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Book Japanese Bamboo Baskets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lloyd Cotsen
  • Publisher : Art Media Resources
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781878529596
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Japanese Bamboo Baskets written by Lloyd Cotsen and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 1999 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Masterworks of Form and Texture surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century baskets of Japan, their place in history, and the elevation of bamboo craft work to an art form. It features more than 250 illustrations of selections from the largest known collection of Japanese flower baskets. This is the first book in English to examine bamboo baskets as modern sculptural masterpieces as well as chronicle the development of Japanese flower-arranging baskets from utilitarian containers through their subsequent transformation into art. At the heart of this volume are dramatic portraits of works in the Cotsen Collection. Full-page and double-page illustrations abound. Large-scale details and second views evoke the forms, textures and three-dimensionality Of the baskets, revealing their monumentality and the architecture of their construction. The baskets illustrated were selected primarily for their visual qualities, and are organized by region. They rage from 1890s examples by the first basket maker who signed his work to 1990s creations by leading bamboo crafts artists. Pieces by all those who have been made Living National Treasures are included. This book is filled with new information and superlative works of art. It will be treasured by anyone who has known the joy of holding a rough-woven basket or admired the delicate tracery of bamboo strips in a contemporary work of bamboo art.

Book Japanese Bamboo Baskets

Download or read book Japanese Bamboo Baskets written by Masanori Moroyama and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once neglected in the West, Japanese basketry now claims a loyal following among art lovers, collectors, and craftspeople in the United States and Europe. Japanese Basketry acknowledges this growing interest by presenting a stunning array of the best baskets to come out of Japan in the last 150 years....[and] frames the pieces in a wealth of original material, beginning with a preface by pioneer collector Lloyd Cotsen -- from book jacket.

Book Present Day Nippon

Download or read book Present Day Nippon written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Arts

Download or read book Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Arts written by Robert T. Coffland and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works by artists of the Japan Craft Arts Association, the Nitten World, and independent artists.

Book Bamboo in Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Moore Bess
  • Publisher : Kodansha International
  • Release : 2001-05-18
  • ISBN : 9784770025104
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Bamboo in Japan written by Nancy Moore Bess and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2001-05-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fully illustrated guide to the art, craft and design of bamboo, as demonstrated by the Japanese. It demonstrates how to use inexpensive materials to create sophisticated effects in the home and garden. A list of bamboo collections, gardens and research sources is included. For centuries, bamboo has fascinated legions of craftspeople, plant lovers and devotees of the handcrafted object. And nowhere is bamboo used more elegantly and distinctly than in Japan. Its presence touches every part of daily life-art, crafts, design, literature, and food. Its beauty

Book Chinese Baskets

Download or read book Chinese Baskets written by Berthold Laufer and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bamboo World

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  • Author : Deirdre Stewart
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster (Australia)
  • Release : 2000-08
  • ISBN : 9780743200660
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bamboo World written by Deirdre Stewart and published by Simon & Schuster (Australia). This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Each year during the shoot season, we stand spellbound in our beautiful botanical garden, gazing in awe at the newly emerging shoots of tropical giant bamboos. They thrust the earth aside in great clods as they heave their mighty bulk from beneath the earth.'" The object of this book is to communicate a wealth of knowledge, both scientific and practical, to those with little knowledge of the fabulous clumping bamboos of the world. Few people seem to be aware of the existence of these clumping bamboos. Their experience and attitudes have been soured by the invasive running bamboos. The Western world is not yet taking clumping bamboos seriously. Most Asian countries treat this fastest growing, annually renewable resource with great reverence. Bamboo feeds them, houses them, graces and shades their environment. It is used to make their musical instruments, cooking and eating utensils, furniture, hunting weapons, and ceremonial artifacts. It even provides the reinforcement for their concrete. Bamboo provides their carrying and storage baskets, lamps and lampshades, ropes and strings, roof tiles and hats, and has hundreds of other practical and spiritual uses. "Bamboo World" distils simple practical advice on using bamboo for a wealth of applications. It draws on both traditional village technology and modern scientific research, accumulated over the author's many years of travel, practice, research, growing, and association with village communities and scientists from many countries.

Book Report  To Accompany H R  3321

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 890 pages

Download or read book Report To Accompany H R 3321 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bill to Reduce Tariff Duties to Provide Revenue for the Government and for Other Purposes Together with Views of Minority and Statistical Data

Download or read book A Bill to Reduce Tariff Duties to Provide Revenue for the Government and for Other Purposes Together with Views of Minority and Statistical Data written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Japan Magazine

Download or read book The Japan Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Garo Literature

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  • Author : Caroline R. Marak
  • Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9788126013722
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Garo Literature written by Caroline R. Marak and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Anthology Of Garo Literature Contains Songs, Folktales, Ritual Chants, Traditional Oral Poetry, Songs About Country Life, Samples Of Written Poetry And A Play.

Book Court of Customs Appeals Reports

Download or read book Court of Customs Appeals Reports written by United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mao s Road to Power  Revolutionary Writings  1912 49  v  3  From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets  July 1927 December 1930

Download or read book Mao s Road to Power Revolutionary Writings 1912 49 v 3 From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets July 1927 December 1930 written by Zedong Mao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's centenary.

Book Report from Xunwu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zedong Mao
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780804721820
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Report from Xunwu written by Zedong Mao and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long described as lost, this report was the result of Mao Zedong's investigation in 1930 of the people, economy, society and history of the obscure rural county of Xunwu in South China. An extraordinary document that far exceeds in scope and depth Mao's other investigative reports on rural China, the report is a rich source of information on rural administration, commerce, transportation, communication, education, land tenure, taxation, religion, diverse social relations and practices and struggle in one obscure area that was a microcosm of China. Thompson has translated and presented Mao's report with extensive notes. The book is designed to be accessible to non-specialists, and it will be welcomed by those interested in the Chinese countryside, comparative revolution and historical anthropology. Because Mao's report on Xunwu was part of a revolutionary programme, the report raises complex questions about academic and activist readings of social realities.

Book Reports of the Committee and of the Director  Indian Lac Research Institute

Download or read book Reports of the Committee and of the Director Indian Lac Research Institute written by Indian Lac Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Kitchen History

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Kitchen History written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 2158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A space common to all peoples, the kitchen embodies the cultural history of domestic life: how people around the world acquire, prepare, cook, serve, eat, preserve, and store food; what foods we eat and why and when; what utensils, cutlery, decorations, furnishings, and appliances we create and use; what work, play, chores, services, and celebrations we perform. The history of the kitchen reflects human ingenuity solving problems posed by daily necessity and the human desire for social comfort and continuity. Kitchen history also tells us much about our interaction with others and with other cultures as well. From the history of beer, cooking stones, ergonomics, medieval kitchens, Roman cookery, pasta, and chopsticks to inventors such as Nils Dalén and George Washington Carver and cookbook authors such as Isabella Beeton and Julia Child, this A-Z Encyclopedia presents almost 300 wide-ranging entries that detail the culinary history of each topic. The Encyclopedia of Kitchen History features: *See Alsos which lead the reader to pertinent entries *Useful Sources section at the end of entries that compiles a list of books, CDs, journals, newspapers, and online databases and news sources for further research *An appendix of Common Sources- the most helpful resources on domestic histories *Numerous illustrations that explain and communicate the vibrancy of domestic culture *Thorough, analytic index that directs the reader to the people, writings, recipes, inventions, processes, and foodstuffs that make up kitchen history. From the discovery of fire to the latest space mission, the Encyclopedia of Kitchen History brings together the rich diversity of kitchen history in one accessible volume. Students, researchers, scholars, and culinary aficionados- from beginners to experts- will find this Encyclopedia to be a fascinating look into the history of the kitchen from the foodstuffs prepared to the tools and implements used as well as the innovators who shaped its function and utility.