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Author : Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108499958
A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.
Author : Linda Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108356299
In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.
Author : Nicholas W. Reyland
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810883659
Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy—Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)—is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity, these three films marked the culmination of the director's career, as well as the zenith of one of the most important creative collaborations in 20th-century cinema-between Kieslowski, scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, and composer Zbigniew Preisner. Thanks to their close working relationship, music for the Three Colors trilogy achieves both a focal narrative and philosophical function. At times, Preisner's music advances the narrative independently of the films' other codes; at other times, it creates a metaphorical space into which the audience is invited in order to read for "deeper" messages. As the first major scholarly treatment of Preisner's music, Nicholas Reyland's Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: A Film Score Guide fills an important void in film score scholarship. In this guide, Reyland analyzes the historical context of the film scores, the life of the composer, the hermeneutic and narrative role of the music within the film, and the musical scoring techniques used for the trilogy. This volume also draws on an interplay of established "classic" approaches to analyzing film music and more recent approaches in the exploration of its themes and readings. In addition, the composer's willingness to be interviewed by Reyland enhances the musicological scholarship of this book, giving the reader privileged access into the process of scoring. A significant contribution to both film studies and musicological literature, this book celebrates one of the great cinematic achievements of the last few decades.
Author : Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691237558
A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their uses Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Global Objects points the way to an interconnected history of art, examining a broad array of functional aesthetic objects that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries and challenging preconceived ideas about what is and is not art. Avoiding traditional binaries such as East versus West and fine art versus decorative art, Edward Cooke looks at the production, consumption, and circulation of objects made from clay, fiber, wood, and nonferrous base metals. Carefully considering the materials and process of making, and connecting process to product and people, he demonstrates how objects act on those who look at, use, and acquire them. He reveals how objects retain aspects of their local fabrication while absorbing additional meanings in subtle and unexpected ways as they move through space and time. In emphasizing multiple centers of art production amid constantly changing contexts, Cooke moves beyond regional histories driven by geography, nation-state, time period, or medium. Beautifully illustrated, Global Objects traces the social lives of objects from creation to purchase, and from use to experienced meaning, charting exciting new directions in art history.
Author : Matthias Ostermann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0812239709
The Ceramic Narrative is an exploration of past and present ceramic iconography concerned with the depiction of narratives, or with images meant to be thought-provoking, beyond the merely decorative. The book is beautifully illustrated with an extensive variety of work from history and the present day, showing how many contemporary artists continue this tradition with modern interpretations. Examining ancient Greece, the ceramic imagery of the Maya culture, the ceramics of China, Persia, and Japan, European tin-glaze traditions, and the narrative imagery appearing on later European porcelains, Matthias Ostermann attempts wherever possible not only to present ceramic narratives in their cultural and historical contexts but also to refer to some of the older myths and sources that may have served as inspiration. Applied arts writer David Whiting contributes an essay on the development of ceramic narratives in the twentieth century, while illustrations present the work of more than 75 contemporary international ceramic artists who explore narrative in distinctive and different ways. These include the exploration of mythologies and existing stories; personal visions, private stories and memory; the human figure, relationships and identity; political and social commentary; and finally, the ceramic object itself, seen as message and metaphor. This book will serve as a beginning for further study of this fascinating and little-explored subject and as a celebration of the work of all ceramic artists whose passion is the ceramic narrative.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:103285870
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030219620
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030617476
Author : Timothy J. Lombardo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812224832
Blue-Collar Conservatism examines the blue-collar, white supporters of Frank Rizzo—Philadelphia's police commissioner turned mayor—and shows how the intersection of law enforcement and urban politics created one of the least understood but most consequential political developments in recent American history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Labor economics
ISBN : UOM:39015072105771
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : MSU:31293000360390
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131406378
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Labor
ISBN : UIUC:30112011574974
Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452149240
Blue, the world's favorite color, is elegantly showcased in more than 200 artworks from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Representing a diversity of movements, cultures, and media that spans the ages and the globe, the objects in Blue range from ancient Egyptian jewelry and traditional Japanese prints to Impressionist paintings and indigo-dyed textiles. Short essays from museum curators on the significance and symbolism of the color at various times and places provide historical context for this visual feast. With page edges dyed blue, this distinctive volume is a bijou treasure.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1750 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UCAL:B3566332