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Author : Amy Elizabeth Bogansky
Release : 2013
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Interwoven Globe by : Amy Elizabeth Bogansky
Download or read book Interwoven Globe written by Amy Elizabeth Bogansky. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.
Author : Rachel Corr
Release : 2018-04-10
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 739/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Interwoven by : Rachel Corr
Download or read book Interwoven written by Rachel Corr. This book was released on 2018-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of how ordinary Andean men and women maintained their family and community lives in the shadow of Colonial Ecuador's leading textile mill"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Edward Dahl
Release : 2000-06-29
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 073/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sphaerae Mundi by : Edward Dahl
Download or read book Sphaerae Mundi written by Edward Dahl. This book was released on 2000-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in modern science and technology have made present-day terrestrial and celestial globes scientifically obsolete and aesthetically banal. From the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, however, they were indispensable tools for the study of geography and astronomy. Beginning with an overview of early globes, the authors examine how the modern era in globe making, which began in Flemish and Dutch shops in the early seventeenth century, show how globe making spread throughout Europe, and explain how what were both decorative and scientific objects became symbols of power, universal knowledge, intellectual status, and personal vanity. Beginning with the collection's earliest globe, dated 1533, the authors introduce us to the life and works of some of the greatest Dutch, French, English, German, Italian, and Swedish globe makers. The 120 colour illustrations allow the reader to savour these rare and unusual works and include numerous detailed reproductions of both terrestrial and celestial map images. Sphæræ Mundi charts developments and changes over three centuries of globe making, considering the globes as indicators of scientific advance and geographical exploration as well as artifacts and providing a unique opportunity to become familiar with these complex and beautiful objects.
Author : Tyler Cowen
Release : 2009-01-10
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Creative Destruction by : Tyler Cowen
Download or read book Creative Destruction written by Tyler Cowen. This book was released on 2009-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of a fiercely debated issue, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Creative Destruction brings not stale suppositions but an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? On the whole, argues Cowen in clear and vigorous prose, they are friends. Cultural "destruction" breeds not artistic demise but diversity. Through an array of colorful examples from the areas where globalization's critics have been most vocal, Cowen asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, whether "globalized" culture is dumbing down societies everywhere, and if national cultures matter at all. Scrutinizing such manifestations of "indigenous" culture as the steel band ensembles of Trinidad, Indian handweaving, and music from Zaire, Cowen finds that they are more vibrant than ever--thanks largely to cross-cultural trade. For all the pressures that market forces exert on individual cultures, diversity typically increases within society, even when cultures become more like each other. Trade enhances the range of individual choice, yielding forms of expression within cultures that flower as never before. While some see cultural decline as a half-empty glass, Cowen sees it as a glass half-full with the stirrings of cultural brilliance. Not all readers will agree, but all will want a say in the debate this exceptional book will stir.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Communications
Release : 2013
Genre : Exoticism in art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Interwoven Globe by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Communications
Download or read book Interwoven Globe written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Communications. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
