A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind and body.
All those involved in Higher Education are under pressure to familiarise themselves with the newest developments in Information Technology, and to understand the ways in which they can make use of these resources.
One of the most influential art collectors of our time and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi reveals his opinions on collecting, artists, dealers, advertising and investing in art with unflinching honesty.
In 2009 Roy Huteson Stewart set out on an expedition into unknown realms to chronicle the life and times of the so-called "e;wickedest man in the world"e;.
In 2016, a landscape painting of the source of the Lison river in France was discovered at the University of Pennsylvania and was immediately suspected of being the work of Gustave Courbet.
This facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s extensive catalog of buttons and scarabs describes and illustrates over 1500 examples, along with an appendix on additions to the ‘Scarabs and Cylinders’ volume published earlier.
Facsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1914 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian Shuabtis, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.
Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s fully illustrated 1927 description and catalog of personal and everyday Egyptian and Roman objects in his collections.
Facsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1914 pioneering typological catalogue of Egyptian amulets, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.
Facsimile of volume of detailed catalogs prepared by Flinders Petrie of ancient weights and measures based on examination of over 4000 Egyptian weights within his collections.
Lucas Cranach the Elder - painter of the Reformation and master of sensual beautyWith around 500 works to his name, Lucas Cranach remains one of the most influential artists of the 16th century.
Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1896 account of the excavation, mainly, of tombs in the area around Ballas and Naqada on the edge of the Egyptian desert, 30 miles north of Thebes.
Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1896 account of the excavation, mainly, of tombs in the area around Ballas and Naqada on the edge of the Egyptian desert, 30 miles north of Thebes.
A curators journey to uncover the stories behind everyday objects and preserve history for the common goodAfter thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air.
Recuerdos de un coleccionista de arte surge de la necesidad de reunir, ordenar y difundir la experiencia, recuerdos y reflexiones de Jorge Helft como coleccionista de arte contemporáneo, gestor y promotor de actividades culturales y testigo privilegiado de los derroteros del arte nacional desde fines de los años cuarenta.
If it is true that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one picture is worth a thousand words, Thomas Nast must certainly rank as one of the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American history.
Based on two international conferences held at Cornell University and the Freie Universitat of Berlin in 2010 and 2015, this volume is the first ever to explicitly address the destruction of plaster cast collections of ancient Mediterranean and Western sculpture.
Este libro analiza el proceso de construcción de un saber especializado sobre el pasado y sus objetos realizado por intelectuales-coleccionistas en la región andina, entre 1892 y 1915.
Catálogo de la exposición: Historias de mujeres en la Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá - Colombia, 2010 año del Bicentenario de la Independencia nacional.
Your all-in-one Guide to Amsterdam Museums: Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Anne Frank House & Hermitage Amsterdam If you go to Amsterdam (Holland) and want to pay a visit to its world-famous museums, then this digital set is for you.
'Al pie del cañón' no es sólo una guía del Museo del Prado —una de las muchas posibles— sino una lección magistral sobre cómo mirar y cómo hablar de pintura.
Amb aquest llibre, d'elaboració col·lectiva, es pretén un acostament al plural i destacat patrimoni artístic valencià, mescla de tradició i modernitat, senyal d'identitat i generador de riquesa sociocultural i econòmica.
Lucas Cranach the Elder - painter of the Reformation and master of sensual beautyWith around 500 works to his name, Lucas Cranach remains one of the most influential artists of the 16th century.
This is the fascinating story of the greatest archeological discoveries ever, the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "e;King Tut"e; and "e;the boy king"e;), in November 1922.
Henry VI, Part 2 - William Shakespeare - The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, or Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed written in approximately 1590 91.
