100 Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum

100 Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum
Author: Jean M. Evans
Publisher: Oriental Institute Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781614910480

"In honor of the Oriental Institute's centennial celebration, this special edition guide to 100 select highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Nubia, and Persia. The guide features a history of the collections, new photography, provenance information, and a brief description of each object"--

M+ Collections: Highlights

M+ Collections: Highlights
Author: Doryun Chong
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500024367

A richly illustrated companion to selected works from the collections at M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of 20th-and 21st-century visual culture. M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of contemporary visual culture, opens in 2021. Its varied collections include more than 6,000 works and objects from the worlds of visual art, moving image, and design and architecture; more than 1,500 works of contemporary Chinese art from the M+ Sigg Collection; the M+ Collection Archives, comprising some 45,000 items; and the M+ Library Special Collection. M+ Collections: Highlights presents the work of more than 300 artists, designers, film-makers, photographers, and architects, specially selected to represent the collections as a whole, from Zhang Peili and Charlotte Perriand, to Nam June Paik, Zaha Hadid, and Shigeru Ban. Each chapter encompasses a different decade of the collections’ span, from the 1950s to the present. The book consists of individual entries on featured makers, each paired with an insightful analysis by an M+ curator. Interspersed among these entries are twenty-four thematic essays that illuminate some of the ideas around which the collections have grown, including modernism in Asian art and the future of painting in a digital world. Full of unexpected connections and new perspectives, M+ Collections: Highlights serves as an invaluable—and beautiful—introduction to this innovative new museum’s world-class collections of modern and contemporary visual culture.

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: Collection Highlights

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: Collection Highlights
Author: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Publisher: Asian Art Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780939117840

Every year, thousands of visitors flock to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the largest museum devoted exclusively to the arts of Asia in the United States. Featuring more than 18,000 artworks, the museum's world-class collection highlights the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture. This book presents two hundred and thirty exemplary works spanning both ancient and modern times. Among its many treasures, readers will find a Japanese clay jar from 3000-2000 BCE, a Chinese bronze Buddha dating to 338, a seventeenth-century Indian painting from the Shahnama (Book of Kings), a mid-twentieth-century Korean wrapping cloth, and a new Thai work made from textile, window mesh, safety pins, and amulets. A collaboration between museum curators, artists, educators, and collectors, the book also takes an in-depth look at fourteen masterpieces selected for their beauty, rarity, and historical importance. Stunning full-color photographs and new texts—including a foreword by museum director Ja Xu—offer fresh perspectives on both ancient and contemporary objects. A handsome addition to any art history collection, this volume is an essential resource for museum visitors as well as anyone interested in Asian art.

The Highlights Book of Things to Do

The Highlights Book of Things to Do
Author: Highlights
Publisher: Highlights Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1901
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1644722453

The Highlights Book of Things to Do is the essential book of pure creativity and inspiration. Kids ages seven and up will find hundreds of ways to build, play, experiment, craft, cook, dream, think, and become outstanding citizens of the world. This highly visual, hands-on activity book shows kids some of the best ways to do great things--from practicing the lost arts of knot-tying, building campfires, connecting circuits, playing jump rope, drawing maps, and writing letters, to learning how to empower themselves socially, emotionally, and in their communities. The final chapter, Do Great Things, inspires kids become caring individuals, confident problem solvers, and thoughtful people who can change the world. Full List of Chapters: Things to Do Inside Things to Do Outside Science Experiments to Do Things to Build Things to Do with Your Brain Things to Do in the Kitchen Things to Draw Things to Write Things to Do with Color Things to Do with Paper More Things to Do with Recycled Materials Do Great Things National Parenting Seal of Approval Winner, National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner, Mom's Choice Award, Gold

A Journey Through Jewish Worlds

A Journey Through Jewish Worlds
Author: Elka Deitsch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This unique edition shows highlights from one of the world's foremost private collections of Hebrew manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Swiss collector Reneacute; Braginsky, who has spent more than three decades building this amazing collection. Eac

Seeing with New Eyes

Seeing with New Eyes
Author: Rebecca Stone-Miller
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Presents almost 600 works of art from Mesoamerica southward, with emphasis on the lesser-known area of ancient Costa Rica.

Voynich Manuscript

Voynich Manuscript
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Ciphers
ISBN: 9781626542174

A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.