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Book Synopsis Cabinet De Curiosites by : Assouline
Download or read book Cabinet De Curiosites written by Assouline and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived and curated by Thierry W. Despont, Le Cabinet de Curiosites was a unique installation in which contemporary art converged with antiques to create a setting both old-world and otherworldly. An immersive environment of antiquities interspersed with Manolo Valdes s trompe l oeil sculptures and Claudio Bravo s hyperrealist paintings, plus Despont s Nebula paintings of imaginary celestial orbs and his fantastical sculptural creatures assembled from found objects and tools, all combined to create a multisensory experience evoking a sense of wonder and fantasy."
Book Synopsis A Parisian Cabinet of Curiosities: Deyrolle by : Prince Louis Albert de Broglie
Download or read book A Parisian Cabinet of Curiosities: Deyrolle written by Prince Louis Albert de Broglie and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome gift volume celebrates a world-famous temple to taxidermy and the natural world, where extraordinary curiosities highlight the intersection of science and art. With an abundance of preserved flora and fauna, taxidermy, and otherworldly creations, the Deyrolle boutique is dedicated to showcasing the beauty of nature. A family venture founded in the spirit of discovery, Deyrolle has a 185-year history that is a Pandora’s box of scientific and aesthetic discoveries. Deyrolle flourished under the nineteenth-century passion for natural history, garnering celebrity devotees from Dalí to Nabokov, and quickly established itself as a center for education and research. A vocal advocate of sustainability and responsible business practices in the fields of taxidermy and entomology, Deyrolle works only with creatures that have expired from natural causes. Raising awareness for causes such as World Rhino Day, Deyrolle combines science and art, lightheartedness and engagement. This book provides fascinating insight into the history and day-to-day workings of this unique Parisian institution.
Book Synopsis The Cabinet of Curiosities by : Douglas Preston
Download or read book The Cabinet of Curiosities written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.
Book Synopsis Cabinets of Curiosities by : Patrick Mauriès
Download or read book Cabinets of Curiosities written by Patrick Mauriès and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maurie`s' tour of strange objects is entertaining and fascinating." --Antiques And The Arts Weekly
Book Synopsis Curiosity Cabinet de Curiosités by : Albert Russo
Download or read book Curiosity Cabinet de Curiosités written by Albert Russo and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a curiosity cabinet, meaning that it contains photos of many objects I have gathered from around the world along the years. They are disparate, quirky, kitsch, or simply of sentimental value, some being luxurious, but all having a story to tell and a place to remember. The book will speak to many people, who can identify with at least a number of these artefacts.
Book Synopsis Cabinet of Curiosities by : Gordon Grice
Download or read book Cabinet of Curiosities written by Gordon Grice and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exactly the book for every young explorer who loves finding stuff in nature and bringing it home. Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector. Nature writer Gordon Grice, who started his first cabinet of curiosities at age six when he found a skunk’s skull, explains how scientists classify all living things through the Linnaeus system; how to tell real gold from fool’s gold; how to preserve butterflies, crab shells, feathers, a robin’s egg, spider specimens, and honeycombs; how to identify seashells; the difference between antlers and horns; how to read animal tracks. And then, what to do with your specimens, including how to build a cabinet of curiosities out of common household objects, like a desk organizer or a box for fishing tackle.
Book Synopsis Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France by : John Finlay
Download or read book Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France written by John Finlay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing on the purposeful acquisition of information and images that characterized a direct engagement with the idea of "China." The central figure in this story is Henri-Léonard Bertin (1720–1792), who served as a minister of state under Louis XV and, briefly, Louis XVI. Both his official position and personal passion for all things Chinese placed him at the center of intersecting networks of like-minded individuals who shared his ideal vision of China as a nation from which France had much to learn. John Finlay examines a fascinating episode in the rich history of cross-cultural exchange between China and Europe in the early modern period, and this book will be an important and timely contribution to a very current discussion about Sino-French cultural relations. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, visual culture, European and Chinese history.
Book Synopsis Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France by : Line Cottegnies
Download or read book Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France written by Line Cottegnies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions.
Book Synopsis Das Naturalienkabinett by : Albertus Seba
Download or read book Das Naturalienkabinett written by Albertus Seba and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic plants, corals and crocodiles, birds and butterflies. Albertus Seba's extraordinary catalog of natural specimens is not only one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements, but also one of the most prized natural history books of all time. It is a beautiful tribute to the breadth and the detail of creatures great and...
Book Synopsis Simple Views on Condensed Matter by : Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Download or read book Simple Views on Condensed Matter written by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of important papers by P-G de Gennes (1991 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics) which have had a long-lasting impact on our understanding of condensed matter (solid state physics, liquid crystals, polymers, interfaces, wetting and adhesion). A typical example is the original article on “reptation” of polymer chains. The author has added some “afterthoughts” to the main papers (explaining their successes or weaknesses), and some current views on each special problem. Complex systems (polymers or granular matters, etc) are explained without heavy calculations — using simple scaling laws as the main tool. Contents:Part I:Solid StatePart II:Liquid CrystalsPart III:PolymersPart IV:InterfacesPart V:Wetting and AdhesionPart VI:ChiralityPart VII:Granular Matter Readership: Physicists, chemists, hydrodynamicists and materials scientists. keywords: “This book surely satisfies the requirements of those interested in this field of Physics. On the whole I think that this book can give, especially to a young reader, a certain feeling about the enthusiam and novelty of condensed matter research during the last three decades.” Il Nuovo Saggiatore, 2002 Reviews of the First Edition: “This book collects a series of articles in which problems which had always been thought quite intractable are shown to be solved by simple, but clear thinking. Although the phrase “simple views” is justified by the clarity of de Gennes exposition, the problems had been unresolved for decades and it is a tribute to de Gennes' intuitive skill that he has been able to solve so many problems which are not only deep basic science, but also central in modern technology.” Sam Edwards Univ. Cambridge, UK, 1992 “For amateurs and connoisseurs — interested in physics, chemistry or biology — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes has opened his gentry-style 'cabinet de curiosités'. Miscellaneous products of his inventive industry, including the famous and the unfamous, are brought together in this self-selected collection, accompanied with recent hindsightful remarks of the Nobel laureate.” Gérard Toulouse Ecole Normale Supérieure, France, 1992 “This volume of collected works of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes will be a valuable and stimulating source for many years to come for younger readers and for beginners in the subfields of condensed matter covered in this volume, as well as a useful and compact reference book for all workers in the field.” Helmut R Brand Advanced Materials, 1993
Book Synopsis Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities by : Günther Vogt
Download or read book Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities written by Günther Vogt and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the architects' tradition of passing on experience in conversation form, this paperback book provides insights into the ideas, methods, and memories of one of Europe's most innovative landscape architects. In twelve concise conversations, Vogt inquires into the meaning of landscape architecture in the context of the worldwide urbanization process, and tries to define this young discipline's position. To this day, our concept of landscape appears to be influenced by an Arcadian ideal. Only when landscapes are understood on several levels, as the product of natural, cultural, and social processes, can atmospheric and living urban landscapes appropriate to the specific situation be created. Günther Vogt sees landscape architecture decidedly as part of a city, given its close relationship to topography, architecture, and infrastructure.
Download or read book The Fall written by Guillermo Del Toro and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Centers for Disease Control's team—leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master's horrific plan, a war has erupted between Old and New World vampires. Caught between these warring forces, powerless and vulnerable, humans find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. At the center of the conflict lies an ancient text that contains the vampires' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all.
Book Synopsis Natural History in Early Modern France by :
Download or read book Natural History in Early Modern France written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garrod, Smith and the contributors of the volume envisage the longue durée poetics of an early modern genre. They interpret its poetics alongside its various epistemic agenda and make a case for the literary status of natural history.
Book Synopsis The Night Eternal by : Guillermo del Toro
Download or read book The Night Eternal written by Guillermo del Toro and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most credible and frightening of all the vampire books of the past decade.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. It just doesn’t get much better than this.” —Nelson DeMille The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire saga that author Dan Simmons (Drood, The Terror) calls, “an unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of ‘Salem’s Lot,” concludes with The Night Eternal. The magnificent, if monstrously warped brainchild of cinematic horror master Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Chuck Hogan—whose novel Prince of Thieves, was praised as, “one of the 10 best books of the year” by Stephen King—The Night Eternal begins where The Strain and The Fall left off: with the last remnants of humankind enslaved by the vampire masters in a world forever shrouded by nuclear winter. Still, a small band of the living fights on in the shadows, in the final book of the ingenious dark fantasy trilogy that Newsweek says is, “good enough to make us break that vow to swear off vampire stories.”
Book Synopsis Pierre de L'Estoile and His World in the Wars of Religion by : Tom Hamilton
Download or read book Pierre de L'Estoile and His World in the Wars of Religion written by Tom Hamilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Wars of Religion' embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. This study offers a new history of these wars from the perspective of the period's great diarist and collector, Pierre de L'Estoile (1546-1611), telling the story of his life and times
Book Synopsis Actes Du Neuvième Congrès International Des Égyptologues by : Jean Claude Goyon
Download or read book Actes Du Neuvième Congrès International Des Égyptologues written by Jean Claude Goyon and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This massive 2 volume set contains 200 papers from the Congress, held in Grenoble, 6-12 Sept 2004. These papers cover the whole field of the present egyptological researches, from the Origins to the Graeco-roman period.
Book Synopsis Recueil de curiosités rares et nouvelles. Modern Curiosities of Art&Nature. Extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French Court. Together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks: communicated by the most approved artists of France ... Made English from the original French. The preface signed: G. M. by : Nicolas LÉMERY
Download or read book Recueil de curiosités rares et nouvelles. Modern Curiosities of Art&Nature. Extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French Court. Together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks: communicated by the most approved artists of France ... Made English from the original French. The preface signed: G. M. written by Nicolas LÉMERY and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
