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Author : Jean Lanllier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Five Centuries of Jewelry in the West written by Jean Lanllier and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Lanllier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Five centuries of jewellery in the West written by Jean Lanllier and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Lanllier
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517672402
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Five Centuries of Jewelry in the West written by Jean Lanllier and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1989 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic survey of jewelry craftsmen and their creations from the Renaissance to the present, including both European and American works, looks at their place in western society
Author : David Kang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231153198
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book East Asia Before the West written by David Kang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has stabilized. Focusing on the role of the "tribute system" in maintaining stability in East Asia and fostering diplomatic and commercial exchange, Kang contrasts this history against the example of Europe and the East Asian states' skirmishes with nomadic peoples to the north and west. Scholars tend to view Europe's experience as universal, but Kang upends this tradition, emphasizing East Asia's formal hierarchy as an international system with its own history and character. His approach not only recasts common understandings of East Asian relations but also defines a model that applies to other hegemonies outside of the European order.
Author : Enluminures (Firm)
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780983854647
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Byzantium and the West written by Enluminures (Firm) and published by Paul Holberton Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The exhibition assembles approximately 40 objects made of precious metals and including rings, pendants, earrings, and brooches from the third to the tenth centuries and explores the interrelationships between East and West during the first millennium"--Les Enluminures website.
Author : J. Anderson Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Five Centuries of European Jewelry written by J. Anderson Black and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cowboy Culture written by David Dary and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful account of five centuries of cowboy culture details the life, history, customs, status, job, equipment, and more of the cowboy from sixteenth-century Spanish Mexico to the present.
Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345493354
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Jewels written by Victoria Finlay and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.
Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Sceptre
ISBN 13 : 1399716700
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Jewels: A Secret History written by Victoria Finlay and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Glorious . . . anecdote and information accumulate with marvellous abundance and a passionate sense of the fascination of jewels' Spectator Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. One gem links Queen Victoria and a skeleton. Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet. A man turned into a diamond. When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing? Victoria Finlay travels the world to tell the true stories of these miraculous oddities of nature. 'Filled with eye-catching incidents and stories . . . Finlay's evidence glitters from every page' Sunday Telegraph 'A fascinating and exhaustive travelogue' Times Literary Supplement
Author : Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jewels of Time written by Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eduardo Galeano
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0853459908
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Open Veins of Latin America written by Eduardo Galeano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover.
Author : Marcia B. Hall
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300237197
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Power of Color written by Marcia B. Hall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated volume explores the history of color across five centuries of European painting, unfolding layers of artistic, cultural, and political meaning through a deep understanding of technique.
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Total Pages : 1096 pages
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Download or read book Archeomaterials written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226561615
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the West written by William H. McNeill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review
Author : Rosemary C. LoDato
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753941
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Glitter written by Rosemary C. LoDato and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of the plastic arts, especially painting and sculpture, upon the Hispanic literary movement known as Modernismo is well-documented. Although numerous studies have referred to gems, Beyond the Glitter focuses upon the significance of gems and jewels in elaborating Modernismo's complex aesthetics. The role of gems and jewelry is discussed in the poetics of three prominent Modernista writers: Ruben Dario, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, and Jose Asuncion Silva. The conclusion underscores how the rich and varied symbolism associated with jewelry and precious gems enriched the poetics of Modernista writers because it enabled them to articulate their quest for ideal beauty, expressive of a sublime state of mind and spirit.
Author : Dexter Cirillo
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847831104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Southwestern Indian Jewelry written by Dexter Cirillo and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling exploration of both traditional and contemporary jewelry. Spectacular photographs of the beautiful jewelry and sensitive portraits of the artists combine with an insightful, informative text to capture the spirit of this work and of the cultures from which it springs. Includes a collector's guide and a directory of sources. 210 illustrations, 155 in full color.
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Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Jeweler written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
