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Author | : Philip Kopper |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art museums |
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Download America's National Gallery of Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This handsome tribute to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. traces the history of the museum from conception to construction on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Opened with great fanfare, the National Gallery was "the richest single gift from any individual to any nation ever." That individual was financier Andrew Mellon. Kopper's succinct biography covers Mellon's personal and political life as well as his passion for collecting the paintings of old masters. Mellon's bequest stipulated the museum's name, location, and details of governance, ensuring continued high standards and a vital future. Kopper includes profiles of the architect and various museum directors, including Mellon's son Paul, as well as illustrations that document some of the collection's highlights. ISBN 0-8109-3658-5: $60.00 (For use only in the library)
Author | : Esi Edugyan |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1487009887 |
Download Out of the Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author’s lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us. In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience in global culture and history. Edugyan combines storytelling with analyses of contemporary events and her own personal story in this dazzling first major work of non-fiction.
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Neil Harris |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022606784X |
Download Capital Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown’s achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown’s showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes Brown’s major role in the birth of blockbuster exhibitions, such as the King Tut show of the late 1970s and the National Gallery’s immensely successful Treasure Houses of Britain, which helped inspire similarly popular exhibitions around the country. He recounts Brown’s role in creating the award-winning East Building by architect I. M. Pei and the subsequent renovation of the West building. Harris also explores the politics of exhibition planning, describing Brown's courtship of corporate leaders, politicians, and international dignitaries. In this monumental book Harris brings to life this dynamic era and exposes the creation of Brown's impressive but costly legacy, one that changed the face of American museums forever.
Author | : Uta Hasekamp |
Publisher | : Koenemann |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-07 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : 9783741921278 |
Download The National Gallery London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The National Gallery in London has been showing paintings owned by the British nation since 1824. Among the focal points of the collection are paintings from the late Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and the Dutch Baroque, which, like British painting from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are represented with top works in one of the world's most important galleries.
Author | : National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : 9780894682117 |
Download Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
Author | : National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
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Download American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a survey of the history of American art as well as the history of the collection of American Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art. This enlarged edition reflects the changes in the collection since 1980. The Newly acquired works include Rembrandt Peale's Rubens Peale with Geranium, Hick's Peaceable Kingdom, Cassatt's Little Girl in a Blue Armchair and Hopper's Cape Cod Evening and others by Homer, Eakins, Whistler, Prendergast, O'Keefe and Marin.
Author | : Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-05 |
Genre | : Stories without words |
ISBN | : 9780613835503 |
Download You Can't Take a Balloon Into the National Gallery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two parallel stories of a little girl visiting the famous art museum and her lost yellow balloon's trip through Washington, D.C., make for an inventive visual journey sure to intrigue readers of all ages
Author | : Frank Cottrell Boyce |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780330452922 |
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Nine-year-old Dylan helps his parents run a failing petrol station in a small Welsh town and becomes a reluctant robber when he discovers some treasures being stored in a local abandoned mine.
Author | : National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
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Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780894683992 |
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