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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles
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Decorations for Parks and Gardens.
- Designs for Gates, Garden Seats, Alcoves, Temples, Baths, Entrance Gates, Lodges, Facades, Prospect Towers, Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c., &c., Also a Hot House & Hot Wall:
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Anonymous
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R765
Discovery Miles 7 650
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Typically carved in stone, the cylinder seal is perhaps the most
distinctive art form to emerge in ancient Mesopotamia. It spread
across the Near East from ca. 3300 BCE onwards, and remained in use
for millennia. What was the role of this intricate object in the
making of a person's social identity? As the first comprehensive
study dedicated to this question, Selves Engraved on Stone explores
the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of
identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were
constructed through the material, visual, and textual
characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria.
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Japanese Art; 1
(Hardcover)
National Art Library (Great Britain); Edward Fairbrother 1862-1929 Strange, Genjiro Kowaki
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R807
Discovery Miles 8 070
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The Flowering of Ecology presents an English translation of Maria
Sibylla Merian's 1679 'caterpillar' book, Der Raupen wunderbare
Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumen-Nahrung. Her processes in making
the book and an analysis of its scientific content are presented in
a historical context. Merian raised insects for five decades,
recording the food plants, behavior and ecology of roughly 300
species. Her most influential invention was an 'ecological'
composition in which the metamorphic cycles of insects (usually
moths and butterflies) were arrayed around plants that served as
food for the caterpillars. Kay Etheridge analyzes the 1679
caterpillar book from the viewpoint of a biologist, arguing that
Merian's study of insect interactions with plants, the first of its
kind, was a formative contribution to natural history. Read Kay
Etheridge's blogpost on "Art Herstory". See inside the book.
Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence
the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating
this question for decades. This book starts with Ficino's views on
the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas
were part of a long philosophical tradition and inspired fresh
insights. This approach, combined with little known historical
material, offers a new understanding of whether, how and why
Ficino's Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been
received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. The discussion
explores Ficino's possible influence on the work of Botticelli and
Michelangelo, and examines the appropriation of Ficino's ideas by
early modern art theorists.
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Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks; Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoïevsky and Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedekind, Moussorgsky, Cézanne, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Italian Futurists, Various Latter-day Poets, Painters, Composers A
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James 1857-1921 Huneker
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R890
Discovery Miles 8 900
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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