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Book Synopsis Enduring Splendor by : Thomas K. Seligman
Download or read book Enduring Splendor written by Thomas K. Seligman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enduring Splendor focuses on the rich and diverse silver jewelry traditions of India's Thar Desert region, stretching across the western states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. These traditions are considered against the background of the five-thousand-year history of jewelry making across the vast Indian Subcontinent. Drawing on recent field research carried out in the city of Jaisalmer, a thriving center of contemporary jewelry production, Enduring Splendor explores for the first time the life and work of four sonis (silversmiths or goldsmiths). To contextualize this recent production, numerous illustrations of very fine examples of ninteenth- and twentieth-century jewelry types that are still worn are included. These objects have been borrowed from the Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection of Jewelry and Ritual Arts of India, part of a promised gift to UCLA, where it will find its future home with the Fowler Museum. The Linde Collection is one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of Indian jewelry in the world. This volume highlights elaborate rural styles rendered in silver as well as selected ornate examples, largely associated with the elite, made with gold and gemstones.
Book Synopsis A Lasting Splendor by : Elizabeth Bright
Download or read book A Lasting Splendor written by Elizabeth Bright and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VII by :
Download or read book The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VII written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh and final book of the monumental Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the Uttarakāṇḍa, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rāma’s millennia-long reign. It opens with a colorful history of the demonic race of the rākṣasas and the violent career of Rāma’s villainous foe Rāvaṇa, and later recounts Rāma’s grateful discharge of his allies in the great war at Lankā as well as his romantic reunion with his wife Sītā. But dark clouds gather as Rāma makes the agonizing decision to banish his beloved wife, now pregnant. As Rāma continues as king, marvelous tales and events unfurl, illustrating the benefits of righteous rule and the perils that await monarchs who fail to address the needs of their subjects. The Uttarakāṇḍa has long served as a point of social and religious controversy largely for its accounts of the banishment of Sītā, as well as of Rāma’s killing of a low-caste ascetic. This seventh volume in the critical edition and translation of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa includes an extensive introduction and describes the complex reception history of the Uttarakāṇḍa, as well as exhaustive notes and a comprehensive bibliography.
Book Synopsis The World Beautiful by : Lilian Whiting
Download or read book The World Beautiful written by Lilian Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bay Leaves written by Gilbert Nash and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity by : C.A. Tsakiridou
Download or read book Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity written by C.A. Tsakiridou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aesthetic implications of Orthodox ascetic and mystical theology. It finds Modernist interest in the aesthetic peculiarity of icons significant, and essential for re-evaluating their relationship to non-representational art. Drawing on classical Greek art criticism, Byzantine ekphraseis and hymnography, and the theologies of St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Symeon the New Theologian and St. Gregory Palamas, the author argues that the ancient Greek concept of enargeia best conveys the expression of theophany and theosis in art. The qualities that define enargeia - inherent liveliness, expressive autonomy and self-subsisting form - are identified in exemplary Greek and Russian icons and considered in the context of the hesychastic theology that lies at the heart of Orthodox Christianity. An Orthodox aesthetics is thus outlined that recognizes the transcendent being of art and is open to dialogue with diverse pictorial and iconographic traditions. An examination of Ch’an (Zen) art theory and a comparison of icons with paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Marc Chagall, and by Japanese artists influenced by Zen Buddhism, reveal intriguing points of convergence and difference. The reader will find in these pages reasons to reconcile Modernism with the Christian image and Orthodox tradition with creative form in art.
Book Synopsis Joseon's Royal Heritage by : Robert Koehler
Download or read book Joseon's Royal Heritage written by Robert Koehler and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joseon dynasty ruled Korea for over half a millennium, bequeathing to Korea a considerable cultural heritage. This book will examine three of the better-known areas of Joseon cultural heritage: royal palaces, royal tombs, and the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty. Standing in the heart of Seoul, the five royal palaces are more than just buildings; they are architectural expressions of Joseon society and its ruling philosophy. The royal tombs—forty final resting places of Joseon kings and queens—are unique in their completeness. Finally, the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty are unequalled in their richness as a source of historical and cultural information about Korean history. Each of these treasures, deeply imbued with Joseon's Confucian culture, reveals unique aspects about the kingdom and its legacy.
Book Synopsis The Earth and the Stars by : Charles Greeley Abbot
Download or read book The Earth and the Stars written by Charles Greeley Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Book Synopsis A Tennessean Abroad by : Randal William McGavock
Download or read book A Tennessean Abroad written by Randal William McGavock and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Patriotic Speaker by : Robert Raikes Raymond
Download or read book The Patriotic Speaker written by Robert Raikes Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Metrical Psalter by : Christopher Webber
Download or read book A New Metrical Psalter written by Christopher Webber and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psalm paraphrases in verse form with suggested familiar tunes for singing in Short Meter, Common Meter and Long Meter for the appointed psalms for the Book of Common Prayer lectionary. Includes Canticles and Invitatories for the Daily Office for both Rite I and Rite II. Please note: This is the version based on the Book of Common Prayer Lectionary and originally published in 1986. A new version for the Revised Common Lectionary is now available.
Book Synopsis The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by : Levi Carroll Judson
Download or read book The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution written by Levi Carroll Judson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sages and Heros of the American Revolution by : Levi Carroll Judson
Download or read book The Sages and Heros of the American Revolution written by Levi Carroll Judson and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness by : E. Paul Durrenberger
Download or read book The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness written by E. Paul Durrenberger and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology, and political ecology to understand the realities of class and how they evolve. Five central ideas unify the collection: the objective basis for class in different social orders; people's understanding of class in relation to race and gender; the relation of ideologies of class to realities of class; the U.S. managerial middle-class denial of class and emphasis on meritocracy in relation to increasing economic insecurity; and personal responses to economic insecurity and their political implications. Anthropologists who want to understand the nature and dynamics of culture must also understand the nature and dynamics of class. The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness addresses the role of the concept of class as an analytical construct in anthropology and how it relates to culture. Although issues of social hierarchy have been studied in anthropology, class has not often been considered as a central element. Yet a better understanding of its role in shaping culture, consciousness, and people's awareness of their social and natural world would in turn lead to better understanding of major trends in social evolution as well as contemporary society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, labor studies, ethnohistory, and sociology.
Book Synopsis Quarterly Calendar by : University of Chicago
Download or read book Quarterly Calendar written by University of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
