The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.
The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making is a charming, inspirational and practical collection of 14 quilts for would-be quilters by leading author Jane Brocket.
Craft is at the very heart of British identity, from stained-glass windows in country churches to the Enid Blyton charm of thatched houses; from Harris Tweed (famously poached by Coco Chanel) to the ceremonial livery worn by horses at Buckingham Palace.
This edited volume represents the research results of two international conferences organized and sponsored by the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg: "e;Environmental Approaches in Pre-Modern Middle Eastern Studies"e; and "e;Material Culture Methods in the Middle Islamic Periods"e;.
The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coastZanzibar and Mombasa among themhave long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.
El cinabrio, un pigmento rojo vivo, ha sido utilizado por muchas culturas antiguas de todo el mundo, el hallazgo de cinabrio y de mercurio en el tunel excavado recientemente bajo el Templo de la Serpiente Emplumada, confirma la importancia simbolica de estos dos elementos y su vinculacion con el pensamiento cosmogonico de las antiguas culturas mesoamericanas.
Erkennen, was stimmt und was nicht- 25 % der Deutschen geben an, sehr große Angst vor der Verbreitung von Desinformationen zu haben (Statista)- Richtige Meinungsbildung ermöglicht fundierte Entscheidungen, fördert Verständnis und verbessert die Zusammenarbeit- Mit zahlreichen Quizfragen zur SelbstkontrolleDieses Buch vermittelt eine Fähigkeit, die trotz Aufklärung und Bildung nach wie vor in der Gesellschaft unterrepräsentiert ist: sich anhand gesicherter Erkenntnisse eine fundierte Meinung zu bilden.
Whereas animals are a frequent depiction on gemstones within the Greek and Roman periods, and play a key role in symbolic representations on these engraved gems, they have generally been overlooked with little in the way of focussed academic study.
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial contexts in which this relationship has developed.
