Author: Spink & SonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, Commemorative & War Medals, Books & Cabinets
Author: Spink & SonSpink & Son's Monthly Numismatic Circular
Author: Catálogo Breve de la Biblioteca Americana
Author: Biblioteca Nacional (Chile)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Catalogue. Monnaies et médailles grecques, Romaines, de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique
Author: Jacques SchulmanPhilosophy manual: a South-South perspective
Author: Chanthalangsy, PhinithPublisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231010069
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Infelicities
Author: Peter MasonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801858802
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to convey the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe. In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting.
Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Catalogue. Monnaies et médailles des Pays-Bas septentrionaux et méridionaux, de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique
Author: Jacques SchulmanThe Seduction of the Mediterranean
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134871392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.