Caribbean Unprecedented in scope, this beautiful book offers an authoritative examination of the modern history of the Caribbean through its artistic culture. Featuring 500 colour illustrations of artworks ... |
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| Loughman, Thomas J.: Sterling Clark in China This catalogue presents the captivating story of museum founder Robert Sterling Clark's important but little-known 1908 scientific expedition to northwest China. |
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| Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks Based on the comprehensive study of one of the most important collections of Maya art in the United States, this book is a scholarly introduction to one of the great traditions of sculpture and pa ... |
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Art animalier: Musée Cernuschi Catalogue raisonné des collections d'art animalier du Luristan, du Caucase et de Mongolie conservé au Musée Cernuschi. |
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| Zeshin: Reves de laque Monographie consacrée à Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891), l'une des plus grandes figures de la peinture japonaise. |
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| Kabuki: Japanese Theater Costumes Ce catalogue présente des costumes de scène qui sont autant de chefs-d'oeuvre et fournit des clés de compréhension sur cet art mystérieux qui incarne toute une tradition japonaise. |
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Macey, David: Frantz Fanon David Macey's biography of Frantz Fanon is acclaimed not only for its eloquence and its comprehensive account of Fanon's personal, intellectual and political life, but also for its rich depiction ... |
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| De Chazeaux, Michèle: Le Tifaifai Dieses reich illustrierte Buch zeigt weit über 200 farbige Beispiele der Patchworktechnik aus Tahiti und stellt einige der Textil-Künstlerinnen vor. |
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| Ji Cheng: The Craft of Gardens Ji Cheng s great work on garden design, the Yuan Ye or Craft of Gardens, was originally published around 1631 and is the earliest manual of landscape gardening in the Chinese tradition. This is th ... |
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Farquhar, Judith: Ten Thousand Things The myriad ways Beijing residents understand and nurture good life, drawing on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media. |
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| Ethnologie: Einführung und Überblick - 7. Aufl. 2012 Die Neufassung des Standardwerks der Ethnologie erscheint nun bereits in neuer Auflage. Die Einführung wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende des Faches, bietet aber auch für alle an Ethnolo ... |
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| Wang, Audrey: Chinese Antiquities The Handbooks are written by experts in their field, many of whom teach at, or are graduates of, the MA in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art at its London and New York campuses. |
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Carocci, Max: Warriors of the Plains |
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| Bildrollen Über 2000 Jahre lang zogen in Indien fahrende Künstler über Land, die anhand gemalter Bildrollen die Erzählungen der großen indischen Epen Mahabharata und Ramayana sowie eine Fülle lokaler G ... |
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| Gold, Silver & Brass Among the hundreds of ethnic groups living in Indonesia, the Batak are one of the most famous. Batak jewelry is characterised by a wide variety of materials and forms and has many functions: it ca ... |
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Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: Bourne Collection This stunning new volume features objects from the internationally renowned Bourne Collection of pre-Columbian art spanning assembled by John Bourne in the 1950's and 1960's. It features fine exam ... |
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| Duda, Margaret: Traditional Chinese Toggles This volume is a much-needed reference guide to the historical and cultural significance of Chinese toggles or zhuizi, carved pieces of jade, ivory, bone, wood, shell and semi-precious stones used ... |
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| Outsider Art from Japan Until recently Japanese Outsider Art was a well kept secret. Made by people with mental illness or mental handicaps, these very special and quality pieces of art show a whole new side to Japan. |
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Magie van de Vrouw Enchanting beauty and mysterious magic permeate the textiles and jewelry of the Indonesian archipelago. They play a critical role in maintaining the balance between spirits and humanity. The texti ... |
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| Park, J.P.: Art by the Book Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in south-eastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first ... |
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| Histoire de voir: Show and Tell "Histoires de voir: Show and Tell" presents the works and narratives of over 40 painters, sculptors and filmmakers from around the world. They are Brazilian, Indian, Congolese, as well as Haitian, ... |
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Jahresring 59: On One Side of the Same Water Der Kulturraum Mittelmeer aus künstlerischer Sicht: Der "Jahresring 59" widmet sich Beispielen künstlerischer Praxis im Mittelmeerraum, genauer in den südlichen und südöstlichen Mittelmeerre ... |
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Takaku: Dyeing Elegance Textile artist Takaku Kuboku (1908-1993) is a paragon among modern artists of Japan, fusing rural and urban, traditional and innovative, and Asian and European influences in his life and work. Thi ... |
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| Man muss eben alles sammeln: Slg. Schinz Der ehemalige Direktor des Botanischen Gartens der Universität Zürich und Professor für Botanik Hans Schinz (1858 1941) war ein leidenschaftlicher Sammler. Sein Interesse galt neben botanischen ... |
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| Afrika im Blick Afrika ist ein riesiger Kontinent, der durch geographische und kulturelle Vielfalt bestimmt ist. Doch nicht die Einzigartigkeit unterschiedlicher Kulturen, sondern Pauschalisierungen prägen die e ... |
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Austen, Ralph A.: Sahara Durch kahle Ebenen, Plateaus und Felsbrocken wurden seit dem Mittelalter wichtige Handelsstraßen angelegt: Von der Blütezeit der Kamelkarawanen bis zur Eisenbahnlinie zwischen Sudan und Atlantik ... |
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| Bean, Susan S.: Midnight to the Boom A survey of the revolutionary art movement that grew in India between its declaration of independence at midnight on Augst 15 1947 and the economic boom of the 1990s. |
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| Stone, Rebecca: World of Art: Art of the Andes - 3rd ed. |
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