Art and Auctions
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Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Art
ISBN :
Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art
Author : Darius A. Spieth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004276750
Book Description
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings were aesthetic, intellectual, and economic touchstones in the Parisian art world of the Revolutionary era, but their importance within this framework, while frequently acknowledged, never attracted much subsequent attention. Darius A. Spieth’s inquiry into Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art reveals the dominance of “Golden Age” pictures in the artistic discourse and sales transactions before, during, and after the French Revolution. A broadly based statistical investigation, undertaken as part of this study, shows that the upheaval reduced prices for Netherlandish paintings by about 55% compared to the Old Regime, and that it took until after the July Revolution of 1830 for art prices to return where they stood before 1789.
The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Anna Thomson Dodge, heiress to the automotive fortune, built a great home and decorated it with one of the finest groups of 18th-century French decorative arts in America. Here are more than 130 pieces of furniture, sculpture, metalwork, tapestries, Sevres porcelain, and paintings, many from royal collections.
Édith Piaf
Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781382573
Book Description
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
The History of Fashion in France
Author : Augustin Challamel
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Clothing and dress
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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892360909
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.
A Civil Society
Author : James Smith Allen
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781496227782
Book Description
A Civil Society explores the struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France's civil society and its "civic morality" on behalf of women's rights. As a vital component of the third sector during France's modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture. James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society and its "civic morality," including the promotion of women's rights in the late nineteenth century. Pulling together the many gendered facets of masonry, Allen draws from periodicals, memoirs, and archival material to account for the rise of women within the masonic brotherhood in the context of rapid historical change. Thanks to women's social networks and their attendant social capital, masonry came to play a leading role in French civil society and the rethinking of gender relations in the public sphere.
Functional Approaches to Culture and Translation
Author : Dirk Delabastita
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027293228
Book Description
This volume contains a generous selection of articles on translation by Professor José Lambert (K.U. Leuven). It traces the intellectual itinerary of their author, who started out as a French and Comparative Literature scholar some four decades ago trying to get a better grip on the problem of inter-literary contacts, and who soon became a key figure in the emergent discipline of Translation Studies, where he is widely known as an indefatigable promoter of descriptively oriented research. This collection shows how José Lambert has never stopped asking new questions about the crucial but often hidden role of language and translation in the world of today. It includes some of the author’s classic papers as well as a few lesser known ones that deserve wider circulation. The editors’ introduction and the bibliography complete this thought-provoking survey of the career of one of the most creative researchers in the field.
French Conversation and Composition
Author : Harry Vincent Wann
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1920
Category : French language
ISBN :
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Me Before You
Author : Jojo Moyes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101606371
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
