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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the
centenary of this fascinating and popular school, which championed
the idea of artists working together as a community. The Bauhaus
reconnected art with everyday life, and was active in the fields of
architecture, performance, design and visual art. Its original
teachers included such renowned figures as Paul Klee, Wassily
Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers. Placing a rare
emphasis on the international dissemination and reception of the
Bauhaus, this book accompanies a touring exhibition, and presents
four chapters that extend from Bauhaus education to the school's
diverse history beyond Europe. Rethinking the Bauhaus school from a
global perspective, it sets the school's entanglements against a
century of geopolitical change. The reader is taken to art and
design museums, campus galleries and art institutes in India,
Japan, China, Russia, Brazil and the United States, as well as
Berlin.
Robert Grant Watson was a British diplomat attached to the British
Legation in Persia. His A History of Persia, published in 1866, is
a detailed account of events in the country in the first half of
the nineteenth century, when the foundations of the Qajar dynasty
were being laid. Watson uses both European and Persian sources to
detail the circumstances of the Qajar rise to rule and recount the
tumultuous events of Persia affairs - both foreign and domestic -
between 1800 and 1860. This was one of the first books to be
written on this specific period and details Persia's entanglements
with European powers, including the war between Persia and Russia,
her internal ructions, and the complex dealings of the various
treaties and their upsets. The hard-to-find volume is now
re-published with a new introduction by the leading scholar of
Iranian History, Ali Ansari, who is Professor at St Andrews
University in the U.K.
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