Alfred Baur, pioneer and collector. Ediz. illustrata - Hardcover

Crick, Monique

9788874396931: Alfred Baur, pioneer and collector. Ediz. illustrata

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ISBN 10: 8874396937 ISBN 13: 9788874396931

Verlag: 5 Continents Editions, 2015

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Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alfred Baur's birth (1865-1951) and the 50th anniversary of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, this book presents one of the major collections of Asian art through an opulent selection from the 9000 objects of the arts of China and Japan, today housed in an elegant private mansion constructed in Geneva during the late nineteenth century. Alfred Baur, Pioneer and collector combines the history of the Far East with that of the man who founded the company A. Baur & Co. Ltd. in Colombo (Ceylon) in 1897. Guided by the stunning photographs of Hughes Dubois, readers are led into the museum to discover both the essence of the collection and the life of a man fascinated by the arts of the Far East. Sabre fittings, netsuke, lacquer ware, prints, jades and imperial ceramics: the illustrations show the diversity of the works and the quality of the collection as a whole. The precious Japanese objects, so meticulously worked and of technical perfection, reveal the outstanding skills of Japanese craftsmen, while the simplicity of the forms of the Chinese monochrome ceramics display the contemporaneity of the visionary master ceramists of the Song dynasty.

Biograf�a del autor

Monique Crick is an art historian who specializes in Far Eastern art. She was an independent researcher commissioned to undertake projects for the musee national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet in Paris from 1991 to 1998, and for the musee Cernuschi as from 1999. Since January 2003 she has been director of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva. Helen Loveday studied Chinese at Oxford University and wrote a doctorate on the archaeology of the Warring States Period. She has worked at the Baur Foundation since 2003, first as assistant curator, then as curator. She is also a part-time lecturer in the Art of China and Japan at Genea University. Estelle Nikles van Osselt is a sinologist. She studied Asian arts and archaeology at universities in Geneva, London and Beijing. Today the assistant curator at the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Arts, she previously worked for the Guy & Myriam Ullens contemporary Chinese art foundation and their UCCA art centre in Beijing. Hughes Dubois is a photographer who specializes in advertising and art objects. He has worked with various institutions and collectors around the world.

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