Author: Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780670018314
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Author: Miguel de Asúa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1351962140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of animals in the network of economic interests driving the early expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of Early Modern European imagination and learning.
Author: Robert Adams
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the developing landscape of Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. This work contains photographs that show tract housing with mountain ranges in the distance, trailer lots devoid of people, suburban streets through generic windows, shopping mall interiors and parking lots.
Author: Richard Sexton
Publisher: Historic New Orleans Collections
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780917860669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jay Blakesberg
Publisher:
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780996536998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eyes of the World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965 - 1995 is a large format coffee table book that will bring together, for the first time, a comprehensive collection of photographs from a wide range of photographers whose work has defined the Grateful Dead during their 30 year career. The focus of the book is to present these iconic, lesser-known and unseen images in an unfettered manner that will see them being presented as full page or two-page images on heavyweight paper across 272 oversized pages. Since Jerry Garcia's passing in 1995, the band's popularity has remained immense as evidenced by their continued merchandise sales, acclaimed 50th anniversary "Fare Thee Well" concerts in 2015 and highly anticipated documentary due out this May 2017. Among the photographers included are Herb Greene, Jim Marshall, David Gahr, Baron Wolman, Jay Blakesberg, Michael Putland, William Coupon, Michael O'Neill and Peter Simon, to name just a few. With support from the band's official archivist David Lemieux, Eyes of the World will stand the test of time to become the definitive visual reference of this "band beyond description."
Author: Rob Lloyd Jones
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781474937306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A beautifully illustrated picture book tracing the entire history of the world, from Stone Age paintings to the computer revolution. Contains 15 spreads, each with simple and engaging text to accompany sumptuous illustrations by Galia Bernstein. Stunning artefacts and paintings are used to introduce major turning points in the history of the world - great battles, the rise and fall of empires, revolutions and world-changing inventions. Perfect for introducing young children to fascinating new topics in history - from European rulers, to African kingdoms, to Aztec and Inca treasures. This hardcover picture book is also available as a paperback edition, with stickers (978140564096).
Author: Michel Frizot
Publisher: Konemann
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of entries that help chronicle the history of photography, explaining the different techniques that have been used and defining the common terms used in the field.
Author: Ina Conzen
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783777423043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Oskar Schlemmer (1888 - 1943) was one of the most versatile all - rounders of the last century and as unusual as a painter as he was as a sculptor, draughtsman, graphic artist, stage designer, wall designer, creator of epochal dance projects and author. His vision was the "n ew" man living in functional architecture, thinking clearly and acting clearly in the modern age which would never again sink into the chaos of war. The catalogue accompanying the first comprehensive Schlemmer retrospective for almost forty years presents over 250 high - quality works, in particular the seven original costumes of the Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) together with rare documents of the time. The connection between the all - encompassing attempts at reform of the Bauhaus are discussed as well as Schlemmer's vain attempts to reconcile his "unpolitical" art with the Nazi dictatorship's ideas of state - controlled art. The focus will be directed towards Schlemmer's lofty ethical demands, which always regarded man, typified as a "Kunstfigur" (artist ic figure) as the "measure of all things".