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Charles Deering and Ramón Casas / Charles Deering Y Ramón Casas
This lavishly illustrated, bilingual art book presents drawings by Ramón Casas in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at the Northwestern University Library and oil paintings by Casas from private collections and the Art Institute of Chicago. Charles Deering and Ramón Casas follows the development and dramatic dissolution of a three-way friendship that connected the Spanish painter Ramón Casas (1866–1932); the Chicago industrialist Charles Deering (1852–1927), who was a collector and admirer of Casas’s work as well as a patron of Northwestern University; and the Spanish artist Miguel Utrillo (1862–1934), Casas’s lifelong friend and the father of the French painter Maurice Utrillo. Casas introduced Deering to Sitges, a beach town near Barcelona, Spain, where the latter created a palatial estate with a museum to house his art collection. Miguel Utrillo served as director of the museum. The text explores the treasures housed at Maricel and what happened among the three men that led Casas to abandon Utrillo and Deering to depart Spain, taking his art collection with him.
Art and Identity in Spain, 1833–1956
Richly illustrated, this is the first study in English to explore the longevity of Orientalist art in Spain over a period of 120 years. It highlights how artists in Spain shaped perceptions of Al-Andalus (Iberia under Islam 711–1492) and northern Morocco, from Spain's liberal revolution of the 1830s to the end of the Protectorate of Morocco in 1956. Combining art history with a cultural studies approach, and using exemplary case studies, Hopkins foregrounds the diverse issues that underpin Orientalist expression: reflections on history and the nation, cultural nationalism, gender and sexuality, aesthetics and art commerce, colonialism and racial thinking. In the process, the book challenge...
John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age
"An examination of how the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent was displayed, collected, and influential in the civic and cultural development of Chicago, Illinois during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--
The Spanish Craze
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the "Black Legend," which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Span...
Discovery of El Greco
Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco -- seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of ...
The International Harvester Company
Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.
pinturas de la Universidad de Barcelona (I), Las. El depósito del Museo del Prado
La Universidad de Barcelona custodia uno de los depósitos de pintura más antiguos, extensos y variados del Museo del Prado, integrado por 56 obras, la mayor parte de las cuales llegó entre 1877 y 1882 a la plaza Universidad para engalanar el nuevo edificio que había proyectado Elias Rogent. Este fondo constituye un signo de identidad de la institución, que inicia la renovación de su catálogo artístico con este libro —el primero de una serie— en el que han colaborado una treintena de especialistas de las universidades y los centros de investigación más importantes de Cataluña. En sus contribuciones, los autores destacan tanto la revisión en profundidad de una colección singular como la voluntad de dar a conocer nuevas atribuciones a obras inéditas y propuestas interpretativas hasta ahora desconocidas.
pintures de la Universitat de Barcelona (I), Les. El dipòsit del Museu del Prado
La Universitat de Barcelona custodia un dels dipòsits de pintura més antics, extensos i variats del Museu del Prado, integrat per 56 obres, bona part de les quals arribaren entre el 1877 i el 1882 a la plaça de la Universitat per engalanar el nou edifici projectat per Elias Rogent. Aquest fons constitueix un signe d’identitat de la institució, que inicia la renovació del seu catàleg artístic amb aquest llibre —el primer d’una sèrie— en què han col·laborat una trentena d’especialistes de les universitats i els centres de recerca més importants del país. En les contribucions dels autors destaquen tant la revisió en profunditat d’una col·lecció singular com la voluntat de donar a conèixer noves atribucions a obres inèdites i propostes interpretatives desconegudes fins ara.
