The Art of Greenland
Author | : Bodil Kaalund |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520048409 |
Describes the art of Greenland from the earliest times to the present.
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Author | : Bodil Kaalund |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520048409 |
Describes the art of Greenland from the earliest times to the present.
Author | : Fiona Greenland |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022675703X |
"A major, on-the-ground look at antiquities looting in Italy. More looting of ancient art takes place in Italy than in any other country. Ironically, Italy trades on the fact to demonstrate its cultural superiority over other countries. And, more than any other country, Italy takes pains to prevent looting by instituting laws, cultural policies, export taxes, and a famously effective art-crime squad that has been the inspiration of novels, movies, and tv shows. In fact, Italy is widely regarded as having invented the discipline of art policing. In 2006 the then-president of Italy declared his country to be "the world's greatest cultural power." Why do Italians believe this? Why is the patria, or "homeland," so frequently invoked in modern disputes about ancient art, particularly when it comes to matters of repatriation, export, and museum loans? Fiona Greenland's Ruling Culture addresses these questions by tracing the emergence of antiquities as a key source of power in Italy from 1815 to the present. Along the way, it investigates the activities and interactions of three main sets of actors: state officials (including Art Squad agents), archaeologists, and illicit excavators and collectors"--
Author | : Bodil Kaalund |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788702101621 |
Author | : Rockwell Kent |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1996-07-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0819572071 |
A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original. When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid descriptions of the experience; we share "the feeling of wind and wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit," and the sound "of wind in the shrouds, of hard spray flung on a drum-tight canvas, of rushing water at the scuppers, of the gale shearing a tormented sea." When the ship sinks in a storm-swept fjord within 50 miles of its destination, the story turns to the stranding and subsequent rescue of the three-man crew, salvage of the vessel, and life among native Greenlanders. Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and impenetrable fog—and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn unmasking a longed-for landfall—is a rare treat for old salts and landlubbers alike.
Author | : Jørgen Trondhjem |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788770909259 |
Author | : Tinna Møbjerg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art, Greenlandic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andreas Christian Riis Carstensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Greenland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ole G. Jensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788791359293 |
This book is for anyone who wants a brief introduction to the fascinating cultural traditions of Greenland. Ole G. Jensen, museum leader in Qaqortoq, South Greenland, uses text and pictures to tell of many different aspects of the original culture of Greenland both the spiritual and material. Read about shamans, amulets, tupilaks, drums and masks, dress, dogsleds, kayaks and tools for household and for hunting.