Heaven & Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections
2013171990Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports 2013. Hardcover. VG/VG: Never read as new. HARDCOVER edition. Black embossed cloth with color pictorial dustjacket. 363 pp. Mainly color illustrations maps plans. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. October 6 2013-March 2 2014 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles April 9-August 25 2014."This richly illustrated book tells the first full history of the calotype embedding it in the social context that crucially formed it: Britain's changing fortunes intricate class structure ever-growing industrialization and new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates many have never before been published or exhibited. And the histories of 500 calotypists most previously unknown are detailed in the volume's biographical dictionary a valuable work of far-reaching scholarship the further demonstrates the major role played by the paper negative in mid-nineteenth-century Britain."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Photography and an age of paradox -- The formative years : the calotype in the 1840s -- The great exhibition of 1851 -- Battling patents and gaining legitimacy -- The calotype finds its place -- Subjects fit for the camera -- British sensibilities 1855-1857 -- Echoes of the grand tour -- Under an Indian sky -- Commercialism advances the calotype declines. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports hardcover
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