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This volume of RIM focuses on the Second Dynasty of Lagas, and concentrates mainly on the inscriptions of Cylinders A and B of the most important king of that dynasty, Gudea.
**SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES** 'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness' LITERARY REVIEW 'A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst Gombrich's fabled The Story of Art' SUNDAY TIMES 'This bountifully illustrated book is a history of connections ... Lucid and thoughtful' COUNTRY LIFE _____________________________________ A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse. Fifty thousand years ago on an island in Indonesia, a...
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the examples, it examines architectural drawing practices to elucidate the ways drawing advances the architect’s imagination. Emmons considers drawing practices in the Renaissance and up to the first half of the twentieth century. Combining systematic analysis across time with historical explication presents the development of hand-drawing, while also grounding early modern practices in their historical milieu. Each of the illustrated chapters considers formative aspects of architectural drawing pr...
Describes the methods developed by Othmar Keel for bringing images and their interpretations into a dialogue with texts from the ancient Orient and their interpretation.
Die Autorin Christa Andresen aus Aurich hat die Geschichte ihrer Familie über Generationen hinweg verfolgt und bis in die heutige Zeit aufgearbeitet. Sie zeichnet den ungewöhnlichen Lebensweg ihrer energisch-liebenswerten Großmutter nach, einer gebürtigen Waliserin, berichtet vom wirtschaftlichen Werdegang der Emder Reederei Nübel, von Flucht in den Kriegsjahren und dem Neuanfang. Und sie erzählt von ihrem eigenen Lebensweg voller Höhen und Tiefen an der Seite ihres geliebten Mannes. Persönliche Schicksale, Sternstunden und Tragödien, eingebettet in die große Zeitgeschichte, die Leserinnen und Leser zum Staunen und Nachdenken anregen sollen.
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