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Performing Images Opera in Chinese Visual Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780935573558, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2014
224 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates
Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese". Although the spectacle o...
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£26,50
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Paper Museums The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800
ISBN: PB: 9780935573404, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2005
168 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 113 halftones
As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to...
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£18,00
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Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780935573282, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2000
110 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 81 halftones
A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of...
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£16,50
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