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The drama of the soul': time, eternity and evolution in the designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair
Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design historical approach which emphasises schools and movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers the importance of temporality for design practice and...Huxtable, Sally-Anne
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Sex, art and museums: on the changing institutional censorship of Shunga
rt is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship. This may be by the Church to guard against moral degeneration, by the State to promote a specific political agenda or by the art market, to elevate one artist above another. Now, and in the last century, artwork that touches on...Boyd, Louise
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Journal article
Northern Modernist Jewellery – a museum collecting project
In 2015 National Museums Scotland was awarded an Art Fund New Collecting Award to collect, research and disseminate jewellery designed and created in Britain and the Nordic States between 1945-1978. The project highlighted a legacy of transnational influences and traditions within Northern Europe, particularly shared cultural heritage, the influence of...Rothwell, Sarah
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2012
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In the shadow of Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon: the 10th Duke of Hamilton and Raeburn
‘Indiscriminate praise is little better than censure’: critical contexts for understanding Raeburn’s portraitureEvans, Godfrey
taste, Raeburn, Scotland, collecting, Enlightenment, patronage, art, and portraiture
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2012
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2013
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'Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself': The Dukes of Hamilton and Titian
This volume comprises sixteen essays on the reception of Titian by British painters, collectors and critics in the long nineteenth century. The main focus falls on the first three decades of the century, in the aftermath of the exhibition of the celebrated Orléans collection in London in 1798-99. But the...Evans, Godfrey
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2013
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Paris Intense: Die Nabis - Von Bonnard bis Vallotton
In Paris formierte sich 1888 die Künstlergruppe der Nabis, der Propheten, wie sie sich selbst scherzhaft nannten. Zu ihren Mitgliedern zählten Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Félix Vallotton und Aristide Maillol. Auf der Suche nach neuen, »echten« Ausdrucksformen gestalteten sie intime Interieurs, Bühnenbilder, Theaterplakate, Zeitschriften, Bücher, Möbel oder Kunsthandwerk. Kunst und... -
2013
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Painting nature for the nation: Taki Katei and the challenges to Sinophile culture in Meiji Japan
In Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901). Drawing on a large body of previously unpublished paintings, collaborative works and book illustrations by this highly successful, yet...Buckland, Rosina
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