Author : Mark Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520070875
Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Aesthetic movement (Art)
ISBN : 0870994689
"This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.
Author : James Robinson Planché
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN :
Author : Nancy Lyman Roelker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520086265
"Will be the definitive work on the Parlement in the Reformation and Wars of Religion."--Orest R. Ranum, author of The Fronde, a French Revolution
Author : Christopher S. Lightfoot
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0300208774
Among glass craftsman active in the 1st century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who hailed from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion’s glass stood out for its quality and popularity. His products are distinguished by the fine detail and precision of their relief decoration, which imitates designs found on contemporaneous silverware. This compact, but thorough volume examines the most innovative and elegant known examples of Roman mold-blown glass, providing a uniquely comprehensive, up-to-date study of these exceptional works. Included are some twenty-six remarkably preserved examples of drinking cups, bowls, and jugs signed by Ennion himself, as well as fifteen additional vessels that were clearly influenced by him. The informative texts and illustrations effectively convey the lasting aesthetic appeal of Ennion’s vessels, and offer an accessible introduction to an ancient art form that reached its apogee in the early decades of the Roman Empire.
Author : Chris Humphrey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719056031
Medieval festivals such as carnival and misrule, were occasions which created a temporary and dynamic upside-down world. This text shows these occasions were highly diverse, and discusses how they were able to negotiate a range of meanings and values.
Author : Natasha Awais-Dean
Publisher : British Museum Research Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art, Tudor
ISBN : 9780861592098
Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much jewellery as women. Bejewelled offers an in-depth discussion of the contexts in which jewellery was circulated from a male perspective, considering the jewels as valid items of material culture.
Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811211284
The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume--it was originally published in 1933--this epic of nine groupings of poems is now being issued as a New Directions Paperbook.
Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101602163
#1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth delivers a frighteningly possible novel of international terrorism and impending war… As the Russian people face starvation, the Politburo is faced with a hard choice: negotiate with America for food, go to war for national survival, or deal with an uprising in the motherland. Through an informant, British Agent Adam Munro learns that the situation is growing dangerously tense, with powerful forces in the USSR maneuvering for supremacy. But even as East and West conduct delicate talks, events spiral out of control and threaten to undo every step taken. The world’s largest oil tanker is hijacked by terrorists, and a Ukrainian “freedom fighter” is rescued in a bloody catastrophe on the Black Sea. From Moscow to Washington, the stakes grow ever more perilous as the mad actions of a few threaten to engulf the entire world in nuclear war—unless Munro can stop them.
Author : Mario Praz
Publisher : [London] : Collins
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Devil in literature
ISBN :
Mario Paz has, in the Romantic Agony, acutely analyzed the effect of the traditions of Byron and De Sade upon poets and painters from 1800 to 1900. It is the analysis of a mood in literature. The mood may ve been transient, but it was widespread, and it was expressed in dreams of "luxurious cruelties," "fatal women," corpse-passions, and the sinful agonies of delight. Professo Praz has described the whole Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility.
