Stephen K Scher

The Scher Collection of Commemorative Medals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A celebration and documentation of one of the finest ever collections of portrait medals in private hands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: D Giles Limited
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 239mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 3697g
• ISBN-13: 9781907804878
• ISBN-10: 1907804870
• Artikelnr.: 50443109

Autorenporträt

Dr. Stephen K. Scher, a world-renowned scholar of art history, grew up in New York City. He began collecting portrait medals as a graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he earned his Master's degree. After completing his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1966, he went on to teach art history at Brown University, serving as chairman of the art department from 1972-73. He has organized two landmark exhibitions with The Frick Collection, NY, on the art of the portrait medal: The Currency of Fame (1994) and The Proud Republic: Dutch Medals of the Golden Age (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Director's Foreword and Acknowledgments
2. Acknowledgments
3. About the Contributors
4. Introduction - Hunting the Wild Aftercast: Confessions of a Medal Collector
by Stephen K. Scher
5. Note to the Reader
6. ITALY. Art at Its Apex: The Medals of Italy by Ulrich Pfisterer. ENTRIES
7. GERMANY. A Handy Mirror for Princes and Citizens: The Rise and
Dissemination of Medals in Germany by Martin Hirsch. ENTRIES
8. FRANCE. "Proof Stones of History": The Medal in France, 1400-1900 by Mark
Jones. ENTRIES
9. NETHERLANDS. Perspectives in Metal: A History of Medals of the Low
Countries by Jan Pelsdonk. ENTRIES
10. ENGLAND. Illustrating an Island Nation: The Medals of Britain by
Christopher Eimer. ENTRIES
11. RUSSIA AND SCANDINAVIA. The Tale of the Elephant, the Lion, the Dragon and
Other Extinct Animals- or The Early History of Medallic Art in Denmark,
Sweden, and Russia by Marie-Astrid Pelsdonk. ENTRIES
12. SWITZERLAND, MEXICO, AND THE UNITED STATES
13. Artist Biographies
14. Bibliography
15. Index
16. Photograph Credits