Early Views
Early Views

Author: Kristen Griffin

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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This is a collection of reproduced photographs and postcards highlighting the history of the Sitka National Historical Park, as well as the town and people of Sitka. It is presented in the form of a turn of the century scrapbook.

Early Views of Indonesia
Early Views of Indonesia

Author: Annabel Teh Gallop

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0824818059

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Early Views of Indonesia is a catalog of the most important watercolor and pencil drawings from the British Library's superb collection of more than 1,500 drawings of Indonesia dating from the early nineteenth century, most of which have never been published before.

Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View

Author: D. Michael Quinn

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781560850892

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In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn reconstructs the world view of an earlier age in America, finding ample evidence for treasure seeking and folk magic in Joseph Smith's formative years. Folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in understanding how Mormons may have interpreted developments. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet.

DELIVERING VIEWS
DELIVERING VIEWS

Author: Christraud M. Geary

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

Published: 1998-04-17

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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The authors discuss the differences between original photographs and their postcard equivalents, and they explore in detail common practices - such as artificial settings, costumes and props, colorization, and patronizing captions - that perpetuated racist, sexist, and romantic stereotypes.

Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Author: M. Frassetto

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-12-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0312299672

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Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy Lands, and Spain, the essays in this volume explore the reactions of Westerners to the culture and religion of Islam. Many of the works studied reveal the hostility toward Islam of Europeans and the creation of negative stereotypes of Muslims by Western writers. These essays also reveal attempts at accommodation and understanding that stand in contrast to the prevailing hostility that existed then and, in some ways, exists still today.

(A)wry Views
(A)wry Views

Author: David R. Castillo

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781557532275

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The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other. (A) Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings (as in anamorphosis).