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The Annotated Mona Lisa

Author : Carol Strickland

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 49,72 MB

Release : 2007-10

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780740768729

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Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.





Zainichi (Koreans in Japan)

Author : John Lie

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 31,59 MB

Release : 2008-11-17

Category : History

ISBN : 0520258207

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This book traces the origins and transformations of a people-the Zainichi, or Koreans “residing in Japan.” Using a wide range of arguments and evidence-historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural-John Lie reveals the social and historical conditions that gave rise to Zainichi identity, while exploring its vicissitudes and complexity. In the process he sheds light on the vexing topics of diaspora, migration, identity, and group formation.



Champion of Women and the Unborn

Author : Frederick N. Dyer

Publisher : Science History Publications/USA

Page : 648 pages

File Size : 44,7 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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The Geneva Book

Author : William Melancthon Glasgow

Publisher :

Page : 494 pages

File Size : 49,2 MB

Release : 1908

Category : Beaver County (Pa.)

ISBN :

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Creating the Empress

Author : Vera Proskurina

Publisher : Ars Rossica

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 18,2 MB

Release : 2018-05-30

Category : History

ISBN : 9781618118059

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In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, etc.), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine's reign (and some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images.



War Medals and Their History

Author : William Augustus Steward

Publisher :

Page : 586 pages

File Size : 27,88 MB

Release : 1915

Category : Military decorations

ISBN :

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum

Publisher : Getty Publications

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 34,61 MB

Release : 1985-01-01

Category : Art

ISBN : 0892360909

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.





The Geography of the Imagination

Author : Guy Davenport

Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 37,9 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 9781567920802

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In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.