Author: Christraud M. Geary
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
IMAGES BAMUM PB
Author: Christraud M. Geary
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Images from Bamum
Author: Christraud M. Geary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bamoun (Cameroon)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bamoun (Cameroon)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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ICONS PB
Author: Herbert M. Cole
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The couple. The woman and child. The armed male. The rider. The stranger. For more than six thousand years, these five themes have appeared in countless works of art across the vast continent of Africa. The cultural ideals and values they embody are central to the lives of African peoples. Herbert M. Cole calls these timeless fundamental images icons. In this fascinating book, Cole explores the many different ways the icons have been depicted, used, and interpreted. "Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa" is lavishly illustrated iwth more than two hundred photographs. Cole discusses such diverse works as ancient rock paintings and engravings, archaeological bronzes and terra-cottas, wooden shrine sculptors, miniature metal castings, public monuments in clay or cement, shop signs, gold and ivory political emblems, and modern glass paintings. "Icons" is both a noteworthy contribution to scholarship and a compelling introduction to the vitality, richness, and history of African art. -- From publisher's description.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The couple. The woman and child. The armed male. The rider. The stranger. For more than six thousand years, these five themes have appeared in countless works of art across the vast continent of Africa. The cultural ideals and values they embody are central to the lives of African peoples. Herbert M. Cole calls these timeless fundamental images icons. In this fascinating book, Cole explores the many different ways the icons have been depicted, used, and interpreted. "Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa" is lavishly illustrated iwth more than two hundred photographs. Cole discusses such diverse works as ancient rock paintings and engravings, archaeological bronzes and terra-cottas, wooden shrine sculptors, miniature metal castings, public monuments in clay or cement, shop signs, gold and ivory political emblems, and modern glass paintings. "Icons" is both a noteworthy contribution to scholarship and a compelling introduction to the vitality, richness, and history of African art. -- From publisher's description.
The Domain of Images
Author: James Elkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects--painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking--to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this interdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, from calligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting. Throughout, Elkins blends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling new sense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects--painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking--to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this interdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, from calligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting. Throughout, Elkins blends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling new sense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation.
TO COLOR AMER PB
Author: Winold Reiss
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Africa Today
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The Inbetweenness of Things
Author: Paul Basu
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474264786
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions – which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose – and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a series of objects that defy neat classification. In the process, it explores how 'things' mediate and travel between conceptual worlds in diverse cultural, geographic and temporal contexts, and how they embody this mediation and movement in their form. With an impressive range of international authors, each essay grounds explorations of cutting-edge theory in concrete case studies. An innovative, thought-provoking read for students and researchers in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies and art history which will transform the way readers think about objects.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474264786
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions – which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose – and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a series of objects that defy neat classification. In the process, it explores how 'things' mediate and travel between conceptual worlds in diverse cultural, geographic and temporal contexts, and how they embody this mediation and movement in their form. With an impressive range of international authors, each essay grounds explorations of cutting-edge theory in concrete case studies. An innovative, thought-provoking read for students and researchers in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies and art history which will transform the way readers think about objects.
African Arts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Developments in Tryptophan and Serotonin Metabolism
Author: Graziella Allegri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306477553
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
This volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth International Meeting of the International Study Group for Tryptophan Research (ISTR V), held at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, from 25-29 June, 2002 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) in Roma, the University of Padova, the Italian Chemical Society - Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the Veneto Region and the City of Padova. The meeting was organized to cover the recent developments in the field of tryptophan research. Weare very honoured that so many speakers accepted our invitation to give plenary lectures which, with the other communications, demonstrated the high scientific value of the Meeting. The publications in this volume are subdivided into nine main chapters, and cover all the major aspects in immunology, neurobiology, psychiatry, pathology, clinics, metabolism, enzymology, pharmacology, toxicology, melatonin, exercise and analytical chemistry. The volume includes the contributions of 325 scientists from 24 countries, and the Musajo Memorial Lecture delivered by Prof. Osamu Hayaishi during the Opening Ceremony.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306477553
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
This volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth International Meeting of the International Study Group for Tryptophan Research (ISTR V), held at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, from 25-29 June, 2002 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) in Roma, the University of Padova, the Italian Chemical Society - Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the Veneto Region and the City of Padova. The meeting was organized to cover the recent developments in the field of tryptophan research. Weare very honoured that so many speakers accepted our invitation to give plenary lectures which, with the other communications, demonstrated the high scientific value of the Meeting. The publications in this volume are subdivided into nine main chapters, and cover all the major aspects in immunology, neurobiology, psychiatry, pathology, clinics, metabolism, enzymology, pharmacology, toxicology, melatonin, exercise and analytical chemistry. The volume includes the contributions of 325 scientists from 24 countries, and the Musajo Memorial Lecture delivered by Prof. Osamu Hayaishi during the Opening Ceremony.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
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