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Dutch Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 664

Dutch Art

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect Dutch Art explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the 1990s. it is lavishly illustrated with 147 black-and-white photographs and 16 pages in full color. More than 100 internationally recognized scholars, museum professionals, artists, and art critics contributed signed essays to this monumental work, including historians, sociologists, and literary historians.

Asia in Amsterdam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Asia in Amsterdam

  • Categories: Art

Discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age

Postcolonial Netherlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Postcolonial Netherlands

"The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument ('We are here because you were there') were strong assets of the first generation. This 'postcolonial bonus' indeed facilitated their integration. In the process, the initial distance to mainstream Dutch culture diminished. Postwar Dutch society went through serious transformations. Its once lily white population now includes two million non-Western migrants and the past decade witnessed heated debates about multiculturalism. The most importan...

Peasant Scenes and Landscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Peasant Scenes and Landscapes

  • Categories: Art

Larry Silver investigates the origins of new pictorial types and their media as a phenomenon of sixteenth-century Antwerp and interprets several pictorial genres as he charts their evolution and their role in the development and marketing of individual artistic styles.

De schepping van een aards paradijs
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 620

De schepping van een aards paradijs

In De schepping van een aards paradijs presenteert Léon Hanssen het leven en werk van Piet Mondriaan in de periode 1919-1933. Het zijn de jaren van zijn klassieke abstracte schilderstijl, gekenmerkt door zwarte verticale en horizontale lijnen en vierkante vlakken in de primaire kleuren of in zwart, wit of grijs. Het boek levert behalve de biografie van Mondriaan een treffend beeld van een turbulent tijdvak: de jaren tussen het eind van de Eerste Wereldoorlog en de machtsovername van Adolf Hitler in januari 1933. Plaats van handeling is de stad die Mondriaans hart had gestolen: Parijs!

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

  • Categories: Art

Co-published by Museum of Modern Art and the Van Gogh Museum in conjunction with the first exhibition to focus on Vincent van Gogh's depictions of nocturnal and twilight scenes, Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night examines the artist's night landscapes, interior scenes, and representations of the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings. It features over one hundred illustrations, including details of Van Gogh's iconic paintings and works by other artist important to the development of his style.

Van Dyck
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Van Dyck

  • Categories: Art

The first major examination of Anthony van Dyck's work as a portraitist and an essential resource on this aspect of his illustrious career This landmark volume is a comprehensive survey of the portrait drawings, paintings, and prints of Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), one of the most celebrated portraitists of all time. His supremely elegant style and ability to convey a sense of a sitter's inner life made him a favored portraitist among high-ranking figures and royalty across Europe, as well as among his fellow artists and art enthusiasts. Showcasing the full range of Van Dyck's fascinating international career with more than 100 works, this catalogue celebrates the artist's versatility, inve...

Beestachtig mooi
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 170

Beestachtig mooi

De relatie tussen mens en dier op kunstwerken van de 18e tot de 20e eeuw.

Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 545

Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette?s career, this book examines the material practices and social networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues? practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists. To follow Mariette?s career through the eighteenth century is to see that art was consolidated as a specialized category of intellectual inquiry-and that style emerged as its structuring analytic device-in the overlapping spaces of the collector?s cabinet, the connoisseur?s portfolio and the dealer?s shop.

Performing Contemporary Indonesia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Performing Contemporary Indonesia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Performance events have long had a central place in Indonesian societies in displaying power, affirming social relations, celebrating shared values, and at times conveying potent political critique. How have they responded to the momentous social and political changes of recent years - the dismantling of the centralised, authoritarian Suharto regime and its replacement with a more open, regionally-focused political system, the rapid expansion of global cultural influence? Investigations of diverse performance genres from different regions illustrate the way general socio-political processes play out locally, and how particular groups are responding. Exploring performed understandings of identity and community, such studies expand knowledge of a complex, contested period of change in Indonesia and the workings of contemporary performance in giving it expression. With contributions by Chua Beng Huat, Alexandra Crosby, Barbara Hatley, Ariel Heryanto, Brett Hough, Rachmah Ida, Reza Idria, Edwin Jurriens, Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti, Neneng Yanti K Lahpan, Ugoran Prasad, Wawan Sofwan, Aline Scott-Maxwell, Fridus Steijlen, Alia Swastika, Denise Varney.