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Original Essays | December 12, 2009

Alexander McCall Smith: IMG The Courage of Others

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Fans (Temporis)

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The Ostankino Palace Museum in Moscow holds a collection of more than 200 fans dating from the early 18th until the 20th century. It is based on the Vishneski and the Sheremetnev collections, which allows us to trace the development of fans over this period in all their diversity.<P>The 200 incredibly varied, intricate, and beautiful fans in the collection of the Ostankino Palace Museum in Moscow - one of the most important of such collections in the world - are reproduced in more than 250 color illustrations in the new Parkstone book, FANS: from the 18th to the beginnning of the 20th century by Alexander Tcherviakov. Also reproduced are masterpieces by Whistler, Velasquez, Goya, Manet, Renoir, Vallotton, Brullov, Ingres, Bonnard, and Utamaro, each depicting an elegant woman carrying a fan.

Synopsis:

Looks at the 200 fans in the Ostankino Place Museum in Moscow.
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SQGarner, February 27, 2009 (view all comments by SQGarner)
I am reviewing this book without having read it!!I am fascinated by fans, their diversity, beauty and history. One could call it a bit of an obsession, I suspect. This book appeals to me because it provides details of 200 fans collected in Russia. The illustrations look superb. I have a similar book of Queen Elizabeth's collection in Buckingham Palace. Tcherviakov book will help me to understand the provenance of fans that I buy for my slowly growing collection
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781859953655
Preface:
Lagerfeld, Karl
Other:
Cherviakov, Aleksandr
Author:
Lagerfield, Karl
Publisher:
Libri
Location:
Bournemouth, England :
Subject:
Fashion
Subject:
Beauty & Grooming - General
Subject:
Russia (federation)
Subject:
Moscow
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Private
Subject:
Fans
Subject:
Fans -- Collectors and collecting -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Catalogs.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references p. 215-216.
Series:
Temporis
Publication Date:
October 1998
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
12.85x9.80x.88 in. 3.46 lbs.
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