Author : Dakin Hart
Publisher : Giles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781907804861
Explores the place of rock and stone in human culture and history.
Author : Miruna Achim
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 081653957X
Museum Matters tells the story of Mexico's national collections through the trajectories of its objects. The essays in this book show the many ways in which things matter and affect how Mexico imagines its past, present, and future.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781016746243
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Lynn Lurie
Publisher : Etruscan Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0999753460
Museum of Stones reveals a possessive/obsessive world of a love that must be released. An exceptional child collects too many rocks, invents a garbage recycler that runs amok, does not “play well.” His mother takes their relationship to extremes, threatening her sanity and health, a wrenching yet often funny account.
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1524732575
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" (Los Angeles Times). "We sleep long, / if not sound," Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, "Till the end/ we sing / into the wind." In scenes and settings that circle family and the generations in the American South--one poem, "Kith," exploring that strange bedfellow of "kin"--the speaker and his young son wander among the stones of their ancestors. "Like heat he seeks them, / my son, thirsting / to learn those / he don't know / are his dead." Whether it's the fireflies of a Louisiana summer caught in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that makes up our flickering precarious joy, all that we want to protect, is lifted into the light in this moving book. Stones becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them—of us—poetry can save.
Author : Judith Mann
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2020-10-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780891780069
Paintings on Stone examines a fascinating tradition long overlooked by art historians-stone surfaces used to create stunning portraits, mythological scenes, and sacred images. Written by an international team of scholars, the catalogue reveals the significance of these paintings, their complex meanings, and their technical virtuosity. Using a technique perfected by Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), 16th-century Italian artists created compositions using stone surfaces in place of panel or canvas. The practice of using stone supports continued to engage European artists and patrons well into the 18th century. This volume reveals the beauty of these works and examines the complexity of using materials such as slate, marble, alabaster, lapis lazuli, and amethyst. Illustrated with more than one hundred examples with essays on topics ranging from importing stone to its relationship to alchemy, Paintings on Stone will become the essential reference on this little-studied practice.Accompanies a major exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum from October 25, 2020 to January 17, 2021
Author : Elazar Barkan
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2003-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892366737
These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.
Author : James Gaskins
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1684560772
This text is meant to educate and help people with the identification of unusual stones fashioned by early man. Many of these stones are nothing short of true works of art, as you will see. In these pages are photographs and drawings of stones collected over thirty years, and four years to write this book—60,000 words and 318 photos and drawings to help you understand how ancient man used and really looked at a stone, and you will too. There's no book like this on earth!
Author : Margot Norton
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838664039
The official catalogue for the 2021 New Museum Triennial, a global survey of today's up-and-coming artists. The New Museum's Triennial, curated by Jamilla James and Margot Norton, is a signature survey of emerging artists from around the world. In this moment of profound change, where structures once thought to be stable have been revealed to be precarious, the 2021 Triennial showcases 40 artists and collectives reimagining traditional models, materials, and techniques beyond established institutional paradigms. Their works explore states of transformation, calling attention to the malleability of structures and the fluid and adaptable potential of both technological and organic media.00Exhibition: New Museum, New York, USA (10.07.2021 - 01.23.2022).
Author : Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781419722226
Includes an interview with the artist by Tina Fiske.
