Catalogue de la riche et nombreuse collection de porcelaines anciennes de Chine, de Japon, de Sèvres, de Saxe, de Vienne, de Berlin et autres ; objets d'art & de haute curiosité, orfévreries, armes anciennes, meubles de boule, pendules, meubles en bois sculpté, etc., garnissant les magasins de M. L. Stein, Montagne de la Cour, n° 22, dont la vente aura lieu, par cessation de commerce, Rue de Ruysbroeck, n° 7, le mardi 29 mars et jours suivants [...] par le ministère de M. le notaire Vergote, et sous la direction de M. Henri Leroy


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Rethinking Boucher


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"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


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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.




Furnishing the Eighteenth Century


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Catalogue d'une vente considérable de porcelaines de Chine, de Japon, de Sèvres, de Saxe, etc., faïences de Rouen, de Delft, de Flandre, etc., biscuits, cristaux, terre-cuites, poteries, livres, manuscrits, ivoires, bas-reliefs, dentelles, monnaies, médailles, vieux meubles, bahuts, lustres, girandoles, objets d'art et d'antiquités de toute espèces et de toute époque, 300 tableaux de maitres anciens et modernes délaissés par M. J. Vanden Broucke


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Cannibalismes disciplinaires


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







The Return of Curiosity


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The Spy Museum, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, the National Mustard Museum—not to mention the Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Getty Center: museums have never been more robust, curating just about everything there is and assuming a new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity explores museums in the modern age, offering a fresh perspective on some of our most important cultural institutions and the vital function they serve as stewards of human and natural history. Reflecting on art galleries, science and history institutions, and collections all around the world, Nicholas Thomas argues that, in times marked by incredible insecurity and turbulence, museums help us sustain and enrich society. Moreover, they stimulate us to think in new ways about our world, compelling our curiosity and showing us the importance of understanding one another. Thomas looks at museums not simply as storehouses of old things but as the products of meaningful relationships between curators, the public, history, and culture. These relationships, he shows, don’t always go smoothly, but they do always offer new insights into the many ways we value—and try to preserve—the world we live in. The result is a refreshing and hopeful look at museums as a cultural force, one that, by gathering together paintings, tropical birds, antiques, or even our own bodies, offers an illuminating reflection of who we are.