The Golden Age of English Glass

The Golden Age of English Glass

Author: Dwight P. Lanmon

Publisher: Antique Collector's Club

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781851496563

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'The Golden Age of English Glass' features 150 objects from the collection of John H. Bryan, ranging in date from c.1650-1809. These enable a full and detailed discussion of the history of English glassmaking during its critical period of innovation and it world triumph.


Jack Glass

Jack Glass

Author: Adam Roberts

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0575127651

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WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age SF, JACK GLASS is another bravura performance from Roberts. Whatever games he plays with the genre, whatever questions he asks of the reader, Roberts never loses sight of the need to entertain and JACK GLASS has some wonderfully gruesome moments, is built around three gripping HowDunnits and comes with liberal doses of sly humour. Roberts invites us to have fun and tricks us into thinking about both crime and SF via a beautifully structured novel set in a society whose depiction challanges notions of crime, punishment, power and freedom. It is an extraordinary novel.


Glass

Glass

Author: Alan Macfarlane

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2002-10

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780226500287

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Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, no sciences of microbiology or astronomy. People with poor vision would grope in the shadows, and planes, cars, and even electricity probably wouldn't exist. Artists would draw without the benefit of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be steered by what stars navigators could see through the naked eye. In Glass: A World History, Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin tell the fascinating story of how glass has revolutionized the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Starting ten thousand years ago with its invention in the Near East, Macfarlane and Martin trace the history of glass and its uses from the ancient civilizations of India, China, and Rome through western Europe during the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally up to the present day. The authors argue that glass played a key role not just in transforming humanity's relationship with the natural world, but also in the divergent courses of Eastern and Western civilizations. While all the societies that used glass first focused on its beauty in jewelry and other ornaments, and some later made it into bottles and other containers, only western Europeans further developed the use of glass for precise optics, mirrors, and windows. These technological innovations in glass, in turn, provided the foundations for European domination of the world in the several centuries following the Scientific Revolution. Clear, compelling, and quite provocative, Glass is an amazing biography of an equally amazing subject, a subject that has been central to every aspect of human history, from art and science to technology and medicine.


English Stained Glass

English Stained Glass

Author: Painton Cowen

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Showcases the masterpieces of England's golden age of stained glass, from 1100 to 1530.


The Golden Age

The Golden Age

Author: Ian Inkster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1351888730

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In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of industrial England. For the next twenty years Britain reigned supreme. From around 1870 Britain began to decline. Britain is now a second rate power with strong memories of its former supremacy. The above five sentences summarise a common view of the sequencing of Britain’s rise and relative fall, a stereotype that is challenged and modified in the essays of The Golden Age. By concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change authors expose the underpinnings of supremacy, its unsung underside, its tarnished gold. Major themes cover industrial and technological change, social institutions and gender relations in a period during which industry and industrialism were equally celebrated and nurtured. Against this background it is difficult to argue for any sudden decline of energy, assets or institution, nor for any significant move from an industrial society to one in which a hearty manufacturing was replaced by commerce and land, sensibility and artifice.


Marking Time

Marking Time

Author: Edward Town

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 0300254105

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An engaging, encyclopedic account of the material world of early modern Britain as told through a unique collection of dated objects The period from 1500 to 1800 in England was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded. Through a focused exploration of an extensive private collection of fine and decorative artworks, this beautifully designed volume explores that theme and the variety of ways that individual notions of time and mortality shifted. The feature uniting these more than 450 varied objects is that each one bears a specific date, which marks a significant moment—for reasons personal or professional, religious or secular, private or public. From paintings to porringers, teapots to tape measures, the objects—and the stories they tell—offer a vivid sense of the lived experience of time, while providing a sweeping survey of the material world of early modern Britain.


British Glass, 1800-1914

British Glass, 1800-1914

Author: Charles R. Hajdamach

Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781851491414

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Comprehensive survey of the greatest period in the history of British glass


Dutch Art

Dutch Art

Author: Sheila D. Muller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 1505

ISBN-13: 1135495815

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An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect Dutch Art explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the 1990s. it is lavishly illustrated with 147 black-and-white photographs and 16 pages in full color. More than 100 internationally recognized scholars, museum professionals, artists, and art critics contributed signed essays to this monumental work, including historians, sociologists, and literary historians.


Old Glass and How to Collect it

Old Glass and How to Collect it

Author: J. Sydney Lewis

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Old Glass and How to Collect it" by J. Sydney Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Five Thousand Years of Glass

Five Thousand Years of Glass

Author: Hugh Tait

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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A complete history of glass from its origins 5000 years ago to mechanized processes for its production in the twentieth century.