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Bodies in Balance : The Art of Tibetan Medicine
2015 Best Art Book Accolade, ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities Category Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. This book is dedicated to the history, theory, and practice of Tibetan medicine, a unique and compl…
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- 9780295807089
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- 360p.
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- 615.85156 THE b
Essays on Paula Rego: smile when you think about hell
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking …
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- 9781783747580
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- xv, 492 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 759.421 LIS e
An annotated bibliography of Chinese painting catalogues and related texts
The student of Chinese painting must from time to time consult John C. Ferguson’s Li-tai chu-lu hua mu, an index to Chinese paintings recorded in Chinese catalogues. The catalogues in which the paintings are compiled are of equal interest: their compilers, the date of their compilation, their scope, their derivation, their merits and shortcomings, and so on. An Annotated Bibliography of Chine…
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- 9780472902217
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- VI, 143 p.
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- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies, 16
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- 016.759951 LOV a
The archaeology of rock art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
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- 9781760461614
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- XXVI, 499 p.
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- 919.429 ARC a
Wood science for conservation of cultural heritage – Florence 2007
COST Action IE0601 "Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage" (www.woodculther.org) aims to improve the conservation (including study, preventive conservation and restoration) of European Wooden Cultural Heritage Objects (WCHOs), by fostering targeted research and multidisciplinary interaction between Researchers in various fields of Wood Science, Conservators of wooden artworks, othe…
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- 9788884533821
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- 265 p
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- 684.08 LUC w
Painting and publishing as cultural industries : the fabric of creativity in …
The Dutch Republic was a cultural powerhouse in the modern era, producing lasting masterpieces in painting and publishing-and in the process transforming those fields from modest trades to booming industries. This book asks the question of how such a small nation could become such a major player in those fields. Claartje Rasterhoff shows how industrial organisations played a role in shaping pat…
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- 9789089647023
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- 344 p.
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- Amsterdam Studies in the Golden Age
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- 338.47709492 RAS p
Landscape biographies : geographical, historical and archaeological perspecti…
Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, Iceland to Portugal, England to Estonia.
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- 9789089644725
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- 437p. : ill.
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- 304.2 LAN l
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