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Author : George Washington Stimpson
Release : 2003
Genre : Encyclopedias and dictionaires
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 030/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Book about a Thousand Things by : George Washington Stimpson
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Author : Maria Dermout
Release : 2014-11-25
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 823/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ten Thousand Things by : Maria Dermout
Download or read book The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermout. This book was released on 2014-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Author : Jason Mraz
Release : 2008
Genre : Instant photography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 691/5 ( reviews)
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Author : Lothar Ledderose
Release : 2023-10-17
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ten Thousand Things by : Lothar Ledderose
Download or read book Ten Thousand Things written by Lothar Ledderose. This book was released on 2023-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.
Author : Judith Farquhar
Release : 2012-04-17
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book Ten Thousand Things written by Judith Farquhar. This book was released on 2012-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
