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Book Synopsis Extravagant Inventions by : Wolfram Koeppe
Download or read book Extravagant Inventions written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.
Book Synopsis Extravagant Inventions by : Wolfram Koeppe
Download or read book Extravagant Inventions written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the second half of the 18th century, the German workshop of Abraham and David Roentgen was among Europe's most successful cabinetmaking enterprises. The Roentgens' pieces combined innovative designs with intriguing mechanical devices that revolutionized traditional types of European furniture. An important key to their success was the pairing of the skilled craftsman Abraham with his brashly entrepreneurial son David, whose clients included Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of France as well as Catherine the Great of Russia. This landmark publication is the first comprehensive survey, in nearly four decades, of the firm from its founding in about 1742 to its closing in the late 1790s. The Roentgen workshop perfected the practice of adapting prefabricated elements according to the specifications of the customers. Detailed discussions of these extraordinary pieces are complemented by illustrations showing them in their contemporary interiors, design drawings, portraits, and previously unpublished historical documents from the Roentgen estate. This fascinating book provides an essential contribution to the study of European furniture."--Publisher's website.
Book Synopsis The Inventions of History by : Stephen Bann
Download or read book The Inventions of History written by Stephen Bann and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays concentrates on the structures and connections which have made it possible, over the last two centuries, for an integrated regime of historical representation to emerge. It also touches upon the debate about the contemporary uses of history - whether it is a matter of new versus traditional approaches to the school curriculum, or of the need to historicize museums, houses and gardens and so avoid the blandness of an uninformed display.
Book Synopsis The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age by : John Colin Dunlop
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Book Synopsis Outrageous Inventions by : John Townsend
Download or read book Outrageous Inventions written by John Townsend and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses some really weird inventions and those who invented them.
Book Synopsis The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain by : Inigo Jones
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Book Synopsis The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature by : Yvonne Bezrucka
Download or read book The Invention of Northern Aesthetics in 18th-Century English Literature written by Yvonne Bezrucka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain’s self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia created a ‘Northern’ aesthetics to challenge the European yoke, this book explores the roots of British Romanticism and a newly created past. Literature, the arts, architecture, and gardening all contributed to the creation of this national, ‘enlightened’, Northern cultural environment, with its emphasis on a home-grown legal tradition, on a heroic Celtic past, and on the imagined democracy of King Arthur and his Roundtable of Knights as a prophetic precursor of Constitutional Monarchy. Set against the European Grand Tour, the British turned to the Domestic, Picturesque Anti-Grand-Tour, and alongside a classical literary heritage championed British authors and British empiricism, against continental religion that sanctioned an authoritarian politics that the Gothic Novel mocks. However, if empiricism and common law were vital to this emerging tradition, so too was the other driving force of Britain’s medieval inheritance, the fantasy world of mythic heroes and a celebration of what would come to be known as the ‘fairy way of writing’.
Book Synopsis The American Language by : H. L. Mencken
Download or read book The American Language written by H. L. Mencken and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Language is a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. The book is Menken's research of the differences between English and American language. Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline "perversions" of the "mother tongue". The book discusses the beginnings of "American" variations from "English", the spread of these variations, American names and slang. According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart. The book concludes with the observation in the norms of use of the proper names in America, including surnames, given names, geographical names, Menken's analysis on the American slang, and forecast on the further language development.
Book Synopsis Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects by : Giorgio Vasari
Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Anti-critic for Aug. 1821 and March 1822 by : Brydges
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Book Synopsis The 100 Greatest Inventions Of All Time by : Tom Philbin
Download or read book The 100 Greatest Inventions Of All Time written by Tom Philbin and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the top 100 inventions through the ages, ranked in order of their impact on the world. Discover the scientific, cultural and historical factors that determine each invention's rank and marvel at the array of authentic patent drawings. packed with details of the setbacks and breakthroughs, plus anecdotes describing the methods and madness behind the innovations that have shaped our lives, The 100 Greatest Inventions of All Time is an entertaining and illuminating read for anyone interested in the miracles of ingenuity that have transformed the world.
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Book Synopsis The American Language by : Henry Louis Mencken
Download or read book The American Language written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by New York A.A. Knopf 1919.. This book was released on 1919 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Living Long by : Luigi Cornaro
Download or read book The Art of Living Long written by Luigi Cornaro and published by Milwaukee : W.F. Butler. This book was released on 1903 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Roman Breviary; a critical and historical review by : Charles Hastings Collette
Download or read book The Roman Breviary; a critical and historical review written by Charles Hastings Collette and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
