A real Van Gogh : how the art world struggles with truth / / Henk Tromp

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784911303321
• Autore: Tromp Henk <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Amsterdam] : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 90-485-1141-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 709; 751.58; 759.9492
• Soggetti: Art - Expertising
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Dramatis personae; Introduction; 1. An eye for an eye; 2. True colors; 3. Hushing up; 4. For art's sake; 5. The expert tamed; 6. Retaliation; 7. An uneasy legacy; 8. Between a rock and a hard place; 9. Among art experts; 10. The gift; 11. The unfinished Vincent; Acknowledgments; Notes; Archives; Illustrations; Bibliography; Index of names
• Sommario/riassunto: Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real van Goghs from the fake ones, and the key question addressed in this book is what may happen to art experts when they publicly voice their opinions on a particular van Gogh (or not). The story starts with art expert J.B. de la Faille who discovered to his own bewilderment that he had included dozens of fake Van Goghs in his 1928 catalogue raisonné.

The language situation in China . Volume 3 2009-2010 / / editor-in-chief, Li Yuming [and five others] ; translation advisors, Zhao Shouhui, Yao Xiaoping, Rudolf Salzlechner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823719603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Beijing, China : , : De Gruyter Mouton : , : The Commercial Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-5015-0314-6; 1-5015-0298-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Collana: Language Policies and Practices in China, , 2195-9838 ; ; Volume 3
• Disciplina: 306.44951
• Soggetti: Language policy - China; Language planning - China; Chinese language - Variation; Language and education - China; Language and culture - China; Bilingualism - China; English language - Study and teaching - China; China Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Language issues in China’s urbanization process in the context of globalization -- Contents -- 1. An update on the use and management of standard spoken and written Chinese -- 2. Current situation of the management of spoken and written languages -- 3. Present situation of the work concerning ethnic languages -- 4. Sixty years’ work with spoken and written languages -- 5. The global spread of the Chinese language -- 6. Development of the language information industry in China -- 7. The use of sign language and related issues -- 8. The language of Chinese films and TV series -- 9. Folk cant and folk life -- 10. The development of an international language environment in Beijing -- 11. The Beijing migrant children’s ; language and identity -- 12. Language barrier and assistance during the earthquake relief operations in Yushu, Qinghai Province -- 13. A survey of the Russian language use in Inner Mongolia’s Ergun City -- 14. Compilation of dictionaries of the Chinese language -- 15. Chinglish at the crossroads -- 16. The academic community on language life -- 17. Chinese characters: Traditional versus simplified debate -- 18. Debate on The General Table of Standard Chinese Characters -- 19. A heated discussion on the “crisis in writing Chinese characters” -- 20. Reflections on the incident of the “Preservation of Cantonese” in Guangzhou -- 21. The phenomenon of the Martian language -- 22. Chinese Internet buzzwords and catchphrases of 2009 -- 23. Comparisons of Chinese characters, words and phrases used in the media (2005–2009) -- 24. Chinese neologisms of the year (2009–2010) -- 25. A survey of annual catchwords in the media (2009–2010) -- 26. Changes in biliteracy and trilingualism in the Hong Kong education sector -- 27. Survey of “Yuanxingdi” as street name in Macau -- 28. Language situation in Taiwan (2009–2010) -- 29 Special. Social responses spurred on by the Report on the Language Situation in China -- Newspapers in written Chinese minority languages -- A record of major Chinese language events (2009) -- A record of major Chinese language events (2010) -- Contents (Chinese version 2009) -- Contents (Chinese version 2011) -- Postscript -- Editorial Teams of the English Edition -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.