Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Chinese Art
Author: Roger FryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Our object in producing this book is to supply information about Chinese art that is at once authoritative and introductory. To many it may seem curious that no previous volume of the kind exists ; but to those who know the extreme difficulty of a detailed study of even one part of Chinese art, with its enormous periods and its close relationship to Eastern ideas, it may rather seem curious that anyone should attempt such a summary. We should not have given way to the desire to make such a book had we not known how valuable it would be if properly produced, and had we not felt that we had hit upon the right plan. -- Preface.
The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the Year Ending ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
The Lives of Chinese Objects
Author: Louise TythacottPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452398
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
1876-1891 include reports on the internal commerce of the United States, referred to in letters of transmittal as "the volume on commerce and navigation."
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics: A-Art
Author: James HastingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Americana
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Islamic Art Collections
Author: Karin AdahlPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136113622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An annotated index and general orientation of Islamic art collections in museums, libraries, other institutions and on private hands. Includes a short description of each collection, its main characteristics, documentation, publications and exhibitions.
Hyde's Weekly Art News
Author: Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
Author: James HastingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 1828
Book Description