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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
99 kr
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Sárospatak, a peaceful little town in north-eastern Hungary, holds legendary status within the country's cultural landscape. Its school, the Reformed Church College of Sárospatak, has trained several importantwriters, artists and politicians across the Central-European region's 500-year history. This volume presents the institution's history throughthe lens of 37 books, documents and items from the collection. What waslife like for a 17th century Hungarian student? Which physical experiments were pioneering? Why did Béla Bartók want to enrol his son in a countryside secondary school? These are only a few of the questionsraised by the authors that introduce the reader to the colourful traditions of this remarkable school.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
121 kr
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Opened in 1886, Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, is the oldest public art museum in the southern USA. Today, Telfair Museums consists of three unique buildings: the Telfair Academy, the historic Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts. Telfair Museums was formally founded with the bequest of Mary Telfair in 1875 and now has grown to over 6,300 paintings, sculpture, works on paper and decorative arts. Telfair's collections are particularly strong in American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, and American and English silver. Director Robin Nicholson's text is an engaging insight into the history of Telfair Museums and its varied collections, featuring artworks by Childe Hassam,Henry Ossawa Tanner, George Bellows, Helen Levitt, and Mickalene Thomas.