Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Reference

As part of a large oral history project of the Research Center for Arts and Culture of Columbia University aimed at compiling information on the training, career choices, and patterns of development of artists, twelve insightful narrative interviews were edited and collected for this volume. The painters were selected to provide demographic, ethnic, and gender balance and to represent three broad career stages: emerging, established, and mature. In vivid strokes, they discuss their family backgrounds, education, gatekeepers, experiences, and personal and artistic development. Each...

The 34th edition of International Directory of Arts (IDA) contains more than 145,000 addresses (including telephone and fax numbers, eMail and URL) from all over the world:

• Museums and Public Galleries
• Universities, Academies, Schools
• Associations
• Art and Antique Trade, Numismatics
• Art and Antiques Fairs
• Galleries
• Auctioneers
• Restorers
• Art Publishers
• Art Journals
• Antiquarians and Art Booksellers

Within each chapter, addresses are arranged by country and within country, sections are set our alphabetically by city....

Art Directory Germany, Austria, Switzerland offers extensive and up-to-date information concerning art. The user can find in the 20th edition more than 32,000 addresses with names, dates and facts. Addresses from the following areas are included:

• Museums and public galleries
• Art associations
• Art and antiques trade, numismatics
• Galleries
• Auctioneers
• Restorers
• Art publishers
• Art magazines
• Antiquarian bookshops and art bookshops
• Artists

Besides addresses, telephone and...

This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the full range of crime involving works of art: forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling, and vandalism. It is up to date, drawing on much material from the boom years of the art market in the 1980s and continuing up through the 1990s, and assimilating information from a variety of sources: art magazines, newspaper accounts, and the relatively small amount of scholarship on art crime by art historians and criminologists. In addition to considering the motives of thieves, the book looks at the way art theft is socially organized: the types of...

In its 17th edition Museums of the World covers more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries, listed hierarchically by country and place, and within places alphabetically by name. A separate chapter records some 500 museum associations in 132 countries.
Each museum has been assigned to one or more of 22 categories identifying
the type and focus of the museum.
A typical entry contains the following details:

• Name of the museum in the original language with an English translation when necessary;
• Address, phone and fax numbers
• E-mail address and URL
• Type...