Book Description
Consists of photocopies of Rorimer's student sketch book, 1891, and of a Rorimer-Brooks sales book, 1929-1938, as well as a reprint of a biographical article.
Author : Louis Rorimer
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Decorative arts
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Consists of photocopies of Rorimer's student sketch book, 1891, and of a Rorimer-Brooks sales book, 1929-1938, as well as a reprint of a biographical article.
Author : Leslie A. Piña
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
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An exploration of the life of American interior designer Louis Rorimer that discusses his values, influence, commercial and residential work, cultural associations, company, and more.
Author : Elizabeth Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190051981
Museum Worthy examines the history behind works of art that were looted in western Europe by the Nazis during the Second World War and never returned to their rightful owners, instead claimed by postwar governments of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands for display in museums, embassies, ministries, and other public buildings.
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Publisher :
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 1932-07
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 2608 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release :
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Government publications
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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 2606 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Government publications
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Author : Robert M. Edsel
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781599952659
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.
Author : Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0812208862
The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben, the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, clearly no single formula for defining Jewish art in the diaspora will suffice. The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times is the first work to analyze modern Jewry's engagement with the arts as a whole, including music, theater, dance, film, museums, architecture, painting, sculpture, and more. Working with a broad conception of what counts as art, the book asks the following questions: What roles have commerce and politics played in shaping Jewish artistic agendas? Who determines the Jewishness of art and for what purposes? What role has aesthetics played in reshaping religious traditions and rituals? This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the various challenges of modernity, including cultural adaptation and self-preservation, economic diversification, and ritual transformation. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world—or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world—and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
Author : Robert M. Edsel
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338251317
Robert M. Edsel brings the story of his #1 NYT bestseller for adults The Monuments Men to young readers for the first time in this dynamic, narrative nonfiction project packed with photos. Robert M. Edsel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men, brings this story to young readers for the first time in a sweeping, dynamic adventure detailing history's greatest treasure hunt.As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of 11 men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and British volunteers -- museum curators, art scholars and educators, architects, archivists, and artists, known as the Monuments Men -- found themselves in a desperate race against time to locate and save the many priceless treasures and works of art stolen by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.