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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.
Category Archives: Rare monograph
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legendary Imperial Hotel (Teikoku Hoteru): “The Jewel of the Orient”
On September 1,1923, Frank Lloyd Wright’s legendary Imperial Hotel [Teikoku Hoteru] opened to the public for the first time. Located near the emperor’s palace in Tokyo, it was built by the Japanese government to house foreign visitors and guests of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, United States of America, Japanese, Japanese, Rare monograph
Tagged 1893 Columbian Exhibition, 20th century, Architecture, Asian Art, Byodo-in, Frank Lloyd Wright, Great Kanto Earthquake, Imperial Hotel, Japanese architecture, Japanese Art, Teikoku Hoteru
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An Early Embroidery Pattern Book by a Female Professional Designer… and Greetings!
Kunst- und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen: oder neu-erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch [The Delights of the Art and Industry of the Practising Needle or the Newly-Invented Sewing and Embroidery Book], an early eighteenth-century German pattern book, was recently acquired by Marquand Library with … Continue reading
Posted in European, Rare monograph
Tagged 18th century, Embroidery designs, Margaretha Helmin
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Bringing Mannerist Art Theory to England: Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’arte della pittura… “Englished” by Richard Haydocke (1598)
When Richard Haydocke’s translation of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’arte della pittura… was published in 1598, England was regarded as a backwater of the European art world. Though the Tudor monarchs had begun to develop their patronage of artists to … Continue reading
Posted in European, Rare monograph
Tagged Albrecht Dürer, Art theory, English Art 16th century, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Italian Art 16th century, Mannerism, Printed books 16th century, Richard Haydocke, The Bodleian Library
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AMERIKA 101
We all remember that classic tale of George Washington as a young boy—no, not the one about him chopping down the cherry tree—the one where he met with the Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512) on a balcony overlooking a random … Continue reading
Posted in Rare monograph
Tagged 19th century, American Revolution, Amerigo Vespucci, Asian Art, Christopher Columbus, Edo period, George Washington, Gyokuransai Sadahide, Gyountei Sadahide, Japanese, Queen Isabella, Simon Bolivar, Utagawa Sadahide, Woodblock prints, woodblock-printed books, Yokohama
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Jazz
The Magazine Jazz and French Colonialism in 1931 Jazz: L’Actualité intellectuelle (1928-1930?) was one of the new French photo journals (including Vu, Lu, and Voilà) of the Art Deco period that employed a multitude of avant-garde writers, illustrators, and photographers … Continue reading
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Tagged African Art, Art Deco, Colonial Exposition 1931, French Art, Photography 20th Century
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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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Francesca Caccini (1587-ca. 1640) and Tales of Powerful Women
Ferdinando Saracinelli, La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina. Balletto rapp.ta in musica al Ser.mo Ladislao Sigismondo principe di Polonia e di Suezia nella villa imp.le della serenss.ma arcid.ssa d’Austria gran duch.sa di Toscana… Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli (1625)https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113265403506421 In Marquand’s rare … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th century, Festival book, Francesca Caccini, Italian architecture, Italian art, opera
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Banned Books: Kunisada’s “Tales of Genji”
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864) is often considered the leading woodblock print artist of the 19th century. A “superstar” in his own time, much of his fame and popularity can be credited to his beautiful and dynamic book illustrations parodying the classic … Continue reading
Posted in Japanese, Rare monograph
Tagged 19th century, Asian Art, banned books, Edo period, erotica, Genji monogatari, Japanese, Mitsuuji, Nise Murasaki inaka Genji, Rustic Genji, shunga, Utagawa Kunisada, Woodblock prints, woodblock-printed books, wrapper
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1950s Woodcuts and Artists’ Exchanges
Marquand recently acquired an inscribed first edition copy of Huang Yongyu mu ke ji 黃永玉木刻集 , a survey of the best of Huang’s early printmaking work. Although Huang is perhaps best known internationally for later ink paintings of flora and … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese, East Asian, Rare monograph
Tagged 1950s, 20th century, Asian Art, China-Europe connections, Chinese Art, dedications to artists, Huang Yongyu, Jaroslav Bejček, socialist realism, Woodblock prints
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A Scrolling Facsimile of the Bayeux “Tapestry” in Marquand
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99107157823506421 In 2020, the controversial “Brexit” finally severed a relatively new (less than fifty years) bond between Britain and Europe. Marquand Library recently acquired an unusual item that recorded a much earlier, even more tumultuous change in the relationship between … Continue reading
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Tagged Medieval art
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