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Book Images in Ivory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Barnet
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780691016108
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Images in Ivory written by Peter Barnet and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition catalog is the first survey of Gothic ivories in English. It contains essays by seven leading international scholars, including Peter Barnet (Gothic Sculpture in Ivory: An Introduction), Elizabeth Sears (Ivory and Ivory-Workers in Medieval Paris), Richard H. Randall, Jr. (Popular Romances Carved in Ivory), Harvey Stahl (Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ), Charles T. Little (Opera Francigeno et Germania: Gothic Ivory Carving in Germany), Danielle Gaborit-Chopin (Polychrome Decoration of Gothic Ivories), and Paul Williamson (Symbiosis across Scale: Gothic Ivories and Culture in Stone and Wood in the Thirteenth Century). Nearly one hundred of the most important examples of Gothic ivory carving from collections in Europe and the United States are catalogued by leading specialists. They are illustrated with mostly new photography and collateral photographs where appropriate. The publication conveys to the reader the major changes that occurred in art and society during the Gothic period and the rise of ivory carving for both religious and secular purposes. Organized chronologically, the catalog tells the story of the development of this art form; the people who carved, commissioned, and made use of ivories in the Middle Ages; and the impact historical developments had on the growth and eventual demise of the art form.

Book Images of Faith

    Book Details:
  • Author : Regalado Trota Jose
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Images of Faith written by Regalado Trota Jose and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ivory Coast in Pictures

Download or read book Ivory Coast in Pictures written by Janice Hamilton and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geography, history and government, people, cultural life, and economy of the Ivory Coast, West Africa's second richest nation.

Book Power   Faith   Image

    Book Details:
  • Author : Regalado Trota Jose
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Power Faith Image written by Regalado Trota Jose and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition evokes the time when the Philippines were considered the world's major producer of Christian ivory images, supplying for more than 3 centuries churches and private patrons in Spain, Mexico, Latin America and Asia.

Book The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages

Download or read book The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages written by Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages" by Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Dark Ivory

Download or read book Dark Ivory written by Joseph Michael Linsner and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivory, a high school girl who likes sneaking out at night to frequent goth clubs in New York, finds her life changing in frightening and unexpected ways after meeting Xander, a man who introduces her to the mysterious winged blood angel.

Book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower written by Davarian L Baldwin and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.

Book  Saints  Sinners  and Sisters

Download or read book Saints Sinners and Sisters written by JaneL. Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays, Saints, Sinners, and Sisters showcases the diverse questions currently being asked by gender scholars dealing with French, Netherlandish and German art from the medieval and early modern periods. Moving beyond the reclamation of personalities and oeuvres of 'lost' female artists, the contributors pose questions about gender and sex within specific historical contexts, addressing such issues as intended audience, use of the object, and patronage. These avenues of inquiry intersect with larger cultural questions concerning societal control of women. The book's three sections, 'Saints,' 'Sinners,' and 'Sisters, Wives, Poets' are each preceded by a concise introductory essay, detailing themes and offering reflective comparisons of theses and information. In 'Saints,' contributors look at women who were positive exemplar used by society to uphold standards. In the second section, the essays focus on the power of women's sexuality. The third section expands beyond the customary dichotomous division of the first two to examine women in diverse roles not widely studied as positions of women in those times. This final section expands our definitions of women's responsibilities and realigns them historically; it argues that women, and thus gender, need to be understood within a much broader historical context and beyond simplistic approaches sometimes superimposed by present-day readers on past times. This volume answers an acute need for research on the art of Northern Europe prior to the 20th century, and highlights the possibilities of new directions in the field. The effect of the new scholarship presented here is to broaden the discursive field, allowing fluidity of disciplinary boundaries, resulting in a volume that is illuminating to historians of more than art alone.

Book African Ivories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Ezra
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 0870993720
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book African Ivories written by Kate Ezra and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1984 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Ivory Carvings

Download or read book Medieval Ivory Carvings written by Paul Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first volume of a new catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of medieval ivory carvings, covering the years 400-1200, appeared in 2010. The present two volumes complete the catalogue, taking in every piece carved between about 1200 and 1550; and it is satisfying to report that a further volume, on the post-medieval ivories, was published by my colleague Marjorie Trusted in 2013."--Preface, p. 9.

Book Official Report of the Calcutta International Exhibition  1883 84

Download or read book Official Report of the Calcutta International Exhibition 1883 84 written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Age of Ivory

Download or read book The Golden Age of Ivory written by Richard H. Randall and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive illustrated catalogue: every medieval ivory in America. Sets new scholarly standard.

Book The Advertising Handbook

Download or read book The Advertising Handbook written by Helen Powell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unravels the how & why of advertising and places the industry in its social, historical & political context. Focusing on key debates, it explores the competitive practices & discourses which govern the industry & those who work in it.

Book Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies

Download or read book Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies written by Juliana Dresvina and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings together medieval studies and cognitive methodologies in a study specifically aimed at medievalists. It presents a longer history of certain mental health conditions and locates contemporary debates about the mind in a broader historical framework. It considers both the benefits of incorporating insights from contemporary neuroscientific and cognitive studies into the exploration of the past, and the benefits of employing historical models and case studies in order to reflect on modern methods.

Book Images in Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Steiner
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780691094885
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Images in Mind written by Deborah Steiner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.'' Deborah Tarn Steiner considers how Greek authors used images to ponder the relation of a copy to an original and of external appearance to inner reality. For these writers, a sculpture could straddle life and death, encode desire, or occasion reflection on their own act of producing a text. Many of the same sources also reveal how thinking about statues was reflected in the objects' everyday treatment. Viewing representations of gods and heroes as vessels hosting a living force, worshippers ritually washed, clothed, and fed them in order to elicit the numinous presence within. By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social--rather than purely aesthetic--study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists.

Book Crafts and Images in Contact

Download or read book Crafts and Images in Contact written by Claudia E. Suter and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art objects and pictures of the first millennium BC Chr. From the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean are viewed here from a perspective that sees art as a symbolic data carrier. Art conveys culturally shaped statements and thereby allows conclusions to be drawn about the culture, world view and religion of a people. In this book, it is examined in its triple function as an artifact, visual medium and reflection of cultural ideas.

Book House documents

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 716 pages

Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: