Art & Accounting
by Yamey, Basil S
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300042272
- ISBN 13
- 9780300042276
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Yale University Press, 1990 4to (29 cm), viii, 157 pp, 95 b/w and 38 color illustrations. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Money has long been an important subject in European painting. Account books, when portrayed in works of Western art, serve a variety of purposes; to give a realistic touch to a descriptive or narrative scene; to help establish the context or subject of a work; to serve as an attribute in portraits; and to be a symbol, as in vanitas still-lifes. In this original and handsomely illustrated work, Basil Yamey discusses a range of art works from 1400 to 1900 that include the image of an account book. Yamey explores a number of fascinating themes, including: the relative frequency of account books in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; the exclusion of account books in most portraits of merchants by leading artist; the light thrown by the account-book inscriptions on the meaning of the popular but puzzling bureau scenes of Massys and van Reymerswaele and their imitators; the nature of the blank book in the center of Rembrandt's Syndics (De Staalmeesters); the allegorical significance of Maes's bookkeeping Housekeeper in St. Louis; and the meaning of the Arithmetica vignette in Bruegel's Temperance. Throughout, and particularly in his concluding chapter, Yamey considers other connections between accounting and art: the nature of artists' accounts, drawings on account-book sheets, and the significance of double-entry bookkeeping for the development of modern capitalism." (from the publisher's description)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006654
- Title
- Art & Accounting
- Author
- Yamey, Basil S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300042272
- ISBN 13
- 9780300042276
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, Ct, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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