Collections category: 673 books
by Michael David
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book is an exclusive collection of Michael David Art. Pieces from the Explorations in Humanity have been featured in over 15 different forums, appreciated internationally. The compositions have been the subject of fashion collections in several ecommerce platforms. Meant as a connection to humanity,...
by Shepard Krech, III
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North...
Collecting China
The Memoirs of a Hong Kong Art Addict
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But in his spare time, he also put together one of the most comprehensive collections of East Asian antiques in the world, many of them spotted by him amongst the knick-knacks...
by Thomas Lera, Leon Finik
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A quiet philatelist, George H. Kaestlin joined the original Rossika Society in 1935 along with the better known Theo B. Lavroff and K. Szymanowski. Whereas Lavroff contributed significantly to Russian philately as an author and researcher and Szymanowski was an avid collector, Kaestlin collected privately....
A Teacup Collection
Paintings of Porcelain Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In paintings as pretty as the porcelain they depict, this gift book celebrates one of the finest teacup collections in the world: the 300-piece archive of the Clark Art Institute, which dates back to the eighteenth century and represents coveted designs of the day from Europe and China. Artist Molly...
The Islamic Manuscript Tradition
Ten Centuries of Book Arts in Indiana University Collections
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. The Islamic Manuscript Tradition explores this aspect of Islamic history with studies of the materials and tools of literate culture, including pens, inks, and papers,...
Recueil Crozat de Pierre Jean Mariette
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
En 1729, le premier volume d’un livre d’un genre absolument nouveau paraît à Paris : il est aujourd’hui connu comme le Recueil Crozat. En 1721, le Régent, Philippe II d’Orléans, avait proposé à son ami, le collectionneur...
Amateur Movie Making
Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 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...
The Vatican Art Deck
100 Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This one-of-a-kind array of 100 art masterpieces, quality printed on handsome card stock, brings together the finest works from the magnificent spiritual and artistic collection of the Vatican.
The Vatican is one of the most popular destinations in the world, with more than 5 million visitors...
Figures parfaites. Hommage à Emmanuel Sougez (Grenoble - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
L'exposition Figures parfaites. Hommage à Emmanuel Sougez, qui s'est tenue au musée de Grenoble du 28 janvier au 1er avril 2001, confirmait l'engagement du musée dans la présentation de collections photographiques...
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Baseball Americana
A Visual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
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. …...
Biedermeier, de l'artisanat au design (Paris - 2007)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Historiens de l'art et conservateurs de collections qui ont collaboré au catalogue de l'exposition Biedermeier, de l'artisanat au design. Vienne et Prague 1815-1830 au Musée du Louvre (18 oct. 2007-14 janv. 2008), préalablement présentée à Milwaukee, Berlin et Vienne sous le titre L'...
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Eye Contact
Photographing Indigenous Australians
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned...
Power and pathos
At the National Gallery of Art. Hellenistic Bronzes from Italian Collections
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from 12/13/2015 to 3/20/2016 This exhibition is an extraordinary opportunity to view