Author: Marnie FlookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A History of the American Rock Garden Society, 1934-1995
Author: Marnie FlookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Magazines for Libraries
Author: William Armstrong KatzPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835245418
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
The Standard Periodical Directory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1970
Book Description
The Rock-Art of Eastern North America
Author: Carol Diaz-GranadosPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350969
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in twelve states and four Canadian provinces In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded throughout the eastern woodlands of North America on boulders, bluffs, and trees, in caves and in rock shelters. These cultural remnants scattered on the landscape can tell us much about the belief systems of the inhabitants that left them behind. The Rock-Art of Eastern North America brings together 20 papers from recent research at sites in eastern North America, where humidity and the actions of weather, including acid rain, can be very damaging over time. Contributors to this volume range from professional archaeologists and art historians to avocational archaeologists, including a surgeon, a lawyer, two photographers, and an aerospace engineer. They present information, drawings, and photographs of sites ranging from the Seven Sacred Stones in Iowa to the Bald Friar Petroglyphs of Maryland and from the Lincoln Rise Site in Tennessee to the Nisula Site in Quebec. Discussions of the significance of artist gender, the relationship of rock-art to mortuary caves, and the suggestive link to the peopling of the continent are particularly notable contributions. Discussions include the history, ethnography, recording methods, dating, and analysis of the subject sites and integrate these with the known archaeological data.
Phlox
Author: James H. LocklearPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881929344
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
An in-depth look at the 61 different species of phlox (Høstfloks).
A History of Gardening in Ireland
Author: Keith LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Genus Arisaema
Author: Guy GusmanNational Recreational, Sporting, and Hobby Organizations of the United States
Author: Strange and Wonderful
Author: Karen Polinger FosterPublisher:
ISBN: 0190672536
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art.
Re-creating the American Past
Author: Richard Guy WilsonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813923482
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Although individually and collectively Americans have many histories, the dominant view of our national past focuses on the colonial era. The reasons for this are many and complex, touching on stories of the country's origins and of the founding fathers, the privileged position in history granted the thirteen original colonies, and the ways in which the nation has adjusted to change and modernity. But no matter the cause, the result is obvious: images and forms derived from and related to America's colonial past are the single most popular form of cultural expression. Often conceived solely in architectural terms, from the red-brick and white-trimmed buildings that recall eighteenth-century James River estates to the clapboarded saltboxes that recall early New England, Colonial Revival is in fact better understood as a process of remembering. In Re-creating the American Past, architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson and a host of other scholars examine how and why Colonial Revival has persisted in modern times. The volume contains essays that explore Colonial Revival expressions in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, decorative arts, and painting and sculpture, as well as the social, intellectual, and cultural background of the phenomena. Based on the University of Virginia's landmark 2000 conference "The Colonial Revival in America," Re-creating the American Past is a comprehensive and handsome volume that recovers the origins, characteristics, diversity, and significance of the Colonial Revival, situating it within the broader history of American design, culture, and society.