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NUS Press Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political
Book SynopsisA fully illustrated archaeological and art historical analysis of one of the most important artworks of Angkor, rewriting the chronology of the royal capital. In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor where he uncovered remains of a bronze sculpture. This was the West Mebon Visnu, the largest bronze remaining from pre-modern Southeast Asia, and a work of great artistic, historical, and political significance. Prominently placed in an island temple in the middle of the vast artificial reservoir, the West Mebon Visnu sculpture was an important focal point of the Angkorian hydraulic network. Interpretations of the statue, its setting, date, and role have remained largely unchanged since the 1960s—until now. Integrating the latest archaeological and historical work on Angkor, extensive art historical analysis of the figure of Visnu Anantasayin in Hindu-Buddhist art across the region, and a detailed digital reconstruction of the sculpture and its setting, Marnie Feneley brings new light to this important piece. Highly illustrated, the book will be of interest to art historians and curators, historians of Southeast Asia, and anyone curious about the art and history of Angkor.Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The West Mebon Vi??u Chapter 2: The Cultural and Religious Development of Cambodia Chapter 3: The Iconography of Vi??u Chapter 4: The Iconography of Vi??u Anantasayin Chapter 5: The Hydraulic System of Angkor: Gods, Nature and Water Chapter 6: The Archaeology of the West Mebon Chapter 7: Artefacts, Inscriptions and the History of the West Mebon Chapter 8: Analysing the West Mebon Vi??u Chapter 9: Political and Religious Context of the West Mebon Vi??u Chapter 10: Bronze Sculptures of the Mahidharapura Dynasty Chapter 11: Appraising the date of the West Mebon Vi??u
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NUS Press Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland
Book SynopsisA new analytical perspective on stones and stone masters across Southeast Asia that extends and deepens the recent literature on animism. Stones and stone masters are an important focus of animist religious practice in Southeast Asia. Recent studies on animism see animist rituals not as a mere metaphor for community or shared values, but as a way of forming and maintaining relationships with occult presences. This book features city pillars, statues, megaliths, termite mounds, mountains, rocks found in forests, and stones that have been moved to shrines, as well as the territorial cults which can form around them. The contributors extend and deepen the recent literature on animism to form a new analytical perspective on these cults across mainland Southeast Asia. Not just a collection of exemplary ethnographies, Stone Masters is also a deeply comparative volume that develops its ideas through a meshwork of regional entanglements, parallels, and differences, before entering into a dialogue with debates on power, mastery, and the social theory of animism globally.Table of Contents List of figures and tables Section I: Stone Theory Chapter 1: Holly High: An introduction to Stone Masters Chapter 2: John Clifford Holt: Theorizing 'Stone Masters': Revisiting Paul Mus Chapter 3: Holly High: "They can see us but we can't see them": Power, deities, and presences of places in Sekong, Lao PDR Chapter 4: Courtney Work: 'The Dance of Life and Death: Social relationships with elemental power Chapter 5: Paul-David Lutz: The State Has Come Chapter 6: Benjamin Baumann: Masters of the Underground: Termite Mound Worship and the Mutuality of Chthonic and Human Beings in Thailand's Lower Northeast Chapter 7: Holly High: Lady Luck of the City: Myth and meaning at Vientiane's city pillar Chapter 9: Kazuo Fukurra: From Ritual Traditions to Spirit Mediumship: The Evolution of Pillar Worship in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Chapter 10: Klemens Karlsson: Territory Cults and Power in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar Chapter 11: H?ng T. D. Ngô: The Mountain, the Masters and the Nation: Enduring Power Encounters at a Temple in Contemporary Vietnam? Chapter 12: Penny Van Esterik: Afterword
£23.76
Forgotten Books Memorial Exhibition Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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Forgotten Books Alexandre Lenoir Vol. 2
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Forgotten Books LArt Religieux du Xiie Siècle en France Étude sur les Origines de lIconographie du Moyen Age Classic Reprint
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Hardpress Publishing Familiar Sketches of Sculpture and Sculptors 1
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Hardpress Publishing Notizie Del Bello Dellantico E Del Curioso Della Citt Di Napoli Raccolte Dal Carlo Celano Divise Dallautore in Dieci Giornate Per Guida E Comodo Fino Al Presente Estratti Dalla 1
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Hardpress Publishing Angebliche Argonautenbilder Archologische Abhandlung 1
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Hardpress Publishing The History of Ancient Art 1
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Forgotten Books Voyages Historiques Et Littraires en Italie Pendant les Annes 1826 1827 Et 1828 ou lIndicateur Italien Vol 4 Classic Reprint
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Argonowta Digital The Prado. Art Guide: 96 essential masterpieces
Book SynopsisThe most wonderful and clear art guide to explore and learn all the fundamentals of the greatest works, artists, schools of art and styles in the Prado Museum. Discover the Prado, one of the premier art galleries in the world. Explore and appreciate the greatest masterpieces and the artists who created them: El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Botticelli, Raphael, the Venetians, Rubens, Rembrandt, Lorraine, Poussin, 19th century Spanish painting plus the best sculptural and decorative works it treasures in its collections. Learn its history and transformation from picture gallery to global treasured museum, which houses one of the very best collections of European art in the world including the most complete collection of Spanish paintings.
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Argonowta Digital The Louvre. Art Guide: 120 essential masterpieces
Book SynopsisThe essential artistic guide to discover and learn the essentials of the greatest works, artists and styles in the Louvre Museum.Discover the immense art collection of the Louvre Museum, from Oriental, Egyptian, Greco-Roman and medieval antiquities to the great works of the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Painting, sculpture and decorative arts from all periods and civilizations. Works by great French masters such as Poussin and David, Flemish painters such as Rubens and Van Dyck, Dutch artists such as Rembrandt, Italian masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Tintoretto, and Spanish artists such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez and Goya. An essential book to delve into the structure of the Louvre palace and its dependencies, learning in detail about 120 essential masterpieces among the more than 400,000 pieces contained in the most important museum in the world.
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Parramon Barro
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Arco Libros - La Muralla, S.L. Pedro de Mena
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Ibères Grecs et Puniques en ExtrêmeOccident
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice
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Taylor & Francis Public Statues Across Time and Cultures
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Taylor & Francis Sculpture Workshops as Space and Concept
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Taylor & Francis Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures
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Taylor & Francis Public Statues Across Time and Cultures
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Taylor & Francis The Lower Niger Bronzes
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Taylor & Francis Michelangelos Vatican Pieta and its Afterlives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of
Book SynopsisIn this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic models through which these practices can be understood to function critically. Each chapter focuses on a single exhibition: Isa Genzken's OIL (German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007), Geoffrey Farmer's midcareer survey (Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, 2008), Rachel Harrison's Consider the Lobster (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009), and Liz Magor's The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2008).Trade Review"This book is an argument for paying more attention to the material conditions of sculpture—not as a return to formalism, but as a powerful and necessary tool to cut through the lingo of installation art and the capaciousness of digital culture."- Gloria Sutton, Northeastern University ArtTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rachel Harrison: "Consider the Lobster" 2. Isa Genzken: "OIL" 3. Geoffrey Farmer: "Me into Many" 4. Liz Magor: "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press An Artist Against the Third Reich
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Cambridge University Press Funeral Monuments in PostReformation England
Book SynopsisThis is an account of the most important kind of surviving post-Reformation church art, the carved stone funeral monument. Built in huge numbers during the years around 1600, thousands still survive across England. Lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, it offers a valuable and informative record.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This is essential reading for art historians, social historians and even students of the politics and economics of the period.' The Art NewspaperReview of the hardback: 'Dr Llewellyn is to be commended for establishing a new area of inquiry: the visual culture of churches and the practice of commemoration in early modern England.' Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryReview of the hardback: 'This is undoubtedly an important work which will remain the standard text for the foreseeable future.' Renaissance StudiesReview of the hardback: 'Llewelyn's study has much to inform the serious 'Reformation' theologian.' LaudeturReview of the hardback: 'Llewellyn's study explores the complexities and range of these ambitious works and persuasively argues for their importance as registers of shifting social attitudes and aspirations. this important book deserves the attention not merely of art historians, but of a far wider variety of scholars working on the material culture of post-medieval England.' Post-Medieval ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. Historiography and the Discourse of Art History: 1. The antiquaries and the rule of taste; 2. Art history - nation and place; 3. Art history - the period; 4. Art history - artists and the theory of art; 5. Alternatives; 6. In the presence of death; 6. Differentiation, replication and portrayal; 7. Continuity and separation; 8. The Reformation; 9. Emotion and mourning; 9. Monuments to living people; 10. Conclusion; Part II. Form and Design: 1. Regional variation; 2. Medieval precedents; 3. England and Europe; 4. Changes through time; 5. The components of design; 6. Recumbent figures; 7. Standing, kneeling and seated figures; 8. Other poses and types; 9. Traditional compositions; 10. Inscriptions; 11. Allegories and histories; 12. Decoration, surface and painted finishes; Part III. Building Monuments: 1. Securing and maintaining a place; 2. The business of erecting a monument; 3. Transportation; 4. The tomb-makers and their materials; 5. Materials; Part IV. Habits and Skills in Visual Culture: 1. Descriptions; 2. Aesthetic and visual categories; 3. Hierarchies and dangers; 4. Image theory and religious controversy; 5. Iconoclasm; 6. The defence of monuments; Part V. Exemplifications: 1. Patrons and society; 2. Monuments and the state; 3. The expression of virtue; Part VI. Conclusion. Four Discourses: 1. The four discourses; 2. The architectural frame; 3. The effigial body; 4. The heraldic sign; 5. The inscribed word; 6. English art and the exemplary tradition; Notes; Bibliography; Documents and manuscripts in original and published forms; Printed materials; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Parthenon and its Sculptures
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Cambridge University Press Gothic Sculpture
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Cambridge University Press Visible Words
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Cambridge University Press English Medieval Sculpture
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Cambridge University Press Alabaster Tombs of the PreReformation Period in England
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1940, this was the first comprehensive book about British alabaster tombs. It provides a detailed account of the surviving alabaster monuments, from the earliest examples of around 1330 through to those created at the time of the Reformation.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Introduction; 1. The alabaster men; 2. Tomb chests and weepers; 3. The effigies; 4. Classification of the effigies; Appendices; Plates; Index to text; Index to plates.
£21.97
Cambridge University Press Nicola Pisano and the Revival of Sculpture in Italy
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Cambridge University Press Chinese Sculpture Introductions to Chinese Culture
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Cambridge University Press Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture
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Cambridge University Press Art Myth Ritual Classical Greece
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Cambridge University Press Art Myth and Ritual in Classical Greece
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Cambridge University Press The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World
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Cambridge University Press An Artist against the Third Reich
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Cambridge University Press Early Hellenistic Portraiture 1 Image Style Context
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Cambridge University Press Connective Creativity
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Cambridge University Press Gender Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
Book SynopsisThis book offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. It will be a key resource for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in courses on classical art, classical civilization, and gender studies.Trade Review'This is an interesting and diverse collection of essays that raises thought provoking questions around representations of the body and gender in the ancient world.' Lucy Angel, Classics For AllTable of ContentsIntroduction: approaching gender; 1. The male body: doryphoros; 2. The female body: Aphrodite of Cnidos; 3. The veiled body: Tanagra statuette; 4. The ageing body: drunken old woman; 5. The indefinite body: sleeping Hermaphrodite; 6. The political body: Prima Porta Augustus; 7. The incongruous body: portrait of 'Marcia Furnilla' as Venus; 8. The beloved body: Antinous; 9. The other body: marble relief with female gladiators; 10. The non-human body: Pan and a she-goat; Epilogue: Bernini's 'Neptune and Triton'.
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Cambridge University Press Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
Book SynopsisThis book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that has supported countless fountains, some of which survive today. Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored water, and the fountains, large and small, from which it gushed. Papers consider spring water, rainwater and seawater; water suitable for drinking, bathing and baptism; and fountains real, imagined and symbolic. Experts in the history of art and culture, archaeology and theology, and poetry and prose, offer reflections on water and fountains across two millennia in one locaTable of ContentsIntroduction Brooke Shilling and Paul Stephenson; 1. Where do we go now? The archaeology of monumental fountains in the Roman and early Byzantine East Julian Richard; 2. Monumental waterworks in Late Antique Constantinople Paul Stephenson and Ragnar Hedlund; 3. Fistulae and water fraud in Late Antique Constantinople Gerda de Kleijn; 4. The Silahtarağa statues in context Brenda Longfellow; 5. The bronze goose from the hippodrome Rowena Loverance; 6. The serpent column fountain Paul Stephenson; 7. The culture of water in the 'Macedonian Renaissance' Paul Magdalino; 8. When bath became church: spatial fusion in Late Antique Constantinople and beyond Jesper Blid Kullberg; 9. Zoomorphic rainwater spouts Philipp Niewöhner; 10. Spouts and finials defining fountains by giving water shape and sound Eunice Dauterman Maguire; 11. Fountains of paradise in early Byzantine art, homilies, and hymns Brooke Shilling; 12. Where did the waters of paradise go after iconoclasm? Henry Maguire; 13. 'Rejoice, Spring.' The Theotokos as a fountain in the liturgical practice of Byzantine hymnography Helena Bodin; 14. Words, water, and power: literary fountains and metaphors of patronage in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium Ingela Nilsson; 15. Ancient water in fictional fountains: waterworks in Byzantine novels and romances Terése Nilsson; 16. The shrine of the Theotokos at the Pege Isabel Kimmelfield; 17. A dome for the water: canopied fountains and cypress trees in Byzantine and early Ottoman Constantinople Federica Broilo; 18. Sinan's ablution fountains Johan Mårtelius.
£36.87
Cambridge University Press The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture
Book SynopsisThe Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on archaeological and textual sources to analyze the later histories of these sculptures, reconstructing the processes of damage and reparation that characterized the lives of Greek images. Using an approach informed by anthropology and iconoclasm studies, Kousser describes how damage to sculptures took place within a broader cultural context. She also tracks the development of an anti-iconoclastic discourse in Hellenic society from the Persian wars to the death of Cleopatra. Her study offers a fresh perspective on the role of the image in ancient Greece.It also sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Afterlives of Greek Sculptures: 1. Dangerous afterlives: the Greek use of 'voodoo dolls'; 2. Use and abuse: toward an ontology of sculpture in ancient Greece; Part II. Barbaric, Deviant, and Unhellenic: Damage to Sculptures and its Commemoration, 480–31 BC: 3. 'Barbaric' interactions: the Persian invasion and its commemoration in early classical Greece; 4. Deviant interactions: the mutilation of the herms, oligarchy, and social deviance in the Peloponnesian war era; 5. Collateral damage: injury, reuse, and restoration of funerary monuments in the early Hellenistic Kerameikos; 6. State-sanctioned violence: altering, warehousing, and destroying leaders' portraits in the Hellenistic era; Conclusion: the afterlives of Greek sculptures in the Roman and early Christian eras; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture
Book SynopsisRoman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms. This book examines the 'Large Herculaneum Woman' statue type, a draped female body common in the second century CE and surviving in about two hundred examples, to demonstrate how sameness helped to communicate a woman's social identity.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Origins; 2. Production; 3. Replication; 4. Portraiture; 5. Space; 6. Difference; 7. Endings; Appendix. Dating the statues; Catalogue; Bibliography.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc We Are Paper Toys PrintCutFoldGlueFun
Book SynopsisRanging from paper toy sketches and templates to final design layouts and finished products, this title features step-by-step instructions on how to create and personalize the paper toy designs. It reveals why paper toys are so fun to create, and includes the suggestions for new toy makers.
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University of Washington Press Trimpin
Book SynopsisCaptures a record of Trimpin's journey and places his work in the context of visual art, music composition, performance, ambitious engineering, acoustics, and installation art
£30.40
British Museum Press The Swimming Reindeer
Book SynopsisDiscovered in 1866 as two separate pieces and acquired by the British Museum in 1887, the sculpture known as the swimming reindeer' depicts a male and a female reindeer with their heads up and legs extended, and was created at least 13,000 years ago.
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New Shoe Press Super Easy Origami for Beginners
Book SynopsisThis accessible beginner’s guide covers everything you need to know to start creating amazing origami art, featuring clear, step-by-step instructions with helpful photos. Want to learn how to fold simple origami but are not sure how to start? With Super Easy Origami for Beginners, adapted from Benjamin Coleman’s best-selling Origami 101, you will feel confident in your skills quickly and eliminate frustrating mistakes and missteps. Learn what you need, how to read folding patterns, how to select paper, and how to troubleshoot mistakes and turn paper into charming folded animals, flowers, and shapes. Building skills through fun projects, you will find success quickly and easily while gaining confidence to try another project.Super Easy Origami for Beginners includes: Origami basics How to get started Tools and materials Foldin
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