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Whitlock, MonicaBiblio.com

Land Beyond the River: The Untold Story of Central Asia

Engraving By Jean Louis PillementBiblio.com

Three Chinoiserie Scenes Original Engraving Probably From "The Ladies Amusement Or Whole Art Of Japanning Made Easy : Illustrated In Upwards Of 1500 Different Designs On 200 Copper Plates : Consisting Of Flowers Shells Figures Birds Insects Landscapes Shipping Beasts Vases Borders Etc. ."

1762038465London: Robert Sayer 1762. First Edition . No Binding. Fine. Original Engraving Plate On P. 100. Light Chipping To Edges Not Affecting Lettering Or Design. Jean-Baptiste Pillement 24 May 1728 - 26 April 1808 Was A Painter And Designer Known For His Exquisite And Delicate Landscapes But Whose Importance Lies Primarily In The Engravings Done After His Drawings And Their Influence In Spreading The Rococo Style And Particularly The Taste For Chinoiserie Throughout Europe. In 1743 At The Age Of 15 He Moved From Lyon To Paris Where He Was Employed As An Apprentice Designer At The Gobelin Factory. In 1745 He Left For Spain Where He Remained For 5 Years. There He Found Employment In Various Cities As Both A Designer And Painter. In 1750 At The Age Of 22 He Moved To Lisbon Where He Enjoyed Continuing Success. In 1754 He Left Lisbon For London. Pillement Then Spent Eight Years In England Fully Exploiting The English Taste For Landscapes. There He Was Inspired By The Paintings Of Among Others Nicolaes Berchem. During This Period He Became Acquainted With David Garrick The Famous Actor And His Austrian Wife Eva Maria Weigel Who Became Avid Collectors Of His Work. In 1763 Pillement Then Traveled To Vienna Where He Was Employed At The Imperial Court Of Maria Theresa And Francis I. In 1765 He Left Vienna For Warsaw Where His Many Projects Included Decorating The Royal Castle In Warsaw And The Ujazdowski Castle His Largest Project Commissioned By The King Of Poland Stanislaw Ii Augustus. He Also Later Worked In Saint Petersburg The Piedmont Milan Rome And Venice. 1768-1780 Pillement Again Worked In France Where He Was Employed By Marie Antoinette In The Petit Trianon. 1780-1789 He Was Once Again On The Iberian Peninsula And In 1789 Moved To Pézenas In The Languedoc. In 1800 He Returned To Lyon Where He Continued To Paint While Also Designing For The Silk Industry And Giving Lessons In The Academy Founded By Napoleon. He Remained In His Native Lyon Until His Death. Pillement's Illustrations Are A Mixture Of Fantastic Birds Flora & Fauna Large Human Figures And Chinoiserie. His Designs Were Used By Engravers And Decorators On Porcelain And Pottery But Also On Textiles Wallpaper And Silver. Pillement Had Discovered In 1764 A New Method Of Printing On Silk With Fast Colours Recorded In His Memoirs. One Of His Prime Vehicles Was The Single Print Marketed Independently Of An Album. He Published Many Albums One Is: Oùvre De Fleurs Ornements Cartouches Figures Et Sujets Chinois 1776. The Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria British Columbia The Cleveland Museum Of Art The Courtauld Institute Of Art London The Honolulu Museum Of Art The Indiana University Art Museum Bloomington Indiana The Metropolitan Museum Of Art New York City Museum Der Bildenden Künste Leipzig Germany The Museum Of Fine Arts Boston The National Gallery Of Art Washington D.C. Palazzo Pitti Florence Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon Portugal And The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Are Among The Public Collections Holding Work By Jean-Baptiste Pillement. <br/> <br/> Robert Sayer unknown

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Feuerwerker, Albert, And S ChengBiblio.com

Chinese Communist Studies Of Modern Chinese History

1961051759Cambridge Ma: Harvard University Press 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Xxv 287 Pp.Red Cloth Tape Spine Gray Covers Printed In Red As Issued. First Edition And First Printing 1961. A Monument Of Modern Bibliographic Historical Scholarship. No Corresponding Studies Of Other Countries' Contemporary Histories Thus There Is No Possibility Of Studying The Perversions Of Contemporary Histories In All Countries As A Phenomenon In Itself With Many Non-Country-Specific Characteristics A Characteristic Of Harvard Studies. Albert Feuerwerker 1927 -2013 Was A Historian Of Modern China One Of The Generation Of Cold War Scholars Who Established The Field Of Area Studies. At The University Of Michigan Feuerwerker Was A Key Organizer Of The Field Of Chinese Studies And Served As First Director Of The Center For Chinese Studies 1961-1967 And 1972 To 1983. Among His National Positions Was The Presidency Of The Association For Asian Studies 1991-1992. He Served As A Member Chair Or Co-Chair Of Many National Organizations Including The Joint Committee On Contemporary China Of The American Council Of Learned Societies And The Social Science Research Council 1966-1978 And 1980-1983; National Committee On United States-China Relations; Member And Later Vice Chairman Of The Committee On Scholarly Communication With The People's Republic Of China Of The National Academy Of Sciences The American Council Of Learned Societies And The Social Science Research Council 1971-1978 And 1981-1983. He Served On The Editorial Boards Of Major Academic Journals Including The American Historical Review Journal Of Asian Studies And China Quarterly. Feuerwerker's Doctoral Dissertation Was Published As The First Volume In The Harvard University Press East Asian Series China's Early Industrialization; Sheng Hsuan-Huai 1844-1916 And Mandarin Enterprise Harvard 1958 Which Explored The Difficulties Of A Confucian Government In Taking On The Tasks Of Modernization. He Continued This Theme In "Handicraft And Manufactured Cotton Textiles In China 1871-1910." 1970 Among Other Articles. Along With Fairbank Students Joseph Levenson And Mary C. Wright Feuerwerker Argues In These Works That Traditional Chinese Values Were A Barrier To Modernity And Would Have To Be Dismantled Before China Could Make Progress. Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History In China Critiques Feuerwerker's Point Of View. Feuerwerker Returned To This Theme In His Presidential Address To The Association For Asian Studies "Presidential Address: Questions About China's Early Modern Economic History That I Wish I Could Answer" His Criticisms And Analysis Of Marxist Historiography Of China Are Represented In Articles Such As "China's History In Marxian Dress" And "The Ideology Of Scholarship: China's New Historiography" With Harold A Kahn. In His Edited Volume Of Articles History In Communist China Originally Published In China Quarterly Scholars Critically Analyzed The Work Of Historians In The People's Republic Of China On A Wide Range Of Topics. He Was Editor Or Co-Editor Of A Number Of Volumes Including Albert Feuerwerker Rhoads Murphey And Mary Wright Eds. Approaches To Modern Chinese History. Berkeley: University Of California Press 1967 A Collection Of Essays By Fellow Students Of Fairbank And Volumes Of "The Cambridge History Of China" A Series In Which He Published Several Chapters. <br/> <br/> Harvard University Press paperback

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