Terra 2008
Terra 2008

Author: Leslie Rainer

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1606060430

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Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.

Constructions in French
Constructions in French

Author: Myriam Bouveret

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012-12-19

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9027273308

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The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and poorly studied constructions.

Orestes
Orestes

Author: Voltaire

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-02

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1627933212

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Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."

Art Crossing Borders
Art Crossing Borders

Author: Jan Dirk Baetens

Publisher: Studies in the History of Coll

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9789004291980

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Art Crossing Bordersoffers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market during the long nineteenth century. Twelve experts, dealing with a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and commercial contexts, explore how the gradual integration of art markets structurally depended on the simultaneous rise of nationalist modes of thinking, in unexpected and ambiguous ways. By presenting a radically international research perspective Art Crossing Bordersoffers a crucial contribution to the field of art market studies.

Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tableaux anciens par L. Boilly, F. Boucher, C. Chatelet, J. van Goyen, J. Senave, N. Taunay, etc., porcelaines anciennes de Sèvres, Saxe, Vincennes, objets de vitrine, coupe en céladon de la Chine, monture en bronze doré d'époque Louis XV, bronzes, pendules, lustres, sculpture, sièges et meubles anciens, estampillés de Avril, Boulard (J.-B.), Boudin (L.), Birkle, Cordie (S.), Cosson (J.-L), Corbissier, Delaunay (J.), Durand, Delaporte (A.), Feuerstein, Genty (D.), Hedouin (I.-B.), Lardin, Lexcellent, Migeon, Mariette, Othon, Petit (N.), Przirimbel, Rubestuck, Roussel (P.), R. V. I. C., Stockel (J.), Schmidt (A.-M.), Saumer (C.-C.), Wattelin (P.), important bureau plat et meuble à mécanique d'époque Régence et Louis XV, trois ameublements de salon, l'un d'eux en ancienne tapisserie des Gobelins à contrefond jaune, tapisseries anciennes du XVIIIe siècle, décoration du XVIIe siècle dans le goût de Pillement, tapis anciens, appartenant à divers amateurs
Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tableaux anciens par L. Boilly, F. Boucher, C. Chatelet, J. van Goyen, J. Senave, N. Taunay, etc., porcelaines anciennes de Sèvres, Saxe, Vincennes, objets de vitrine, coupe en céladon de la Chine, monture en bronze doré d'époque Louis XV, bronzes, pendules, lustres, sculpture, sièges et meubles anciens, estampillés de Avril, Boulard (J.-B.), Boudin (L.), Birkle, Cordie (S.), Cosson (J.-L), Corbissier, Delaunay (J.), Durand, Delaporte (A.), Feuerstein, Genty (D.), Hedouin (I.-B.), Lardin, Lexcellent, Migeon, Mariette, Othon, Petit (N.), Przirimbel, Rubestuck, Roussel (P.), R. V. I. C., Stockel (J.), Schmidt (A.-M.), Saumer (C.-C.), Wattelin (P.), important bureau plat et meuble à mécanique d'époque Régence et Louis XV, trois ameublements de salon, l'un d'eux en ancienne tapisserie des Gobelins à contrefond jaune, tapisseries anciennes du XVIIIe siècle, décoration du XVIIe siècle dans le goût de Pillement, tapis anciens, appartenant à divers amateurs

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Rethinking Boucher
Rethinking Boucher

Author: Melissa Lee Hyde

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780892368259

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"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.