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Return Journey
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Tornaviaje
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América con tinta andaluza
El análisis de la historiografía andaluza que presentamos tiene como objetivo visualizar y recopilar la trayectoria investigadora que sobre el patrimonio artístico americano se ha realizado en Andalucía o por andaluces desde el inicio de estos estudios, que se remontan a la creación en 1927 de la cátedra de Arte Hispano Colonial de la Universidad de Sevilla, hasta el presente año de 2013. Unos trabajos pioneros y una trayectoria investigadora que, a lo largo de los 86 años transcurridos, han evidenciado las privilegiadas relaciones económicas, artísticas y culturales de nuestra tierra con el continente americano, materializadas en un acervo científico que se ha ido incrementando c...
Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes—the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate)—Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense-gathering ...
Pensar la Alhambra
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Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vols.)
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Bibliophobia
This volume is illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works. It tells a 5000-year history of writing and books, giving readers an account of why books matter and how they impact our lives.
Histories of Ornament
This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates its global resurgence today. Organized by thematic s...
Official Gazette
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