Author: John Michael Montias
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053565919
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this study of Amsterdam's Golden Age cultural elite, John Michael Montias analyzes records of auctions from the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam through the first half of the seventeenth century, revealing a wealth of information on some 2,000 art buyers' regional origins, social and religious affiliations, wealth, and aesthetic preferences. Chapters focus not only on the art dealers who bought at these auctions, but also on buyers who had special connections with individual artists.
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
Author: John Michael Montias
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053565919
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this study of Amsterdam's Golden Age cultural elite, John Michael Montias analyzes records of auctions from the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam through the first half of the seventeenth century, revealing a wealth of information on some 2,000 art buyers' regional origins, social and religious affiliations, wealth, and aesthetic preferences. Chapters focus not only on the art dealers who bought at these auctions, but also on buyers who had special connections with individual artists.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053565919
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this study of Amsterdam's Golden Age cultural elite, John Michael Montias analyzes records of auctions from the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam through the first half of the seventeenth century, revealing a wealth of information on some 2,000 art buyers' regional origins, social and religious affiliations, wealth, and aesthetic preferences. Chapters focus not only on the art dealers who bought at these auctions, but also on buyers who had special connections with individual artists.
Sandberg, Designer and Director of the Stedelijk
Author: Ad Petersen
Publisher: 010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789064504815
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This concentrates on Sandberg's design work as Director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, from 1938 to 1962. This includes his work on the Museum's posters, catalogues, exhibition designs and modernizing of the museum building.
Publisher: 010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789064504815
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This concentrates on Sandberg's design work as Director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, from 1938 to 1962. This includes his work on the Museum's posters, catalogues, exhibition designs and modernizing of the museum building.
Lamak
Author: Francine Brinkgreve
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789088903915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This is the first study to examine in detail ritual objects known as 'Lamak', a fascinating and unique form of ephemeral material culture which is a prominent feature of Balinese creativity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789088903915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This is the first study to examine in detail ritual objects known as 'Lamak', a fascinating and unique form of ephemeral material culture which is a prominent feature of Balinese creativity.
Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author: Jane Fenoulhet
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004288058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization. Their contributions range across many centuries: from the Austronesian expansion to the Aceh tsunami, and from the Sanskrit cosmopolis to the Asian financial crisis. The book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Peter Boomgaard, a scholar whose work has embodied the Braudelian spirit in Southeast Asian historiography. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004288058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization. Their contributions range across many centuries: from the Austronesian expansion to the Aceh tsunami, and from the Sanskrit cosmopolis to the Asian financial crisis. The book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Peter Boomgaard, a scholar whose work has embodied the Braudelian spirit in Southeast Asian historiography. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.
Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum: 1700-1800
Author: Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book offers a unique overview of Dutch 18th century art, drawing on the vast collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The art production of this period is demonstrated through art works of both well-known and lesser-known artists including Cornelis Troost, Nicolaas Verkolje, Willem van Mieris, Jan Baptist Xavery, Jacob van Strij and many others. It also examines the flourishing artisan trade in the form of furniture, silver, sculptures and faience from the factories in Delft and Weesp. This edition moreover provides information on the historical context, the world of the artist, the art collectors and the costumes of the 18th century."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book offers a unique overview of Dutch 18th century art, drawing on the vast collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The art production of this period is demonstrated through art works of both well-known and lesser-known artists including Cornelis Troost, Nicolaas Verkolje, Willem van Mieris, Jan Baptist Xavery, Jacob van Strij and many others. It also examines the flourishing artisan trade in the form of furniture, silver, sculptures and faience from the factories in Delft and Weesp. This edition moreover provides information on the historical context, the world of the artist, the art collectors and the costumes of the 18th century."
De Stijl Continued
Author: Jonneke Jobse
Publisher: 010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789064505775
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
From 1958 to 1964 the journal 'Structure' was a major platform for artists reconsidering the design tenets and underlying principles of the Bauhaus, Constructivism and De Stijl. This book explores the artists' body of ideas in meticulous detail.
Publisher: 010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789064505775
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
From 1958 to 1964 the journal 'Structure' was a major platform for artists reconsidering the design tenets and underlying principles of the Bauhaus, Constructivism and De Stijl. This book explores the artists' body of ideas in meticulous detail.
Select List of Recent Publications
Author: East-West Center. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815
Author: Alicia Schrikker
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415602X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415602X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 - 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description