Collecting the 20th Century
Author | : British Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : British Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Author | : Adrian Franklin |
Publisher | : UNSW Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1742230016 |
Taking a decade-by-decade approach, this lavishly illustrated guide to 20th-century collectibles delivers useful information in a lively and entertaining style. Each chapter provides detailed insight into a particular decade and includes two central areas of collecting from that era, whether it is ceramic bathing beauties from the 1920s, vintage clothes from the 1940s, cars from the 1950s, or Memphis design from the 1980s. Covering popular periods such as art nouveau, industrial, art deco, retro, and modern, this is an ideal companion for both serious collectors and those who want a glimpse into the world of 20th-century design.
Author | : Elizabeth Rodrigues |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2022-05-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472902636 |
On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate biases about who an individual is and could become. While the social effects of such algorithmic logics seem new and newly urgent to consider, Collecting Lives looks to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. to provide an instructive prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of data collection to human selfhood in order to uncover a modernist aesthetic of data that offers an alternative to the algorithmic logic pervading our sense of data’s revelatory potential. Examining the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Rodrigues asks how each of these authors draw from their work in sociology, history, psychology, and journalism to formulate a critical data aesthetic as they attempt to answer questions of identity around race, gender, and nation both in their research and their life writing. These data-driven modernists not only tell different life stories with data, they tell life stories differently because of data.
Author | : Roseann Ettinger |
Publisher | : Schiffer Book for Collectors |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780764326127 |
This fun and visually exciting book presents lavish and popular jewelry in many types of plastics from Bakelite, celluloid, and Lucite to Plexiglas, natural plastics, and resins. Brooches, necklaces, beads, and earrings appear in 365 color photos and period catalog pages that display all the styles. Popular makers such as Trifari, Lisner, Coro, Kramer, Kenneth Jay Lane, and Les Bernard, and more are well represented.
Author | : Victoria and Albert Museum |
Publisher | : Victoria & Albert Museum |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2001-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
"Drawing on the V & A's magnificent collection of 20th-century prints, this concise history of printmaking is presented through the work of internationally renowned artists. Each year of the [20th] century is represented by a print or set of prints, revealing the versatility of the medium and offering insights into the development of different techniques. From etchings and woodblock prints to abstract lithographs and screenprints, this book shows how artists have been pushing forward the boundaries of the fine art print over the last 100 years."--Back cover.
Author | : Luc W. S. W. Amkreutz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789088909351 |
In order to understand our past, we need to understand ourselves as archaeologists and our discipline. This volume presents recent research into collecting practices of European Antiquities by national museums, institutes and individuals during the 19th and early 20th-century, and the 'Ancient Europe' collections that resulted and remain in many museums.This was the period during which the archaeological discipline developed as a scientific field, and the study of the archaeological paradigmatic and practical discourse of the past two centuries is therefore of importance, as are the sequence of key discoveries that shaped our field.Many national museums arose in the early 19th century and strived to acquire archaeological objects from a wide range of countries, dating from Prehistory to the Medieval period. This was done by buying, sometimes complete collections, exchanging or copying. The networks along which these objects traveled were made up out of the ranks of diplomats, aristocracy, politicians, clergymen, military officials and scholars. There were also intensive contacts between museums and universities and there were very active private dealers.The reasons for collecting antiquities were manifold. Many, however, started out from the idea of composing impressive collections brought together for patriotic or nationalistic purposes and for general comparative use. Later on, motives changed, and in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities became more scientifically oriented. Eventually these collections fossilized, ending up in the depots. The times had changed and the acquisition of archaeological objects from other European countries largely came to an end.This group of papers researches these collections of 'Ancient Europe' from a variety of angles. As such it forms an ideal base for further researching archaeological museum collection history and the development of the archaeological discipline.
Author | : Lucky J. Meisenheimer |
Publisher | : Lucky J's Swim & Surf |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-10 |
Genre | : Toys |
ISBN | : 9780966761207 |
Author | : Paul Nash |
Publisher | : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9781848221888 |
Paul Nash was one of the most important British artists of the 20th century. An official war artist in both the First and the Second World Wars, his paintings include some of the most definitive artistic visions of those conflicts. This volume is being published to coincide with a major Nash retrospective and incorporates an abridged version of the unpublished 'Memoirs of Paul Nash' by his wife Margaret.
Author | : Annika Fisher |
Publisher | : Bard Graduate Center |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2021-02-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781941792162 |
In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode's sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two particularly striking series of articles appeared in the journal Museumskunde: Journal for the Administration and Technology of Public and Private Collections. The first was a six-part essay by Otto Lauffer on history museums and the second was a ten-part piece by Oswald Richter regarding ethnographic museums, and both initiated a century of important dialogue. Presented together here as Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture, these first full English translations of the two book-length articles remain unequalled presentations about the different implications of art, historical, and ethnographic museums. They show how sophisticated the discussion of museums and museum display was in the early twentieth century, and how much could be gained from revisiting these reflections today. Accompanied with short commentaries by a group of museum professionals, these translations and associated commentaries allow for an intervention and intensification of the current level of debate about museums, one that will further invigorated by the opening of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin in 2019.
Author | : American Association for State and Local History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |