Accumulating Culture

Accumulating Culture
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2008
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

This is an illustrated examination of a collection of Chinese calligraphy, paintings, bronzes, and many other objects amassed by the Song dynasty emperor Huizong (1082-1135). It contributes to a rethinking of the cultural side of Chinese imperial rule and of the court as a patron of scholars and the arts.

American Encounters

American Encounters
Author: Angela L. Miller
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Art and society
ISBN: 9780130300041

"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.

Papyri from the Washington University Collection St. Louis, Missouri

Papyri from the Washington University Collection St. Louis, Missouri
Author: Klaus Maresch
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3322984540

Texts from the papyrus collection of Washington University have already appeared in Veme B. Schuman, Washington University Papyri 1: Non Literary Texts (American Studies in Papyrology 17), Chico (Califomia) 1980. This new volume is intended as a continuation, and the texts appearing in it have been numbered accordingly, subsequent to Schuman's. We divided our texts at an early stage, and while we have consulted each other extensively since then, we retain chief responsibility each for the pieces we began with: Maresch for 69-72, 77, 78, 80, 83, 86, 88, 90-94, 101, 102, 104, 107, and 108; Packman for 62-68, 73-76, 79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 89, 95-100, 103, 105, and 106. The editors of P.Wash.Univ. II were brought together by Reinhold Merkelbach, to whom they are grateful for his continuing support and advice. Our thanks are due to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, whose suppon enabled Maresch to visit St. Louis in 1988, and the American Council of Leamed Societies, whose fellowship brought Packman to Cologne in 1989- 90. An ACLS grant in 1966 made possible the photographs on which has depended most of the work done on the collection since: Some of them appear in the plates of this volume.

The John Max Wulfing Collection in Washington University

The John Max Wulfing Collection in Washington University
Author: Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Ancient Coins in North America
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1979
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780897221801

An illustrated catalogue of 437 Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins which John Max Wulfung donated to the Department of Classics of Washington University in 1928.

Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks

Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks
Author: Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Maya art
ISBN: 9780884023753

This introduction to Maya art is based on study of one of the most important collections in the United States, assembled by Robert Woods Bliss between 1935 and 1962. The catalogue, written by leading Maya scholars, contains detailed analyses of specific works of art along with thematic essays situating them within the context of Maya culture.

The Evolution of Washington, DC

The Evolution of Washington, DC
Author: James M. Goode
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1588344983

The Evolution of Washington, DC is a striking volume featuring select pieces of the extraordinary collection of Washingtoniana donated by Albert H. Small to the George Washington University in 2011. It showcases treasures such as an 1860 lithograph of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in front of the White House and a contemporary print of old Potomac River steamboats. Other unique pieces include early designs for the White House, the Capitol, and the Washington Monument as well as presidential portraits and Civil War memorabilia. Each object--from architectural plans and topographical maps to letters and advertisements--tells a fascinating story, and together they illustrate the history of our nation's capital and indeed our nation itself.