The Detroit Institute Of Arts

Author : Linda Downs
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393045291
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diego Riveria written by Linda Downs and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 1999-09-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated in-depth study of the most important North American work by the best-known Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. Early in the Depression, Diego Rivera was commissioned by Edsel Ford to create a series of murals in the gallery of the Detroit Institute of Arts, giant frescos whose theme would be America’s industrial might. This volume studies the astonishing results and gives us a remarkably close look at Diego and his wife, Frida Kahlo. Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals are one of this country’s greatest treasures. In addition to providing full coverage and analysis of the murals, the book includes chapters on the murals’ planning and antecedents, Rivera’s working methods (which can be read as a primer on frescos), Diego and Frida’s lives for their nine months in Detroit, and the public’s dramatic response to the strong socialist/communist themes in the works.

Author : Eve Straussman-Pflanzer
Publisher : Detroit Institute of Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780300256369
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Her Hand written by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer and published by Detroit Institute of Arts. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new look at the extraordinary accomplishments of early modern Italian women artists This generously illustrated volume surveys a sweeping range of early modern Italian women artists, exploring their practice and paths to success within the male-dominated art world of the period. New attention to archival documents and detailed technical analyses of the beautiful paintings featured here--ranging from historical subjects to portraits and still lifes--offer new insight into the ways these women worked and their accomplishments. Essays and catalogue entries by an international team of distinguished art historians examine the works of Artemisia Gentileschi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Fede Galizia, Elisabetta Sirani, Giovanna Garzoni, Rosalba Carriera, and other less known Italian women artists. Through these works of art in diverse media--from paintings to prints--the fascinating stories of early modern Italian women artists are revealed.

Author : Valerie J. Mercer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780895580023
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detroit Collects written by Valerie J. Mercer and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dimitri Meeks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482489
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods written by Dimitri Meeks and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not vulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and littleknown texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent.

Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555951429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works by Artists Born 1816-1847 written by Detroit Institute of Arts and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit written by Detroit Institute of Arts and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Abt
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328415
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Museum on the Verge written by Jeffrey Abt and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detroit Institute of Arts is one of America's largest and oldest municipal art museums. However, even as the museum grew into a distinguished collection, there were threats of closure. The DIA has walked a financial tightrope since it opened just over a century ago, and was nearly closed by government funding cuts in the 1970s and 1990s. Now Jeffrey Abt tells how the DIA has had to struggle to maintain its fine art collection with barely enough income to remain open. A Museum on the Verge goes behind the scenes at the DIA to disclose the political, economic, and social forces that shaped the museum from its founding to the present day. Drawing on new archival research, Abt reveals that the growing discrepancy between the museum's size and its operating budget was the result of a century of ad hoc solutions to institutional problems that left the DIA vulnerable to annual income losses -- especially reductions of government funding. He also explains its complex relations with private and government entities and delineates the integral role of the museum's support group, the Founders Society. Abt's account is supplemented by a wealth of material, including legal documents and numerical data taken at five-year intervals from the 1880s through 2000 that is presented in both tables and graphs. The data, which comprehensively survey vital statistics such as attendance, collections growth, and finances, provide a rich resource for comparative research on other museums. As a case study of a prominent public institution, A Museum on the Verge offers an invaluable research model for scholars and museum professionals alike.

Author : William C. Agee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876-1918 written by William C. Agee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Lawrence Rosenthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300211603
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo in Detroit written by Mark Lawrence Rosenthal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, held from March 15 - July 12, 2015, celebrating the famous Mexican artist couple Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo during the year they spent in Detroit while he completed the "Detroit Industry Murals".

Author : Detroit Institute of Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts written by Detroit Institute of Arts and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports of the Detroit Arts Commission and of the Detroit Museum of Art Founders Society.