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European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Author : Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892362553
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book European Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum written by Catherine Hess and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998-02-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Museum’s collection of postclassical European glass represents a well-defined chapter within the history of the medium. These objects—which range in date from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century—originated in important Italian, German, Bohemian, Netherlandish, Silesian, and Austrian centers of production. The sixty-eight pieces presented in this catalogue include vessels made to resemble rock crystal or chalcedony; glass blown into unusually large or remarkably refined shapes; and glass decorated with ornament that is intricately applied, elegantly enameled, or gilded. Each object is described in detail, including provenance, bibliography, and relevant comparative examples. An introductory essay traces the history of European glass from classical times to the present.

European Glass Furnishings for Eastern Palaces

Author : Jane Shadel Spillman
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book European Glass Furnishings for Eastern Palaces written by Jane Shadel Spillman and published by Hudson Hills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carved & Decorated European Art Glass

Author : Ray Grover
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462909655
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Carved & Decorated European Art Glass written by Ray Grover and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9781462909650

"Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550?800 "

Author : EmilyByrne Curtis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565478
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Glass Exchange between Europe and China, 1550?800 " written by EmilyByrne Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China. Because glassware also figured among the gifts which three papal legates from the Vatican presented to the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the author examines many documents from the archives in Rome and the Vatican; the study therefore touches, to an extent, on the history of the Catholic Church in China. Curtis also discusses in the volume some contemporary Chinese references and verses to European glassware, and in the case of enamel materials, she discloses the pronounced effect their use had upon the decor of Chinese porcelains.

Carved & Decorated European Art Glass

Author : Ray Grover
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Carved & Decorated European Art Glass written by Ray Grover and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legend of Bohemian Glass

Author : Antonín Langhamer
Publisher : Tigris
ISBN 13 : 8086062112
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Bohemian Glass written by Antonín Langhamer and published by Tigris. This book was released on 2003 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Antonín Langhamer brings to life the whole depth and breadth of Czech glass achievement. The book covers its entire history, not only artistic, but technical, economic and commercial. His exhaustive glossary at the back is more than just a place to look up terms, but an illuminating narrative on every aspect of glass, from ancient times to the present. The work is illustrated with lush photographs created by outstanding photographers who specialise in capturing the breathtaking beauty unique to glass. In Langhamer's narratives on early times, readers will find fascinating parallels with the behaviour of modern people, nations and industries. Despite its early origins, Bohemian glass took considerable time to reach prominence. Beginning in obscurity, Bohemian glassmakers produced wares that for a long time were good, but not exceptional. Bohemia's history has been turbulent, and readers can draw inspiration from the ingenuity and persistence of those glassmakers who succeeded against overwhelming odds. While World War II was raging, in the midst of shortages of every imaginable material and fuel, a Czech entrepreneur built himself a little glass furnace. Raw materials were hard to come by, so he made do by re-melting crushed bottles. This book is full of many stories of human valour and weakness, the development of technical and artistic marvels, legal harassment, sex discrimination, industrial espionage, and the triumph of ambition over adversity. But it also tells of ordinary people doing their ordinary work throughout their ordinary lives, and thereby achieving something magnificent. Glass affects everyone's life, and everyone's life, in some small way, affects the evolution of glass. Readers will never see glass in the same way again.

The Glass Room

Author : Simon Mawer
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590513975
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Room written by Simon Mawer and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House becomes an instant masterpiece. Viktor and Liesel, a rich Jewish mogul married to a thoughtful, modern gentile, pour all of their hopes for their marriage and budding family into their stunning new home, filling it with children, friends, and a generation of artists and thinkers eager to abandon old-world European style in favor of the new and the avant-garde. But as life intervenes, their new home also brings out their most passionate desires and darkest secrets. As Viktor searches for a warmer, less challenging comfort in the arms of another woman, and Liesel turns to her wild, mischievous friend Hana for excitement, the marriage begins to show signs of strain. The radiant honesty and idealism of 1930 quickly evaporate beneath the storm clouds of World War II. As Nazi troops enter the country, the family must leave their old life behind and attempt to escape to America before Viktor's Jewish roots draw Nazi attention, and before the family itself dissolves. As the Landauers struggle for survival abroad, their home slips from hand to hand, from Czech to Nazi to Soviet possession and finally back to the Czechoslovak state, with new inhabitants always falling under the fervent and unrelenting influence of the Glass Room. Its crystalline perfection exerts a gravitational pull on those who know it, inspiring them, freeing them, calling them back, until the Landauers themselves are finally drawn home to where their story began. Brimming with barely contained passion and cruelty, the precision of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession, and the fear of failure - the Glass Room contains it all.

Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass

Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521389082
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass written by Michael Herzfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having emerged in the heyday of a dominant Europe, of which Ancient Greece is the hallowed spiritual and intellectual ancestor, anthropology has paradoxically shown relatively little interest in contemporary Greek culture. In this innovative and ambitious book, Michael Herzfeld moves Greek Ethnography from the margins to the centre of anthropological theory, revealing the theoretical insights that can be gained by so doing. He shows that the ideology that originally led to the creation of anthropology also played a large part in the growth of the modern Greek nation-state, and that Greek ethnography can therefore serve as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself. He further demonstrates the role that scholarly fields, including anthropology, have played in the construction of contemporary Greek culture and Greek identity.

Wild Men in the Looking Glass

Author : Roger Bartra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Men in the Looking Glass written by Roger Bartra and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long before the age of exploration, wild men inhabited the European imagination. These fascinating, hairy creatures have a long history of representation in art, literature, and folklore, appearing among other guises as satyrs and fauns in ancient Greece, mythical forest - and mountain-dwellers in the Middle Ages, and Shakespeare's Caliban and Cervantes's Cardenio in the Renaissance. Wild folk also captured the attention of naturalists, who investigated homo ferus and homo sylvestris, and philosophers, who elaborated the image of the noble savage." "In Wild Men in the Looking Glass, Roger Bartra searches out the roots of the European wild man myth and explores its long evolution. Turning the tables on those who suggest that the primitive peoples "discovered" and colonized by European explorers gave rise to the myth, Bartra finds that the wild man myth preceded and helped shape European reactions to real peoples. Indeed, he shows that the wild man underpins the notion of civilization on which much of Western identity has been based. The man we recognize as "civilized" has not been able to take a single step without the shadow of the wild man at his heel."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Europe in the Looking Glass

Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780940718
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Europe in the Looking Glass written by Robert Byron and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three rich young Englishmen cross pre-World War II Europe in an old car with a mixture of laugh-out-loud humor and perceptive commentary on art and architecture Turning a corner we suddenly found ourselves sliding down a precipice, tilted so far forward that it was necessary to hold ourselves back with our hands pressed against the dashboard, as half a dozen Apennine valleys beckoned invitingly below. Here [St Peter' s] Popes with black faces and golden crowns are wallowing twice life-size in the titanic folds of marble tablecloths, their ormolu fringes festooning upon the arms of graceful skeletons to disclose some Alice-in-Wonderland door or the grim hinges of some sepulchral grill . . . Best known as the author of The Road to Oxiana, published in 1937, Robert Byron had developed his considerable writing skills on this travel book which has not been in print since 1926. It describes a journey Byron made with three friends, driving across Europe between two world wars, and mixes political and historical analysis with architectural insights, classical scholarship, and the day-to-day adventures of three young and not very experienced travelers. For fans of Robert Byron' s work this will be a discovery; for others it will be an introduction. Includes nine original sketches made by the author during his travels.

Old Glass, European and American

Author : N. Hudson Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Old Glass, European and American written by N. Hudson Moore and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Extreme Right Activists in Europe

Author : Bert Klandermans
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415358272
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Right Activists in Europe written by Bert Klandermans and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, one of the main political changes in Western Europe has been the electoral upsurge of extreme right-wing parties. This book examines who joins the extreme right and why?

European Glass

Author : Wilfred Buckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book European Glass written by Wilfred Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

House & Garden

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House & Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the United States Tariff Commission for the Fiscal Year Ended ...

Author : United States Tariff Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Tariff Commission for the Fiscal Year Ended ... written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Glass Container

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Container written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spider-Man: Far From Home: Spider-Man Swings Through Europe!

Author : Calliope Glass
Publisher : Marvel Press
ISBN 13 : 9781368050289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Spider-Man: Far From Home: Spider-Man Swings Through Europe! written by Calliope Glass and published by Marvel Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swing alongside Spider-Man as he travels through Europe! Whether he's riding in a gondola through the Venice canals or breaking out all his best moves to get a reaction from the Queen's Guard in London, Spider-Man is determined to have the best vacation ever. Full of vibrant and hilarious original art, this picture book shows off the various European locations seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home, and is told from Peter Parker's unique point of view. Perfect for curious young readers who love Super Heroes, the book also has hidden characters and details from Spidey's world. You never know what-or who-you might find!