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Daily Life Ornamented

Author : Tanya Treptow
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781885923516
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life Ornamented written by Tanya Treptow and published by Oriental Institute Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists work with broken fragments to build pictures of life in past societies. In many excavations, the most abundant fragments we work with are broken pieces of ceramic vessels and objects (we call them "sherds"), which we find by the thousands in a typical dig. These sherds can tell us quite remarkable things about the past: when a site was occupied in history, what trade contacts it had, and what kinds of everyday activities people were doing there. We can also learn about technologies and how artisans learned and adopted technologies across large areas. The finest ceramics, of course, are true works of art that convey an aesthetic sense that we can appreciate hundreds or thousands of years later. Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy shows how archaeologists work with sherds at the same time that it portrays aspects of life along the Silk Road during the ninth - fourteenth centuries. It must be said that although the catalogue is based largely on sherds, they are not only interesting as documents of medieval Islamic civilization, but they are also among the most beautiful sherds in the collections of the Oriental Institute. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, also represents an opportunity to re-examine the pioneering work of Erich Schmidt, who excavated the ancient site of Rayy during the mid-1930s.

Daily Life Ornamented

Author : Tanya Treptow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life Ornamented written by Tanya Treptow and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ornamented Lives

Author : Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641134704
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Ornamented Lives written by Jaan Valsiner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author’s theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely “decorations” but play the important role of guiding the affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between basic forms—linear and curvilinear. This tension is present in human construction of environments—natural growth involves curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity. The basic tension between linear and curvilinear infinities is expressed in the use of spiral forms in art and architecture. The book builds a theoretical account of human beings constantly creating sublime life occasions that give them affective charge for dramatizations of ordinary living. Episodically the sublime acquires new quality—becomes aesthetic. The coverage in this book links the aesthetic, the sublime, and the mundane into one theoretical scheme within cultural psychology.

Personal Ornaments in Prehistory

Author : Emma L. Baysal
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789252873
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Personal Ornaments in Prehistory written by Emma L. Baysal and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years, from hunter-gatherer life in the cave to urban elites, from expedient use of natural resources to complex technologies. Using evidence from archaeological sites across Turkey, the Near East and the Balkans, it explores the history of personal ornaments from their appearance in the Palaeolithic until the rise of urban centers in the Early Bronze Age and encompassing technologies ranging from stone cutting to early glazing, metallurgy and the roots of glass manufacture. The development of theoretical and practical approaches to ornaments and the current state of research are illustrated with a wide variety of examples. This book shows that far from being objects of display, of little value in archaeological interpretation and often overlooked, these artifacts are key to understanding trade, relationships, values, beliefs and the construction of personal identity in the past. Indeed, more than any other group of artifacts, their variety in material, form, use and distribution opens doors to both wide ranging scientific exploration and consideration of what it is to be human.

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Author : Curtis L. Carter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868345
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Everyday Life written by Curtis L. Carter and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics of everyday life points to a growing diversification among existing methodologies for pursuing aesthetics, alongside the shift from art-based aesthetics. The cultural diversity manifest in global aesthetics offers common ground for the collaborative efforts of aesthetics in both the West and the East. Given the rapidly growing interest and its potential for attracting new audiences extending beyond the more narrowly focused traditions of twentieth-century analytic and environmental aesthetics, it stands to command its own share of attention in the future of aesthetic studies. The aesthetics of everyday life has become a stream of thought with a global ambition. This interest has led to numerous systematic and in-depth works on this topic, some of which were conducted by the authors represented in this volume. A salient feature of this book is that it not only represents the recent developments of the aesthetics of everyday life in the West, but also highlights the interaction between scholars in the West and the East on this topic. Thus, the project is a contribution toward mutual progress in the collaboration between Western and Eastern aesthetics. What distinguishes this book from other anthologies and monographs on this topic is that it reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East, with a view to building a new form of aesthetics of everyday life, as seen from a global perspective. At present, the aesthetics of everyday life as a newly emergent approach to aesthetics may encounter skepticism among aestheticians accustomed to the rigors of analytic philosophers who prefer to discuss aesthetics at the level of abstract concepts and argument, and who tolerate the particulars of experience mainly as illustrations. But, there is no reason to abandon the pursuit of the aesthetics of everyday life in the face of such objections. On the contrary, there are many benefits to gain in bringing aesthetics to bear on a wider sphere of human life, made possible through efforts to show the relevance of aesthetics to a broader range of human actions.

The Ornaments of Life

Author : Theodore H. Fleming
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602332X
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Ornaments of Life written by Theodore H. Fleming and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As The Ornaments of Life reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants—toucans, monkeys, leaf-nosed bats, and hummingbirds to name a few—are an important component of the infrastructure that supports life in the forest. These fruit-and-nectar eating birds and mammals pollinate the flowers and disperse the seeds of hundreds of tropical plants, and unlike temperate communities, much of this greenery relies exclusively on animals for reproduction. Synthesizing recent research by ecologists and evolutionary biologists, Theodore H. Fleming and W. John Kress demonstrate the tremendous functional and evolutionary importance of these tropical pollinators and frugivores. They shed light on how these mutually symbiotic relationships evolved and lay out the current conservation status of these essential species. In order to illustrate the striking beauty of these “ornaments” of the rainforest, the authors have included a series of breathtaking color plates and full-color graphs and diagrams.

Daily Life in Renaissance Italy

Author : Elizabeth S. Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440856931
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in Renaissance Italy written by Elizabeth S. Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, lively, and deeply informed survey of life in Renaissance Italy for students and general readers, this book presents a thoughtful cultural and social anthropology of practices, values, and negotiations. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit the Renaissance Italian world (1400–1600). In clearly written chapters, the book moves from Renaissance Italy's geography to its society, and then to family. It also looks at hierarchies, moralities, devices for keeping social order, media and communications and the arts, space, time, the life cycle, material culture, health, and illness, and finishes with work and play. This new edition is especially alert to the rich connections between Italy and the rest of Europe, and with Africa and Asia. The book synthesizes a great deal of recent scholarship on social and material history, paying additional attention to the arts and religion. Readers are given an inside view of people from every social class, elite and ordinary, men and women. Written for students of all levels, from secondary school up, it is also an accessible introduction for travelers to Italy.

Seljuqs and their Successors

Author : Canby Sheila Canby
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474450377
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Seljuqs and their Successors written by Canby Sheila Canby and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising from nomadic origins as Turkish tribesmen, the powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs and their successor states dominated vast lands extending from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. Supported by colour images, charts, and maps, this volume examines how under Seljuq rule, migrations of people and the exchange and synthesis of diverse traditions-including Turkmen, Perso-Arabo-Islamic, Byzantine, Armenian, Crusader and other Christian cultures-accompanied architectural patronage, advances in science and technology and a great flowering of culture within the realm. It also explores how shifting religious beliefs, ideologies of authority, and lifestyle in Seljuq times influenced cultural and artistic production, urban and rural architecture, monumental inscriptions and royal titulature, and practices of religion and magic. It also presents today's challenges and new approaches to preserving the material heritage of this vastly accomplished and influential civilization.

At Home in Nineteenth-Century America

Author : Amy G. Richter
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814769144
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book At Home in Nineteenth-Century America written by Amy G. Richter and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie to cross lines of race, ethnicity, class, and region. Throughout the nineteenth century, home was celebrated as a moral force, domesticity moved freely into the worlds of politics and reform, and home and marketplace repeatedly remade each other. At Home in Nineteenth-Century America draws upon advice manuals, architectural designs, personal accounts, popular fiction, advertising images, and reform literature to revisit the variety of places Americans called home. Entering into middle-class suburban houses, slave cabins, working-class tenements, frontier dugouts, urban settlement houses, it explores the shifting interpretations and experiences of these spaces from within and without. Nineteenth-century homes and notions of domesticity seem simultaneously distant and familiar. This sense of surprise and recognition is ideal for the study of history, preparing us to view the past with curiosity and empathy, inspiring comparisons to the spaces we inhabit today—malls, movie theaters, city streets, and college campuses. Permitting us to listen closely to the nineteenth century’s sweeping conversation about home in its various guises, At Home in Nineteenth-Century America encourages us to hear our contemporary conversation about the significance and meaning of home anew while appreciating the lingering imprint of past ideals. Instructor's Guide

Great Seljuk Empire

Author : A. C. S Peacock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748698078
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Great Seljuk Empire written by A. C. S Peacock and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English language general history of the Great Seljuk Empire outlines its chronological history and will explores its religious and institutional history.

Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments, The Inside Stories from the Artists Who Create Them

Author : John Peterson
Publisher : Hallmark Cards, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781595301635
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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India and Iran in the Long Durée

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460632
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book India and Iran in the Long Durée written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, covering the contacts between Iran and India from antiquity to the modern period.

Fragile Ornaments, Melting Snowflakes and the Healing Light of Christmas

Author : Ronald William Cadmus
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782796592
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Fragile Ornaments, Melting Snowflakes and the Healing Light of Christmas written by Ronald William Cadmus and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all Christmas ornaments sparkle on tree branches. Some are fragile. Easily broken. And joy often disappears like melting snowflakes. We are just like those ornaments and snowflakes. But there is a healing light that can be found at Christmas.

Architectures of Hiding

Author : Rana Abughannam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003834116
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Architectures of Hiding written by Rana Abughannam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their hidescapes – the constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the architectures of hiding. Looking at and beyond the intentions and agency that architects possess, architectural spaces lend themselves as apparatuses for various forms of hiding and un(hiding). The examples explored in this book and the creative works presented in the interviews enclosed in the interludes of this publication cover a broad range of geographic and cultural contexts, discursively disclosing hidden aspects of architectural meaning. The book investigates the imaginative intrigue of concealing and revealing in design processes, along with moral responsibilities and ethical dilemmas inherent in crafting concealment through the making and reception of architecture.

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain

Author : John Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain

Author : John Evans
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752402547
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain written by John Evans and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain by John Evans

Ornaments of the Mind Or Extracts from the Works of the Most Celebrated English Authors Together with a Choice Promiscuous Collection of Modern Poetry

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Total Pages : 340 pages
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