Download or read book Traditional Architecture of Saudi Arabia Drawings by Wahbi Al Hariri Rifai Smithsonian Exhibit Booklet 1984 written by Wahbi al-Hariri-Rifai and published by GDG Exhibits Trust. This book was released on with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heritage of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia written by Wahbi Hariri-Rifai and published by GDG Exhibits Trust. This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sovereign Creations written by Malik Mufti and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pan-Arab unionism ignited passions and dominated politics in the Middle East throughout the 1950s and 1960s and has continued to reassert itself periodically. In this elegantly written study, Malik Mufti investigates the persistence and the failure of pan-Arab initiatives, examining their significance in the political development of Syria and Iraq.
Download or read book Cooperating Rivals written by Jeffrey K. Sosland and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of water scarcity in the Middle East's Jordan River Basin (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority) between 1920 and 2006. Jeffrey K. Sosland demonstrates that while water scarcity might generate political tension, it does not by itself precipitate war, nor is it likely to do so. At the same time, efforts to promote water cooperation, such as those initiated by the United States, have an identifiable political benefit by creating rules, building confidence, and reducing tensions among adversaries. Sosland concludes that while this alone might not resolve the overall conflict, it does create positive long-term value in achieving peace.
Download or read book Bedouin Jewellery in Saudi Arabia written by Heather Colyer Ross and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greek and Roman Jewellery written by Reynold Higgins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba written by Marjorie Ransom and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba documents a disappearing artistic and cultural tradition with over three hundred photographs showing individual pieces, rare images of women wearing their jewelry with traditional dress, and the various regions in Yemen where the author did her field research. Amulet cases, hair ornaments, bridal headdresses, earrings, necklaces, ankle and wrist bracelets are all beautifully photographed in intricate detail. A chapter on the history of silversmithing in Yemen tells the surprising story of the famed Jewish Yemeni silversmiths, many of whom left Yemen in the late 1940s.
Download or read book Languages of Dress in the Middle East written by Bruce Ingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
Download or read book On Jewellery written by den Besten (E. L.) and published by Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflective book about international contemporary art jewellery that aims to open up new points of view about what art jewellery is or can be.
Download or read book The History of Arabia written by Andrew Crichton and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery written by Hugh Tait and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewellery is one of the oldest forms of decorative art: its history can be traced from the earliest known civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt. This book reveals the varied styles, techniques and materials which have delighted men and women through the ages, all over the world. From Egyptian necklaces to Celtic torcs, and from Renaissance pendants to Art Nouveau buckles,7000 years of jewellery design and production are illustrated in this book.
Download or read book Ethnic Jewellery written by John Mack and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic Jewellery is a beautifully illustrated survey of traditional jewellery covering:AfricaThe Middle EastIndiaThe Far EastThe PacificPre-Columbian AmericaLatin America (Indian)North American (Indian)Materials and TechniquesThe colour and exuberance of traditional jewellery have always attracted collectors and travellers. African beadwork, North American Indian silver, jade from the Far East and shellwork from the Pacific - these are just some of the beautiful pieces surveyed in this book. A team of experts explains how such jewellery has been made and worn, the relationship of the materials to the culture, and how the techniques of manufacture have survived for centuries. Even today traditional jewellery is still being made, although the repertoire is constantly enriched by new materials and influenced by modern taste.The majority of objects selected to illustrate the book are from the British Museum's extensive collections. Yet the book is much more than simply a guide to these collections, and the authors reflect in the various chapters on the types of materials, technological features, and the themes that characterise the regions of which they have a specialist knowledge, so that the book serves as an excellent introduction to the subject as a whole.
Download or read book Jewellery in Ancient Times written by Renate Rosenthal and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1973 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewellery Through 7000 Years written by British Museum and published by HP Trade. This book was released on 1976 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7000 Years of Jewelry takes readers on an impressive tour that includes, among other times and places: The Middle East: 5000-2000 BC -- Egypt: 1500-900 BC -- Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Persian Lands: 850-325 BC -- China, Celtic Europe, Mexico and Peru: 600 BC-AD 600 -- The Mediterranean, India, Egypt, Roman Britain and Byzantium: 325 BC-AD 600 -- Europe, China, Korea and Japan: 300-1000 -- Mayan Central America: 600-1000 -- Central and South America: 500-1500 -- Europe, Islam, China, Korea and Java: 1000-1500 -- China, India, Tibet and Mongolia: 1500-1850 -- West Africa: 1500-1800 -- Europe: 1500-1950. More comprehensive than before, this reference remains the finest and most beautifully illustrated history of jewelry ever published.
Download or read book Jewellery in Context written by Marjan Unger and published by Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an indispensable and enlightening text by one of the most renowned art historians and design theorists, about the work of the great Marjan Unger. The Dutch art historian and jewellery expert Marjan Unger died back in 2018, at the age of seventy-two. Through her teaching and her myriad projects, exhibitions and publications, she influenced generations of jewellery artists and theorists in the applied disciplines. Yet one of her perhaps most enduring legacies is her doctoral thesis, Sieraad in Context, which she submitted in 2010.In her work, she endeavours to formulate a general definition of jewellery. Yet above all she also analyses to what extent jewellery is associated across the globe with different, sometimes contrary issues: in that all human fears but also desires have, in a sense, materialised around the world as objects of adornment.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis written by Tyrus Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the effects of mass media. Individual essays further illustrate the author's early leadership of the British artistic avant-garde, his varying later phases as a writer and painter, and his radical and changing political views, in addition to his complex views on gender and race, his relation to philosophy and theology, and his idiosyncratic practice of cultural criticism.
Download or read book America and Cosmic Man written by Wyndham Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
