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Sex Collectors
The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of ',Erotica',
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors.
In Sex Collectors, Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment...
Gallerie d’Italia - Palazzo Leoni Montanari. Guide
English edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Palazzo Leoni Montanari, a Baroque residence located in the heart of Vicenza, is the only one in the town to be declaredly Baroque in taste, characterised by a grandiose decoration in stucco and fresco. In 1999, after modification of the spaces to meet new display standards, Banca Intesa - today,...
Art at Lincoln Center
The Public Art and List Print and Poster Collections
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The first volume to showcase both Lincoln Center's fabulous public art and the List Poster and Print collection, Art at Lincoln Center begins with a tour of the campus and the art that has been collected since its inception. A brief history of how the pieces were selected and brought to Lincoln Center...
Amateur Movie Making, Enhanced eBook
Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical...
by Margaret Tali
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered...
by Valérie Loth
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2017
De par leur activité de collectionneur, les Stein ont hautement contribué à la vie artistique parisienne. Ils laissent un héritage important, mis à l'honneur par le Grand Palais. D’origine américaine, les Stein s’installent à Paris au début du XXe siècle : Gertrude, écrivain d’avant-garde,...
Sinatra
The Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Full of commentary by the people who knew him best, this exceptional collection of photographs showcases Frank Sinatra like never before.
Nobody packed a visual punch like Frank Sinatra. With his clothes, his gestures, his posture, and even his facial expressions, Sinatra exuded a confident...
Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West
The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
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...
Things to do in Amsterdam
Museums
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Your all-in-one Guide to Amsterdam Museums: Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Anne Frank House & Hermitage Amsterdam**
If you go to Amsterdam (Holland) and want to pay a visit to its world-famous museums, then this digital set is for you. For people who like engaging, accessible guides without...
In Contemporary
The Collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - CRT for Turin and Piedmont
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A private art collection open to all: this is the ultimate aim of our Fondazione per l’Arte della Cassa di Risparmio di Torino.
For ten years now, intense acquisition operations have made it possible to endow two important museums, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and GAM – Galleria...
Baseball Americana
Treasures from the Library of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Foreword by George F. Will
With a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
A lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.
“One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. …...
by Maira Kalman
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
From Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, comes this beautiful pictorial and narrative exploration of the significance of objects in our lives, drawn from her personal artifacts, recollections, and selections from the collection of the...
Community Custodians of Popular Music's Past
A DIY Approach to Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book examines do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage being undertaken by volunteers in community archives, museums and halls of fame globally. DIY institutions of popular music heritage are much more than ‘unofficial’ versions...
Legacies
Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast collections -- from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider -- tell Americans about themselves? In this lavishly illustrated...