Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1038

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Author: Claire Barbillon
Publisher: Ecole du Louvre
ISBN:
Category : Art, French
Languages : fr
Pages : 764

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"Le présent volume rassemble les contributions du colloque international Histoire de l'art du X1Xe siècle (1848-1914). Bilans et perspectives qui s'est tenu à l'École du Louvre, au musée d'Orsay et à l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art à l'occasion des vingt ans du musée d'Orsay. Ces XXIes Rencontres de l'École du Louvre, organisées en dix sessions, s'intéressant à des questions transversales mais traitant aussi des différents domaines de la production artistique, ont réuni soixante-seize contributeurs, issus du monde des musées comme de celui des universités, et se sont déroulées devant quelque six cents auditeurs. Douze nationalités de chercheurs étaient représentées. Ce colloque a été l'occasion de créer, en partenariat avec l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, un Forum des jeunes chercheurs, manifestation originale qui trouve désormais sa place dans tous les colloques organisés par l'École du Louvre. Cette programmation particulière offre la possibilité à des élèves de 3e cycle, des doctorants ou jeunes docteurs de croiser leurs premières recherches avec celles de personnes plus confirmées. Ce colloque a été l'occasion d'esquisser un bilan, ou du moins de brosser un tableau de l'évolution des études dix-neuviémistes durant ces vingt dernières années, de souligner l'émergence de thématiques, de questions et de méthodes nouvelles. Les lecteurs trouveront dans ces actes à la fois des confirmations, mais aussi des interrogations, l'ouverture de nouveaux champs, auxquels le musée d'Orsay a contribué par ses choix d'accrochage, d'expositions et de manifestations."--P. [4] of cover.

Author: Monika Kopplin
Publisher: Unesco
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Dating back several thousand years, the art of lacquer is one of the most ancient expressions of Asian culture, and this publication provides an overview of the different kinds of methods and materials used in Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The number of people employed in this ancestral art has fallen dramatically throughout Asia in recent decades, and this book considers the challenges to its survival as well as highlighting the importance of documenting past and modern procedures.

Author: George Coedès
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824803681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1362

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Author: Fabio Porzia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789042951617
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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'Ancient Greek and Semitic languages resorted to a large range of words to name the divine. Gods and goddesses were called by a variety of names and combinations of onomastic attributes. This broad lexicon of names is characterised by plurality and a tendency to build on different sequences of names; therefore, the Mapping Ancient Polytheisms project focuses on the process of naming the divine in order to better understand the ancient divine in terms of a plurality in the making. A fundamental rule for reading ancient divine names is to grasp them in their context - time and place, a ritual, the form of the discourse, a cultural milieu...: a deity is usually named according to a specific situation. From Artemis Eulochia to al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat, from Melqart to "my rock" in the biblical book of Psalms, this volume journeys between the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and late antique magical practices, revisiting rituals, hymnic poetry, oaths of orators and philosophical prayers. While targeting different names in different contexts, the contributors draft theoretical propositions towards a dynamic approach of naming the divine in antiquity.'

Author: Alessandro Bausi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110541572
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).

Author: Christiane J. Gruber
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"Christiane Gruber's analysis of the illustrations of the Prophet's ascension has revolutionized the interpretation of this important aspect of Islamic art history, bringing out its deep religious significance as well as its political context. This is a must-read for anyone engaged in global art history or the understanding of Islamic culture". Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393992
Category : Buddhist sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --

Author: Rachel Mairs
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.