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Brief Van Bibliotheca Sacra Company, Publishers Oberlin (Ohio) Aan Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (1882-1976)
Author: Brief Van Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (1882-1976) Aan William Foxwell Albright (1891-1971)
Author: Brieven van Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (1882-1976) aan I.E. Géjou
Author: Brieven Van Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (1882-1976) Aan Harold M. Wiener
Author: Brieven Van E.S. David Aan Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (1882-1976)
Author: Brieven Van Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (1882-1976) Aan Casper John Kraemer (1895-1958)
Author: Franz Marius Theodor Liagre BöhlPublisher:
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Sharks in Question
Author: Victor G. SpringerPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 158834553X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Sharks in Question is a collective response to the thousands of questions about sharks received annually by scientists at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Written in a question-and-answer format accompanied by more than 100 photographs and illustrations, the book provides knowledge for a general audience as well as students of marine biology. Victor Springer provides a comprehensive review of the biology of sharks in three broad divisions: shark biology and evolutionary history, the “supersharks” notable for their life history, size, or temperament, and the interactions between sharks and humans, including the risk of shark attack.
POT OF PAINT
Author: Linda MerrillPublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"A Pot of Paint reconstructs the lost transcript and revisits the highly contested issues surrounding one of the most celebrated trials in the history of art. A libel suit brought in the London courts by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler against John Ruskin, England's most powerful art critic, the trial was essentially a debate of aesthetic theory conducted at a critical hour in the evolution of modern art." "After viewing an 1877 exhibition that included some of Whistler's most abstract works, Ruskin declared in print that the artist had flung "a pot of paint in the public's face." He called Whistler a "coxcomb" and said that it was the height of "cockney impudence" to ask two hundred guineas for a painting such as Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. The dispute was fully covered in the popular press. Using those newspaper accounts, as well as letters, legal papers, Ruskin's instructions to his counsel, and Whistler's later rendition of events in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Linda Merrill reveals the deeply held, contrary aesthetic ideals of the two parties, and shows that, in many ways, the real litigants in Whistler v. Ruskin were traditional, representational art and art that tended toward abstraction." "During eighteen months of pretrial delays and two days of testimony from Whistler and several well-known figures in the art world, London debated the value and the meaning of art. A Pot of Paint retrieves these debates for a society that continues to argue the merits of innovation in art and the place of art in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Great War in the Air
Author: John H. MorrowPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817355456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Starting in 1909 with the beginnings of military aviation and the aviation industry and ending with their catastrophic postwar contraction, the book examines the totality of the air war: its heroism, romantic myths, politics, strategies, and cost in men and materiel. John H. Morrow, Jr., also elaborates on the advancements in aircraft and engine technology and production during airpower's development into a viable and threatening military weapon within a decade of its origins.
Degenerate Art
Author: Stephanie BarronPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810936539
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Looks at the reconstructed exhibit of degenerate art censored by the Nazis in 1937