Essays
Essays

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Books for Libraries

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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The Rise of Historical Criticism
The Rise of Historical Criticism

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2008-08-15

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1427056986

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The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and current state of criticism. The writer goes back in history and tries to remould the art of criticism with allusions to various critics, genres, and periods. Filled with wit and sublimity, the essay is a comprehensive piece of writing that enlightens the ordinary sense through innovative spirit.

Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Oudry's Painted Menagerie

Author: Mary Morton

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2007-06-25

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0892368896

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In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie focuses on a suite of eleven life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted by Oudry between 1739 and 1752. These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who became a celebrity in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for more than a century, and it is presented here in its newly conserved state.

Thinking About Exhibitions
Thinking About Exhibitions

Author: Bruce W. Ferguson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-11

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1134820011

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An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales.