Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "At the entrance of The Field Museum's Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion's paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradle…
In this volume are English translations of primary sources upon which much modern knowledge about the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, Kanem-Borno, and their neighbors depends. Here is the story of the conversion of the western Sudan to Islam, as well as accounts of the famous medieval …
"Museums and Wealth is a critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form. In the United States, institutions administered by the nonprofit system have an ambiguous status as they are neither entirely private nor fully public. Among nonprofits, the museum is …
Pang Yuanji's painting collection -- The Pang family -- Pang Yuanji, entrepreneur and philanthropist -- Pang Yuanji and the culture of Nanxun -- The fate of the collection. "Pang Yuanji (1864-1949) was the collector from China with not only the largest number of high-quality an…
Art, anti-art, non-art: Experimentations in the public sphere in postwar …
by Tomii, Reiko, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.), Merewether, Charles, Exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art : Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950 - 1970 (2007, Los Angeles, Calif.)
"A critical translation of René Brimo's 1938 French study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century patronage and art collecting in the United States" ... Provided by publisher
