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Book Painted by a Distant Hand

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  • Author : Steven A. LeBlanc
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0873654021
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Painted by a Distant Hand written by Steven A. LeBlanc and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions—the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s—Steven LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America. Made between A.D. 1000 and 1150, these pottery bowls and jars depict birds, fish, insects, and mammals that the Mimbres encountered in their daily lives, portray mythical beings, and show humans participating in both ritual and everyday activities. LeBlanc traces the origins of the Mimbres people and what became of them, and he explores our present understanding of what the images mean and what scholars have learned about the Mimbres people in the 75 years since the Cosgroves' expedition.

Book Mimbres Painted Pottery

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  • Author : J. J. Brody
  • Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Mimbres Painted Pottery written by J. J. Brody and published by School for Advanced Research Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished scholar of Southwestern Native arts for over thirty years, J.J. Brody here returns to his early work on the Mimbres ceramic tradition, which established him as the leading authority on the arts of this ancient people. The Mimbres cultural florescence between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1140 remains one of the most visually astonishing and anthropologically intriguing questions in Southwest prehistory. In this revised edition, Dr. Brody incorporates the extensive fieldwork done on Mimbres sites since the original publication in 1977, updating his discussion of village life, the larger world in which the Mimbres people lived, and how the art that they practiced illuminates these wider issues. He addresses human and animal iconography, the importance of perspective and motion in perceiving Mimbres artistry, and the technology used to produce the ceramics. Placing the study of ancient art and artifacts in the present, he notes the impact of the antiquities market on archaeological and artistic research.

Book To Touch the Past

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  • Author : J. J. Brody
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book To Touch the Past written by J. J. Brody and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color-packed volume brings to stunning life 1,000-year-old Native American ceramic pottery. 163 illustrations.

Book The Swarts Ruin

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  • Author : Harriet S. Cosgrove
  • Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
  • Release : 2012-01-16
  • ISBN : 0873652142
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book The Swarts Ruin written by Harriet S. Cosgrove and published by Peabody Museum Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic volume on the evocative and enigmatic pottery of the Mimbres people has become an irreplaceable design catalogue for contemporary Native American artists. The Peabody’s reissue of The Swarts Ruin once again makes available a rich resource for scholars, artists, and admirers of Native American art.

Book Important Pre Columbian and Native American Art

Download or read book Important Pre Columbian and Native American Art written by Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.) and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mimbres Life and Society

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  • Author : Patricia A. Gilman
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2017-12-19
  • ISBN : 0816535639
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Mimbres Life and Society written by Patricia A. Gilman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed account of the archaeological excavation of one of the last possible Mimbres Classic pueblos, including photography of the painted black-on-white pottery--Provided by publisher.

Book Confronting Images

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  • Author : Georges Didi-Huberman
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780271024714
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Confronting Images written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, and he suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.

Book The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

Download or read book The Last Painting of Sara de Vos written by Dominic Smith and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Written in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, “The Last Painting” is gorgeous storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile awareness of the emotional contours of the human heart. Vividly detailed, acutely sensitive to stratifications of gender and class, it’s fiction that keeps you up at night — first because you’re barreling through the book, then because you’ve slowed your pace to a crawl, savoring the suspense.” —Boston Globe A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING LINKS THREE LIVES, ON THREE CONTINENTS, OVER THREE CENTURIES IN THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, AN EXHILARATING NEW NOVEL FROM DOMINIC SMITH. Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it. New York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos, At the Edge of a Wood, hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. The lawyer’s marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict. Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting an exhibition in her field of specialization: female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When it becomes apparent that both the original At the Edge of a Wood and her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably.

Book Acrylic Expressions

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  • Author : Staci Swider
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-08-17
  • ISBN : 1440344485
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Acrylic Expressions written by Staci Swider and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create artwork that is a reflection of you! Your artwork is your voice, as unique as your fingerprints, and Acrylic Expressions shows you to how to paint and express your authentic self. Learn to create a consistent and individualized body of work through workshop-style instruction and creative prompts. Discover how to paint intuitively by uncovering meaningful personal symbols and distilling them into a visual vocabulary. Then combine your interpretation and personal inspiration as you use acrylic paints and other materials to create textural, expressive, abstract-style works of art. • Develop a signature painting style by discovering your own unique color palette. • Find the source of your inspiration--childhood memories, folklore, the natural world--and create a personal library of symbols and marks to use to build complex and layered artworks. • Learn to take a common theme and apply it to a variety of compositional approaches to develop your own series of self-reflective paintings. • Features 20 step-by-step projects with painting and mixed media. Build intuitive art from scratch and learn to experiment with texture, color and even how to create painting surfaces with power tools.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1848
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book The Art Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.

Book The Art Interchange

Download or read book The Art Interchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art

Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notices to Mariners

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Notices to Mariners written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aesthetics Today

Download or read book Aesthetics Today written by Morris Philipson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: