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Paperback. Condition: New. This exhibition catalog explores the remarkable theatrical designs of Italy's influential Bibiena family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate stage designs were used for operas, festivals, and courtly performances across Europe, from their native Italy to cities as far afield as Vienna, Prague, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and Lisbon. Beyond these performances, the distinctive Bibiena style survives through their remarkable drawings.Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy commemorates a group of Bibiena drawings from the collection of Jules Fisher, the Tony Award-winning lighting designer, gifted to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Accompanying the first US exhibition of these works in more than thirty years, these drawings demonstrate the range of the Bibienas' output, from energetic sketches to detailed watercolors. Representations of imagined palace interiors and lavish illusionistic architecture illuminate the visual splendor of the Baroque period.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. 1st Edition. Quarto. Pp.280. Lavishly illustrated in color, including a folding 4-page panorama of Lucknow, ca. 1820. A new copy, published with the exhibition at Yale (January-May, 2026). Immaculate in color-illustrated boards.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Draws on the Yale Center for British Art's rich collection to critically reconsider the vibrant creative exchanges between artists in India, China, and Britain during a period ruthlessly driven by commerce Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 17501850 surveys the remarkable artistic innovations that emerged within the context of the British East India Company's commercial and militaristic expansion into India and China. Extending the term "Company Style" to encompass the broad range of work created within the imperial corporation's cross-cultural networks, this comprehensive exhibition catalogue celebrates the British, Indian, and Chinese artistsoften unknownwhose experimentation with papers, pigments, and other materials produced astonishing aesthetic diversity. Compelled by new subjects and techniques, so-called Company artists profoundly affected visual culture within and beyond Asia, challenging notions of asymmetric power dynamics at the apex of the East India Company's rapacious pursuit of profits. Edited by curators Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer, Painters, Ports, and Profits features more than one hundred objectsarchitectural drafts, burnished opaque watercolors, hand-colored aquatints, and small- and large-scale portraitsdrawn from the Yale Center for British Art's rich collection and includes new research from an international group of scholars, curators, and conservators. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (January 8May 31, 2026) Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Draws on the Yale Center for British Art's rich collection to critically reconsider the vibrant creative exchanges between artists in India, China, and Britain during a period ruthlessly driven by commerce Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 tells the story of the remarkable creative exchanges that coincided with the rise of one of the most ruthless and powerful corporations in history. Scholarship on this period often separates Indian, Chinese, and British artists; Painters, Ports, and Profits instead foregrounds the vital interactions between their practices. Artistic experimentation with papers, pigments, and other materials produced works of astonishing beauty and variety. Compelled by new subjects and techniques, these artists, many now unknown, had a profound effect on visual and material culture within and beyond Asia.Edited by curators Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer, Painters, Ports, and Profits features more than one hundred objects drawn primarily from the Yale Center for British Art's collection, including architectural drafts, burnished opaque watercolors, hand-colored aquatints, small and large-scale portraits, and a spectacular thirty-seven-foot-long scroll depicting the city of Lucknow. An international group of scholars, curators, and conservators provide rich commentary based on new research. Published by the Yale Center for British Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:Yale Center for British Art(January 8-May 31, 2026). …

Condition: New. Examines a group of Bibiena drawings from the collection of Jules Fisher.&Uumlber den AutorArnold Aronson is professor of theater in the MFA Theatre Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Diane Kelder i.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Draws on the Yale Center for British Art's rich collection to critically reconsider the vibrant creative exchanges between artists in India, China, and Britain during a period ruthlessly driven by commerce Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 tells the story of the remarkable creative exchanges that coincided with the rise of one of the most ruthless and powerful corporations in history. Scholarship on this period often separates Indian, Chinese, and British artists; Painters, Ports, and Profits instead foregrounds the vital interactions between their practices. Artistic experimentation with papers, pigments, and other materials produced works of astonishing beauty and variety. Compelled by new subjects and techniques, these artists, many now unknown, had a profound effect on visual and material culture within and beyond Asia.Edited by curators Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer, Painters, Ports, and Profits features more than one hundred objects drawn primarily from the Yale Center for British Art's collection, including architectural drafts, burnished opaque watercolors, hand-colored aquatints, small and large-scale portraits, and a spectacular thirty-seven-foot-long scroll depicting the city of Lucknow. An international group of scholars, curators, and conservators provide rich commentary based on new research. Published by the Yale Center for British Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:Yale Center for British Art(January 8-May 31, 2026). …

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Draws on the Yale Center for British Art's rich collection to critically reconsider the vibrant creative exchanges between artists in India, China, and Britain during a period ruthlessly driven by commerce Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 17501850 surveys the remarkable artistic innovations that emerged within the context of the British East India Company's commercial and militaristic expansion into India and China. Extending the term "Company Style" to encompass the broad range of work created within the imperial corporation's cross-cultural networks, this comprehensive exhibition catalogue celebrates the British, Indian, and Chinese artistsoften unknownwhose experimentation with papers, pigments, and other materials produced astonishing aesthetic diversity. Compelled by new subjects and techniques, so-called Company artists profoundly affected visual culture within and beyond Asia, challenging notions of asymmetric power dynamics at the apex of the East India Company's rapacious pursuit of profits. Edited by curators Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer, Painters, Ports, and Profits features more than one hundred objectsarchitectural drafts, burnished opaque watercolors, hand-colored aquatints, and small- and large-scale portraitsdrawn from the Yale Center for British Art's rich collection and includes new research from an international group of scholars, curators, and conservators. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (January 8May 31, 2026) Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This exhibition catalog explores the remarkable theatrical designs of Italy's influential Bibiena family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate stage designs were used for operas, festivals, and courtly performances across Europe, from their native Italy to cities as far afield as Vienna, Prague, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and Lisbon. Beyond these performances, the distinctive Bibiena style survives through their remarkable drawings.Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy commemorates a group of Bibiena drawings from the collection of Jules Fisher, the Tony Award-winning lighting designer, gifted to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Accompanying the first US exhibition of these works in more than thirty years, these drawings demonstrate the range of the Bibienas' output, from energetic sketches to detailed watercolors. Representations of imagined palace interiors and lavish illusionistic architecture illuminate the visual splendor of the Baroque period.…

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