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Collecting for a New World

2019 Art
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Release : 2019
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 396/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Collecting for a New World by : John W. Hessler

Download or read book Collecting for a New World written by John W. Hessler. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely new and revealing story of Pre- and Post-Columbian art as told through over sixty extraordinary artefacts now in the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.

Collecting the World

2019-03-18 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2019-03-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Collecting the World by : James Delbourgo

Download or read book Collecting the World written by James Delbourgo. This book was released on 2019-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in the world. Collecting the World tells the story of the eccentric collector whose thirst for universal knowledge brought it into being. A man of insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging interests, Hans Sloane assembled a collection of antiquities, oddities, and artifacts from around the British Empire to form the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time. With few curbs on his passion, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects from China, India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Wampum beads, rare manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin: nothing was off limits. The first biography of Sloane based on his complete writings, Collecting the World portrays one of the Enlightenment's most original luminaries. "A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read... It conveys the excitement of original research as well as the thrill of tracking exotic curiosities to their source." --Sunday Times "Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times." --New York Times Book Review "A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself." --Times Literary Supplement "A superb book, enjoyably written, beautifully illustrated, and based on deep knowledge of the sources." --The Telegraph

Collecting World Coins

1991-01-01 Coins
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Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : Coins
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Book Synopsis Collecting World Coins by : Colin R. Bruce

Download or read book Collecting World Coins written by Colin R. Bruce. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collecting China

2011 Antiques & Collectibles
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Release : 2011
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Collecting China by : Vimalin Rujivacharakul

Download or read book Collecting China written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.

Children of the New World

2016-09-13 Fiction
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Release : 2016-09-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Children of the New World by : Alexander Weinstein

Download or read book Children of the New World written by Alexander Weinstein. This book was released on 2016-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang, starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book “A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. In “The Cartographers,” the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In “After Yang,” the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary and singular voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.

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