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Pedigree and Panache

Author : Shireen Huda
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921313722
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Pedigree and Panache written by Shireen Huda and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses. Featuring absorbing case studies of key art auctions and major art auction houses in Australia (including Christies, Sothebys and Deutscher-Menzies) the work provides an overview of the origin and international development of art auctions. The development of the Australian marketplace is then explored, detailing colonial inception and continuing until Christies' withdrawal of its saleroom presence in 2006."--Provided by publisher.

Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Catherine Roach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351554204
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Catherine Roach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repainting the work of another into one?s own canvas is a deliberate and often highly fraught act of reuse. This book examines the creation, display, and reception of such images. Artists working in nineteenth-century London were in a peculiar position: based in an imperial metropole, yet undervalued by their competitors in continental Europe. Many claimed that Britain had yet to produce a viable national school of art. Using pictures-within-pictures, British painters challenged these claims and asserted their role in an ongoing visual tradition. By transforming pre-existing works of art, they also asserted their own painterly abilities. Recognizing these statements provided viewers with pleasure, in the form of a witty visual puzzle solved, and with prestige, in the form of cultural knowledge demonstrated. At stake for both artist and audience in such exchanges was status: the status of the painter relative to other artists, and the status of the viewer relative to other audience members. By considering these issues, this book demonstrates a new approach to images of historic displays. Through examinations of works by J.M.W. Turner, John Everett Millais, John Scarlett Davis, Emma Brownlow King, and William Powell Frith, this book reveals how these small passages of paint conveyed both personal and national meanings.

The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

Author : Bruno David
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760461628
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia written by Bruno David and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually most impressive regional assemblages anywhere in the world. To better understand this multi-dimensional cultural record, The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia focuses on the nature and antiquity of the region’s rock art as revealed by archaeological surveys and excavations, and the application of novel analytical methods. This volume also presents new findings by which to rethink how Aboriginal peoples have socially engaged in and with places across western Arnhem Land, from the north to the south, from the plains to the spectacular rocky landscapes of the plateau. The dynamic nature of Arnhem Land rock art is explored and articulated in innovative ways that shed new light on the region’s deep time Aboriginal history.

Modern Asian Art

Author : John Clark
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824821425
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Modern Asian Art written by John Clark and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal publication focusing on the modern art of Japan, China, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. A significant and challenging contribution to the discussion of the advent of modernism in Asia.

A Subject Index to Current Literature

Author : Australian Public Affairs Information Service
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book A Subject Index to Current Literature written by Australian Public Affairs Information Service and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art History and Anthropology

Author : Peter Probst
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606068792
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Art History and Anthropology written by Peter Probst and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and nuanced look at the complex relationship between two dynamic fields of study. While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of interactions between these epistemologies, a skeptical distance prevails with respect to the disciplinary other. This volume is a timely exploration of the roots of this complex dialogue, as it emerged worldwide in the colonial and early postcolonial periods, between 1870 and 1970. Exploring case studies from Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, and the United States, this volume addresses connections and rejections between art historians and anthropologists—often in the contested arena of “primitive art.” It examines the roles of a range of figures, including the art historian–anthropologist Aby Warburg, the modernist artist Tarsila do Amaral, the curator-impresario Leo Frobenius, and museum directors such as Alfred Barr and René d’Harnoncourt. Entering the current debates on decolonizing the past, this collection of essays prompts reflection on future relations between these two fields.

Rethinking Australia’s Art History

Author : Susan Lowish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351049976
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Australia’s Art History written by Susan Lowish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "Aboriginal art," tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of "Aboriginal art" developed in the European imagination, manifested in early literature, and became a distinct classification with its own criteria and form. Part of the larger story of Aboriginal/European engagement, this book provides a new vision for an Australian art history reconciled with its colonial origins and in recognition of what came before the contemporary phenomena of Aboriginal art.

Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091161X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations, in color and black-and-white, to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements. A substantial biographical index of twentieth-century Chinese artists is a valuable addition to the text. Sullivan discusses artists and their work against China's background of oppression and relaxation, despair and hope. He expertly conveys the diverse and at times bizarre intertwining of Chinese cultural history and art during this century. Included are the intense debates between traditionalists and reformers, the creation of the first art schools, and the birth of the idea—shocking in ethnocentric China—that art is a world language that obliterates all frontiers. The scholarly traditions of classical Chinese painting, the belated discovery of Western modernism, the artistic upheaval under Communism, and China's rethinking of the very nature of art all have a place in Sullivan's fascinating history. Michael Sullivan has known many of the major figures in China's modern art movement of the 1930s and 1940s and has also gained the confidence of younger artists who rose to prominence following the 1979 "Peking Spring." This long-awaited book—richly documented and abundantly illustrated—is a capstone to Sullivan's work and will be enthusiastically welcomed by art lovers everywhere.

A Companion to Rock Art

Author : Jo McDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118253922
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Rock Art written by Jo McDonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses

Museums of the World

Author : Konrad Stimmel
Publisher : München ; New York : K.G. Saur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Museums of the World written by Konrad Stimmel and published by München ; New York : K.G. Saur. This book was released on 1995 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...This guide should greatly assist public & academic librarians & their users."--JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP. "...MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD is an essential tool..."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. Completely updated with information supplied by administrators & staff, this edition of MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD provides valuable research & professional information for some 24,000 museums worldwide. Organized by country & city within individual nations, entries include address...telephone & fax numbers...description of holdings & facilities...museum director's name...& more. The latest edition of this indispensable resource also includes three indexes--Name Index for museums, Name Index for persons, & a Subject Index--to make searching easier. The Subject Index is especially comprehensive & offers 250 cross-referenced headings for such diverse areas as Aeronautics, Arms & Armor, Graphic Arts, Indian Artifacts, Jewelry, Painted & Stained Glass, & Railroads.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sydney

Author : DK Eyewitness
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744023165
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sydney written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sydney is your in-depth guide to the very best of Sydney. Take in the major sights, from the Sydney Opera House to the Taronga Zoo; go on a boat tour for your chance to cruise on the sparkling waters of Sydney Harbour; or simply soak up the sun on the white sands of Bondi Beach. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sydney: • Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. • Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. • Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. • Free, color pull-out map (print edition) marked with sights, a selected sight and street index, public transit map, practical information on getting around, and a distance chart for measuring walking distances . • Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. • Area maps marked with sights and restaurants . • Detailed city maps include street finder index for easy navigation . • Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. • Suggested day-trips and itineraries to explore beyond the city . • Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sydney truly shows you this city as no one else can. Recommend: For a pocket guidebook to Sydney, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Sydney, which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time and experience the best of everything.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sydney

Author : Kate Hemphill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756665701
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sydney written by Kate Hemphill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Sydney will lead you straight to the best attractions this magnificent city has on offer. Packed with stunning photography, illustrations and detailed maps, discover Sydney area by area from boat tours around Sydney Harbour to eating breakfast on Bondi Beach. The guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, from exploring the Syndey Opera House to visiting koalas and kangaroos at Taronga Zoo. You’ll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites plus 3D aerial views of Sydney’s most interesting districts, including comprehensive listings of hotels, restaurants, nightlife and entertainment in each area for all budgets. DK Eyewitness Sydney explores the culture, history, art and architecture of this beautiful city, not forgetting the best walking tours and great days out. With up-to-date information on getting around by car, train, bus, ferry and on foot plus all the sights, beaches, festivals and pubs listed area by area, DK Eyewitness Sydney is your essential companion. Don’t miss a thing on your holiday with DK Eyewitness Sydney.

2011 Artist's and Graphic Designer's Market

Author : Mary Burzlaff Bostic
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599632586
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book 2011 Artist's and Graphic Designer's Market written by Mary Burzlaff Bostic and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TOOLS TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL ART CAREER 2011 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for emerging artists who want to establish a successful career in fine art, illustration, cartooning or graphic design.This edition is packed with resources you can use including: • Complete, up-to-date contact information for more than 1,000 art markets, including, galleries, magazines, book publishers, greeting card companies, ad agencies, syndicates, art fairs and more • Articles on the business of freelancing - from basic copyright information to tips on promoting your work • Special features on economic survival as a freelance artist, finding work and maintaining business relationships, an insider's guide to the illustration industry, getting your work into galleries, photographing your artwork, and an interview with literary agent Anna Olswanger • Information on grants, residencies, organizations, publications and websites that offer support and direction for creative artists of all types

Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market 2017

Author : Noel Rivera
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440347530
Total Pages : 1256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market 2017 written by Noel Rivera and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build a successful art career! Do you want to establish or expand a career for yourself in fine art, illustration, or design? Then Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market 2017 is the must-have reference guide you need. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate the changing business landscape. The Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market 2017 introduces a whole host of new features and guarantees the most up-to-date, individually verified market contacts possible. Grow your art business with these resources: • A FREE 1-year subscription to ArtistsMarketOnline.com, where you can find industry contacts, track your submissions, get the latest art and design news, and much more. NOTE: The free subscription only comes with the print version. • Complete, up-to-date contact information for more than 1,800 art market resources, including galleries, magazines, book publishers, greeting card companies, ad agencies, syndicates, art fairs, and more. • Articles on the business of freelancing--from basic copyright information to tips on promoting your work. • Information on grants, residencies, organizations, publications, and websites that offer support and direction for visual artists of all types. • NEW! Informative articles on the art of customer service, creating a noteworthy portfolio, protecting your intellectual property, and adding teaching to your list of freelance possibilities. • NEW! Special features on maintaining your motivation as a freelancer, brand marketing, etiquette for artists, and artists' assistants. • NEW! Inspiring and informative interviews with successful professionals including illustrator Peter Sis, artists Seth Lyons and Kevin T. Kelly, and concept artists Gilles Beloeil and Lauren Airriess.

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

Author : Sandra Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136319190
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories written by Sandra Dudley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting. This includes considering the entanglement of objects and collectors alike in webs of social relations, the creation of value and social change; object biographies and the stories – often conflicting – that objects come to represent; and the strategies used to reconstruct and retell the narratives of objects. The book includes considerations of individual objects and groups of objects, such as domestic interiors, Chinese Buddhist artefacts, novelty tea-pots, Scottish stone monuments, African ironworking, a postcolonial painting and memorials to those killed on the roads in Australia. It also contains chapters dealing with particular collectors – including Charles Bell and Beatrix Potter – and representational techniques.

Lefevre James Cranstone

Author : Donald L. Smith
Publisher : Brandylane Publishers Inc
ISBN 13 : 1883911605
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Lefevre James Cranstone written by Donald L. Smith and published by Brandylane Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have had the pleasure of viewing the works of 19th century British artist Lefevre James Cranstone, who thus remains overlooked and unappreciated. By telling the story of the artist's life and work, author Donald Smith helps the reader appreciate this gifted artist. The book's 143 color plates illustrate how the artist documents the cities, rural landscapes, and people of his time through his versatility with diverse media and a superb use of detail. The book focuses primarily on the artist's trip to America between 1859 and 1860, which resulted in almost 300 detailed sketches of antebellum America, including works that illustrated the cruelty of the slave trade. The volume concludes with a description of the artist's life and career in England and in Australia.

New Perspectives on Prehistoric Art

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313059578
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Prehistoric Art written by Günter Berghaus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functions of prehistoric paintings and sculptures. This new collection of essays explores these insights, gathering the observations of eight experts from a variety of disciplines, and examining some of the social and spiritual functions of a variety of artistic genres ranging from 40,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. These insights, which derive from evolutionary biology, feminist scholarship, ritual studies, and new modes of anthropology, argue collectively that prehistoric art was a culture-specific form of communication that should be interpreted in the social context of early hunger-gatherer societies and should not be measured with the criteria and paradigms of modern art. Essential reading for anyone interested in prehistoric art or its cultural implications, this volume represents a bold step forward in the research and analysis of the very first artists.