Download or read book Modern Ivory Carving written by Carson I. A. Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivory Sculpture Through the Ages written by Norbert J. Beihoff and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Setting it Free written by Dorothy Jean Ray and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of an exhibition entitled "Setting it free", which traces the historical development of Alaskan Eskimo ivory carving from the 1850's to the present.
Download or read book Savoonnga Ivory Carvers written by Bruce Bartholomew and published by . This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Setting it Free of Modern Alaska Eskimo Ivory Carving written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Ivories written by Vinod Prakash Dwivedi and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Ivory Carving Ancient and Modern written by Arthur de Carle Sowerby and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carving as Craft written by Archer St. Clair and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1989 to 1994 more than fifteen hundred bone and ivory objects were excavated from the northeast slope of Rome's Palatine Hill. These remains constitute the largest such find in the western Mediterranean and the first traces of the actual working of ivory in Rome itself. In this original work, art historian Archer St. Clair explores the significance of these finds in understanding both the development of artisanship in Rome and the broader Greco-Roman cultural and artistic tradition to which they belong. Dating primarily from the first through the fifth century C.E., the carved objects include ornamentation for furniture and boxes in the form of plaques and framing strips, jewelry, dolls, a wide variety of pins, as well as smaller numbers of handles, needles, and other implements. Also present at the site was extensive evidence of a bone and ivory workshop, including prepared blanks and waste fragments that provide valuable evidence for artisanal practices in both materials. This volume includes a representative catalog of 648 objects from Palatine East, extensively illustrated with photographs and detailed drawings. Four chapters of introductory material offer a comprehensive overview of the material properties of bone and ivory, the literary evidence, and wider context of their use in the ancient world, and the particular significance of the Palatine East site. While bone has often been treated simply as an inferior and less valuable alternative to ivory, St. Clair notes the close association in their use and elucidates a complex relationship between them. In doing so, she offers a detailed, contextual study of the uses, social perception, and distribution of the two materials, revealing a shared Mediterranean vocabulary of form and technique.
Download or read book Ivories Ancient and Medi val written by William Maskell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ivories Ancient and Mediæval" by William Maskell is a book that converges woodcraft, art, and history. This book aims to detail different wooden and ivory pieces that date to ancient and medieval times. Though ivory is rightfully illegal now, many works were made in this material that have been preserved and do constitute priceless historical pieces.
Download or read book Carving Life written by Eleanor M. Imperato and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Scrimshaw written by Eva Halat and published by Verlag Angelika Hörnig. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Modern Review written by Ramananda Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
Download or read book Pictures of Ivory and Other Animal Teeth Bone and Antler written by Thomas Kenneth Penniman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan written by M. Chaiklin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Download or read book Ivory Vikings written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
Download or read book Ivory Carving written by Carson I. A. Ritchie and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Ivory written by Georgina Herrmann and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and vital document of the ancient masterpieces of ivory from the Middle East, many of which have been lost or destroyed in the recent political turmoil of the region Elephant ivory is a tactile, beautiful, and workable material. It can be made into many different forms and is the strongest material in the animal kingdom. It has been highly prized from the Paleolithic to the present day, and the impact on elephants has been severe—indeed, the Syrian elephant was hunted to extinction. Long ago, during the early first millennium bce—“The Age of Ivory”—literally thousands of carved ivories found their way to the Assyrian capital city of Kalhu, or modern Nimrud, in northern Iraq. The majority were not made there but arrived as gifts, tributes, or booty gathered by the Assyrian kings from the small neighboring states of the ancient Middle Eastern world, with the ivory itself probably sourced from the African elephant. These ivories form a unique and unparalleled record of the art of the Middle East. Ancient Ivory documents these outstanding works and includes a general history of the art of ancient ivory, creating a resource of exquisite detail and exceptional importance, as so many works have been destroyed or lost in the sacking of the Iraq Museum as well as in the ongoing conflict and destruction of cultural heritage in the region.
