百年国家艺术藏品 Saved：100 Years of the National Art Collection
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出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2003-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 312印刷时间： 2003/01/01开本： 大16开印次： 1纸张： 铜版纸I S B N ： 9781853322341包装： 平装内容简介
The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund)has helped to secure half a million works of artfor public collections across the United Kingdom,including some of the world's best-loved master-pieces. Published to accompany the Art Fundcentenary exhibition at the Hayward Gallery,London, this beautiful book presents an overviewof national collecting, fashion and taste over thepast century. Spanning 4,000 years of history, itis a magnificent treasure trove of art of every kind.
Sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs,ceramics, metalwork, furniture, rchaeologicalobjects and ethnographic material are juxtaposedin this rich survey of the achievements of the ArtFund over its first hundred years. Fully illustrated and interwoven with the dramaticand intriguing stories behind the acquisitions, the book includes essays by some of the leading expertsin the world of art. They unearth the Art Fund'sextraordinary and continuing contribution to makinggreat art accessible to everyone and raise vitalquestions about the future of museum collecting.
In-depth case studies and illustrated entries describeworks ranging from famous paintings such asBotticelli's Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child,VelAzquez's "Rokeby Venus" and Picasso's WeepingWoman to contemporary art including Anish Kapoor'sTurning the World Inside Out and Rachel Whiteread'sUntitled (History). Other spectacular featured worksinclude Michelangelo's study for the Creation ofAdam in the Sistine Chapel, precious jewels recov-ered by divers from the wreck of the Spanish Armadaship the Girona, the celebrated Luttrell Psalter andCanova's Three Graces.
目录
JPMorgan Foreword
Waiter Gubert
Preface
Susan Ferleger Brades, David Barrie
Introduction: How the National Art Collections Fund Works
Brian Allen
Rebels and Connoisseurs
Juliet Gardiner
The Ones That Got Away
Philip Conisbee
A Century's Achievement: Celebrating "the greatest collectors of all"
Richard Verdi
The Future of Collecting
Martin Bailey
Biographies
Chronology
Catalogue
Richard Verdi
Case Studies:
Diego Velazquez, The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus')
Lynda Nead
Hans Holbein, Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan
Flaminia Gennari Santori
Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais
James Hall
The Girona Treasure
Robert Stnuit
Xie Chufang, Fascination of Nature
Roderick Whitfield
The Free Admission Campaign
Polly Toynbee
Lenders to the Exhibition
Credits and Acknowledgements
Index
