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ABOUT: Welcome to Marquand Library's blog highlighting our rare book collection and all things visual. Our staff are delighted to share our growing collections and we invite guest contributions from those who use our materials for teaching and research.
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African American Art Today: Four Major Artists / an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Skunder Boghossian, Valente Malangatana, Twins Seven Seven, and Amir I.M. Nour. New York:, African-American Institute, 1974. -
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BLOG ARCHIVE
- Chronicling Disaster in Mid-19th century Japan
- Catherine Perrot: An Early Treatise on Miniature Painting
- Before Ruscha?: All the Buildings on Amsterdam’s Canal Streets…ca. 1768
- Art Between the Wars: “Seikigun” and Experiments in ‘Synthetic Art’
- A Medieval Woman Artist and Musician at Work: The Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock
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Monthly Archives: April 2022
ON DAZZLING JAPAN AND EUROPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
In 1804, when the book Picture Book Annual Events of the Green Houses (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji) was published in Japan, who would have guessed that ninety years later it would take Europe by storm? However, by 1891, this two-volume … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese, Rare monograph
Tagged 19th century, Asian Art, Edmond de Goncourt, Edo period, Hayashi Tadamasa, Japanese, Jippensha Ikkū, Kitagawa Utamaro, Woodblock prints, woodblock-printed books, Yoshiwara
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