The official companion book to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's hundredth anniversary celebration During her lifetime (1840-1924) Isabella Stewart Gardner was at the heart of Victorian Boston's liveliest salon. Henry and William James, Henry Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John LaFarge, James McNeill Whistler, Bernard Berenson, and John Singer Sargent all gathered at Fenway Court, in the company of works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Titian, Raphael, Rubens, and Rembrandt. One hundred years after its completion, the ...
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The official companion book to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's hundredth anniversary celebration During her lifetime (1840-1924) Isabella Stewart Gardner was at the heart of Victorian Boston's liveliest salon. Henry and William James, Henry Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John LaFarge, James McNeill Whistler, Bernard Berenson, and John Singer Sargent all gathered at Fenway Court, in the company of works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Titian, Raphael, Rubens, and Rembrandt. One hundred years after its completion, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains as intrepid and idiosyncratic as its creator. The embodiment of one woman's vision, the Venetian palazzo turned inside out and its wildly eclectic collection of twenty-four centuries of paintings, sculpture, furnishings, and books nonetheless speak very personally to all who enter. At once grand and intimate, the garden courtyard and the terrazzo galleries invite discovery: every visitor (and there have been literally hundreds of thousands), it seems, has a secret corner of the Gardner. In celebration of its centenary, the Gardner Museum has asked artists and thinkers of our own time to go public with their private visions of the Gardner. In this book, filled with 120 color plates, their voices are joined and juxtaposed with those of Mrs. Gardner's contemporaries, allowing readers to see the Gardner's most beloved works through the eyes of such nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers as William James and Bill T. Jones, T. S. Eliot and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Julia Ward Howe and Sister Wendy. Robert Campbell takes as his subject the museum's architecture, while Wayne Koestenbaum offers a homoerotic reading of works in the collection. Beautifully designed and extravagantly illustrated, Eye of the Beholder offers a richly textured exploration of one of the world's great art collections.
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Good. Size: 5x0x8; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in association with Beacon Press; Boston, 2003. Hardcover. A Good, grey boards and red cloth spine, gilt emblem on front board and gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, previous owner gift inscription front free endpaper else in very good condition, some scattered foxing top text block edge, bit of age toning to pages, mild waving to pages along edges, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, Dust wrapper. A good and clean copy. 4to[quarto or approx. 11.5 x 13.5 inches], 240pp., chronology, contributors, sources, indexed, color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Out of Print. Overall in Very Good Condition. Includes Dust Cover When Hard Cover. Tight Binding. Clean Text with No Markings. Selling On Amazon Since 2006.
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Very good. Text block, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper in like new condition with mild sunning along upper spine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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New. 0807066125. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--240 pages. --with a bonus offer--
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Very Good. Size: 8x1x11; Hardcover in Beautiful condition with just a tiny hint of shelf wear! Dust jacket and pages are Clean and bright! Overall in great condition!
I ordered this book after a recent visit to the Gardner Museum. It is beautifully illustrated with excellent accompanying text. Delighted to have this.
