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Book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library  the Fogg Art Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library the Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Terra 2008

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  • Author : Leslie Rainer
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2011-06-14
  • ISBN : 1606060430
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Terra 2008 written by Leslie Rainer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.

Book Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World

Download or read book Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World presents new Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries C.E. from Egypt and Palestine and explores its rich potential for historical analysis.

Book The Athenian Trireme

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  • Author : J. S. Morrison
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2000-07-20
  • ISBN : 9780521564564
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Athenian Trireme written by J. S. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of the technical and historical background to the reconstruction of a Greek warship.

Book China s Porcelain Capital

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  • Author : Maris Boyd Gillette
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-08-11
  • ISBN : 1474259413
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book China s Porcelain Capital written by Maris Boyd Gillette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Gillette explores the impact of state involvement in Jungdezhen's porcelain production, particularly during the momentous 20th century. She considers how the Chinese government has consumed, invested in, taxed, and managed the ceramics industry, and the effects of state intervention on ceramists' lives, their local environment, and the nature of the goods they produce."--Page [4] of cover

Book Ars Islamica

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  • Author : Richard Ettinghausen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-12
  • ISBN : 9781258227784
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Ars Islamica written by Richard Ettinghausen and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Points

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  • Author : Jacques Derrida
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780804724883
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Points written by Jacques Derrida and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 23 interviews given over the last 2 decades illustrating the extraordinary breadth of Derrida's concerns & writings.

Book Gendered Visions

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  • Author : Salah M. Hassan
  • Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Gendered Visions written by Salah M. Hassan and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of work by six prominent artists accompanied by critical essays which place the work in the context of the artists' socio-cultural backgrounds. All six artists are of African origin but work in the West: Ethiopian painter Elisabeth T Atnafu; US fibre and mixed-media artist Xenobia Bailey; Jamaican photographer Renee Cox; Cameroon photographer Angele Essamba; painter Houria Niati from Algeria; and Ethiopian sculptor Etiye Dimma Poulsen.

Book The Nanking Cargo

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  • Author : Michael Hatcher
  • Publisher : H. Hamilton
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Nanking Cargo written by Michael Hatcher and published by H. Hamilton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verslag van de berging van de lading van de in 1752 in de Zuid-Chinese zee vergane Nederlandse koopvaarder Geldermalsen, grotendeels bestaande uit Chinees porselein.

Book Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World

Download or read book Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World written by Lionel Casson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible" traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages (about 3000 B.C.) to the heyday of the Byzantine fleets. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting

Download or read book A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting written by Richard Offner and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fourteenth Century

Download or read book The Fourteenth Century written by Klara Steinweg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fourteenth Century

Download or read book The Fourteenth Century written by Miklós Boskovits and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Once upon a Time in Jerusalem

Download or read book Once upon a Time in Jerusalem written by Sahar Hamouda and published by Garnet Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem tells the saga of a Palestinian family living in Jerusalem during the British mandate, and its fate in the diaspora following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The story is told by two voices: a mother, who was a child in Jerusalem in the 1930s, and her daughter, who comments on her mother's narrative. The real hero of the narrative, however, is the family home in Old Jerusalem, which was built in the 15th century and which still stands today. Within its walls lived the various members of the extended family whose stories the narrative reveals: parents, children, stepmothers, stepsisters, aunts and uncles, nieces and cousins. This is no idealized, nostalgic narrative of perfect characters or an idyllic past, but a truthful rendition of family life under occupation, in a holy city that was conservative to the extreme. Against a backdrop of violence, much social history is revealed as an authoritarian father, a submissive mother, brothers who were resistance fighters, and an imaginative child struggled to lead a normal life among enemies. That became impossible in 1948, when the narrator, by then a young girl studying in Beirut, realized she could not go home. She traveled to Cairo, where she had to start a new life under difficult conditions, and reconcile herself to the idea of exile. Narrated in a terse, matter-of-fact tone, "Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem" is a bildungsroman in which the child is initiated into loss and despair, and a life about which little is known. The book shows a city of the 1930s from a new perspective: a cosmopolitan Jerusalem where people from all nations and faiths worshiped, married and lived together, until such co-existence came to an end and a new order was enforced.

Book Greek Oared Ships 900 322 BC

Download or read book Greek Oared Ships 900 322 BC written by J. S. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in the belief that a proper understanding of Greek civilization in antiquity requires some knowledge of its background of seafaring. A knowledge of nautical practice is required for an understanding of some passages of Greek poetry and prose writing, and for a correct interpretation of numerous historical events. This is an attempt at a thorough study of the evidence, both literary and archaeological. Modern reference books tend to repeat the misconceptions of nineteenth-century scholars. In contrast, Mr Morrison and Mr Williams have written a scholarly and scientific study of the subject. They collect in this volume evidence for Greek oared ships between 900 and 322 BC. The book is primarily a catalogue of decorated pottery and quotations from literature and from naval inventories. The pottery is illustrated by diagrams and plates; and the quotations are given in full.

Book The Trireme Trials 1988

Download or read book The Trireme Trials 1988 written by John F. Coates and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on the Anglo-Hellenic sea trials by Olympias, the trireme reconstruction, testing the performance of the ship. its speed, acceleration, manoeuvrability and the endurance of the crew and habitability of the ship.

Book Traditional Conservation Practices in Africa

Download or read book Traditional Conservation Practices in Africa written by Thierry Joffroy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: