Author: Victoria Shepherd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0861540921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Fascinating and compassionate’ Horatio Clare The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified he might shatter…and he wasn’t alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France’s asylums. Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of middle-aged women tried to convince their physicians that they were, in fact, dead. For centuries we’ve dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But delusions are more than just bizarre quirks – they hold the key to collective anxieties and traumas. In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd uncovers stories of delusions from medieval times to the present day and implores us to identify reason in apparent madness.
Author: A. G. L. Shaw
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780522850642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This account of European settlement in the modern state of Victoria, Australia, spans developments from the first convict camp established in 1803 on the Bass Strait to the contemporary separation of the district from New South Wales. Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators, and immigrants figure into this history of Victoria before the gold rush. The stories of such key leaders as John Baton and John Pascoe Fawkner offer insight into the founding of Melbourne, the economic depression and recovery of the 19th century, and the social progress of the 20th century. Details are drawn from primary sources including correspondence between officials in Melbourne, Sydney, and London and newspapers from Batman, Swanston, the Port Phillip Association, and La Trobe.
Author: Victoria Finlay
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1606064290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically acclaimed writer and popular journalist Victoria Finlay, who here takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on an unforgettable tour through the brilliant history of color in art. Written for newcomers to the subject and aspiring young artists alike, Finlay’s quest to uncover the origins and science of color will beguile readers of all ages with its warm and conversational style. Her rich narrative is illustrated in full color throughout with 166 major works of art—most from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Readers of this book will revel in a treasure trove of fun-filled facts and anecdotes. Were it not for Cleopatra, for instance, purple might not have become the royal color of the Western world. Without Napoleon, the black graphite pencil might never have found its way into the hands of Cézanne. Without mango-eating cows, the sunsets of Turner might have lost their shimmering glow. And were it not for the pigment cobalt blue, the halls of museums worldwide might still be filled with forged Vermeers. Red ocher, green earth, Indian yellow, lead white—no pigment from the artist’s broad and diverse palette escapes Finlay’s shrewd eye in this breathtaking exploration.
Author: Victoria Finlay
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1639361642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama - where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form. She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents —and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. Fabric is not just a material history of our world, but Finlay's own journey through grief and recovery.
Author: Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-10
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1107691613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria with new illustrations, photographs and maps.
Author: Ian MacFarlane
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is part of a series of seven volumes on the history of Victoria. This volume follows the settlement of Port Phillip District between 1835 and 1840.
Author: Thomas McCombie
Publisher: Melbourne : Sands and Kenny
Published: 1858
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Extensive references to contacts between Aborigines and early settlers.
Author: Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780511293719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: WILLIAM. PAGE
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033701911
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