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30000 years of art
012 000 FtFollowing on from The Art Book published in 1994, 30,000 Years of Art offers an original and accessible introduction to art for a general readership. Unlike The Art Book, it organises the work in chronological order (rather than alphabetical), it covers all cultures (not only western) and, as the title suggests, it covers 30,000 years of art (rather than art since the Renaissance). The book contains over 1000 works of art from all periods and regions in the world and breaks through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of art history to celebrate the vast range of human artistry across time and space. Each work is accompanied by key caption information (date, title, place of origin, style or culture, medium, dimensions etc.), and a text that provides more information on the work and its art historical context. The book presents art in a way very different from other art history compendia, revealing the huge diversity, or in many cases, similarity, of man’s artistic achievements through time and around the globe. Ordered chronologically, the resulting timeline of works will lead to compelling surprising juxtapositions will offer intellectual pleasure and a sense of wonder and discovery.
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A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen
03 600 FtTHE NICKELODEONS, as the first movie theatres were called, in no way resembled the luxurious picture palaces of today, but what an aura of magic and mystery, of laughter and tears clung to them! There, to the sounds of a tinkling and appropriately emotional piano, Pearl White faced her perils, Francis X. Bushman caused fluttering hearts, Theda Bara wrecked homes, Chaplin and Arbuckle and Mack Sennett set zany standards, never to be excelled, and a host of beautiful ladies smiled and wept and were alluring. It was a realm of fantastic and childish make-believe situated in a never-never land called Hollywood, but gradually the whole world came to treasure its heroes and heroines and clowns, and to ape them. Whatever role the silent screen has played in our social history— and I believe it was an important one— no one can underestimate the enormous pleasure the films of this era gave to audiences everywhere. It has been my thought in compiling this book to recall the varied and fascinating personalities and photoplays of the years from the earliest films to the advent of the sound screen, when stars were really stars, when the fashions and activities of the Hollywood greats echoed around the world and 100,000 people could gather in London and even in Moscow to greet Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks on their triumphal tour of Europe. Here was an art peculiarly American and yet universal. Its essence was entertainment; its success, financial and otherwise, was stupendous. Perhaps today, in a more troubled age, we can look back on these people and their films not only with nostalgia but also with a sincere desire to learn what made glamor so glamorous and laughter so hearty, and the world a happier place to live in. It was a memorable age, and I hope I have captured some of its quality to preserve in this book. – Daniel Blum
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Black Hollywood
02 500 FtAn album of motion-picture stills and publicity shots traces the progress of and major influences on black actors and actresses since pre-World War I years
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My Life and Lives
02 000 FtIn 1928, the elder monks of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism divined that a five-year-old boy living in a remote part of Tibet was the reincarnation of the ninth Khyongla of Tibet. Ori the boy’s sixth birthday, monks on horseback took him from his parents to a monastery some distance away where he was installed as its spiritual head. For over three decades, he lived the sober life of a monk, studying at the most famous monasteries in Tibet, until the Communist Chinese took over his country in 1959. Along with thousands of monks, as well as the Dalai Lama, he then fled on foot over the Himalayas to safety, and to a radically different life in India, and eventually in the United States. This is the story of his years in Tibet, and. of his narrow escape. Never before has a book by an insider explored in such detail the rituals and ceremonies that made up the now-vanished monastic life in Tibet. „No one has given us anything like this full-bodied narrative picture of Tibet as it was known to its people….Nor have we anywhere anything like this inward history of the life and disciplines of its great Buddhist monasteries and temples, hermitages and mountain retreats — any such intimate portraits of its once numerous scholar-mystics.” Joseph Campbell
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The History of Television
01 500 FtChronicles the medium that has changed the face of politics, world news, art, entertainment, and leisure time, and presents its technical development and hit programs
Honterus Antikvárium és Aukciós Ház
