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Book Synopsis Art of the Gold Rush by : Janice T. Driesbach
Download or read book Art of the Gold Rush written by Janice T. Driesbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art of the Gold Rush" features drawings and oil paintings of images of the scenery, people, and activity surrounding the 80,000 travelers to California in search of golden nuggets.
Book Synopsis The Art of Precolumbian Gold by : Julie Jones
Download or read book The Art of Precolumbian Gold written by Julie Jones and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising the materials needed to make gold items ranging from an eighteenth century French fan to a Peruvian nose ring along with details of the history of gold-working techniques from ancient Egypt to modern times. Includes photographs, illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions for the ten projects.
Book Synopsis The Art of Gold Digging by : Tariq King Flex Nasheed
Download or read book The Art of Gold Digging written by Tariq King Flex Nasheed and published by King Flex Ent. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instructional guide to help women upgrade their game when it comes to dating, this work teaches women how and where to meet wealthy men and how to get these men to lavish them with gifts.
Book Synopsis The Lady in Gold by : Anne-Marie O'Connor
Download or read book The Lady in Gold written by Anne-Marie O'Connor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece—the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, its decision had profound ramifications in the art world. Expertly researched, masterfully told, The Lady in Gold is at once a stunning depiction of fin-de siècle Vienna, a riveting tale of Nazi war crimes, and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes workings of the contemporary art world. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the Marfield National Award for Arts Writing. Winner of a California Book Award.
Book Synopsis Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time by : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Download or read book Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time written by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Book Synopsis Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art by : Barbara Deppert-Lippitz
Download or read book Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art written by Barbara Deppert-Lippitz and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely volume illustrates in color superb examples of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman jewelry. Major types of Greek and Etruscan jewelry from the seventh to the first centuries B.C. are well represented, along with a few Roman imperial works. In exquisite miniature, these ornaments reflect the stylistic history of more monumental art: they are sculptures on a small scale. Underneath the shining splendor these gold objects -- works originally meant to be worn by men and women as a sign of wealth and power in life -- lies a more fundamental meaning. Gold, a mysterious power, was a means for people to communicate with the gods who rule human life. The skill of the ancient goldsmith has never been equaled. Although the techniques used are for the most part understood, the virtuosity and intricacy of manufacture have vet to be duplicated.
Book Synopsis Ink, Silk & Gold by : Laura Weinstein
Download or read book Ink, Silk & Gold written by Laura Weinstein and published by Museum of Fine Arts Boston. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ink, Silk, and Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 major works in a dazzling array of media, reproduced in full color and exquisite detail manuscripts inscribed with gold, paintings on silk, elaborate metalwork, intricately woven textiles, luster-painted ceramics, and more. These objects, which originated within an Islamic world that ranges from Western Europe to Indonesia and across more than thirteen centuries, share a distinctive relationship to the materials they are made of: their color, shape, texture, and technique of production all convey meaning. Enhanced by texts from an international team of scholars and drawing on the latest technical information, Ink, Silk, and Gold is an inviting introduction to the riches of the Islamic art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a window into a vibrant global culture.
Download or read book Fists Full of Gold written by Chris Ralph and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ink and Gold written by Felice Fischer and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite tribute to the group of artists who elevated Japanese painting to the level of internationally renowned fine art
Book Synopsis Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver by : Carolin C. Young
Download or read book Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver written by Carolin C. Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to 12 historic dinner parties is offered by a dining historian who gracefully transverses ten centuries in Western history to answer the question, "What does it mean to dine?" of full-color photos; b&w illustrations throughout.
Book Synopsis Gold in the Cracks by : Rani St Pucchi
Download or read book Gold in the Cracks written by Rani St Pucchi and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring book, award-winning designer and international bestselling author Rani St. Pucchi draws from the wisdom gained from having helped more than 20,000 women in her 30-year career as well as from her own life experiences.
Download or read book The Vein of Gold written by Julia Cameron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-09-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in The Artist's Way, she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential exercises to make The Vein of Gold an extraordinary book of learning-through-doing. Inspiring essays on the creative process and more than one hundred engaging and energizing tasks involve the reader in "inner play," leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.
Book Synopsis Ancient Gold Jewellery by : Aikaterinē Despoinē
Download or read book Ancient Gold Jewellery written by Aikaterinē Despoinē and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewellery appeared worldwide during the early phases of civilisation, when man, through his belief in the existence of supernatural forces and magic, laid down the substrate of religion. In those times, and for many centuries after, jewellery was regarded as having the power to attract benign forces or to avert evil, functioning as a magical medium. Its association with metals was of decisive importance, not least with gold which, being imperishable and untarnishable, was the only metal charged of itself with supernatural properties. In time the human intellect put aside the magical character of jewellery, though it was never cast off completely. By the beginning of the first millennium BC, to which the works of Greek goldsmithing discussed in this book belong, jewellery already had a long tradition behind it. Its form was often affected by the religious and metaphysical concepts of the age, as is succinctly noted in the Introduction. The manufacture of Greek gold jewellery depended on the possibility of access to the precious metal, the sources of and the techniques of working which, interwoven with myth and lore, are examined in sub-chapters. The founding of the colonies at first and the Macedonian expansion later, brought the Greeks into contact with both supplies of the raw material and traditional centres of goldsmithing, from where they also received new ornament types. These they transmuted, giving them a Greek identity, eventually creating a common language of jewellery that spread from the northern shores of the Euxine Pontus to Egypt, and from Italy to Asia. The development of jewellery is examined by category and bears witness to the influence of those same historical factors as contributed to the development of major art in the Hellenic world. Greek goldsmiths often emulated its achievements, also endowing this genre of the so-called minor arts with unique masterpieces.
Book Synopsis Gold Fever and the Art of Panning and Sluicing by : Lois M. DeLorenzo
Download or read book Gold Fever and the Art of Panning and Sluicing written by Lois M. DeLorenzo and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Favorite among beginners. Full-page illustrations on the mechanics of panning and sluicing. Maps of Western states gold locations. Numerous illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Art of Gold Embroidery from Uzbekistan by : Suzanne Pennell
Download or read book The Art of Gold Embroidery from Uzbekistan written by Suzanne Pennell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ancient times Samarkand and Bukhara, have been thriving centres of craft production due to their location on the main routes of the ancient 'Silk Road.' The commercial, religious and political experience of these oasis cities had major lasting influences on craft production. Gold embroidery was no exception. Detailed examination of historical sources related to gold embroidery or zarduzi, showed that, until the Bolshevic Revolution in 1917, consumption of gold embroidery was restricted to the wealthy middle class and court elites. It was most spectacularly employed in displays of power and wealth among the courts of the Emirs before the Russian invasion in1868 and was produced by ustos, or masters in court ateliers. Follow zarduzi to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Lure of Gold by : Hans-Gert Bachmann
Download or read book The Lure of Gold written by Hans-Gert Bachmann and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzlingly illustrated story of how the world's most beautiful element has influenced the art, economy, and society of every civilization. When Hesiod, the Greek poet of the eighth century B.C., recounted the history of the world as he understood it, he described the legendary first generation of mortal men, who lived in peace and ease, as the “people of gold.” Nearly three millennia later, we still refer to a particularly happy or prosperous era as a “golden age.” The reason Hesiod’s metaphor translates so perfectly into our own idiom is that the mystique of gold, the quintessential precious metal, is truly universal. The very scarcity of gold accounts for part of its allure and much of its monetary value: the total volume of gold ever mined, from prehistory to the present day, would probably fit inside a cube with sides just twenty yards (18 m) long. Yet gold’s incredible material properties also contribute to its appeal. Gold does not corrode, so it never loses its brilliant luster, and it can be chased, embossed, punched, drawn into wires, hammered foil-thin, and shaped in countless other ways. This engaging book reveals that the ways in which gold, in turn, has shaped humanity are no less numerous. Since prehistory, for example, artisans have fashioned gold into ritual objects and high-status ornaments; beginning in the sixth century B.C., gold served as currency; and even in the modern era it has encouraged wars of conquest and triggered frantic gold rushes. Each chapter is devoted to one historical epoch, explaining how people of that time mined and refined gold, and how they used it for cultural and economic purposes. Two hundred gorgeous color photographs illustrate golden objets d’art as diverse as the funerary masks of Tutankhamen; intricate Celtic jewelry; a figurine of “El Dorado,” a pre-Columbian chief said to ritualistically cover his entire body in gold dust; bejeweled medieval reliquaries and crucifixes; and even Gustav Klimt’s gold-drenched canvas The Kiss. With its authoritative yet lively text and these arresting illustrations, The Lure of Gold sets, as it were, the gold standard for books on material culture.
