginnings around 1600 until the abolition of the domain system in 1871. Using historical records, archaeological material from early kilns …
Female Portraiture and Patronage in Marie Antoinette's Court
The Princesse de Lamballe
Av Sarah Grant
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe, a pivotal member of Marie-Antoinette’s inner circle. Drawing extensively on unpublished archival sources, Sarah Grant examines the princess’s many portrait commissions and …
Materiality of Color
The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400–1800
Av Andrea Feeser, Maureen Daly Goggin m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
844 kr
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Although much has been written on the aesthetic value of color, there are other values that adhere to it with economic and social values among them. Through case studies of particular colors and colored objects, this volume demonstrates just how complex the history of color is by focusing on the …
Silver in Georgian Dublin
Making, Selling, Consuming
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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Georgian Dublin is synonymous with a period of unprecedented expansion in the market for luxury goods. At a time when new commodities, novel technologies and fashionable imports seduced elite society, silver enjoyed an established association with gentility and prestige. Earlier studies have …
Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
The Burlington Fine Arts Club
Häftad, 2019
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The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, …
Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West
The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
Häftad, 2019
785 kr
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In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art …
Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics
Fair Women
Häftad, 2022
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Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a ‘blockbuster’ exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and was comprised of both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as decorative objects. Meaghan Clarke argues that …
Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects
Av Minna Törmä
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes.This leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display by analysing the difference between objects serving as decorative or collectible items, while tracing …
Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Av Arlene Leis, Kacie L. Wills
Häftad, 2022
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Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe.It recovers their …
Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain
Av Clare Taylor
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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Wallpaper’s spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the material’s use in Britain during the long eighteenth century. It examines the types of wallpaper that were designed and produced and the interior spaces it occupied, from the country house to the …
Private Collectors of Islamic Art in Late Nineteenth-Century London
The Persian Ideal
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpets, textiles and woodwork.Based on a foundational event, the very first exhibition of “Persian and Arab …
Private Collectors of Islamic Art in Late Nineteenth-Century London
The Persian Ideal
Häftad, 2024
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This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpets, textiles and woodwork.Based on a foundational event, the very first exhibition of “Persian and Arab …
Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Av Arlene Leis, Kacie L. Wills
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe.It recovers their …
Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market
Inbunden, 2024
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Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s.The …
European, British, and American Musical Instrument Collectors, 1850–1940
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and personally? Why did they collect musical instruments? How did they acquire their objects? What were their collecting criteria and aesthetics? Following …
François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist François Boucher’s artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher’s prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, …
Chinese Art Objects, Collecting, and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2022
2586 kr
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This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and tastemakers during the years leading to, during and following the Second World War. The Ionides Collection of European style Chinese export …
Chinese Art Objects, Collecting, and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and tastemakers during the years leading to, during and following the Second World War. The Ionides Collection of European style Chinese export …
Nature and the Nation in Fin-de-Siècle France
The Art of Emile Gallé and the Ecole de Nancy
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emile Gallé (1846–1904), whose works they described as the essence of French design. Many even went so far as to argue that the artist’s creations could …
Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850
The Commodification of Historical Objects
Häftad, 2023
725 kr
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Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815–1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity …
Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market
Häftad, 2026
725 kr
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Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s.The …
Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West
The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art …
Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
The Burlington Fine Arts Club
Inbunden, 2017
2818 kr
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The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, …
Museum of French Monuments 1795-1816
‘Killing art to make history’
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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The first volume in two centuries on Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments in Paris, this study presents a comprehensive picture of a seminal project of French Revolutionary cultural policy, one crucial to the development of the modern museum institution. The book offers a new critical …
Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Av Ting Chang
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and …
Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914)
Privacy, Publicity, and Personality
Häftad, 2016
889 kr
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Why did writers' private homes become so linked to their work that contemporaries began preserving them as museums? Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum addresses this and other questions by providing an overview of the social forces that brought writers' homes to the …
Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California
Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority
Av John Ott
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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Through the example of Central Pacific Railroad executives, Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California redirects attention from the usual art historical protagonists - artistic producers - and rewrites narratives of American art from the unfamiliar vantage of patrons and collectors. …
British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response
Reflections Across the Pond
Av Inge Reist
Häftad, 2017
829 kr
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British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14 essays by distinguished art - and cultural - historians. Collectively, they examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United …
Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Av Jennifer G. Germann, Heidi A. Strobel
Häftad, 2018
785 kr
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Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between. Collectively, …
Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects
Av Minna Törmä
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes.This leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display by analysing the difference between objects serving as decorative or collectible items, while tracing …
