The Practical Book of Tapestries
Author: George Leland Hunter
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13:
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780892368877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections includes many major objects that recently have been added to the collections, as well as the more familiar masterpieces frequent visitors have become acquainted with over the years from the antiquities, drawings, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and sculpture and decorative arts holdings. Among the notable new accessions is a major collection of modern and contemporary sculpture, a 2005 gift from the Fran and Ray Stark Trust. Moreover, the new edition of the Handbook marks the historic moment at which the Museum commences operating on two sites simultaneously--the dazzling Getty Center on a hilltop in Brentwood and the magnificently reimagined Getty Villa in Malibu, devoted to Western antiquities. Readers who have not been among the millions of visitors to the two sites will find this Handbook an inducement for paying a visit; for those who have seen the collections, it will help them recall the experience and enrich their recollection.
Gendered Visions
Author: Salah M. Hassan
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of work by six prominent artists accompanied by critical essays which place the work in the context of the artists' socio-cultural backgrounds. All six artists are of African origin but work in the West: Ethiopian painter Elisabeth T Atnafu; US fibre and mixed-media artist Xenobia Bailey; Jamaican photographer Renee Cox; Cameroon photographer Angele Essamba; painter Houria Niati from Algeria; and Ethiopian sculptor Etiye Dimma Poulsen.
Madame Bovary (New Edition)
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: BookRix
Published: 2019-06-28
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 3736808011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMadame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the precise word"). Long established as one of the greatest novels ever written, the book has often been described as a "perfect" work of fiction. Henry James writes: "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." Giorgio de Chirico said that in his opinion "from the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is Madame Bovary by Flaubert".
THE CANDIDATE
Author: GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetamorphoses
Author: Emanuele Coccia
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-06-09
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1509545689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.
African Cosmos
Author: Christine M. Kreamer
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1580933432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the “cosmological map” that allows humans to chart their course through life.
The Fine Private Library of the Late Oliver Henry Perkins, Des Moines, Iowa
Author: Oliver Henry Perkins
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780892368259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Tribes and Forms in African Art
Author: William Buller Fagg
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the exhibition Africa: 100 Stm̃me, 100 Meisterwerke, sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom at the Berlin Festival, 1964./ Includes bibliography.
