Exhibitions category: 673 books
Vingt Siècles en cathédrales (Reims - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Sous un intitulé ambitieux, Vingt Siècles en cathédrales, l'exposition qui s'est tenue à Reims dans le palais du Tau, du 29 juin au 2 décembre 2001, a montré à travers les maquettes anciennes les pièces des trésors religieux, les tableaux et les vitraux, la cathédrale moins comme ...
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Millet/Van Gogh (Paris - 1998)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Aussi instructive que riche en œuvres de haute qualité, l'exposition Millet/Van Gogh, présentée au musée d'Orsay du 14 septembre 1998 au 3 janvier 1999, aurait pu, a priori, sembler dépourvue d'intérêt véritable...
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Georges de La Tour (Paris - 1997)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
En 1972, une mémorable exposition tenue à l'Orangerie des Tuileries a fait connaître à un large public l'envergure de Georges de La Tour (1593-1652), redécouvert depuis à peine une soixantaine d'années. Les relations du peintre avec le milieu artistique lorrain, si actif à son époque, ont...
Karsh
Beyond the Camera
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In August and September of 1988, Yousuf Karsh's long-time assistant, Jerry Fielder, sat down with the master photographer and taped over 9 hours of recollections of the many portrait sessions he'd experienced in one of the greatest careers in history. Karsh spoke of his sitters and his rags-to-riches...
Sinatra
The Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Full of commentary by the people who knew him best, this exceptional collection of photographs showcases Frank Sinatra like never before.
Nobody packed a visual punch like Frank Sinatra. With his clothes, his gestures, his posture, and even his facial expressions, Sinatra exuded a confident...
People Knitting
A Century of Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting...
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s...
Painting the Town Orange
The Stories behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Houston's sprawl has come with controversy, but it has created a blank canvas for the public art community. It all started in the Telephone Road Place subdivision, where retired mail carrier Jefferson Davis McKissack built the Orange Show, an extraordinary and eccentric monument to self-reliance, hard...
Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research materials for scholars in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history, and the history of the American West. This guide has been compiled to...
Forgotten Colorado Silver
Joseph Lesher’s Defiant Coins
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
At the turn of the last century, miner Joseph Lesher attempted to raise the price of silver by privately minting octagonal "Referendum souvenir medal" coins with values of $1.25 or $1. They were common in Victor, Cripple Creek, Denver and other places in Colorado in the days after William...
Vivian Maier
A Photographer Found
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never...
by Alexander Barabanov
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery.
This work has been collected and edited...
Mexican Painters
Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, and Other Artists of the Social Realist School
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
From the monumental public frescoes of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Álfaro Siqueiros, to the canvasses and drawings of younger artists like Galván, Cantú, Meza, Tamayo, and Orozco Romero, Mexican painting since the First World War has developed into a strong, influential artistic...
Modern Artists on Art
Second Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This rich, readable anthology contains 17 unabridged essays by some of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators. Chosen for their intrinsic quality and documentary value by editor Robert L. Herbert — Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College — the essays are...