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Author : Carla Paulino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789898758170
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Calouste S. Gulbenkian and English Taste written by Carla Paulino and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Baetjer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999265
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Only the Best written by Katharine Baetjer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume and the exhibition it accompanies bring together eighty of the finest masterpieces in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. All of the works of art are richly illustrated in color and described in authoritative texts by the curators of the Gulbenkian Museum. These magnificent pieces, which reflect the renowned art collector Calouste Gulbenkian's eclectic taste, include paintings by Rubens, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Turner, and Manet; silver from services created for the nobility of Russia and Western Europe; Roman medallions; Ottoman ceramics; Japanese lacquerware; jewelry by Lalique; and books and textiles from both East and West. These works of art offer dazzling testimony to Gulbenkian's devotion to the quality of the individual object and to his refined connoisseurship. The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum was created under the terms of Gulbenkian's will in order to preserve under one roof the artworks in his collection--one of the preeminent art assemblages of the first half of the twentieth century. Gulbenkian, a successful businessman who was born in 1869 in Ottoman Turkey to an Armenian family, made his fortune in the oil industry. In April 1942, in the midst of World War II, he arrived in Lisbon seeking a peaceful place to live. Portugal had remained neutral in the conflict that was engulfing the world. Gulbenkian spent the rest of his life in Lisbon, where he died in 1955. As a collector--whether of ancient Egyptian art, Islamic art, or European painting and decorative arts--Gulbenkian acquired "only the best."
Author : Malcolm Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317207521
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Persistence of Taste written by Malcolm Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art educators, and art, design and cultural historians who engage with the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art, cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life, in national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section on ‘Taste and art’, shows how art practice was drawn into the sphere of ‘good taste’, contrasting this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art. The next section on ‘Taste making and the museum’ examines the challenges and changing social, political and organisational dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly universal institution and language of taste. The third section of the book, ‘Taste after Bourdieu in Japan’ offers a case study of the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local reproduction of ‘good taste’, exemplified by the complex cultural context of Japan. The final section on ‘Taste, the home and everyday life’ juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of inequality and alienation through taste, with arguments on how the legacy of ideas of ‘good taste’ have extended the possibilities of experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with sociologists and other social scientists to examine the legacy and continuing validity of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste, this publication engages with the opportunities and problems involved in understanding the social value and the cultural dispositions of taste ‘after Bourdieu’. It does so at a moment when the practice of taste is being radically changed by the global expansion of cultural choices, and the emergence of deploying impersonal algorithms as solutions to cultural and creative decision-making.
Author : Jonathan Conlin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782834443
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Mr Five Per Cent written by Jonathan Conlin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of business interests and contacts within a labyrinth of Asian and European cartels, and convincing governments and oil barons alike of his impartiality as an 'honest broker'. Today his name is known principally through the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, to which his spectacular art collection and most of his vast wealth were bequeathed. Gulbenkian's private life was as labyrinthine as his business dealings. He insisted on the highest 'moral values', yet ruthlessly used his wife's charm as a hostess to further his career, and demanded complete obedience from his family, whom he monitored obsessively. As a young man he lived a champagne lifestyle, escorting actresses and showgirls, and in later life - on doctor's orders - he slept with a succession of discreetly provided young women. Meanwhile he built up a superb art collection which included Rembrandts and other treasures sold to him by Stalin from the Hermitage Museum. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, Mr Five Per Cent reveals Gulbenkian's complex and many-sided existence. Written with full access to the Gulbenkian Foundation's archives, this is the fascinating story of the man who more than anyone else helped shape the modern oil industry.
Author : Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781892145178
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Duveen written by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as a serial in "The New Yorker, " this dramatic true-life story of Joseph Duveen--called "the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time"--chronicles how he single-handedly built some of the world's great art collections.
Author : Amy D. Bernstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312353889
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (538 download)
Download or read book The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything written by Amy D. Bernstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of information on aspects of daily life and a variety of popular topics, such as the home, health, animals, nature, sports, and entertainment.
Author : Maria Fernanda Passos Leite
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9788857249285
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (492 download)
Download or read book René Lalique at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum written by Maria Fernanda Passos Leite and published by Skira. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The set of jewels, drawings, objets d'art and glassware acquired by the Collector directly from the artist, with a single exception, between 1899 and 1927, is well representative of Lalique's work. René Lalique (1860-1945) and Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955) shared the experience of a time marked by the fascinating transition of the so-called Belle Époque - with its particular end-of-the-century spirit, present mainly on the remarkable set of Art Nouveau works. Both men were tied by friendship and mutual consideration, well evidenced in the words of the Collector: "My admiration for his unique work increased throughout the fifty years our friendship lasted... I am proud to own, I believe, the largest number of Lalique's works...".
Author : Amy D. Bernstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031255169X
Total Pages : 909 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything, Second Edition written by Amy D. Bernstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the wisdom of "The New York Times" experts in every field is packed into one comprehensive volume that has been completely revised and updated. Illustrations throughout.
Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor's
ISBN 13 : 0891419306
Total Pages : 882 pages
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ISBN 13 : 9782956613817
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Author : Ashley Thorpe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319711598
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Contesting British Chinese Culture written by Ashley Thorpe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture, identity and belonging, and transnational ‘Chineseness’. Collectively, the essays look at how notions of ‘British Chinese culture’ have been constructed and challenged in the visual arts, theatre and performance, and film, since the mid-1980s. They contest British Chinese invisibility, showing how practice is not only heterogeneous, but is forged through shifting historical and political contexts; continued racialization, the currency of Orientalist stereotypes and the possibility of their subversion; the policies of institutions and their funding strategies; and dynamic relationships with transnationalisms. The book brings a fresh perspective that makes both an empirical and theoretical contribution to the study of race and cultural production, whilst critically interrogating the very notion of British Chineseness.
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Total Pages : 1372 pages
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Publisher : Fodor's European Ports of Call
ISBN 13 : 0891419470
Total Pages : 626 pages
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Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Cartier written by Nuno Vassallo e Silva and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory of classic Cartier jewelry is exhibited through fifty years worth of designs shown in this exhibition catalog. It shows how surprising the First Cartiers were, in two clear ways: first, art nouveau elements are almost totally absent. Instead there is a singular reinterpretation of the neoclassical vocabulary: floral motifs, acanthus scrolls, and garlands or drops. Care for detail in these architectural motifs-often in three dimensions-is paramount. At the same time, Cartier introduced the use of platinum for the mounts. This metal was more solid and more luminous but also harder to work. It required a revolution in setting techniques as well as new tools and underlying techniques. Layer by layer, these foundation designs raised Cartier to the position of visionary and pioneer.Specialists, collectors, fans of Cartier objects, and those who love decorative arts will discover a surprising new view of Cartier in this major catalog.
Author : Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804727273
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Open the Social Sciences written by Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished international group of scholars traces the history of the social sciences, describes the recent debates surrounding them, and discusses in what ways they can be intelligently restructured in light of this history and the debates.
Author : Dr Inge Reist
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147243806X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response written by Dr Inge Reist and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and cultural historians examine points of similarity and difference in British and American art collecting. Half the essays examine the trends that dominated the British art collecting scene of the nineteenth century. Others focus on American collectors, using biographical sketches and case studies to demonstrate how collectors in the United States embellished the British model to develop their own, often philanthropic approach to art collecting.
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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415262347
Total Pages : 262 pages
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