Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
UNDOC, Current Index
Author: The World of Picasso, 1881-1973
Author: Lael WertenbakerPublisher: Silver Burdett Press
ISBN: 9780809402717
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Explores the life of Pablo Picasso, the significant influences of his work, and the lasting contributions he has made in many art forms.
Coomassie and Magdala
Author: Henry Morton StanleyPublisher:
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Category : Abyssinian Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Comprises accounts of Wolseley's occupation of Ashanti capital, Kumasi, Ghana, and terms with King Kofi Karikari, 1873-1874; and of Napier's occupation of Magdala, Ethiopia, to secure release of British captives from Negus Theodore II, 1867-1868.
The Kalendar of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Author: Royal Institute of British ArchitectsPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Time and the French Revolution
Author: Matthew John ShawPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0861933117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalisedthe hours of the day and dated the year from the beginning of the French Republic. This book not only provides a history of the calendar, but places it in the context of eighteenth-century time-consciousness, arguing that the French were adept at working within several systems of time-keeping, whether that of the Church, civil society, or the rhythms of the seasons. Developments in time-keeping technology and changes in working patterns challenged early-modern temporalities, and the new calendar can also be viewed as a step on the path toward a more modern conception of time. In this context, the creation of the calendar is viewed not just as an aspect of the broader republican programme of social, political and cultural reform, but as a reflection of a broader interest in time and the culmination of several generations' concern with how society should be policed. Matthew Shaw is a curatorat the British Library, London.
Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land
Author: Benjamin Z. KedarPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349140848
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land - a collection of articles that deal with Holy Places from Antiquity to the present; from the lands of the Fertile Crescent to Europe, India, Japan and Mexico; from mountains and seas to temples, cities and countries; from the construction, perception and functioning of sacred sites to the psychotic breakdowns they bring on some visitors.
Egon Schiele's Portraits
Author: Alessandra CominiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781632930125
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Egon Schiele was a meteor that flashed across the galaxy of Viennese art at the beginning of the last century. Although he lived only twenty-eight years-dying quite suddenly of influenza in 1918 just as World War I came to an end-he left a stunning pictorial oeuvre. Schiele's obsession with sexuality, his own and that of others, made him at once a voyeur and a participant in that sexual imperative which Freud was simultaneously plumbing with such unsettling results. The disturbing revelations of Schiele's unmasking portraiture and of the new science of psychology disclosed a collective cultural anxiety during the last years of the crumbling Austrian empire. As a seer into the souls of his sitters, Schiele redefined portraiture in the age of Angst. Alessandra Comini is University Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University, where she taught for thirty-one years after having served on the faculty at Columbia University for ten years. She is the author of eight books, one of which, "Egon Schiele's Portraits," was nominated for the National Book Award. The Republic of Austria extended her its Grand Decoration of Honor in 1990. This is her third book on the artist; she has also published "Schiele in Prison," an extended essay and English translation of the 1912, makeshift diary Schiele kept during his twenty-four days in a provincial prison cell-a forgotten cell which she discovered and photographed in 1963. The cell is now part of a Schiele Museum in the village of Neulengbach. Her 2014 Megan Crespi mystery novel, "Killing for Klimt," is followed by "The Schiele Slaughters."
The World Factbook 2003
Author: United States. Central Intelligence AgencyPublisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781574886412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Austrian Expressionism
Author: Patrick WerknerPublisher: University of Washington Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
It shows, as the author puts its, the "connecting impulse" that animated the avant garde and provided the crucial intellectual context in which Austrian Expressionism emerged in the first decade of this century.
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