Travels in Chile and La Plata
Title | Travels in Chile and La Plata PDF eBook |
Author | John Miers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1826 |
Genre | Argentina |
ISBN |
Fake?
Title | Fake? PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Jones |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520070875 |
Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
India
Title | India PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Cary Welch |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Art, Indic |
ISBN | 0030061148 |
A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
In Pursuit of Beauty
Title | In Pursuit of Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 513 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Aesthetic movement (Art) |
ISBN | 0870994689 |
"This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.
Contes Francais
Title | Contes Francais PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Labaree Buffum |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781017913194 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Essential Victor Hugo
Title | The Essential Victor Hugo PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Hugo |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2009-01-29 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0191623261 |
'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of his work are represented within a single volume. Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. All the chosen passages are self-contained and can be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of Hugo's work. Much of the material is appearing in English for the first time, and most of it has never before been annotated thoroughly in any language.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Title | The Journals of Susanna Moodie PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Atwood |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780747537212 |
Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), regarded by many as her most fully realized volume of poetry, is one of the great Canadian and feminist epics. In 1980, Margaret Atwood's longtime friend, the distinguished Canadian artist Charles Pachter, illustrated, designed, and published a handmade boxed portfolio edition of 120 copies of the poem with silkscreen prints, created as an act of homage to the poet. Atwood herself has said of Pachter's work, His is a sophisticated art which draws upon many techniques and evokes many echoes. The poem and the prints inspire one another. This is the first facsimile edition of the original, as well as the first one-volume American edition of the poem, with an introduction by Charles Pachter and a foreword by David Staines.