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Margot Nishimura

Autore di Images in the Margins

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Comprende il nome: Margot McIlwain Nishimura

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Nome canonico
Nishimura, Margot
Nome legale
Nishimura, Margot McIlwain
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Nazione (per mappa)
United States of America
Istruzione
Smith College (BA)
New York University (MA, Ph.D)
Attività lavorative
Dean of Libraries, Rhode Island School of Design
Director of Museums, Newport Restoration Foundation
Librarian, Brown University
Organizzazioni
Rhode Island School of Design
Newport Restoration Foundation
Brown University
Smith College
Mount Holyoke College
Getty Museum (mostra tutto 7)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Breve biografia
Margot Nishimura is an art historian with more than two decades of experience in teaching, curatorial practice and administration in museums, libraries and special collections. An expert in the fields of medieval, Renaissance and American art, architecture, decorative arts and the history of the book, she also has a demonstrated record of directing cross-disciplinary collaborations, fundraising and grants.

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The third book in the Getty Museum's series of short, lavishly illustrated books about aspects of medieval manuscripts. This is also the book of the manuscript exhibit at the Getty Museum on the same topic. The majority of the mss. in the book are from the Getty's collection, and in some cases show pages not normally displayed. The text is brief but explains the tradition from which the marginalia arose (inhabited initials), what is normally depicted (everyday life, animals, mythical beasts, hybrids, and the world turned upside down), and how the images relate to the text (sometimes literally, sometimes evoking additional traditions, and sometimes nothing at all). The photos are better than the exhibit in that they are larger and well-lit. The photos are less perfect than the exhibit because they don't show the play of light on the page as it, or the reader, moves, and not all pages in the exhibit are in the book (I particularly miss a complex knotted Q I was hoping to peruse at my leisure). Recommended for the beautiful pictures and as a decent overview of the topic.… (altro)
 
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EowynA | Oct 19, 2009 |

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Opere
3
Utenti
98
Popolarità
#193,038
Voto
½ 4.7
Recensioni
2
ISBN
3

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