Ivory Coast in Pictures
Ivory Coast in Pictures

Author: Janice Hamilton

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780822519928

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Discusses the geography, history and government, people, cultural life, and economy of the Ivory Coast, West Africa's second richest nation.

Images in Ivory
Images in Ivory

Author: Peter Barnet

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780691016108

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The exhibition catalog is the first survey of Gothic ivories in English. It contains essays by seven leading international scholars, including Peter Barnet (Gothic Sculpture in Ivory: An Introduction), Elizabeth Sears (Ivory and Ivory-Workers in Medieval Paris), Richard H. Randall, Jr. (Popular Romances Carved in Ivory), Harvey Stahl (Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ), Charles T. Little (Opera Francigeno et Germania: Gothic Ivory Carving in Germany), Danielle Gaborit-Chopin (Polychrome Decoration of Gothic Ivories), and Paul Williamson (Symbiosis across Scale: Gothic Ivories and Culture in Stone and Wood in the Thirteenth Century). Nearly one hundred of the most important examples of Gothic ivory carving from collections in Europe and the United States are catalogued by leading specialists. They are illustrated with mostly new photography and collateral photographs where appropriate. The publication conveys to the reader the major changes that occurred in art and society during the Gothic period and the rise of ivory carving for both religious and secular purposes. Organized chronologically, the catalog tells the story of the development of this art form; the people who carved, commissioned, and made use of ivories in the Middle Ages; and the impact historical developments had on the growth and eventual demise of the art form.

Dark Ivory
Dark Ivory

Author: Joseph Michael Linsner

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781607063179

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Ivory, a high school girl who likes sneaking out at night to frequent goth clubs in New York, finds her life changing in frightening and unexpected ways after meeting Xander, a man who introduces her to the mysterious winged blood angel.

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

Author: Davarian L Baldwin

Publisher: Bold Type Books

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1568588917

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Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.

The Golden Age of Ivory
The Golden Age of Ivory

Author: Richard H. Randall

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Definitive illustrated catalogue: every medieval ivory in America. Sets new scholarly standard.

French Gothic Ivories
French Gothic Ivories

Author: Sarah M. Guerin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 1078

ISBN-13: 1009041622

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This volume is the first to consider the golden century of Gothic ivory sculpture (1230-1330) in its material, theological, and artistic contexts. Providing a range of new sources and interpretations, Sarah Guérin charts the progressive development and deepening of material resonances expressed in these small-scale carvings. Guérin traces the journey of ivory tusks, from the intercontinental trade routes that delivered ivory tusks to northern Europe, to the workbenches of specialist artisans in medieval Paris, and, ultimately, the altars and private chapels in which these objects were venerated. She also studies the rich social lives and uses of a diverse range of art works fashioned from ivory, including standalone statuettes, diptychs, tabernacles, and altarpieces. Offering new insights into the resonances that ivory sculpture held for their makers and viewers, Guérin's study contributes to our understanding of the history of materials, craft, and later medieval devotional practices.