wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia: Volume 1
ISBN: 9789004524842 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book, the first of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings of Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from books and ambassadorial reports. As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to viable roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. The second volume covers some of the religious architecture of Syria, Egypt and North Africa, while the third deals with...
This book, the first of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings of Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, mostly f...
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600,37 zł |
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Syria's Monuments: Their Survival and Destruction
ISBN: 9789004329577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It examines travellers' accounts, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, which describe religious buildings and housing in numbers and quality unknown elsewhere. The book charts the reasons why monuments lived or died, varying from earthquakes and desertification to neglect and re-use, and sets the political and social context for the Empire's...
Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan an...
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846,56 zł |
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Plundered Empire: Acquiring Antiquities from Ottoman Lands
ISBN: 9789004405462 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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984,77 zł |
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From the Romans to the Railways: The Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor
ISBN: 9789004222199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This multi-disciplinary account of the fate of ancient monuments and technologies in Asia Minor studies the processes and their results with the help of archaeology, history, construction engineering, and travel documentation. To clarify changes, their causes and repercussions, it compares infrastructure engineering (transportation, water management, utilitarian architecture) in antiquity with developments over the past 200 years, using the accounts of European travellers and then of excavations. It analyses patterns of and reasons for the deterioration of material life, documenting the...
This multi-disciplinary account of the fate of ancient monuments and technologies in Asia Minor studies the processes and their results with the help ...
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872,48 zł |
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Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Volume 2: Volume 2
ISBN: 9789004540866 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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626,28 zł |
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Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-Century France: Old Stones Versus Modern Identities
ISBN: 9789004289208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th Century France examines the fate of the building stock and prominent ruins of France (especially Roman survivals) in the 19th century, supported by contemporary documentation and archives, largely provided through the publications of scholarly societies. The book describes the enormous extent of the destruction of monuments, providing an antidote to the triumphalism and concomitant amnesia which in modern scholarship routinely present the 19th century as one of concern for the past. It charts the modernising impulse over several centuries,...
Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th Century France examines the fate of the building stock and prominent ruins of France (especially Roman...
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751,54 zł |
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Constantinople to Córdoba: Dismantling Ancient Architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain
ISBN: 9789004212466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A survey of the various ways in which the extensive remains of ancient architecture were reused or destroyed in the crescent from Greece and Turkey through Syria, Palestine, North Africa to Islamic Spain. The book complements and echoes some of the themes in the author's "Marble Past, Monumental Present" (2009). Offering a large number of varied examples, it examines how the ancient landscape was transformed - towns, roads and ports, fountains and waterways, tombs, palaces, villas and inscriptions. It then addresses reuse in churches, mosques and other structures, dealing also with collectors...
A survey of the various ways in which the extensive remains of ancient architecture were reused or destroyed in the crescent from Greece and Turkey th...
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984,77 zł |
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The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900
ISBN: 9789004248403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The French invaded Algeria in 1830, and found a landscape rich in Roman remains, which they proceeded to re-use to support the constructions such as fortresses, barracks and hospitals needed to fight the natives (who continued to object to their presence), and to house the various colonisation projects with which they intended to solidify their hold on the country, and to make it both modern and profitable. Arabs and Berbers had occasionally made use of the ruins, but it was still a Roman and Early Christian landscape when the French arrived. In the space of two generations, this was...
The French invaded Algeria in 1830, and found a landscape rich in Roman remains, which they proceeded to re-use to support the constructions such as f...
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894,06 zł |
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Rematerializing Colour: From Concept to Substance
ISBN: 9781907774256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Specialists from anthropology, psychology, cinematography, art history and linguistics explore colour in relation to light and movement, memory and landscape, language and narrative, in case studies in Australia, British Columbia, Russia and the UK.
Specialists from anthropology, psychology, cinematography, art history and linguistics explore colour in relation to light and movement, memory and la...
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490,21 zł |