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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Art Collecting"”.
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Art Collecting at the University of Illinois: A History and Catalogue
… of higher learning that began to gather art in the nineteenth century, this dissertation examines the nature, history and significance of art patronage at the University of Illinois: the first section an account dating from the first regent's managing to form a Fine Arts Gallery in 1875 …
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Heroes, saints, and gods: Foundation legends and propaganda in ancient and Renaissance Rome
… to promote their own claims to power through art and architecture. It not only explains how men like Augustus would build upon this by including not only the city’s founders, but also Caesar to legitimize their own claims though art, architecture, and literature. And final ly, it provides a …
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Myco-scapes: Multispecies Entanglements in Artmaking
Myco-scapes: Multispecies Entanglements in Artmaking is a body of ephemeral fiber sculptures. These weavings and digital fabrications are the result of collaborations with dynamic materials and other species, primarily fungi. The artworks (or artifacts) of the artist's material intra-actions …
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Life, achievements and influence of Thomas Combe of Oxford (1796-1872)
… 21 years after Thomas Combe’s death, his wife, Martha, bequeathed their collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and a few other paintings, to the University of Oxford. Most of these had been bought from the artists themselves at a formative time in their careers and it is not surprising that …
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Collecting Contemporary Art: a visual analysis of a qualitative investigation into patterns of collecting and production
… presents a cultural analysis of contemporary art collecting and art production with an illustration of patterns that overlap in collecting and art production practices in contemporary art. The illustrated visual network shows how institutions, local context, social strategies and prestige …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers played in shaping the demand for Renaissance art objects and establishing the scholarly canon. It seeks to provide an analysis of the …
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
… and analyzes how their political activities and art collecting responded to Burgundian crusade ideology and court culture in distinct ways. These knights of Philip the Good’s chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece each owned the same crusade chronicle, the ""Eracles"", a French translation and …
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Interventions : Twentieth-century art collection schemes and their impact on local authority art gallery and museum collections of twentieth-century British art in Britain
In the twentieth century, collecting became a core activity of local authority art galleries and museums in Britain. A key feature of these art collections was the representation of Twentieth Century British Art. The aim of this study is to examine, for the first time, this development as abroad …
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The contribution of émigré art historians to the British art world after 1933
The purpose of this Ph.D. thesis on émigré art historians in Britain is not only to show how alien the concept of art history was to the British before 1933, but also to assess and qualify the subsequent practical and theoretical contribution of art historians who immigrated to Britain. These 93 …
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The Politics of the Grotesque: Goya's 'Caprichos' and French Literature and Graphic Art in the Nineteenth Century (c.1799-1868).
… which became the main receptor of the Spanish artist. The discovery of Goya in France goes in parallel with the general trend towards Spanish culture, peaking in the 1830s and again in the 1860s, highlighting the creation of Louis-Philippe’s Galerie espagnole (1838-1848). This diffusion, which …