Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796)

Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796)"Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762 1796)," organized by Dr. Asen Kirin at the University of Georgia s Lamar Dodd School of Art, is an exceptional exhibition for the Georgia Museum of Art. Not only are the objects on which it focuses remarkable achievements of European decorative arts, but the scholarship its accompanying catalogue contains adds immeasurably to the field. Kirin examines Catherine s use of art

Essays include: The Role of the House Museum in Georgia: Evolution and Recent Development

2014 - March 8

in paintings and prints

and former president of the Friends of the State Botanical Garden Mike Sikes

(softcover)

” by Alexandra Kirtley

“Georgia’s Twentieth-Century Tufted Fashions

highlighting an array of techniques and a range of artists who explored modernism’s myriad forms through paper-based media

Publishing Date: January 2010

Small and Gracious: A Planter's Home in Talbot County

Geoffrey Steward

retired curator of the Root House Museum in Marietta