A short history of engraving & etching for the use of collectors and students, with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers, M. Hind Arthur
Автор: Fojtik Jakub Название: MIL Mi-24/35 Hind ISBN: 8365281538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788365281531 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Illustrated production and service history the contemporary Soviet attack helicopter, the Mi-24 `Hind` and its many variants in Russia and abroad.
Автор: Narale Sunita, Narale Ratnakar Название: Hindi Teacher for Hindu Children Color Coded ISBN: 189741675X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781897416754 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 36790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Altman Michael J Название: Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu ISBN: 0190654929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190654924 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own identities. American representations of India said more about Americans than about Hindus. Cotton Mather, Hannah Adams, and Joseph Priestley engaged the larger European Enlightenment project of classifying and comparing religion in India. Evangelical missionaries used images of "Hindoo heathenism" to raise support at home. Unitarian Protestants found a kindred spirit in the writings of Bengali reformer Rammohun Roy. Popular magazines and common school books used the image of dark, heathen, despotic India to buttress Protestant, white, democratic American identity. Transcendentalists and Theosophists imagined the contemplative and esoteric religion of India as an alternative to materialist American Protestantism. Hindu delegates and American speakers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions engaged in a protracted debate about the definition of religion in industrializing America. Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Altman reorients American religious history and the history of Asian religions in America, showing how Americans of all sorts imagined India for their own purposes. The questions that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past, he argues, still animate American debates today.
Автор: Hind Arthur Mayger Название: John Raphael Smith: and the Great Mezzotinters of the Time of Reynolds ISBN: 1072280027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781072280026 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9140.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY mezzotint is England's chief glory in the history of engraving. In line-engraving and etching England had started a century behind the continent of Europe, and even then much of the best work produced for a considerable period was done by settlers from abroad. With mezzotint, too, the initiative came from abroad, for its inventor, Ludwig von Siegen, was a German amateur, and most of its earliest practitioners were German or Dutch. But very soon after the introduction of the new process, England became the chief centre of attraction to the best mezzotinters of the period, though it was not until the beginning of the eighteenth century that an entirely native school thoroughly vindicated the title of "la Mani re Anglaise," by which the art was commonly known before the end of the seventeenth century. Von Siegen's discovery was first taken up by the famous Prince Rupert, and for a considerable period after John Evelyn's notice in his "Sculptura" (1662) of the "New way of engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, invented and communicated by his Highnesse Prince Rupert," fame or flattery assigned to the Prince the actual invention of the art. But though the discovery is now known not to have been his, he is justly famous in the history of the art for the most magnificent of the early mezzotints, the "Great Executioner" (after Ribera), which shows a real flair, and a far finer artistic feeling than anything of Von Siegen. It was no doubt Prince Rupert's interest in mezzotint when settled in England at the beginning of the reign of Charles II, that was the really determining factor in making England the centre of the art. The first century of mezzotint may be treated in a later volume of this series, but in the present place we plunge in medias res, illus- trating the period in which it reached its zenith. Van Dyck was just too early to be represented in contemporary mezzotint, so that the earliest mezzotinters largely reflect the paintings of Lely, Kneller, Vanderbank, and the host of lesser lights (chiefly foreigners) who still carried on the Van Dyck tradition. But the second part of the eighteenth century saw the establishment of a true English school of painting, and the great mezzotinters of this period find half their glory, and nearly all their popularity, in being the noblest translators into the less exclusive medium of engraving of the canvases of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, and Hoppner.
