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Collecting Nature
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Author : Andrew G. Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Collecting Nature written by Andrew G. Kirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.
Collecting Nature
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Author : Sylvia Heudecker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-05
Collecting Nature written by Sylvia Heudecker and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with Art categories.
Nature can be collected in many forms and shapes: live animals have been locked up in cages, displayed in zoos and menageries and their hides and dried body parts have been used as part of installations in galleries and studies. Plants from far-away countries have been cultivated in botanical gardens and in hothouses. Furthermore, the depiction of medicinal plants and of prized animals was regarded as an important part of the decorative schemes, in an attempt to bring nature indoors. Recent research has also shown that artificialia and naturalia were displayed side by side in early modern Europe—sometimes in the company of scientifica—and that the exhibition set-up often included a complex arrangement of stables, kennels, aviaries, art gallery and library. Villas and country houses displayed favourite horses as well as paintings and antiquities. Botanical gardens and gardens of simples at monastic foundations and universities imposed order and intellectual scope to the cultivation of many new species imported to Europe during the age of exploration. Of particular interest to the mission of this working group is the fact that so many collections of naturalia were displayed in close proximity to other collecting categories, according to a similar choreography as well as according to a similar logistical set-up. Thus, the collections, outdoors as well as indoors, resemble one another in terms of labels adopted and discussions conducted on the respective merits of order and categorisation. The essays in the present volume, therefore, connect art, nature and science by tracing objects, as well as the practices of collecting and display from the early kunst- und wunderkammern to the more scientific aspirations and publications of the eighteenth century. Indoor as well as outdoor locations of collecting are considered as well as the dissemination of objects and knowledge in the form of books during a period, which gradually led from an intrinsic, if untidy, connection between art and nature towards a new world of clear, if unhappy, divisions.
The Nature Of Classical Collecting
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Author : Alexandra Bounia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Nature Of Classical Collecting written by Alexandra Bounia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
The phenomenon of collecting as a systematic activity undertaken for symbolic rather than actual needs, is traditionally taken to originate in the middle of the fifteenth century, when the first cabinets of curiosities appear in Italy. Yet it is clear that the practice of collecting started long before that, indeed its origins can be traced back thousands of years to European prehistoric communities. Whilst this early genesis is, due to lack of written records, still shrouded in much mystery, The Nature of Classical Collecting argues that the collecting practices of classical Greece and Rome offer a rich tapestry of experiences which can be reconstructed to illuminate a pivotal period in the long and ever developing phenomenon of collecting. Utilizing a wide variety of examples of classical collections - including grave goods, the accumulations of Greek temples and open-air shrines, the royal collections of Hellenistic kings, Roman art and curiosity collections, and relics - The Nature of Classical Collecting focuses on the field of the 'pre-history' of collecting, a neglected yet critical phase that helped crystallize the western concept of collecting. Drawing primarily on Latin writings from the period 100 BCE to 100 CE it shows how collecting underwent a transition from a religious and political activity, to an intellectual practice in which connoisseurship could impart social status. It also demonstrates how the appreciation of objects and artists changed as new qualities were attributed to material culture, resulting in the establishment of art markets, patronage and an interest in the history of art. By exploring these early developments, The Nature of Classical Collecting not only provides a fascinating insight into the culture of late Hellenistic/early Imperial Roman collecting, but also offers a much fuller grounding for understanding the influences and inspirations of those Renaissance collectors who themselves were to have such a profound influence on the course of European art, architecture and culture.
Possessing Nature
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Author : Paula Findlen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-09-16
Possessing Nature written by Paula Findlen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-16 with History categories.
In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.
Collected Nature Stories
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Author : Henry Williamson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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Little Collectors Nature Art
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language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Little Collectors Nature Art written by and has been published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
It's spring! So it's time to get outside and explore. All around you are extraordinary things in nature, waiting to be discovered... and collected! This box is your one-stop guide to finding, observing, collecting, and exhibiting your discoveries, from flowers and blossoms to pebbles and plants. Discover and create your own collections and be amazed at the wonder of life around you.
Possessing Nature
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Author : Paula Findlen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Possessing Nature written by Paula Findlen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Possessing Nature is a unique cross-disciplinary study. Not only does its detailed description of the earliest natural history collections make an important contribution to museum studies and cultural history, but by placing these museums in a continuum of scientific inquiry, it also adds to our understanding of the history of science.
The Nature Of Classical Collecting
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Author : Alexandra Bounia
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Nature Of Classical Collecting written by Alexandra Bounia and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- General Preface to the Series -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reading Ancient Texts: methodological approaches to interpretation and appropriation -- Part I: Notions of Collecting in the Ancient World -- 2 Collecting Material Testimonies: antiquarianism and notions of the past -- 3 'Gifts-to-Men and Gifts-to-Gods': defining (collecting) values -- 4 The Concept of the Individual as a Cultural Category: its implications in classical collecting -- 5 Collecting in Time and Space in the Classical World -- Part II: Classical Collectors and Collections -- 6 Visiting Pliny's Collection: reading a 'museum' -- 7 Poet's Gifts, Collector's Words: the epigrams of Martial -- 8 'Luxury is Not for Everybody': collecting as a means of sharing cultural and social identity -- 9 'Furnishing' the Collector's World: Cicero's Epistulae and the Verrine Orations -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
A Brush With Nature
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Author : Christopher Riopelle
language : en
Publisher: National Gallery Publications Limited
Release Date : 1999-08-01
A Brush With Nature written by Christopher Riopelle and has been published by National Gallery Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-01 with Art categories.
More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings, created quickly to capture subtle atmospheric effects and the fleeting play of light, played a vital role in the visual training of generations of European artists. The pictures were not conceived of as finished works of art, were rarely if ever exhibited during the artists' lifetimes, and were often kept in the studio for later consultation. This beautiful book presents the Gere collection, which today numbers some 70 works. These include paintings by Valenciennes, Frederic, Lord Leighton, and Thomas Jones, as well as by less well-known artists such as Gilles Closson and Simon Denis. While the majority were painted in Italy, there are also works by British, French, Italian, German, Belgian, and Scandinavian artists. These intimate and compelling documents of artists at work form what is perhaps the most comprehensive private collection of its kind.
What S In Your Pocket
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Author : Heather L. Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-14
What S In Your Pocket written by Heather L. Montgomery and has been published by Charlesbridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Charles Darwin, George Washington Carver, and Jane Goodall were once curious kids with pockets full of treasures! When you find something strange and wonderful, do you put it in your pocket? Meet nine scientists who, as kids, explored the great outdoors and collected "treasures": seedpods, fossils, worms, and more. Observing, sorting, and classifying their finds taught these kids scientific skills--and sometimes led to groundbreaking discoveries. Author Heather Montgomery has all the science flair of a new Bill Nye. Book includes the Heather's tips for responsible collecting.