Author : Jeff Hoke
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781578633647
Presents an interactive history of the human imagination, separated by the seven stages of alchemical process, encouraging readers to question their understanding of life and the way in which imagination is quantified.
Author : Noah Charney
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714875842
True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recovery From the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery comes this dynamic narrative that tells the fascinating stories of artworks stolen, looted, or destroyed in war, accidentally demolished or discarded, lost at sea or in natural disasters, or attacked by iconoclasts or vandals; works that were intentionally temporal, knowingly destroyed by the artists themselves or their patrons, covered over with paint or plaster, or recycled for their materials. An exciting read that spans the centuries and the continents.
Author : Molly Oldfield
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Museums
ISBN : 9781526360281
Open up this treasure trove of wonders to visit 43 museums and 50 exhibits! Discover the most fascinating and mysterious objects found in museums, from star attractions to unsung exhibits. With Molly Oldfield, research elf of hit television show QI, unearth the astonishing stories of how these treasures were created, found and finally displayed.
Author : Phil Smith
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1911193252
This is the gloriously funny and endlessly fascinating account of the author's recent journey on foot across the north of England in the footsteps of a man who made the same journey 100 years ago with a dog trouve called Pontiflunk.
Author : William A. Katz
Publisher :
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : 9781600300967
Author : Jeff Hoke
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2008-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781422392300
Open this book & step into an alternative world full of compelling images, historical tidbits, & challenges to common myths. Peruse these seven halls: Calcinatio, The Hall of Technology; Solutio, the Hall of Aquaria; Coagulatio, the Zoological Garden; Sublimatio, The Observatory; Mortificatio, The Mausoleum of History; Separatio, The Laboratory of Science & Faith; & Conjunctio, The Gallery to the Arts. Hoke blends his knowledge of science & art with his studies of 14th-cent. alchemy & the origins of philosophy & scientific theory, creating exhibits in his ¿museum: that dazzle the imagination. These magnificent illustrations return us to an era where the physician was also the magician, & the astronomer the astrologer. Includes seven paper do-it-yourself models.
Author : John Michael Greer
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1936740001
New Agers count off the days until the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Evangelical Christians look for the Antichrist and long for the Rapture. Extropians dream of the Singularity, when super-intelligent computers will abolish all human limits to progress. Doomers stockpile freeze-dried food as they wait for civilization to crash and burn. Why are we waiting for Armageddon? Almost since the beginning of civilization, an insatiable willingness to believe has driven people to dream of the apocalypse that will replace the world they've got with the one they've always wanted. All of these predictions have one thing in common: every one of them has been wrong. From brilliant seers and religious visionaries to conspiracy theorists and fundamentalists, Apocalypse Not exposes prophecies of doom.--From publisher description.
Author : Edward Walford
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Antiquities
ISBN :
Author : Kim Culbertson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545731526
"The Wonder of Us is an epic journey of love and friendship, forgiveness and possibility." -Jennifer Nivens, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places Riya and Abby are:Best friends.Complete opposites.Living on different continents.Currently mad at each other.About to travel around Europe. Riya moved to Berlin, Germany, with her family for junior year, while Abby stayed behind in their small California town. They thought it would be easy to keep up their friendship-it's only a year and they've been best friends since preschool. But instead, they ended up fighting and not being there for the other. So Riya proposes an epic adventure to fix their friendship. Two weeks, six countries, unimaginable fun. But two small catches: They haven't talked in weeks. They've both been keeping secrets. Can Riya and Abby find their way back to each other among lush countrysides and dazzling cities, or does growing up mean growing apart?
Author : Le Cheng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811652252
This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict. This book is a collection of heritage studies from a critical perspective as a product of the 2018 ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies) Conference in Hangzhou, the largest conference of its kind in Asia. The contributors cover a wide spectrum of issues in heritage studies, such as heritage management, accessibility to heritage, heritage conservation and heritage policy, and heritage representation. It also examines the various contexts within which heritage emerges and how heritage is constructed within that context. Analyses are based on not only representations of heritage but also on the performativity. Explorations touch upon community involvement, landscape history, children’s literature, endangered food, architecture, advertisement, allotment garden, and gender and visual art. As heritage has always been a locus of contested verities, the book offers a variegated approach to heritage studies. It provides students and scholars new perspectives on heritage study.
