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Magiciens de la terre, 1989

Author:
Steeds, Lucy  Search this
Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien  Search this
Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies  Search this
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum  Search this
Subject:
Martin, Jean-Hubert 1944-  Search this
Centre Georges Pompidou Exhibitions  Search this
Magiciens de la Terre (Exhibition) (1989 : Paris, France)  Search this
Physical description:
304 p. : ill. (some col.), plan ; 22 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Interviews
Date:
2013
20th century
Topic:
Art, Modern  Search this
Art and globalization--Exhibitions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1012900

Big picture

Author:
Rhoades, Jason 1965-2006  Search this
Rugoff, Ralph 1957-  Search this
McCarthy, Paul 1945-  Search this
Meyer-Hermann, Eva  Search this
Subject:
Rhoades, Jason 1965-2006  Search this
Rhoades, Jason 1965-2006 Perfect world  Search this
Rhoades, Jason 1965-2006 1:12 Perfect world  Search this
McCarthy, Paul 1945-  Search this
Deichtorhallen Hamburg  Search this
Hauser & Wirth London  Search this
Physical description:
157 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Interviews
Place:
Germany
Hamburg
England
London
Date:
2012
C2012
Topic:
Installations (Art)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1015290

Home's horizons

Editor:
Gilvin, Amanda  Search this
Author:
Tuggar, Fatimah 1967- Works Selections  Search this
Host institution:
Davis Museum and Cultural Center  Search this
Subject:
Tuggar, Fatimah 1967-  Search this
Physical description:
143 pages color illustrations 24 x 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
2019
Topic:
Multimedia (Art)  Search this
Artists  Search this
Œuvres multimédias (Art)  Search this
Artistes  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145934

Jorrit Maan collection

Editor:
Jong, Cees de  Search this
Writer of added commentary:
Klemp, Klaus 1954-  Search this
Mattie, Erik  Search this
Author:
Container of (work): Rams, Dieter Works Selections  Search this
Physical description:
415 pages illustrations (some color) 30 cm
Type:
Catalogs
Catalogues
History
Place:
Germany (West)
Allemagne (Ouest)
Date:
2021
20th century
20e siècle
Topic:
Industrial designers  Search this
Industrial design--History  Search this
Collectors and collecting  Search this
Designers  Search this
Design--Histoire  Search this
Industrial design  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1162802

Art of Toshiko Takaezu

Author:
Takaezu, Toshiko  Search this
Author:
Fischer, Felice  Search this
Sewell, Darrel 1939-  Search this
Philadelphia Museum of Art  Search this
Physical description:
23 pages illustrations (some color) 28 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2004
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1163332

Contemporary photography in China

Editor:
Chiu, Melissa  Search this
Johnson, Betsy (Curator)  Search this
Contributor:
Roberts, Claire 1959-  Search this
Schell, Orville  Search this
Smith, Karen (Art historian)  Search this
Warsh, Larry  Search this
Issuing body:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 225 pages (some folded) illustrations (chiefly color), portraits 29 cm
Type:
Books
Pictorial works
Exhibition catalogs
Photobooks
Illustrated works
Catalogues d'exposition
Livres de photographies
Place:
China
Chine
Date:
2023
20th century
21st century
20e siècle
21e siècle
Topic:
Photography--History  Search this
Photography, Artistic--History  Search this
Photographie--Histoire  Search this
Photographie artistique  Search this
Photography  Search this
History  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1163665

Himalayan art in one hundred eight objects

Editor:
Debreczeny, Karl  Search this
Pakhoutova, Elena  Search this
Author:
Rubin Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Physical description:
503 pages illustrations (some color), color maps 31 x 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Himalaya Mountains Region
Himālaya
Date:
2023
Topic:
Art  Search this
Material culture  Search this
Culture matérielle  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1164492

Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni one man show, May, 5-13 1988

Title:
Tommasi Ferroni
Artist:
Tommasi Ferroni, Riccardo 1934-2000  Search this
Writer of introduction:
Sciascia, Leonardo  Search this
Host institution:
Galleria il gabbiano (Rome, Italy)  Search this
Author:
Smithsonian Libraries Art and Artist Files Collection  Search this
Issuing body:
Chicago International Art Exposition  Search this
Physical description:
1 volume (12 unnumbered pages) illustrations (some color) 24 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Artist files
Date:
1988
20th century
Topic:
Art, Modern  Search this
Call number:
AAF--Tommasi Ferroni, Riccardo
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_744280

Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni

Title:
Tommasi Ferroni
Artist:
Tommasi Ferroni, Riccardo 1934-2000  Search this
Writer of introduction:
Siciliano, Enzo 1934-2006  Search this
Host institution:
Galleria il gabbiano (Rome, Italy)  Search this
Author:
Smithsonian Libraries Art and Artist Files Collection  Search this
Physical description:
1 volume (16 unnumbered pages) illustrations (some color) 25 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Artist files
Date:
1987
Call number:
AAF--Tommasi Ferroni, Riccardo
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_744281

Modern art from the Guggenheim collection, 1910-1918

Author:
Bashkoff, Tracey R  Search this
Fontanella, Megan M  Search this
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  Search this
Subject:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  Search this
Physical description:
223 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
2011
C2011
20th century
Topic:
Art, Modern  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_969417

Selections from the Jane Katcher collection of Americana

Author:
Katcher, Jane  Search this
Schorsch, David A  Search this
Wolfe, Ruth  Search this
Smiles, Eileen M  Search this
Ashworth, Gavin  Search this
Andersen, Alan  Search this
Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.)  Search this
Subject:
Katcher, Jane Art collections  Search this
Physical description:
451 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
2011
18th century
19th century
Topic:
Americana  Search this
Folk art--History  Search this
Americana--Private collections  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_974407

Selected essays, lectures, and interviews

Author:
McDonald, Jessica S. 1974-  Search this
Lyons, Nathan Selections 2012  Search this
Subject:
Lyons, Nathan  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 287 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Interviews
Place:
United States
Date:
2012
Topic:
Photographic criticism  Search this
Photography  Search this
Photographers  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_988598

Landscape photography 1865 to now

Title:
Landscape photography eighteen sixty five to now
Author:
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art  Search this
Nickel, Douglas R (Douglas Robert) 1961-  Search this
Bright, Deborah 1950-  Search this
Howard, Jan 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
125 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
2012
©2012
Topic:
Landscape photography  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_994931

Essay, "What Is Philadelphia?" by Seymour J. Mandelbaum

Collection Creator:
Ukeles, Mierle  Search this
Container:
Box 51, Folder 8
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1987
Collection Restrictions:
This collection is temporarily closed for processing. Contact References Services for more information.
See more items in:
Mierle Laderman Ukeles papers
Mierle Laderman Ukeles papers / Unrealized Projects / Light Up Philadelphia
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a99e503a-bb30-4282-9936-6ecb688c86c7
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-ukelmier-ref1010

Ivory Soap Advertising Collection

Creator:
Procter & Gamble Company  Search this
Leyendecker, J. C., 1874-1951  Search this
Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935  Search this
Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green  Search this
Extent:
10 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Advertisements
Photomechanical reproductions
Date:
1883-1998
Summary:
Print advertisements covering almost the entire history of Ivory Soap, including advertisements designed by artists including Jesse Wilcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and J. C. Leyendecker.
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of print advertising and publications covering almost the entire history of Ivory Soap. Researchers may use this collection to examine the evolution of advertising strategies and techniques from the very early days of mass-produced brand-name consumer products to the present. From the beginning, Ivory advertisements proclaimed the product's "99 and 44/100%" purity, its ability to float, and its versatility. The collection, however, is much more than a glimpse into advertising history. It is an extremely rich resource for a wide range of cultural studies. Ivory advertising was primarily aimed at women, and it contains many images of women, babies, and young children. The depictions reflect contemporary attitudes toward class structure, race, immigrants and residents of other countries, cleanliness, and domestic relationships. The advertisements often play upon the guilt of women, suggesting that their main concerns should be their husbands, children, and dishpan hands. Many advertisements associate cleanliness with social and religious propriety, physical fitness, and athleticism. There also are many images of men and women performing every-day tasks in gender-defined situations.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into two series.

Series 1: Ivory Soap Products Advertisements, 1883-1998, undated

Series 2: Publications, 1883-1969, undated
Biographical / Historical:
In 1837, candle maker William Procter and soap maker James Gamble formed a partnership in Cincinnati, Ohio, to sell their products. The new company prospered, and by 1859 Procter & Gamble sales reached one million dollars. Contracts with the United States Army during the Civil War to supply soap and candles increased Procter & Gamble's customer base and reputation. In 1879, James Norris Gamble, son of the founder, developed an inexpensive pure white soap. A factory worker who forgot to shut off the soap-making machine when he left for lunch inadvertently improved the product. When he returned, the soap mixture was frothy due to the air that had been whipped into it, and the resulting soap cakes floated in water. There was immediate demand for the "floating soap." After considering many names for the new product, Harley Procter, son of the founder, finally named the soap "Ivory" after Psalms 45:8: "All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad." Chemical analyses of the soap in 1882 revealed that 56/100 of the ingredients were not pure soap. Harley Procter subtracted that amount from one hundred and the slogan "99 and 44/100% pure" was born. The first ads appeared in 1882 in The Independent, a weekly newspaper.

Innovations in production, distribution, and market research contributed to Procter & Gamble's success. Procter & Gamble also developed other products such as Ivory Flakes, Chipso (the first dishwasher soap), and Crisco. By 1945, Procter & Gamble had become a nearly $350 million company. The company also was an innovator in advertising, developing creative print advertisements aimed at different target groups, sponsoring radio shows and comic strips, and airing its first television commercial (for Ivory Soap) during the first televised major league baseball game. Procter & Gamble is now a global company, selling more than 250 products, including Ivory Soap, to five billion customers in 130 countries.
Related Materials:
Several collections in the Archives Center have materials relating to Ivory Soap. The J. Walter Wilkinson Papers contain art he created for Ivory Soap advertisements. The Ivory Soap 1940 Essay Contest Collection consists of documents relating to the contest and its winner, Helen Nixon. The Procter & Gamble Product Packaging Collection, 1940s-1970s, includes Ivory brand products. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana's "Soap" subject category contains documents relating to Procter & Gamble and other manufacturers. About twenty-five per cent of the advertisements in this collection are reproduced in the Archives Center's digital image library.
Separated Materials:
Artifacts donated to the Division of Medicine and Science.
Provenance:
Procter & Gamble donated this collection to the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution on October 24, 2001.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Topic:
advertising  Search this
Soap  Search this
Genre/Form:
Advertisements -- 20th century
Photomechanical reproductions
Advertisements -- 19th century
Citation:
Ivory Soap Collection, 1883-1998, undated; Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Procter & Gamble.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0791
See more items in:
Ivory Soap Advertising Collection
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep88550648b-e85c-4b62-9ccb-f8e6872e4a86
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0791
Online Media:

Marion Harper Papers

Creator:
Harper, Marion, 1916-1989 (advertising executive)  Search this
Names:
Interpublic.  Search this
McCann Erickson  Search this
Extent:
27 Cubic feet (51 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Papers
Notes
Family papers
Essays
Correspondence
Clippings
Awards
Personal papers
Date:
circa 1920-1995, undated
Summary:
Notes, clippings, published and unpublished manuscripts on business and marketing; but primarily personal materials.
Scope and Contents:
The collection primarily documents Harper's personal life, rather than his advertising career. It includes documents from Harper's years at boarding school and college and from the twenty years in Oklahoma City after his resignation from Interpublic. Only an occasional item illuminates the advertising agency years.

During the earliest years of his retirement, Harper was interested in finding a new niche on the business world, and the notes and manuscripts on business and marketing reflect his efforts to form new advertising agency partnerships. Unpublished manuscripts, proposals, clippings and reading notes in this period are largely concerned with scientific management theory and how semantics and marketing procedures can be used to help managers better achieve their objectives.

The remainder of the collection reflects Harpers' interest in developing a book or syndicated newspaper series advising the "mature, achieving woman" on how to achieve her full potential. Several complete versions of the manuscript, some in longhand, are supplemented by notes, corrections, comments, reading notes, clippings and other materials.

The material is arranged into five series. Series one is personal papers dating from 1924-1964. Series two consists of correspondence dating from 1920-1989. Professional materials dating from 1940-1986 are contained in series three. Series four is research notes and unpublished manuscripts dating from 1924-1990. The unpublished manuscript On Reaching for What You Can Become dating from 1984-1989 is in series five.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged in five series:

Series 1, Personal Papers, 1926-1964, undated

Series 2, Correspondence, 1920-1989, undated

Series 3, Professional Materials, 1925-1988, undated

Series 4, Research Notes and Unpublished Manuscripts, 1947-1995, undated

Series 5, On Reaching for What You Can Become, 1982-1988, undated
Biographical/Historical note:
Marion Harper, Jr. (1916-1989) won distinction as founder of Interpublic, at one time the worlds' largest advertising agency conglomerate, and as a recognized innovator in the use of research in the preparation of effective advertising. His meteoric career terminated soon after his removal as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Interpublic in 1968. Harper devoted his remaining twenty years to other interests.

Harper was born in Oklahoma City on May 14, 1916. He attended Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and Yale University, where he majored in psychology and graduated tenth in the class of 1938. After college, he decided to follow the example of his father, an advertising executive with General Foods. His assignment to the McCann Erickson mailroom was the first step in an executive training program at the agency.

Known in the industry as the "boy wonder," Harper advanced in nine years from the mailroom to president of McCann Erickson, then the sixth largest advertising agency in America. In the succeeding ten years, his success in attracting new business and in acquiring smaller agencies made McCann Erickson second only to J. Walter Thompson in billings.

Harper saw an expanding role for advertising agencies using global communications and facilities to market "world brands." To achieve this he pioneered important structural changes. One was the agency holding company, The Interpublic Group, which circumvented the prevailing ethic that agencies should not represent competing accounts. Another was the elimination of a taboo which forbade agencies from raising capital by selling their common stock to the public. By the time Harper was deposed as chair in 1968, Interpublic had become a model for Saatchi & Saatchi and other advertising agencies to expand worldwide.

Harper's reputation as a "boy wonder" rested on more than his skill in acquiring new accounts and agencies. He was a voracious reader of scientific materials related to human motivation. At McCann Erickson he was noted for employing people without regard to race, creed or gender a rarity in advertising agencies of that era. He wrote and talked about the scientific application of semantics in the management of businesses and preparation of more effective advertising.

In 1942, he was named manager of copy research and in 1947, assistant to the president of the agency. The following year, at the age of 32, he was named president of the agency. In 1958, Harpers was named Chairman of the company, which changed its name to Interpublic three years later. By 1967, bankers had become concerned about declining Interpublic profits and on November 7, the six directors turned his power over to Robert Healy, a McCann Erickson executive recalled from semi retirement. On February 2, 1968, Marion Harper resigned.

Except for two brief and unsuccessful efforts to form new partnerships in advertising, Harper remained in seclusion in Oklahoma City. During those years, he returned to his voracious reading and his interest in semantics and human potential. Much of his effort during the last 10 years of his life was devoted to writing a manuscript advising "the well functioning" mature woman on ways to "reach her possibilities." Harper died on October 25, 1989.

Harper was the author of Getting Results from Advertising. He served as chair of the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Advertising Research Foundation. He received the Parlin Award of the American Marketing Association Hall for contributions to the advancement of marketing, and was elected to the Market Research Council's Hall of Fame in the 1980s.
Related Materials:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

AC421 Barton Cummings Papers, 1938-1991, undated
Provenance:
Collection donated by Ellen Harper Bridges,1990.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Topic:
Marketing  Search this
advertising  Search this
Advertising executives  Search this
Genre/Form:
Papers
Notes
Family papers
Essays
Correspondence -- 1930-1950
Clippings
Awards
Personal papers -- 20th century
Citation:
Marion Harper Papers, circa 1920-1995, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0394
See more items in:
Marion Harper Papers
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep800c1e719-e19c-4291-a1f4-e8b49c0ac32f
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0394

In memory of the present Sophie Douala

Artist:
Douala, Sophie  Search this
Author:
Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books DSI  Search this
Physical description:
56 unnumbered pages color illustrations 25 x 18 cm
Type:
Specimens
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés
Artists' books
Artists' books (books).)
Date:
2021
Topic:
Artists' books  Search this
Memory in art  Search this
Coming of age  Search this
Passage à l'âge adulte  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1160717

Biomorphosis : Helene Berkowitz ... [et al.]: Jan. 27-Mar. 11, 1994 / InterAmerican Art Gallery

Author:
Scott, Sue  Search this
Miami-Dade Community College InterAmerican Art Gallery  Search this
Physical description:
[12] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
C1994
20th century
Topic:
Women artists  Search this
Art, American  Search this
Call number:
N6512 .B52 1994
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_637769

Contemporary selections : [exhibition] from the Virginia Museum, the Frances and Sydney Lewis contemporary art fund, October 9 through November 30, 1975, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi

Author:
Art Museum of South Texas  Search this
Brandt, Frederick R. 1936-  Search this
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts  Search this
Subject:
Lewis, Frances Art collections  Search this
Lewis, Sydney Art collections  Search this
Physical description:
32 p. : ill. ; 21 x 23 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
1975
1975]
20th century
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Call number:
N6512 .C594 1975
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_639404

Winslow Homer at a glance Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, 1 April-31 October 1995

Author:
Homer, Winslow 1836-1910  Search this
Atkinson, D. Scott 1953-  Search this
Musée américain Giverny  Search this
Terra Foundation for the Arts  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries Art and Artist Files Collection  Search this
Physical description:
1 folded sheet ([6] pages) illustrations (chiefly color), portrait 28 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Artist files
Date:
1995
Call number:
AAF--Homer, Winslow
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_697837

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