Author: Melanie Doderer-Winkler
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9780300186420
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing on primary sources such as commemorative prints, newspaper accounts, and diary entries, this book investigates just how essential these fanciful designs were in creating events with lasting impact and popular appeal. The author also delves into the various materials used for construction and embellishment: applications of sugar, sand, marble dust, or chalk lent lustre and colour to surfaces, while stand-alone firework temples and temporary reception rooms were often crafted of little more than wood, canvas, paint, and paste.
Magnificent Entertainments
Author: Melanie Doderer-Winkler
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9780300186420
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing on primary sources such as commemorative prints, newspaper accounts, and diary entries, this book investigates just how essential these fanciful designs were in creating events with lasting impact and popular appeal. The author also delves into the various materials used for construction and embellishment: applications of sugar, sand, marble dust, or chalk lent lustre and colour to surfaces, while stand-alone firework temples and temporary reception rooms were often crafted of little more than wood, canvas, paint, and paste.
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9780300186420
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing on primary sources such as commemorative prints, newspaper accounts, and diary entries, this book investigates just how essential these fanciful designs were in creating events with lasting impact and popular appeal. The author also delves into the various materials used for construction and embellishment: applications of sugar, sand, marble dust, or chalk lent lustre and colour to surfaces, while stand-alone firework temples and temporary reception rooms were often crafted of little more than wood, canvas, paint, and paste.
Magnificent Entertainments
Author: Cynthia Cooper
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. ; Hull, Quebec : Goose Lane Editions and Canadian Museum of Civilization
ISBN: 9780864921871
Category : Balls (Parties)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The awestruck press thrilled all of Canada with reports of the Earl of Dufferins 1876 fancy dress ball at Rideau Hall. Twenty years later, the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen not only topped Dufferins extravaganza and catered to a new taste: at their Historical Fancy Dress Ball, guests promenaded as important characters from Canadian history. The next year, in Toronto, their Victorian Era Ball feted Queen Victorias diamond jubilee by celebrating in costume the progress of her reign and the technological wonders of the century to come. In 1898, the Aberdeens induced Montreals French and English high society to act out the ideal of national unity. Cynthia Cooper tells the stories of these four vice-regal balls, the costumes, and the optimistic nation-builders who disguised frivolity as historical research and chose costumes that allowed sexual display scandalous in any other setting. The reporters on the fringes of each event form a gushing Greek chorus, and photos by Notman and Topley show la crème de la crème of young Canada in all its finery.
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. ; Hull, Quebec : Goose Lane Editions and Canadian Museum of Civilization
ISBN: 9780864921871
Category : Balls (Parties)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The awestruck press thrilled all of Canada with reports of the Earl of Dufferins 1876 fancy dress ball at Rideau Hall. Twenty years later, the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen not only topped Dufferins extravaganza and catered to a new taste: at their Historical Fancy Dress Ball, guests promenaded as important characters from Canadian history. The next year, in Toronto, their Victorian Era Ball feted Queen Victorias diamond jubilee by celebrating in costume the progress of her reign and the technological wonders of the century to come. In 1898, the Aberdeens induced Montreals French and English high society to act out the ideal of national unity. Cynthia Cooper tells the stories of these four vice-regal balls, the costumes, and the optimistic nation-builders who disguised frivolity as historical research and chose costumes that allowed sexual display scandalous in any other setting. The reporters on the fringes of each event form a gushing Greek chorus, and photos by Notman and Topley show la crème de la crème of young Canada in all its finery.
Fashion
Author: Alexandra Palmer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802085900
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Controversial and unconventional, this collection examines Canadian identity in terms of the fashion worn and designed over the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802085900
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Controversial and unconventional, this collection examines Canadian identity in terms of the fashion worn and designed over the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions.
The Freemason's Monthly Magazine
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Practice of Her Profession
Author: Susan Butlin
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077357848X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
In The Practice of Her Profession, Susan Butlin draws on unpublished letters and family memoirs to recount Carlyle's personal and professional life. She explores Carlyle's artistic influences, her relationships with artist colleagues and encounters with the cultural worlds of Paris, New York, and early twentieth-century Canada, and provides a detailed examination of Carlyle's paintings. Butlin's vivid description of the artistic life of women of this era, from access to art training to the important role of women's art societies, introduces readers to Carlyle's many accomplished contemporaries - Helen McNicoll, Mary Reid, Laura Muntz, Sarah Holden, Sydney Tully, Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, and others.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077357848X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
In The Practice of Her Profession, Susan Butlin draws on unpublished letters and family memoirs to recount Carlyle's personal and professional life. She explores Carlyle's artistic influences, her relationships with artist colleagues and encounters with the cultural worlds of Paris, New York, and early twentieth-century Canada, and provides a detailed examination of Carlyle's paintings. Butlin's vivid description of the artistic life of women of this era, from access to art training to the important role of women's art societies, introduces readers to Carlyle's many accomplished contemporaries - Helen McNicoll, Mary Reid, Laura Muntz, Sarah Holden, Sydney Tully, Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, and others.
The Contemporary Review
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Peterson's Magazine
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Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Lady's Realm
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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New Peterson Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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American Architect
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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