Art Purposes: Object Lesson for the Liberal Arts - Hardcover

Homann, Joachim

 
9783791358178: Art Purposes: Object Lesson for the Liberal Arts
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3791358170 ISBN 13: 9783791358178
Verlag: Prestel Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the Museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitors from around the world. This splendid book takes readers on a trip through art history and through the liberal arts, which serve as the college s grounding philosophy using key objects from Bowdoin's diverse collection. With insightful essays that illuminate art in the context of current, interdisciplinary liberal arts questions, this volume is an art lover's treasure that will spark readers curiosity and help nurture their intellectual lives.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JOACHIM HOMANN is Curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the author of Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors, Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960, and Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea (all by Prestel).

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The Bowdoin College Museum of Art features nearly 24,000 works spanning antiquity to today, housed on Bowdoin's campus in coastal Maine. Since it began collecting in 1811, the Museum has served as a unique resource for students, scholars, and visitors from around the world. This splendid book takes readers on a trip through art history and through the liberal arts, which serve as the college s grounding philosophy using key objects from Bowdoin's diverse collection. With insightful essays that illuminate art in the context of current, interdisciplinary liberal arts questions, this volume is an art lover's treasure that will spark readers curiosity and help nurture their intellectual lives.

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Verlag
Prestel Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3791358170
ISBN 13 
9783791358178
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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