The Praeger Picture Encyclopedia of Art
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes 192 plates in full color, a comprehensive survey, and 416 illustrations in monochrome of painting, sculpture, architecture and crafts, their methods, styles and technical terms, from the earliest times to the present day.
Author: F. A. Praeger
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Published: 1965
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive survey of painting, sculpture, architecture, and crafts, their methods, styles and technical terms from the earliest times to the present day.
Author: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard L. Fontana
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010-09-20
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0816544859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt rises suddenly out of the Sonoran Desert landscape, towering over the tallest tree or cactus, a commanding building with a sensuous dome, elliptical vaults, and sturdy bell towers. There is nothing else like it around, nor does it seem there should be. This incongruity of setting is what strikes first-time visitors to Mission San Xavier del Bac. This great church is of another place and another time, while its beauty is universal and timeless. Mission San Xavier del Bac is a two-century-old Spanish church in southern Arizona located just a few miles from downtown Tucson, a metropolis of more than half a million people in the American Southwest. A National Historic Landmark since 1963, the mission’s graceful baroque art and architecture have drawn visitors from all over the world. Now Bernard Fontana—the leading expert on San Xavier—and award-winning photographer Edward McCain team up to bring us a comprehensive view of the mission as we’ve never seen it before. With 200 stunning full-color photographs and incisive text illuminating the religious, historical, and motivational context of these images, A Gift of Angels is a must-have for tourists, scholars, and other visitors to San Xavier. From its glorious architecture all the way down to the finest details of its art, Mission San Xavier del Bac is indeed a gift of angels.
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1351513486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was the preserve of self-satisfied men entirely certain of their superiority in the world of letters; their counterparts in North America were blissfully unaware of development and trends outside their borders. In this unique historical analysis, Richard Abel and Gordon Graham show how publishing evolved post-World War II to embrace a different, more culturally inclusive, vision.Unfortunately, even among the learned classes, only a handful clearly understood either the nature or the likely consequences of the mounting geopolitical tensions that gripped pre-war Europe. The world was largely caught up in the ill-informed and unexamined but widely held smug and shallow belief that the huge price paid in "the war to end all wars" had purchased perpetual peace, a peace to be maintained by the numerous, post-war high-minded treaties ceremoniously signed thereafter.The history presented here has as its principals a handful of those who fled to the Anglo-Saxon shores in the pre-World War II era. The remainder made their way to Britain and the United States following that war. They brought an entirely new vision of and energetic pursuit of the cultural role of the book and journal in a society, a vision which was quickly adopted and naturalized by a perspicacious band of post-war native-born book people.
Author: Gloria Fraser Giffords
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780826313690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first part of the book is given to an analysis of folk retablo painting. The second part concentrates on iconography and on why certain images of Christ, Mary, and the saints were venerated. The third part examines ex-votos, small images painted to commemorate the donor's gratitude for a favor.