John C. Van Dyke (1856–1932)
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Verk av John C. Van Dyke
Art for art's sake: Seven university lectures on the technical beauties of painting (1899) 10 exemplar
Old Dutch & Flemish Masters 2 exemplar
Rembrandt and his school 2 exemplar
The Mentor, Rembrandt 2 exemplar
Nature for its Own Sake 2 exemplar
American painting and its tradition 2 exemplar
The Rembrandt drawings and etchings 2 exemplar
Modern French masters: A series of biographical and critical reviews by American artists, with thirty-seven… (1896) 2 exemplar
History of Painting 1 exemplar
Commemorative tribute to Elihu Vedder 1 exemplar
The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861-1931 (1993) 1 exemplar
Rembrandt 1 exemplar
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie 1 exemplar
The Mentor, The Madona in Art 1 exemplar
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Old English Masters. With historical notes by John C. Van Dyke. — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Van Dyke, John C.
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Van Dyke, John Charles
- Födelsedag
- 1856
- Avled
- 1932
- Kön
- male
- Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1908)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 40
- Även av
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 215
- Popularitet
- #103,625
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 36
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
Lightly aged brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and design on cover and spine, tightly bound with former owner name written on bottom inside cover, minor shelf wear.
As noted in "The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke: Decalcomania on the Desert" by David Teague and Peter Wild in the Journal of the Southwest (Volume 37, No. 1, Spring 1995, pages 1-52): "Few cultural changes in America are as easily pinpointed as the radical shift in attitudes toward the Southwest's deserts. The pivotal date was 1901 the year John C. Van Dyke (1856-1932) published "The Desert"...Along with most pioneers, the utilitarian nation despised deserts as "God's mistakes", as wastelands. Yet attitudes changed over the decades, and Van Dyke's "The Desert" marked the culmination of a huge swing, from traditional scorn to viewing the Southwest as a region to be appreciated for its wild beauty. So essential was the Volume's role in completing the cultural shift that Lawrence Clark Powell declares, "All Southwestern book trails lead to "The Desert" and that modern-day icon of desert lovers, Edward Abbey, puts "The Desert" on his short list of essential reading."
In 1878, Van Dyke was appointed the librarian of the Gardner Sage Library at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and in 1891 as a professor of art history at Rutgers College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). With his appointment, the Rutgers president's residence was converted to classroom and studio space for the college's Department of Fine Arts. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1908. Van Dyke wrote a series of critical guide books: New Guides to Old Masters. He edited Modern French Masters (1896); Old Dutch and Flemish Masters (1901); Old English Masters; and a series of histories covering the history of art in America.… (mer)