Author: John Britton
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire;
Author: John Britton
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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William Beckford
Author: Timothy Mowl
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571300480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
William Beckford had two lives: one real and sensational, the other an elegant forgery he invented in retirement after the young Disraeli mischievously sent him a homoerotic epic based loosely on Beckford's own career. Biographers have been bemused by Beckford's faked letters and dream encounters with celebrities, but his real life was far more significant: he is the pivotal Romantic between Horace Walpole and Byron. Beckford was reared in exotic isolation in a Palladian palace where he grew up obsessed with dark grottoes, towers and images of the living dead. Rushed into marriage by an apprehensive mother, he indulged his actual passions (both legal and paedophile) until a Tory administration staged a sex scandal that exiled him. In his absence his novel, Vathek was treacherously pirated. Returned to England, Beckford flung his wealth into the creation of Fonthill Abbey, which, by its shadowy vistas and glamorous camp furnishings, paved the way for the wildest excesses of Victorian taste.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571300480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
William Beckford had two lives: one real and sensational, the other an elegant forgery he invented in retirement after the young Disraeli mischievously sent him a homoerotic epic based loosely on Beckford's own career. Biographers have been bemused by Beckford's faked letters and dream encounters with celebrities, but his real life was far more significant: he is the pivotal Romantic between Horace Walpole and Byron. Beckford was reared in exotic isolation in a Palladian palace where he grew up obsessed with dark grottoes, towers and images of the living dead. Rushed into marriage by an apprehensive mother, he indulged his actual passions (both legal and paedophile) until a Tory administration staged a sex scandal that exiled him. In his absence his novel, Vathek was treacherously pirated. Returned to England, Beckford flung his wealth into the creation of Fonthill Abbey, which, by its shadowy vistas and glamorous camp furnishings, paved the way for the wildest excesses of Victorian taste.
A new guide to Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire ...; comprising ... brief notices of most of the remarkable productions of nature and art ... deposited there
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, Co. Wilts
Author: Sir Richard Colt Hoare
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Researching Art Markets
Author: Elisabetta Lazzaro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000361780
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Researching Art Markets brings together a scholars from several, various disciplinary perspectives. In doing so, this collection offers a unique multi-disciplinary contribution that disentangles some of the key aspects and trends in art market practices from the past to nowadays, namely art collectors, the artist as an entrepreneur and career paths, and the formation and development of new markets. In understanding the global art market as an ecosystem, the book also examines how research and perceptions have evolved over time. Within the frameworks of contemporary social, economic and political contexts, issues such as business practices, the roles of market participants and the importance of networks are analysed by scholars of different disciplines. With insights from across the humanities and social sciences, the book explores how different methods can coexist to create an interdisciplinary international community of knowledge and research on art markets. Moreover, by providing historical as well as contemporary examples, this book explores the continuum and diversity of the art market. Overall, this book provides a valuable tool for understanding art markets within their wider context. The volume is of interest to scholars researching into the cultural and creative industries from a wider perspective.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000361780
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Researching Art Markets brings together a scholars from several, various disciplinary perspectives. In doing so, this collection offers a unique multi-disciplinary contribution that disentangles some of the key aspects and trends in art market practices from the past to nowadays, namely art collectors, the artist as an entrepreneur and career paths, and the formation and development of new markets. In understanding the global art market as an ecosystem, the book also examines how research and perceptions have evolved over time. Within the frameworks of contemporary social, economic and political contexts, issues such as business practices, the roles of market participants and the importance of networks are analysed by scholars of different disciplines. With insights from across the humanities and social sciences, the book explores how different methods can coexist to create an interdisciplinary international community of knowledge and research on art markets. Moreover, by providing historical as well as contemporary examples, this book explores the continuum and diversity of the art market. Overall, this book provides a valuable tool for understanding art markets within their wider context. The volume is of interest to scholars researching into the cultural and creative industries from a wider perspective.
A description of Fonthill abbey, Wiltshire, illustr. by views drawn and engr. by J. Storer
Author: Fonthill abbey
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, ... Wilts. To which are added, an Account of the Museum of British Antiquities, a Catalogue of the Prints and Drawings, and a Description of the Mansion, by the late Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart. (Memoir of Sr. R. C. Hoare, ... partly written by himself.-Chronological list of the works of Sir R. C. Hoare.).
Author: John Bowyer NICHOLS
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993704
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A catalogue of 373 masterpieces from the Linsky's collection of European paintings, medieval and Renaissance objets d'art, sculpture, jewelry, furniture, carpets, clocks, gilt bronzes, and porcelains. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993704
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A catalogue of 373 masterpieces from the Linsky's collection of European paintings, medieval and Renaissance objets d'art, sculpture, jewelry, furniture, carpets, clocks, gilt bronzes, and porcelains. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Beckford's Fonthill
Author: Robert J. Gemmett
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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William Beckford of Fonthill
Author: Yale University. Library
Publisher: New Haven : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: New Haven : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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