A Bookman's Guide to the Indians of the Americas
A Bookman's Guide to the Indians of the Americas

Author: Richard A. Hand

Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13:

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A compilation of 10,357 catalogue entries with prices and annotations. Bibliographical and descriptive. The book is based upon 200 catalogs issued by 21 dealers listing 6,651 separate titles. Duplicates reflect variant prices and editions. Entries are listed alphabetically by author and include gene

What Painting is
What Painting is

Author: James Elkins

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780415921138

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Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.

Precolumbian Gold
Precolumbian Gold

Author: Colin McEwan

Publisher: British Museum Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

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Publishing papers from an international conference held in May 1996 at the Museum of Mankind to mark the opening of the exhibition The Gilded Image: PreColumbian Gold from South and Central America, this text includes essays on gold funerary offerings from excavations at Batan Grande, Peru; the description of recently discovered Malagana goldwork from Columbia; and an accout of gold found in archaeological contexts from Panama.