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Sherry Rehman, Naheed Jafri
Antique Collectors' Club, 2006
The Kashmiri shawl is rooted in a complex tradition of craft that dates back at least five hundred years. Its uniqueness lies in a combination of factors that have made it virtually impossible to duplicate anywhere else. "The Kashmiri Shawl" is the story of this textile, re-told through a South Asian perspective. This book re-aligns the design symbolism and technical evolution of the shawl to indigenous sources by placing emphasis on areas previously ignored in earlier histories. The shawl's origins in Kashmir, the rich vein of patronage it thrived on, its changing ornamental face, its regional variations in Persia and Punjab, its enormous impact on the European imagination, all combine to form a narrative shaped to engage the reader. The authors bring fresh clarity to the many myths that have arisen around the Kashmiri shawl on the South Asian trade circuit. They also interpret most of the complexities in the Kashmiri shawl lexicon. .
English - 378 Pages - 25.4 cm x 3.9 cm x 30.4 cm - 2.6 Kg
ISBN: 9781851495061
Martin Eidelberg,Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Thames & Hudson, 2007
This handsomely designed volume features sixty-five carefully selected Tiffany lamps, drawn from private and public collections across three continents. New photographic techniques reveal Tiffany's mastery of glass making and metal work, while noted authorities on the subject contribute essays on the history of the lamps, enlarging the reader's understanding of their place in the history of decorative art.
English - 224 Pages - 24.6 x 2.5 x 30.5 cm - 2 Kg
ISBN: 9780500512722
Margaret T. Gibson
HMSO, 1994
The collection of late-antique and medieval ivory and bone carvings surveyed in this catalogue and housed in the Liverpool Museum has an international reputation. This book is both a catalogue and an assessment of each item from an historical as well as an art historical perspective.
English - 120 Pages - 27.9 cm x 33 cm - 1.2 Kg
ISBN: 9780112905332
Thomas Crow
Yale University Press, 2015
An original and insightful new history of Pop Art from one of the most important art historians of our time Thomas Crow’s paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor’s insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of aesthetic consideration, Crow demonstrates that this inclusive attitude also had strong American roots. Folk becomes Crow’s starting point in the advance of Pop. The folk revival occurred chiefly in the sphere of music during the 1930s and ’40s, while folk art surfaced a decade later in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Crow eloquently examines the subsequent explosion of commercial imagery in visual art, alongside its repercussions in popular music and graphic design. Pop’s practitioners become defined as artists whose distillation of the vernacular is able to capture the feelings stirring among a broad public, beginning with young participants in the politicized 1960s counterculture. Woody Guthrie and Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, Ed Ruscha and the Byrds, Pauline Boty and the Beatles, the Who and Damien Hirst are all considered together with key graphic designers such as Milton Glaser and Rick Griffin in this engaging book.
412 Pages - English - 20.3 cm x 3.6 cm x 29 cm - 1.9 Kg
ISBN: 9780300203974
Alberto Isnardi
Edizioni Gtime, 2006
This book tells history and characteristics runs of the Omega Speedmaster, Flightmaster and Speedsonic and enables the enthusiast to know historical models, as well as to be updated about anything new. The Speedmaster was the watch chosen to accompany man in this project that would alter the course of history: in 1969, it was nicknamed the ""Moon Watch"". The Flightmasters were designed and made for airline pilots, as revealed by its features, including a hand showing the time zone. With its chronograph certification, the Speedsonic was the most precise watch of its time.
Italian/English - 367 Pages -25 cm x 32 cm - 0.72 Kg
ISBN: 9788890240409