Craft in America

Craft in America

Author: Jo Lauria

Publisher: Potter Style

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0307346471

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Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft


Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones

Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones

Author: Elazar Barkan

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2003-01-09

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0892366737

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These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.


Needlework as Art

Needlework as Art

Author: M. Alford

Publisher:

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9783741195167

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Needlework as art is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.


Frame Work

Frame Work

Author: Alison Wright

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0300238843

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Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.