A Laboratory for Art

A Laboratory for Art
Author: Francesca Gabrielle Bewer
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300154696

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"[Book title] is the first book to explore the crucial role the Fogg [Museum] played in the evolution of conservation in the United States and abroad. It traces the efforts of staff and students who developed protocols for the treatment and documentation of works, sometimes through trial and error; disseminated research findings by establishing professional forums and a seminal journal; set standards for contemporary artists' materials during the New Deal; and led the Allied drive to protect monuments and works of art during World War II."--Back cover.

The Philosophy Chamber

The Philosophy Chamber
Author: Ethan W. Lasser
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 030022592X

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"This publication accompanies the exhibition The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from May 19 through December 31, 2017, and at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 2018."

Devour the Land

Devour the Land
Author: Makeda Best
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300260083

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Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics Devour the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the US military's impact on the domestic environment since the 1970s, a dynamic period for environmental activism as well as for photography. This catalogue presents a lively range of voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics. Alongside interviews with prominent contemporary artists working in the landscape photography tradition, the images speak to photographers' varied motivations, personal experiences, and artistic approaches. The result is a surprising picture of the ways violence and warfare surround us. Although most modern combat has taken place abroad, the US domestic landscape bears the footprint of armed conflict--much of the environmental damage we live with today was caused by our own military and the expansive network of industries supporting its work. Designed to evoke a field book and to nod toward ephemera produced by earlier artists and activists, the catalogue features works by dozens of photographers, including Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Dorothy Marder, Alex Webb, Terry Evans, and many more.

An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour

An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre: ART
ISBN: 9780997593570

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The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums possesses over 2500 of the world¿s rarest pigments. Visually and anthropologically excavating the extraordinary collection,Atelier Editions¿ monograph examines the contained artefacts¿ providence, composition, symbology and application. Whilst simultaneously exploringthe larger field of chromatics, utilising a variety of theoretical frameworks to interpret the collection anew. An introduction to the monograph is authored by Straus Center Director, Dr. Narayan Khandekar.

Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums

Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums
Author: Jenny F. So
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300237023

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From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered stone through the esteemed Grenville L. Winthrop Collection at the Harvard Art Museums--which includes some of the finest examples of ancient and archaizing jades outside China--this volume explains how and why jade developed its special significance. In-depth entries on over one hundred objects present recent archaeological discoveries and new information garnered from conservation analysis, while Jenny So's broad and engaging narrative not only elucidates the layered meanings of the objects and their iconography but also delves into the unique qualities of the material and the craftsmanship involved in quarrying and working jade. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums

David to Corot

David to Corot
Author: Fogg Art Museum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780674193208

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This catalogue reproduces nearly 500 works which include the most significant group of drawings outside France by such masters as David, Gericault, Ingres, Delacroix and Prud'hon. Many of the drawings are published here for the first time

Everywhen

Everywhen
Author: Henry F. Skerritt
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300214707

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"This publication accompanies the exhibition Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5 through September 18, 2016."

Painting Edo

Painting Edo
Author: Rachel Saunders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Art, Japanese
ISBN: 9780300250893

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Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14-July 26, 2020.

Object Lessons

Object Lessons
Author: Laura Muir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300254167

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A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought their innovative practices and teaching methods to the United States. Gropius himself accepted a position at Harvard, where he would help establish a collection of Bauhaus material that has since grown to more than 30,000 objects--the largest such collection outside Germany. Harvard in turn became an unofficial center for the Bauhaus in America. Written by established and emerging voices in the field, the scholarship presented here expands on the special link between the two institutions, while highlighting understudied aspects of the Bauhaus, such as weaving, photography, and art made by women. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations--some of never-before-published objects--this book yields fascinating insights for Bauhaus devotees and design aficionados. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums

Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art

Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art
Author: Marjorie B. Cohn
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300096941

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Item contains letters between collector Lois Orswell and David Smith, a history of the Orswell Collection and a checklist of the Collection, most (all?) of which is now held by Harvard University art Museums.