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Book Synopsis The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York by : William Ingraham Russell
Download or read book The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York written by William Ingraham Russell and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1907 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purposes. In some languages, the word for red was the same as the word for color. The first color developed for painting and dying, red became associated in antiquity with war, wealth, and power. In the medieval period, red held both religious significance, as the color of the blood of Christ and the fires of Hell, and secular meaning, as a symbol of love, glory, and beauty. Yet during the Protestant Reformation, red began to decline in status. Viewed as indecent and immoral and linked to luxury and the excesses of the Catholic Church, red fell out of favor. After the French Revolution, red gained new respect as the color of progressive movements and radical left-wing politics. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, the acclaimed author of Blue, Black, and Green, now masterfully navigates centuries of symbolism and complex meanings to present the fascinating and sometimes controversial history of the color red. Pastoureau illuminates red's evolution through a diverse selection of captivating images, including the cave paintings of Lascaux, the works of Renaissance masters, and the modern paintings and stained glass of Mark Rothko and Josef Albers.
Book Synopsis A Popular Geology by : William Platt
Download or read book A Popular Geology written by William Platt and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny by : Munro S. Edmonson
Download or read book Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny written by Munro S. Edmonson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is such a document, literally the history of Yucatan written by and for Mayas, and it contains much information not available from Spanish sources because it was part of an underground resistance movement of which the Spanish were largely unaware. Well known to Mayanists, The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is presented here in Munro S. Edmonson's English translation, extensively annotated. Edmonson reinterprets the book as literature and as history, placing it in chronological order and translating it as poetry. The ritual nature of Mayan history clearly emerges and casts new light on Mexican and Spanish acculturation of the Yucatecan Maya in the post-Classic and colonial periods. Centered in the city of Merida, the Chumayel provides the western (Xiu) perspective on Yucatecan history, as Edmonson's earlier book The Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin presented the eastern (Itza) viewpoint. Both document the changing calendar of the colonial period and the continuing vitality of pre-Columbian ritual thought down to the nineteenth century. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the survival of the long-count dating system down to the Baktun Ceremonial of 1618 (12.0.0.0.0). But there are others: the use of rebus writing, the survival of the tun until 1752, graphic if oblique accounts of Mayan ceremonial drama, and the depiction of the Spanish conquest as a long-term inter-Mayan civil war.
Book Synopsis Winny Darling, or The three beauties of Shannondale by : Emma Dorothy E. Nevitte Southworth
Download or read book Winny Darling, or The three beauties of Shannondale written by Emma Dorothy E. Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines, Based on Material in the U.S. National Museum... by : Joseph D. McGuire
Download or read book Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines, Based on Material in the U.S. National Museum... written by Joseph D. McGuire and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Romance of Red Stone by : Yashwant Pitkar
Download or read book The Romance of Red Stone written by Yashwant Pitkar and published by Axel Menges. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an appreciation of architecture of Islam in India. Indo-Islamic architecture is characterised by the prolific use of sandstone -- red stone. It is the culmination of the long tradition of Islamic art that came into bloom right from the faith's first expansion beyond the Arabian Peninsula in the late seventh century. All the great Mughal emperors were prolific commissioners of monuments and their architecture thus remained the finest representation of this syncretion. Mughal architecture has been rich in ornament, almost at times overwhelming the architecture itself. With lively pictures, giving you a feeling of actually experiencing them, the book is divided into three major sections -- Islamic ornament, Common forms in Islamic ornament, and Mughal architecture. Indeed a tribute to the Islamic architecture in India. A musthave book for all who love Mughal architecture. The pictures present a feast of craftsmanship, as an enduring romance with shape and stone, in its unending variations. For a visitor to these buildings, the photographs allow a return, a recollection of architecture as a phenomenon, giving a sensual experience of the visit, a feel for the infinite craft. Mustansir Dalvi's text complements Pitkar's photographs by guiding the reader to an understanding of the variety and symbolism of ornamental forms that grace Islamic architecture, especially in the Indian context. Ornament in its many manifestations transforms the architecture, dematerializing immense monuments into elegant jewel-boxes. Dalvi shows how artisan and patron came together in India in a unique integration of two divergent world views and cultures to create a lasting syncretism of Islamic and Hindu traditions that reached its zenith in the architecture of the Mughal period.
Book Synopsis Mostly Manga by : Elizabeth F.S. Kalen
Download or read book Mostly Manga written by Elizabeth F.S. Kalen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriate for any public library collection, this book provides a comprehensive readers' advisory guide for Japanese manga and anime, Korean manhwa, and Chinese manhua. Japanese manga and anime, Korean manhwa, and Chinese manhua are Asian graphic novels and animated films that have gained great popularity in the last ten years and now are found in most public library collections. Mostly Manga: A Genre Guide to Popular Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, and Anime is the first readers' advisory guide to focus on this important body of literature. This guide provides information on all of the major manga and anime formats and genres, covering publications from the early 1990s to the present. It identifies important titles historically and provides a broad representation of what is available in each format. Selected major titles are described in detail, covering the general plot as well as grade level and pertinent awards. The author also discusses common issues related to manga and anime, such as terminology, content and ratings, and censorship.
Book Synopsis Report of the National Museum by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report of the National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shannondale by : Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Download or read book Shannondale written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaic England written by Harold Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Three Beauties by : Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Download or read book The Three Beauties written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Illustrated by : Consolidated Illustrating Company
Download or read book Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Illustrated written by Consolidated Illustrating Company and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set) by : Susan Sinclair
Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set) written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
