Freer: A Legacy of Art [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Freer. A legacy of art.

Zustand: Sehr gut. 272 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The life and travels of Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) and his decision to build a museum in Washington, D.C., provide a uniquely American story set in a remarkable period of American history. When the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art opened in 1923, visitors had their first comprehensive view of its founder's artistic vision: his original, innovative concept was based on maintaining a subtle harmony between works by a select number of American artists and a representative collection of Asian antiquities. Freer: A Legacy of Art integrates the story of Freer's historic connoisscurship with illustrations-125 in full color-of paintings, ceramics, sculptures, and other masterpieces from the Gallery's holdings, together with exceptional archival photographs that document Freer's travels around the world. Freer was born and grew up in Kingston, New York. He spent most of his life in Detroit, where, until his retirement in 1900 at age forty-six, he pursued a successful career in the manufacture of railroad cars. While Freer's self-made fortune enabled him to collect art and to travel extensively, there -was nothing in his modest family background to hint at the pivotal role he was ultimately to play in increasing American consciousness of art, particularly in emphasizing the cultural relationships between East and West. Beginning in 1890, Freer traveled often-first to Europe, then to Japan, China, Java, India, Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), and Egypt. As a result of those trips, reinforced by diligent study, he emerged as a discriminating connoisseur and, to his surprise, an international celebrity. In 1906, Freer formally gave to the nation his collections and the funds for the building in which to house them. The Asian portion, which has grown steadily since Freer's bequest, today forms one of the preeminent collections in the world. Included in the gift of American art were paintings by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Dwight William Tryon, and Abbott Handerson Thayer, among others, and the largest single collection of works by the expatriate James McNeil] Whistler. Whistler's Peacock Room, which Freer had transported intact from London, remains one of the most celebrated works in the Gallery. Freer recognized in it a tangible link between international cultures. ISBN 9780810933156 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Artikel-Nr. 949126

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