Author: Anne SebbaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781904349679
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Exiled Collector
Author: Anne SebbaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781904349679
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The American Collector
Author: Charles Frederick HeartmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Echoes of Exile
Author: Ines Rotermund-ReynardPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110388804
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Thousands of people were driven into exile by Germany's National Socialist regime from 1933 onward. For many German-speaking artists and writers Paris became a temporary capital. The archives of these exiles became "displaced objects" - scattered, stolen, confiscated, and often destroyed, but also frequently preserved. This book assesses previously unknown source material stored at the Moscow State Military Archive (RVGA) since the end of the war, and offers new insights into the activities of German-speaking exiles in the 1930s in Paris and Europe. Against the backdrop of current debates surrounding displaced cultural goods and their restitution, this work seeks to facilitate a transnational, interdisciplinary scientific dialogue.
The Writing of the Gods
Author: Edward DolnickPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501198947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The fast-paced and “engrossing account” (The New York Times Book Review) of “one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history” (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world’s most famous documents—the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum every year, and yet most people don’t really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages—in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it—the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx—was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. One was English, the other French, at a time when England and France were enemies and the world’s two great superpowers. Written “like a thriller” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), The Writing of the Gods chronicles this high-stakes intellectual race in which the winner would win glory for both himself and his nation. A riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt, “and also a lesson…in what the human mind does when faced with a puzzle” (The New Yorker).
The Coin Collector's Journal
Author: The Exiled Trilogy
Author: Scott A. BorgmanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519270696
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Bringing all three books together into one complete volume, Scott A. Borgman's The Exiled Trilogy weaves an action-packed tale of honor, duty, deception, betrayal, desire, and love - while taking a hard, emotional look at humanity itself. An angel with a mouth. The devil's plans to escape. A journey through Hell itself. Expect the unexpected as The Exiled Trilogy thrusts you into a world of angels, old gods, and creatures of myth and legend as it dares to show the darkest depths that humanity can sink to... and how high we're capable of soaring. Written for a purpose. Destined to be told. Even fiction has truth within it.
The Print-collector's Quarterly
Author: Fitz Roy CarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Day Parliament Burned Down
Author: Caroline ShentonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199677506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This is the thrilling but largely unknown story of the day that the 800 year-old Houses of Parliament burnt down. Today it is a largely forgotten event, but in 1834 it was as shocking and significant to contemporaries as the death of Princess Diana was to us at the end of the 20th century. Out of the fire rose not just the new Houses of Parliament, but masterpieces by Turner and Dickens, the first Public Record Office and a new Metropolitan Fire Brigade. It is afascinating tale, never previously told in a full-length book. Written by the head of the Parliamentary Archives at Westminster, it will appeal to any readers interested in the Georgian and Victorianperiods, the history of London, and the story of Parliament.
The coin collector's manual
Author: Henry Noel HumphreysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice
Author: Dr Roy ShukerPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409493970
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This study examines the history of record collecting; profiles collectors and the collecting process; considers categories—especially music genres—and types of record collecting; and outlines and discusses the infrastructure within which collecting operates. Shuker situates this discussion within the broader literature on collecting, along with issues of cultural consumption, social identity and 'the construction of self' in contemporary society. Record collecting is both fascinating in its own right, and provides insights into broader issues of nostalgia, consumption and material culture.