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Alfred Baur. Pioneer and Collector

By (author) Monique Crick

£185.00

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  • This new book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the museum and the 150th birthday of Alfred Baur
  • Lavishly illustrated with stunning new photographs, most full page, the book showcases the diversity and quality of Baur’s collections
Full Description

The Fondation Baur, Musée des Arts d Extrême-Orient, Geneva, Switzerland, houses one of the most important collections of Asian art in the world: some 9,000 works from China and Japan. This new book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the museum and the 150th birthday of Alfred Baur (1865-1951), whose collections are housed in the museum’s elegant nineteenth-century townhouse. Lavishly illustrated with stunning new photographs, most full page, the book showcases the diversity and quality of Baur’s collections, which span netsuke, lacquerware, saber fittings, prints, jades, imperial ceramics, textiles, and much more. Precious Japanese objects, meticulously worked and technically perfect, reveal the outstanding skills of Japanese craftsmen; the simplicity of the forms of Chinese monochrome ceramics displays the contemporaneity of the visionary master ceramists of the Song dynasty.

About the Author

Monique Crick is Director at the Fondation Baur, Musée des Arts d Extrême-Orient, Geneva. Helen Loveday is curator and Estelle Niklès van Osselt is assistant curator, both at the Fondation Baur. Hughes Dubois is a photographer who specialises in art objects.

Specifications
Publisher
5 Continents Editions
ISBN
9788874396931
Published
1st Jan 2019
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Italy & France
Size
291 mm x 255 mm
Pages
360 Pages
Illustrations
360 color
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