A History of the Rectangular Survey System
Author : C. Albert White
Publisher :
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain
Author : Adrian Sassoon
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1992-03-12
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0892361735
Book Description
This volume documents the Getty Museum's important holdings of Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain. Entries are arranged in chronological order and include descriptions, commentary, and a complete bibliography and exhibition list. Every object is illustrated in color and all incised and painted marks are reproduced. The volume also includes an index of painters, gilders, and previous owners.
No Logo
Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312203436
Book Description
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
One of Ours
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 1989-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892361433
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 16 includes articles written by Richard A. Gergel, Lee Johnson, Myra D. Orth, Barbra Anderson, Louise Lippincott, Leonard Amico, Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, Gerd Spitzer, and Clare Le Corbeiller.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1993-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362286
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal has been published annually since 1974. It contains scholarly articles and shorter notes pertaining to objects in the Museum’s seven curatorial departments: Antiquities, Manuscripts, Paintings, Drawings, Decorative Arts, Sculpture and Works of Art, and Photographs. The Journal includes an illustrated checklist of the Museum’s acquisitions for the precious year, a staff listing, and a statement by the Museum’s director outlining the year’s most important activities. Volume 20 of the J. Paul Getty Museum Journal contains an index to volumes 1 to 20 and includes articles by John Walsh, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Barbara Bohen, Kelly Pask, Suzanne Lewis, Elizabeth Pilliod, Anne Ratzki-Kraatz, Sharon K. Shore, Linda A. Strauss, Brian Considine, Arie Wallert, Richard Rand, And Jacky De Veer-Langezaal.
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Walters Art Gallery
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Africans in art
ISBN : 9780911886788
Book Description
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."
Mind Myths
Author : Sergio Della Sala
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1999-06-02
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
Mind Myths shows that science can be entertaining and creative. Addressing various topics, this book counterbalances information derived from the media with a 'scientific view'. It contains contributions from experts around the world.
Before the Pyramids
Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Museum
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9781885923820
Book Description
This catalogue for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis and the Delta were contributed by leading scholars in the field. The catalogue features 129 Predynastic and Early Dynastic objects, most from the Oriental Institute's collection, that illustrate the environmental setting, Predynastic and Early Dynastic culture, religion and the royal burials at Abydos. This volume will be a standard reference and a staple for classroom use.
Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh
Author : James Denholm Van Trump
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
