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Author : Herbert Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123741925
Author : Karen Hess Rogers,Lee Pecht,Alan Harris Bath
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603441056
“From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world,” according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston’s cultural heart, Rice University is characterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as the MOB (Marching Owl Band). In Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, more than 300 photographs tell the story of a century of student life, a world-famous faculty, and news-making events. Distinguished by its dignified architecture and stately grounds, respected for its intellectual depth and international reputation, and loved by its alumni for the community fostered by residential colleges, moderate size, and diverse campus organizations, Rice University celebrates its centennial in 2012. This collection of unique images, artfully supplemented by brief narrative, explanatory captions, and carefully chosen text sidebars, presents vignettes of significant episodes, characters, and events. A splendid commemoration of one hundred years of distinguished academics, groundbreaking research, and the spirited students and faculty who have made this institution unique among American universities, Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures pays fitting tribute to an eminent citadel of learning and the people who have made it great.
Author : William Middleton
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375415432
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ART BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ARTNEWS** The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights. Dominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston, they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum. Now, with unprecedented access to family archives, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace, to their own early years in France, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect, and we see how, by the 1960s, their collection had grown to include 17,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, rare books, and decorative objects. And here is, as well, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in.
Author : Herbert Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art, Greek
ISBN : OCLC:63466347
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292786516
Postmodernism, multiculturalism, the alleged decline of the United States, deconstruction, leadership, and values—these topics have been at the forefront of contemporary intellectual and cultural debate and are likely to remain so for the near future. Participants in the debate can usefully enlarge the perspective to a comparison between the Greco-Roman world and contemporary society. In this thought-provoking work, a noted classics scholar tests the ancient-modern comparison, showing what it can add to the contemporary debates and what its limitations are. Writing for intellectually adventurous readers, Galinsky explores Greece and Rome as multicultural societies, debates the merits of classicism in postmodern architecture, discusses the reign of Augustus in terms of modern leadership theories, and investigates the modern obsession with finding parallels between the supposed "decline and fall" of Rome and the "decay" of U.S. society. Within these discussions, Galinsky shows the continuing vitality of the classical tradition in the contemporary world. The Greek and Roman civilizations have provided us not only with models for conscious adaptation but also points for radical departures. This ability to change and innovate from classical models is crucial, Galinsky maintains. It creates a reciprocal process whereby contemporary issues are projected into the past while aspects of the ancient world are redefined in terms of current approaches. These essays result in a balanced assessment and stimulating restatement of some major issues in both contemporary U.S. society and the Greco-Roman world. The book, which speaks to a wide interdisciplinary audience, is based on a series of lectures that Galinsky gave as a national visiting scholar for Phi Beta Kappa. It concludes with a discussion of the role of classical studies in the United States today.
Author : University of Texas Press
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292785380
50 year since founding the University of Texas, they have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing.
Author : Marion True,Kenneth Hamma
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362233
The collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman of New York is one of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman art in the United States and among the most important in the world. Composed of approximately three hundred objects from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique, it includes bronze statuettes, marble sculpture, vases, jewelry, lamps and candelabra, keys, weights, and silver bowls and utensils. The Fleischmans have a particular fascination with pieces associated with everyday life in antiquity, since these objects evoke a human connection to the past. They are also drawn to pieces that exemplify the human propensity to transform a functional object into a thing of beauty. Not only has their emotional response to an object’s aesthetic appeal or its historical significance guided them in their forty years of collecting, personal interests have been at work as well. The large number of pieces related to the theater or representing theatrical subjects reflects Barbara Fleischman’s lifelong love of that art. A Passion for Antiquities contains photographs and extensive catalogue entries on the objects included in the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Eighteen contributors provide art historical and descriptive information about each piece. The objects not selected for the exhibition are detailed in a checklist that specifies their origins, dates, media, and sizes. This book is the first major reference on the entire collection, since most of the objects have never before been publicly shown. To facilitate finding specific objects or groups of objects, the book is organized first chronologically and then by medium. Bibliographic sources for each entry cite both publications where the specific work is discussed as well as references to related scholarship. Karol Wight provides a chronological overview of the collection, and Oliver Taplin relates selected pieces to the development of Greek theater. The exhibition of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman’s collection and this catalogue allow us to enter into their minds and emotions so that, for a time, we can share their passion for antiquities.
Author : Herbert Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art, Greek
ISBN : OCLC:63466347
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892360482
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 10 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes an Editorial Statement by the Journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, Curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, Curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, Curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems will be discussed along with the articles written by Laurie Rusco, Elisabeth Mention, Burton B. Fredericksen, John Fletcher, Thomas Kren, Gillian Wilson, Adrian Sassoon, Jiří Frel, Sheldon Nodelman, Jean-Paul Boucher, Mario A. Del Chiaro, Stéphanie Boucher, Jean-Louis Zimmermann, Patricia Tuttle, Anje Krug, Arthur Houghton, Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, René Hodot, Susan Treggiari, Emilio Rodríguez-Almeida, and Andrea Rothe.
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Art
ISBN : PRNC:32101062013360
Author : Jonathan Lyons
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231158954
Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox News and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapping the West in a dangerous, dead-end politics that it cannot afford. In Islam Through Western Eyes, Jonathan Lyons unpacks Western habits of thinking and writing about Islam, conducting a careful analysis of the West's grand totalizing narrative across one thousand years of history. He observes the discourse’s corrosive effects on the social sciences, including sociology, politics, philosophy, theology, international relations, security studies, and human rights scholarship. He follows its influence on research, speeches, political strategy, and government policy, preventing the West from responding effectively to its most significant twenty-first-century challenges: the rise of Islamic power, the emergence of religious violence, and the growing tension between established social values and multicultural rights among Muslim immigrant populations. Through the intellectual "archaeology" of Michel Foucault, Lyons reveals the workings of this discourse and its underlying impact on our social, intellectual, and political lives. He then addresses issues of deep concern to Western readers—Islam and modernity, Islam and violence, and Islam and women—and proposes new ways of thinking about the Western relationship to the Islamic world.
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019962834
Author : Jonathan Daly
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441144751
The West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. The Rise of Western Power charts the West's achievements-representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law-as well as its misdeeds-two frighteningly destructive World Wars, the Holocaust, imperialistic domination, and the Atlantic slave trade. Adopting a global perspective, Jonathan Daly explores the contributions of other cultures and civilizations to the West's emergence. Historical, geographical, and cultural factors all unfold in the narrative. Adopting a thematic structure, the book traces the rise of Western power through a series of revolutions-social, political, technological, military, commercial, and industrial, among others. The result is a clear and engaging introduction to the history of Western civilization.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262095200522
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119089832
