Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting. Julius von Schlosser. Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kauffmann; translated by Jonathan Blower. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021. 232 pp.; 7 color and 103 b/w ills. Paper $65.00. ISBN 9781606066652

West 86th ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-156
Author(s):  
James Delbourgo
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Curiosity Cabinets ◽  
Late Renaissance ◽  
Research Institute

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Renaissance

This chapter explores the material culture of everyday life in late-Renaissance Paris by setting L’Estoile’s diaries and after-death inventory against a sample of the inventories of thirty-nine of his colleagues. L’Estoile and his family lived embedded in the society of royal office-holders and negotiated their place in its hierarchy with mixed success. His home was cramped and his wardrobe rather shabby. The paintings he displayed in the reception rooms reveal his iconoclastic attitude to the visual, contrasting with the overwhelming number of Catholic devotional pictures displayed by his colleagues. Yet the collection he stored in his study and cabinet made him stand out in his milieu as a distinguished curieux. It deserves a place in the early modern history of collecting, as his example reveals that the civil wars might be a stimulus as much as a disruption to collecting in sixteenth-century France.

Valediction: the Nordic contribution to the Bibliography of the history of art

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Kofod-Hansen ◽  
Anne Lise Rabben ◽  
Irmeli Isomäki ◽  
Elín Guðjónsdóttir ◽  
Maud Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Free Access ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Institute

From the 1970s onwards Danish contributions were sent to the international art bibliography published by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Broader Nordic co-operation began when the Bibliography of the history of art (later the International bibliography of art) was established in 1990. Throughout the next two decades, art libraries in each of the five countries selected key material whose records were then submitted for publication. This collaboration came to an end in 2009 when the Getty announced that it could no longer continue to support the IBA on its own, although it would introduce free access via its website to the data for the years 1975 to 2007.

scholarly journals Contemporaneity in the History of Art: A Clark Workshop 2009, Summaries of Papers and Notes on Discussions

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Smith
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Institute

Sponsored by the Clark Institute, Williamstown, and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, the workshop was convened by Terry Smith, and held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Mass., October 8 and 9, 2009. These notes do not record the exact statements of all participants, neither in the summaries of papers nor notes on discussions; rather, they represent the author’s own impressions of the workshop as it unfolded. See also, in this issue of Contemporaneity, Wu Hung’s contribution to the workshop.

Review: Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina en LA by Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl Villa, and Michael J. Dear (eds.)

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-128
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crime Wave ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The City ◽  
History Of Los Angeles

Throughout the twentieth century (and now the twenty-first), the specter of a Latina/o past, present, and future has haunted the myth of Los Angeles as a sunny, bucolic paradise. At the same time it has loomed behind narratives of the city as a dystopic, urban nightmare. In the 1940s Carey McWilliams pointed to the fabrication of a “Spanish fantasy heritage” that made Los Angeles the bygone home of fair señoritas, genteel caballeros and benevolent mission padres. Meanwhile, the dominant Angeleno press invented a “zoot” (read Mexican-American) crime wave. Unlike the aristocratic, European Californias/os of lore, the Mexican/American “gangsters” of the 1940s were described as racial mongrels. What's more, the newspapers explicitly identified them as the sons and daughters of immigrants-thus eliding any link they may have had to the Californias/os of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or to the history of Los Angeles in general.

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