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Author : British Museum
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The British Museum in Five Sections; Or how to View the Whole at Once written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The British Museum, in Five Sections, Or, How to View the Whole at Once written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum
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ISBN 13 : 9780714151052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces of the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and updated edition includes many recent acquisitions and new discoveries, such as Picasso's stunning Vollard Suite and the intriguing Vale of York Viking hoard, and showcases a selection of more than 250 of the most beautiful and important objects drawn from across the Museum. Each object is presented with its own fascinating story and is strikingly illustrated in full colour. From the Warren Cup to Durers Rhinoceros, the Lewis Chessmen to the Aztec turquoise serpent and the Gayer-Anderson Cat, the iconic objects of the British Museum are here presented in an exciting and accessible new way, highlighting the superb craftsmanship and ingenuity of those who created each of these splendid pieces.
Author : Ian Dennis Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026926
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Parthenon Sculptures written by Ian Dennis Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aileen Fyfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615002X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Science in the Marketplace written by Aileen Fyfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around the latest books and periodicals. Science in the Marketplace reveals this other side of Victorian scientific life by placing the sciences in the wider cultural marketplace, ultimately showing that the creation of new sites and audiences was just as crucial to the growing public interest in science as were the scientists themselves. By focusing attention on the scientific audience, as opposed to the scientific community or self-styled popularizers, Science in the Marketplace ably links larger societal changes—in literacy, in industrial technologies, and in leisure—to the evolution of “popular science.”
Author : John Parker Anderson
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Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexandra Fletcher (Museum curator)
Publisher : British Museum Research Public
ISBN 13 : 9780861591978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Regarding the Dead written by Alexandra Fletcher (Museum curator) and published by British Museum Research Public. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key publication on the British Museum's approach to the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of human remains in museum collections and possible solutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management and display.
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Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496686
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The British Museum Is Falling Down written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
Author : Robert Dodsley
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Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The General Contents of the British Museum: with Remarks. Serving as a Directory in Viewing that Noble Cabinet written by Robert Dodsley and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966831
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book A History of the World in 100 Objects written by Neil MacGregor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with an object from the 21st century which represents the world we live in today. Neil MacGregor's aim is not simply to describe these remarkable things, but to show us their significance - how a stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people, how Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency or how an early Victorian tea-set tells us about the impact of empire. Each chapter immerses the reader in a past civilisation accompanied by an exceptionally well-informed guide. Seen through this lens, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. An intellectual and visual feast, it is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years.
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Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Linnean Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum (Natural History): Lower Greenland (Aptian) plants of Britain, by M. C. Stopes written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tiffany Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198817185
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Keeping Their Marbles written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York - to name but a few - can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.
