ISBN:
9780701187163
,
0701187166
,
9780701184179
,
0701184175
Language:
English
Pages:
418 pages
,
illustrations (some color), color map, genealogical table
,
24 cm
Edition:
Revised and fully illustrated edition
Year of publication:
2011
DDC:
736.68
Keywords:
De Waal, Edmund Family
;
Ephrussi family
;
Ephrussi, Charles Art collections
;
De Waal, Edmund
;
Ephrussi, Charles
;
Ephrussi family
;
Ephrussi
;
Ephrussi
;
De Waal, Edmund ; familj
;
Ephrussi, Charles ; konstsamlingar
;
De Waal, Edmund
;
Netsukes Private collections
;
Jewish families History
;
Art ; Private collections
;
Families
;
Jewish families
;
Netsukes ; Private collections
;
History
;
Kunstsammler
;
Netsuke
;
Sammlung
;
Judiska släkter ; historia
;
Netsuke ; privata samlingar
;
Europe
Abstract:
1. Le West End -- 2. Un lit de parade -- 3. 'A mahout to guide her' -- 4. 'So light, so soft to the touch' -- 5. A box of children's sweets -- 6. A fox with inlaid eyes, in wood -- 7. The yellow archair -- 8. Monsieur Elstir's asparagus -- 9. Even Ephrussi fell for it -- 10. My small profits -- 11. A 'very brilliant five o'clock' -- 12. Die Potemkinische Stadt -- 13. Zionstrasse -- 14. History as it happens -- 15. 'A large square box such as children draw' -- 16. Liberty Hall -- 17. The sweet young thing -- 18. Once upon a time -- 19. Types of the old city -- 20. Heil Wien! Heil Berlin! -- 21. Literally zero -- 22. You must change your life -- 23. Eldorado 5-0050 -- 24. 'An ideal spot for mass marches' -- 25. 'A never-to-be-repeated opportunity' -- 26. 'Good for a single journey' -- 27. The tears of things -- 28. Anna's pocket -- 29. 'All quite openly, publicly and legally' -- 30. Takenoko -- 31. Kodachrome -- 32. Where did you get them? -- 33. The real Japan -- 34. On Polish -- 35. Jiro -- 36. An astrolabe, a menzula, a globe -- 37. Yellow / gold / red.
Abstract:
264 wood and ivory netsuke, none of them larger than a matchbox: in a stunningly original memoir Edmund de Waal describes the journey taken by this exquisite collection - and the family who treasured it - across continents, and centuries, in a gripping tale of war and peace, passion and loss. Apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. And later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined
Note:
Originally published: 2010
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