Ribbonsight

Author : Marie Croke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1614100241

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Ribbonsight by Marie Croke Pdf

This book is the first to describe in detail a community of potters working for the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, and to explore how the role of temple servant affects the potters' understanding of their work and of themselves. As a pilgrimage centre of national importance, supported by the patronage of successive regional dynasties and by fervent popular belief, the Jagannatha Temple requires earthenware in great quantities for the creation and distribution of the sacred food that is an integral feature of daily ritual and pilgrimage. Three hundred potters participate as temple servants in maintaining the temple's ritual cycle by performing their divinely assigned task. This study, conducted in 1979-1981, observes the potters' technical prowess, sustained by devotion, but also examines the tensions within their relationships to more powerful temple servants and authorities. The role of the potter as temple servant is at once glorious, as demonstrated by texts and personal interpretations of the potters' divinely-appointed service, and pathetic, as shown in the brutality of caste-based hierarchy and cash-based exchange penetrating the modern temple's daily operations.

Author : Jim Flick,Bob Toski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781451602807

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Finding Your Own Fundamentals by Jim Flick,Bob Toski Pdf

Lower your golf scores and learn how your body type and other factors determine your level of success when striking the ball with Golf Digest’s proven five-step pre-swing action plan. Tailor the action plan to fit your golf game and build the foundation that works best for you with Finding Your Own Fundamentals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013152983

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Boeing Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : New England
ISBN : 9781429093026

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Poganuc People by Harriet Beecher Stowe Pdf

Harriet Beecher Stowe, preeminent author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, based this book on her own experience growing up in Litchfield Connecticut. Set in the fictional village of Poganuc, the book is a beautiful and poetic description of the people, including their views on everything from religion to politics, and the geography of a small Puritanical New England town of the early nineteenth century.

Author : Paul Mitchell,Lynn Roberts
Publisher : Merrell
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040689203

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A History of European Picture Frames by Paul Mitchell,Lynn Roberts Pdf

This book is the culmination of over twenty years' work by Mitchell and Roberts, widely known frame historians and consultants. They have undertaken photographic surveys of frames in most major museums in Europe and North America, as well as in many historic houses and exhibitions. This analysis of frame styles and their inter-relationships over eight centuries is organised by nationality and period with fifty-six carefully constructed diagrams in the form of framemakers' pattern books, interspersed with thirty-eight plates of framed paintings. Components are drawn directly from photographs of 268 frames original or contemporary to their pictures.

Author : George L. Mauner
Publisher : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015042497324

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Manet, Peintre-philosophe by George L. Mauner Pdf

Author : William Scott Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Readers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131044252

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Basic Readers: pt.1. Streets and roads by William Scott Gray Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1774 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Dry-goods
ISBN : NYPL:33433018878201

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Dry Goods Reporter and Midwest Merchant-economist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christine Powell,Zoe Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781136438189

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Italian Renaissance Frames at the V&A by Christine Powell,Zoe Allen Pdf

This visually stunning and technically detailed book is an in-depth analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's Renaissance frames. The book will teach the reader to recognise frame style, structure and surface decoration of the period, as well as additions and alterations and later frames in the style. * First detailed technical analysis of the V&A's most important Renaissance frames * Highly illustrated with 100 + colour photos of front back and details, digital reconstructions, section profiles, and illustrations of frame types, joints and mouldings. * Provides a comparative reference for Renaissance frames in other publications Christine Powell has worked at the V&A since 1993. She is a Senior Furniture Conservator specialising in gilt wood European Furniture, mirror and picture frames. She has also worked at The National Gallery London for seven years as conservator working on European painted and gilt wood altarpieces and frames and The Wallace Collection for two years on European gilt wood frames and furniture. She has taught and published articles on the history, materials techniques and conservation of gilding. Christine studied furniture making and restoration of furniture at the London College of Furniture (latterly the Metropolitan University) including wood finishing, carving and gilding. Before this she worked in private practice for furniture restoration and special paint effects firms. She also attended Epsom School of Art and Design. Zoë Allen first joined the V&A in 2000 to work on gilt wooden objects for the British Galleries and returned to the V&A in 2003 where she has worked since as Frames and Gilded Furniture Conservator. Before joining the V&A full time she worked as a conservator for both public institutions, such as English Heritage, and private practices including projects at the Royal Academy, St Paul’s Cathedral and Somerset House. Zoë has published articles on her work. After a first degree in French Literature, Zoë studied conservation at the City & Guilds of London Art School. Her training covered the conservation of objects made from wood, stone and other sculptural materials, gilding and decorative surfaces. Internships included the National Institute for Restoration, Croatia, the Royal Collection, London and the Museum of London.

Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 1350207012

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Eden End by John Boynton Priestley Pdf

Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to rediscover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End. Priestley has a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentle characters. The stoical Dr Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself a man of the world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home, are a sharply observed and instantly recognisable family, with all its dreams and disappointments.

Author : Greg French
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781925475760

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The Last Wild Trout by Greg French Pdf

Trout are found in some of the most wild, romantic and scenically diverse habitats on Earth, and fly fishers the world over share a unique camaraderie, something universally profound and sincere. In The Last Wild Trout, Greg French explores the last truly great and most coveted trout fisheries left on the planet. Roaming the final frontiers of trout fishing, Greg visits twenty locations including Tasmania, New Zealand, Iceland, the British Isles, Mongolia, Slovenia, British Columbia, Wyoming, California, Nevada and Hokkaido. Each chapter deals with a unique species or subspecies of wild trout, and tells a compelling human narrative set against a backdrop of conservation. Photo sections and taxonomy notes complete the picture in this fascinating book. Reflecting on the complexity of humanity’s interactions with pristine natural environments and threatened fisheries, The Last Wild Trout is a reminder from one of the world’s best fishing writers of the beauty and importance of nature in all of our lives.

Author : John Gage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Color in art
ISBN : UCAL:B4257808

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Color in Turner by John Gage Pdf

Author : Martin Butlin,Luke Herrmann,Evelyn Joll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198600259

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The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner by Martin Butlin,Luke Herrmann,Evelyn Joll Pdf

Offers entries on the life and times of the British painter, the landscapes depicted in his works, his patrons and associates, and the value of his work on the art market, along with studies of individual paintings.

Author : Hari Pada Roychoudhury
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647335724

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Selfish Leaders VS Bengal & Bengalis by Hari Pada Roychoudhury Pdf

Abraham Lincoln sacrificed four million countrymen in the American Civil War to keep the country united, Mao Zedong sacrificed millions of countrymen to bring economic progress to China, and Winston Churchill sacrificed a lot of the British people during the Blitz by Hitler of Nazi-Germany to save the country from a fall like France, but Gandhi destroyed the country by causing human slaughter of Indians by dividing Indians as Hindu and Muslim in the name of “Non-Violence.” Nehru destroyed India using Gandhi’s “Non-Violence” and Patel who failed to prevent “Calcutta Killing,” is falsely proclaimed as the “Iron Man of India.” Lastly, according to Bertrand Russell's view, abolition of the fear of religion would lead to equality of humanity, but Gandhi's division of India, based on religion, will no longer hold good.

Author : A. Winterbourne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400914155

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The Ideal and the Real by A. Winterbourne Pdf

Many students coming to grips with Kant's philosophy are understandably daunted not only by the complexity and sheer difficulty of the man's writings, but almost equally by the amount of secondary literature available. A great deal of this seems to be - and not only on first reading - just about as difficult as the work it is meant to make more accessible. Any writer deliberately setting out to provide an authentically introductory text thus faces a double problem: how to provide an exegesis which would capture some of the spirit of the original, without gross and misleading over-simplification; and secondly, how to anchor the argument in the best and most imaginative secondary literature, yet avoid the whole project appearing so fragmented as to make the average book of chess openings seem positively austere. Until fairly recently, matters were made even more difficul t, in that commentaries on Kant were very often of a whole work, say, The Critique of Pure Reason, with the result that students would have to struggle through a very great deal of material indeed in order to feel any confidence at all that they had begun to understand the original writings. Recently, things have changed somewhat. There are now excellent commentaries on "Kant's Analytic", "Kant's Analogies" etc. . We have also seen, (at least as reflected in book titles), a resurgence of interest in what is perhaps the most controversial and far-reaching Kantian claim, viz.