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This work provides a ready reference to significant productions of plays on the London stage during the period 1837 through 1901 and includes extensive information concerning both plays and players. The compiler's introduction offers a fascinating overview of the cultural and social attitudes toward theatre in the Victorian Era, and the ways in which theatre reflected societal changes, class differences, and the tastes and interests of the theatre-going public. This single-volume reference offers a wealth of previously unobtainable factual information and an opportunity for broader study of a large array of theatrical personalities. ... Read more

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This three-volume work is the first attempt in years to offer a comprehensive and detailed account of the stylistic, contextual, and iconographic aspects of archaic Corinthian vases. Exported throughout the Mediterranean and unearthed at numerous ancient sites, Corinthian vases are valuable for their artistic and cultural worth and for the information they provide about Corinth and the cities to which they were exported. ... Read more

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Title: Merck's Index of Fine Chemicals and Drugs for the Materia Medica and the Arts : Comprising a Summary of Whatever Chemical Products Are To-Day Adjudged as Being Useful in Either Medicine or Technology, With Average Values and Synonyms Affixed; a Guide for the Physician, Apothecary, Chemist, and DealerPublisher: [New York : E. Merck]Publication date: 1889Subjects: Materia medicaDrugsChemicalsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Index of Watercolor Exhibitions, 1900-1945 is a valuable and timely addition to the growing lists of title on the watercolor medium. Overlooked and occasionally scorned in the past, American watercolor painting and its history is beginning to win some of the recognition it so richly deserves. The first part of the "Index" catalogues year-by-year the exhibits and exhibitors at the annual salons of the most important American watercolor societies and museums sponsoring watercolor exhibitions. The second part is an alphabetical directory of artist-exhibitors. Filling a large and important gap in studies of American watercolor history, the "Index" will be of greatest value to museum professionals, scholars, librarians, art collectors, and dealers and those in related fields. These exhibition lists reflect a golden age when very juried (or invitational) exhibitions of watercolor paintings, often of hundreds of works, enjoyed a popularity across America. Among the regular exhibitors at such salons were Winslow Homer, John Marin, Edward Hopper, and Charles Burchfield. Such mega-exhibitions are, of course, no longer held and in fact began a rapid decline following the end of the Second World War. By then there were just too many artists submitting too many works to overwhelmed and overworked juries and hanging committees. These exhibitions moreover, reveal a pre-media day and age when exclusive professional societies and their annual salons often determined the course of an artist's career. Until very recently this flowering of watercolor paintings has remained virtually forgotten. This "Index", therefore, takes a significant step toward the documentation and reevaluation of this age. ... Read more

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First published in 1980, James Cahill's Index is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late 6th through the mid-14th century. Incorporating the work of Ellen Johnston Laing and Osvald Siren, whom Professor Cahill studied under as a graduate student, the Index includes biographical details of the artists, their "style" and "studio" names, where their works are located or have been published, and information on materials, signatures, seals, and inscriptions. An extensive bibliography focuses on reproductions of the works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western publications, making the Index is an essential research tool for all students, collectors, and connoisseurs of Chinese art. ... Read more

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Huston Diehl's Index of Icons in English Emblem Books is an essential reference for the scholar of Renaissance emblematics.Emblems, those mixes of allegorical picture with latin sententiae or poem, were ubiquitousthrough renaissance literature, visual arts, and theatre.Early modernEnglish intellectuals, from Protestant sermonists to Shakespeare, utilizedthese moralistic "speaking pictures" as references in theirwork.

And Diehl has provided an easily usable and complete index ofemblematic icons in his work.Although earlier compilations of Englishemblems, including those by Peter Daly, were useful Diehl's work saves thescholar innummerable hours trying to find obscure iconic references. ... Read more

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This book addresses two problems facing the increasing number of scholars of Chinese art and artists. First, there is no recent definitive first reference book on Chinese artists, collectors, and connoisseurs except those written in Chinese. Second, the vast majority of researchers in this field cannot readily read Chinese. Thus Part I, the Master Dictionary, is a sourcebook for artist information and identification. Part II presents a simple methodology for identifying characters by a modified stroke counting system. ... Read more

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Richly illustrated with color plates of paintings from institutional and private collections as well as black-and-white photographs, this reference guide is the only comprehensive volume on early Oregon painters. Listings for over 500 Oregon artists offer biographical details and note where their work was shown and where it is now held. Additional essays on early art museums and art organizations, art galleries and exhibition spaces, and the Federal Art Projects of the 1930s show how the state created itself artistically. ... Read more

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A must have resource on Oregon artists
This book sets the standard for reference works on regional artists. Anyone interested in art of the period will enjoy it immensely. There are articles that help define the art movements of the day and wonderfulinformation on over 500 artists - many of them can only be found here. Iuse this book as a tool in collecting, and any serious collector should notbe without it. Have one in your home, your office, and your car (for thosefinds at estate sales). With this book Oregon artists have come into theirown. In addition it is a beautiful book just to browse.

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Oregon Painters: The First Hundred Years is the definitive book on the history of art in Oregon. Ginny Allen and Josie Klevit have written a resource book that goes beyond the genre. It sets a new standard to whichall future books on this subject will be held to. As useful as anydictionary for looking up general information it also entertains the readerwith biographies of the painters that run from brief and factual to lengthyand colorful. A generous selection of color plates makes this book a feastfor the eyes as well. This book belongs in the librarey of gallery owners,art collectors, historians and anybody with the slightest interest in thePacific Northwest or art in general. ... Read more

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First published in 1984, this index of Chinese paintings includes entries for approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Formerly Professor of Oriental Art, University of Oregon, Ellen Johnston Laing is a research associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. She has written many articles on Chinese painting and popular culture, as well as The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China.
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It all began when a scholar looking for depictions of angels had to look through the Harvard visual collection slide byslide. Following the publication of a subject index for theOld Testament, volume one for the New Testament covers narrative paintings of the Italian school, citing such subjects ... Read more