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Charles Deering and Ramón Casas / Charles Deering Y Ramón Casas
This lavishly illustrated, bilingual art book presents drawings by Ramón Casas in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at the Northwestern University Library and oil paintings by Casas from private collections and the Art Institute of Chicago. Charles Deering and Ramón Casas follows the development and dramatic dissolution of a three-way friendship that connected the Spanish painter Ramón Casas (1866–1932); the Chicago industrialist Charles Deering (1852–1927), who was a collector and admirer of Casas’s work as well as a patron of Northwestern University; and the Spanish artist Miguel Utrillo (1862–1934), Casas’s lifelong friend and the father of the French painter Maurice Utrillo. Casas introduced Deering to Sitges, a beach town near Barcelona, Spain, where the latter created a palatial estate with a museum to house his art collection. Miguel Utrillo served as director of the museum. The text explores the treasures housed at Maricel and what happened among the three men that led Casas to abandon Utrillo and Deering to depart Spain, taking his art collection with him.
Els Vallmitjana i l'escultura moderna a Catalunya
Els germans Agapit i Venanci Vallmitjana foren els grans renovadors de l'escultura catalana de la segona meitat del segle XIX. Com a artistes i docents de prestigi, la seva influència i projecció internacional deixaren empremta en diverses generacions que treballaren entre el Romanticisme i el Modernisme. Els darrers anys, les seves peces escultòriques --ubicades en espais en procés de revaloració com ara els cementiris-- han configurat una de les imatges icòniques de la ciutat de Barcelona. Aquest volum recopila els estudis presentats amb motiu de l'Any Vallmitjana, que se celebrà el 2019 per iniciativa de la Universitat de Barcelona. Personalitats del món acadèmic i cultural hi analitzen el context històric, l'obra i l'activitat al taller dels dos artistes, sense deixar de qüestionar-se críticament quin ha de ser l'abast de la restauració de les seves escultures. Amb aquestes contribucions, Els Vallmitjana i l'escultura moderna a Catalunya recupera un llegat extraordinari i convida a descobrir un patrimoni cultural fins ara poc conegut.Matèria60014Vallmitjana i Barbany, Venanci
Miscel·lània en homenatge a Joan Ainaud de Lasarte
Així com el primer volum de la Miscel·lània recollia la biografia del doctor Joan Ainaud, la bibliografia dels seus treballs, cartes que tracten de records o vivències personals i articles ordenats de manera cronològica des de la prehistòria i l'antiguitat a l'època medieval, en aquest segon trobem aplegats els articles que van des del segle XVI fins al segle XX.
Art and Identity in Spain, 1833–1956
"The first English-language study to explore the longevity of Orientalist art in Spain over a period of 120 years. Highlighting how artists in Spain shaped perceptions and projections of Al-Andalus (Iberia under Islam 711-1492) and northern Morocco, it combines art history and cultural studies to foreground the diverse issues that underpin Orientalist expression. Consequently, the book overturns over-familiar understandings of Western Orientalism with its focus on 'difference' and exclusion of Islamic culture from European identity. Introducing many unfamiliar artists and exhibitions, such as Villaamil, Bécquer, Rusiñol, and Morcillo, the book provides a vital perspective on how art in Spain has served shifting political agendas, redefining the 'Orient' an unfixed and shifting cultural signifier"--
Discovery of El Greco
Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco -- seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of ...
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The International Harvester Company
Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.
John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age
"An examination of how the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent was displayed, collected, and influential in the civic and cultural development of Chicago, Illinois during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--
