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Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
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Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Newsletter written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Index of Art Sales Catalogs 1981-1985: Main index, October 7, 1984-December 23, 1985. Subject index written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Baumgarten
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207360
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Four Centuries of Quilts written by Linda Baumgarten and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite and authoritative look at four centuries of quilts and quilting from around the world Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlights the splendor and craft of quilts with more than 300 superb color images and details. Fascinating essays by two noted scholars trace the evolution of quilting styles and trends as they relate to the social, political, and economic issues of their time. The collection includes quilts made by diverse religious and cultural groups over 400 years and across continents, from the Mediterranean, England, France, America, and Polynesia. The earliest quilts were made in India and the Mediterranean for export to the west and date to the late 16th century. Examples from 18th- to 20th-century America, many made by Amish and African-American quilters, reflect the multicultural nature of American society and include boldly colored and patterned worsteds and brilliant pieced and appliquéd works of art. Grand in scope and handsomely produced, Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection is sure to be one of the most useful and beloved references on quilts and quilting for years to come.
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Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Fine Dolls, Teddy Bears, Automata, Mechanical Musical Instruments, Tinplate and Diecast Toys, Robots, Games, European Costume and Textiles written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Toymaking written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547527543
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Download or read book Fine Dolls, Teddy Bears, Automata, Mechanical Musical Instruments, Tinplate and Diecast Toys, Robots, Games, European Costume and Textiles written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870993798
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book American Musical Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the museum's collection of antique instruments, traces the history of technological developments in their manufacture, and looks at music's changing role in American society.
Author : Paul Metzner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377400
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
Author : Kevin McElhone
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747805786
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Mechanical Music written by Kevin McElhone and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history, development, use and fall from favour of many types of exotic instruments, from pocket-sized musical boxes to roll-playing pipe organs and everything else in between. This book describes pianolas, organettes, roller organs, orchestrions, nickelodeons, carillons and more.
Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262610339
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Passages in Modern Sculpture written by Rosalind E. Krauss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1981-02-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.
Author : Ralph M. Kovel
Publisher : Random House Reference Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780609806241
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Kovels' Yellow Pages written by Ralph M. Kovel and published by Random House Reference Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource guide points collectors to price guides, repair services, and sources for parts and supplies.
Author : John Johnston
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262101262
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Allure of Machinic Life written by John Johnston and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.The Allure of Machinic Life
Author : Katriina Heljakka
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ISBN 13 : 9789526051437
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Principles of Adult Play(fulness) in Contemporary Toy Cultures written by Katriina Heljakka and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226550273
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Technics and Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253108708
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Sounds of Early Cinema written by Richard Abel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.
