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Opium used to have the same importance in international economy and state-led strategies as petrol has today. It became the basis for trade with isolationist China as soon as theOpium Wars obtained trading rights for Western Companies. International strategies for...
Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens were all inspired to create by the blue clouds of smoke. Known as either...
An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years at the Bauhaus, he...
Sargent was born in Florence, in 1856, the son of cultivated parents. WhenSargent entered the school of Carolus-Duran he attained much more than the average pupils. His father was a retired Massachusetts gentleman, having practised medicine in Philadelphia. Sargent’s...
In the Middle Ages, navigation relied upon a delicate balance between art and science. Whilst respecting the customs and the precautions of their forbearers, sailors had to count on their knowledge of the stars, the winds, the currents, and even of migratory flights....
This book presents a selection of oceanic charts dating from the 13th to the 17th century. Though to us they may appear rudimentary, they bear excellent witness to the achievements of the early European navigators, and to their determination to explore the very ends of...
Chagall loved blue. “The blue of the sky which ceaselessly combats the clouds which pass, which pass…” (Baudelaire). Marc Chagall’s journey began in his native Russia and concluded with his Parisian triumph, the extraordinary ceiling of the Paris Opera House,...
Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City....
From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects. Here are the sacred and the scandalous, the minimalist and the opulent, the groundbreaking...
Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens were all inspired to create by the blue clouds of ...
An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years ...
Sargent was born in Florence, in 1856, the son of cultivated parents. WhenSargent entered the school of Carolus-Duran he attained much more than the average pupils. His father was a retired Massachusetts gentleman, having practised medicine in ......
L'usage millénaire de l'opium se retrouve dans les textes les plus anciens. D'abord utilisé comme médicament sous diverses formes et très prisé en Grande-Bretagne, l'opium devient une monnaie d'échange avec la Chine. Au 19e siècle, il sera sacré « fée noire » par les...
War das 20. Jahrhundert ein langer Krieg der Wirtschaft um den Besitz von Ölquellen, so war im 19. Jahrhundert das Opium als strategisch einsetzbares Produkt so wichtig wie heute das Öl. Es wurde das erste Tauschmittel mit dem damaligen China, das den “Barbaren”...
Paul Klee (Munchenbuchsee, 1879 – Muralto, 1940) La réputation de Klee était celle d’un artiste introverti et rêveur. C’est une image qu’il cultivait en partie lui-même. En 1911, Klee fut présenté à August Macke. Peu après, il rencontra Marc et Kandinsky. Ils...
L’opium, cette substance autrefois utilisée à des fins rituelles contre la douleur et offrant l’accès à un univers artificiel, fut longtemps idéalisée par les artistes et les écrivains. baudelaire, malraux, cocteau, tous s’inspirèrent des nuages de la fée bleue pour...
Au Moyen Âge, la navigation reposait sur un délicat équilibre entre art et science. Tout en respectant les usages et la prudence de leurs aïeux, les marins devaient compter sur leurs connaissances des étoiles, des vents, des courants et même des vols migratoires. Ils se...
Opium, einst für rituelle Zwecke verwendet, ist eine Substanz, die Schmerzen dämpft und Zugang zu einer künstlichen Welt bietet. Lange wurde es von Künstlern und Konsumenten idealisiert. Baudelaire, Picasso und Dickens waren begeistert, künstlerische Inspiration...
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