Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Impressionism Reflections and Perceptions
Author: Meyer SchapiroPublisher: George Braziller Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Presents a revision of the late Columbia University art historian's lectures given at Indiana University in 1961.
The Assyrian Sacred Tree
Author: Mariana GiovinoPublisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN: 9783525530283
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Revised thesis (doctoral) - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.
The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics)
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1716126584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Book of Art for Young People
Author: Agnes Ethel ConwayPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This book, crafted for young minds, unveils a rich tapestry of artistic masterpieces through the ages. From the grandeur of thirteenth-century Europe to the Renaissance's awe-inspiring beauty, embark on a journey that illuminates the works of Richard II, the Van Eycks, Raphael, and more. Explore the vibrant Renaissance in Venice and the North, delving into the genius of Rembrandt, Peter de Hooch, Cuyp, Van Dyck, and Velasquez.
Biomimicry
Author: Janine M. BenyusPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061958921
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
Persia and the Enlightenment
Author: Cyrus MasrooriPublisher: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781800348578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Since the 5th century BCE Persia has played a significant part in representing the "Other" against which European identity has been constructed. What makes the case of Persia unique in this process of identity formation is the ambivalent attitude that Europe has shown in its imaginary about Persia. Persia is arguably the nation of "the Orient" most referred to in Early Modern European writings, frequently mentioned in various discourses of the Enlightenment including theology, literature, and political theory. What was the appeal of Persia to such a diverse intellectual population in Enlightenment Europe? How did intellectuals engage with the 'facts' about Persia? In what ways did utilizing Persia contribute to the development of modern European identities? In this volume, an international group of scholars with diverse academic backgrounds has tackled these and other questions related to the Enlightenment's engagement with Persia. In doing so, Persia and the Enlightenment questions reductionist assessments of Modern Europe's encounter with the Middle East, where a complex engagement is simplified to a confrontation between liberalism and Islam, or an exaggerated Orientalism. By carefully studying Persia in the Enlightenment narratives, this volume throws new light on the complexity of intercultural encounters and their impact on the shaping of collective identities.
Life of Petrarch
Author: Ernest Hatch WilkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Biography of the 14th century Italian scholar.
The Story of Crass
Author: George BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In-depth interviews with the main movers in the punk rock movement--Crass members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant--detail the face of the revolution founded by these radical thinkers and artists. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules by putting out their own records, films, and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that were dutifully covered by the world's press. Not just another iconoclastic band, Crass was a musical, social, and political phenomenon: commune dwellers that were rarely photographed and remained contemptuous of conventional pop stardom. As detailed in this history, their members explored and finally exhausted the possibilities of punk-led anarchy. This definitive biography of the band not only gives backstage access to their lives, philosophies, and the movement that followed, but also to never-before-seen photographs and rare dialogues.
Author: Voltaire