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Author: Marian Crane Publisher: ISBN: Category : Artists's books Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Artist's book made of painted wood, leather, turquoise beads, and linen string. The pages consist of turquoise beads stitched into the leather in a variety of two-dimensional forms. Two linen thread and turquoise bead dangling forms are attached to the spine of the book.
Author: Marian Crane Publisher: ISBN: Category : Artists's books Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Artist's book made of painted wood, leather, turquoise beads, and linen string. The pages consist of turquoise beads stitched into the leather in a variety of two-dimensional forms. Two linen thread and turquoise bead dangling forms are attached to the spine of the book.
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101464585 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
A highly original and poetic self-portrait from one of America's most acclaimed writers. Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world, taking readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Silko weaves tales from her family's past into her observations, using the turquoise stones she finds on the walks to unite the strands of her stories, while the beauty and symbolism of the landscape around her, and of the snakes, birds, dogs, and other animals that share her life and form part of her family, figure prominently in her memories. Strongly influenced by Native American storytelling traditions, The Turquoise Ledge becomes a moving and deeply personal contemplation of the enormous spiritual power of the natural world-of what these creatures and landscapes can communicate to us, and how they are all linked. The book is Silko's first extended work of nonfiction, and its ambitious scope, clear prose, and inventive structure are captivating. The Turquoise Ledge will delight loyal fans and new readers alike, and it marks the return of the unique voice and vision of a gifted storyteller.
Author: Maxine E. McBrinn Publisher: ISBN: 9780890136041 Category : Indian decoration and ornament Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed the stone for use in jewelry, on decorative objects, and as a powerful element in ceremony. In the past, as now, turquoise was valued for its color and beauty but also for its symbolic nature: sky, water, health, protection, abundance. The book traces historical and contemporary jewelry made by Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo artisans, and the continuously inventive ways the stone has been worked.
Author: Arash Khazeni Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520279077 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity. In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, turquoise was a sacred stone and a potent symbol of power projected in vivid color displays. From the empires of Islamic Eurasia, the turquoise trade reached Europe, where the stone was collected as an exotic object from the East. The Eurasian trade lasted into the nineteenth century, when the oldest mines in Iran collapsed and lost Aztec mines in the Americas reopened, unearthing more accessible sources of the stone to rival the Persian blue. Sky Blue Stone recounts the origins, trade, and circulation of a natural object in the context of the history of Islamic Eurasia and global encounters between empire and nature.
Author: Marian Crane
Author: Marian Crane
Author: Geological Survey of Victoria
Author: Geological Survey of Queensland
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Author: Maxine E. McBrinn
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines
Author: Alaister McKelvie
Author: Anne Marguerite Colberg Sigleo
Author: Rhode Island School of Design
Author: Arash Khazeni