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The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq
ISBN: 9781860649660 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, showing every bump and follicle. The ""Victory Arch"" celebrates a victory over Iran (in their 8-year long war) that never happened. The Monument is a study of the interplay between art and politics, of how culture, normally an unquestioned good, can play into the hands of power with devastating effects. Kanan Makiya uses the culture invented by...
In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutchin...
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117,80 zł |
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Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio
ISBN: 9781780232706 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first comprehensive look at Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution, Talinn Grigor investigates the official art sponsored by the Islamic Republic, the culture of avant-garde art created in the studio and its display in galleries and museums, and the art of the Iranian diaspora within Western art scenes. Divided into three partsstreet, studio, and exilethe book argues that these different areas of artistic production cannot be understood independently, revealing how this art offers a mirror of the sociopolitical turmoil that has marked Iran s recent history.
... In the first comprehensive look at Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution, Talinn Grigor investigates the official art sponsored by ...
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204,96 zł |
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Siculo-Norman Art: Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily
ISBN: 9783902782045 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,27 zł |
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Fan Arabi Jadid (55 Words) Arabic Stories-Bilingual
ISBN: 9781468095869 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,84 zł |
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50 Maqal Lianis Mansour: Hasan Yahya
ISBN: 9781467935678 / Arabski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,84 zł |
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52 Maqal Lianis Mansour: Hasan Yahya
ISBN: 9781467935784 / Arabski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,84 zł |
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Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran
ISBN: 9781858946283 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artistic expression in the Middle East is experiencing something of a renaissance. Domestic patronage is flourishing, and an impressive array of new museums and art fairs across the region is helping to stimulate international interest in an increasingly influential movement. Art of the Middle East is an accessible overview of modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world from 1945 to the present, with an emphasis on artists active today. This new revised and expanded edition features the work of 12 additional artists, as well as a consideration of the impact of the...
Artistic expression in the Middle East is experiencing something of a renaissance. Domestic patronage is flourishing, and an impressive array of new m...
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125,85 zł |
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Mamluk Art: The Splendour and Magic of the Sultans
ISBN: 9783902782021 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mamluk Art: The Splendour and Magic of the Sultans tells the story of almost three centuries of political security and economic stability achieved by the sultans' successful defence against Mongol and Crusader threats. The intellectual, scientific and artistic currents that flourished then are manifest in Mamluk architecture and decorative arts, almost modern in their elegant and lively simplicity, bearing witness to the vitality of Mamluk trade, to their cultural exuberance and to their military and religious strength. Mamluk Art: The Splendour and Magic of the Sultans tells the story of almost three centuries of political security and economic stability achieved ... |
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103,37 zł |
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Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780520280533 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Istanbul Exchanges, Mary Roberts offers an innovative way of understanding Orientalism by shifting the focus from Europe to Istanbul and examining the cross-cultural artistic networks that emerged in that cosmopolitan capital in the nineteenth century. European Orientalist artists began traveling to Istanbul in greater numbers in this period, just as the Ottoman elite was becoming more engaged with European art. By the 1870s, a generation of Paris-trained Ottoman artists had returned to Istanbul with ambitions to reshape the visual arts. Drawing on materials from an array of...
In Istanbul Exchanges, Mary Roberts offers an innovative way of understanding Orientalism by shifting the focus from Europe to Istanbul and exa...
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281,82 zł |
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Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East: The Arab Nude
ISBN: 9781138563834 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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754,51 zł |
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America's Sacrifices in Mythological Afghanistan
ISBN: 9780986263682 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many books written on the subject of Afghanistan, which only tells half of the story, mostly by westerners who are retired CIA agents, State Department personnel, political science professors, journalists, or, more recently, U.S. military personnel who were deployed to Afghanistan following 9/11. Most of these books have been written honestly and with good intentions by their authors for the benefit and enablement of society to understand Afghanistan's ethnic groups, politics, and social issues. However, there has never been a book written on the subject about MYTHOLOGICAL...
There have been many books written on the subject of Afghanistan, which only tells half of the story, mostly by westerners who are retired CIA agents,...
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103,76 zł |
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L'Islam et la destruction des statues: Étude comparée sur l'art figuratif en droit juif, chrétien et musulman
ISBN: 9781511411080 / Francuski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cet ouvrage est consacre a l'art figuratif en droit juif, chretien et musulman, en insistant sur la destruction des statues par les integristes musulmans aussi bien dans les pays arabes et musulmans qu'en Occident. Il demontre les liens intimes entre ces pratiques barbares et les normes bibliques heritees par les chretiens et les musulmans. Il denonce aussi l'ambiguite des positions des autorites religieuses musulmanes face a ces pratiques. L'auteur Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh. Chretien d'origine palestinienne. Citoyen suisse. Docteur en droit. Habilite a diriger des recherches (HDR)....
Cet ouvrage est consacre a l'art figuratif en droit juif, chretien et musulman, en insistant sur la destruction des statues par les integristes musulm...
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60,53 zł |
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Virtues in Muslim Culture: An Interpretation from Islamic Literature, Art and Architecture
ISBN: 9781785073083 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With remarkable breath of vision, Dr. Gehan S. A. Ibrahim background, not with the outer appearance of things, but with their inner reality, the meaning of Islamic ethical culture. Ranging across the literature of the Muslim era, Islamic art objects, and Islamic architecture, Dr. Ibrahim penetrates to the inner dimension of Islamic moral values and shows the role culture plays in the life of the individual Muslims - the role of the formation of the code of morals of the Muslim era.
By rediscovering the root of the moral concepts in the Islamic tradition, Dr. Gehan S. A. Ibrahim opens... With remarkable breath of vision, Dr. Gehan S. A. Ibrahim background, not with the outer appearance of things, but with their inner reality, the meani...
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133,38 zł |
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Ink Silk & Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN: 9780878468065 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ink, Silk & Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 works of art drawn from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Works in a range of media are reproduced in full color and exquisite detail--manuscripts inscribed with gold, paintings on silk, elaborate metalwork, intricately woven textiles, luster-painted ceramics and more. These objects, which originated within an Islamic world that ranges from Western Europe to Indonesia and across more than 13 centuries (from the 8th up to the 21st century), share a distinctive relationship...
Ink, Silk & Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 works of art drawn from the collection of the...
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151,07 zł |
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Kufic Inscriptions of the Historic Grand Mosque of Shoushtar
ISBN: 9781511537995 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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318,78 zł |
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Islamic Art of Illumination: Classical Tazhib from Ottoman to Contemporary Times
ISBN: 9781935295822 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,10 zł |
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The Traditional Crafts of Egypt
ISBN: 9789774167539 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many traditional crafts practiced in contemporary Egypt can be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Scenes inscribed on the walls of ancient temples and tombs depict the earliest Egyptians making pottery and papyrus and working with stone, wood, and other materials. The eleven chapters of this volume explore these and other crafts that continue to flourish in Egypt. From copper and glass works to jewelry, woodwork, and hand-woven carpets and fabric, each chapter offers an in-depth look at one material or craft and the artisans who keep its traditions alive.
The authors,... Many traditional crafts practiced in contemporary Egypt can be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Scenes inscribed on the walls of anci...
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172,94 zł |
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The Ayyubid Era: Art and Architecture in Medieval Syria
ISBN: 9783902782168 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new MWNF Travel Book was conceived not long before the war started. All texts refer to the pre-war situation and are our expression of hope that Syria, a land that witnessed the evolution of civilisation since the beginnings of human history, may soon become a place of peace and the driving force behind a new and peaceful beginning for the entire region. Bilad al-Sham testifies to a thorough and strategic programme of urban reconstruction and reunification during the 12th and 13th centuries. Amidst a period of fragmentation, visionary leadership came with the Atabeg Nur al-Din Zangi. He...
This new MWNF Travel Book was conceived not long before the war started. All texts refer to the pre-war situation and are our expression of hope that ...
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111,06 zł |
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India Coloring Book For Adults: An Adult Coloring Book Of Indian inspired Designs Including Henna, Paisley, Mandalas and more
ISBN: 9781519694058 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get fantastic value for money with this huge Cat Coloring Book These expertly illustrated cat designs will provide hour upon hour of entertainment
This cat coloring book contains 40 single sided coloring pages. This allows you to remove each page for framing for example. This also helps reduce bleed through onto the other designs even if you are using markers, making this book suitable for everything from coloring pencils through to marker pens. The cat designs contained within this fantastic book are created by various artists, each hand picked by us here at Adult Coloring World... Get fantastic value for money with this huge Cat Coloring Book These expertly illustrated cat designs will provide hour upon hour of entertainment <...
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40,92 zł |
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Aftermath: The Fallout of War--America and the Middle East
ISBN: 9780983308546 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aftermath: The Fallout of War America and the Middle East captures the response of artists to the impact of war on people and their environments. Writers, poets, and photographers band together to transform destruction into enlightenment, aggression into empathy, and scars into hope.
The images are at times disturbing and uncomfortable, but they are also powerful and intimate. Carol McCusker, the Harn Museum of Art s curator of photography, has organized the exhibition that is a companion to this volume. The artists Lynsey Addario, Jananne Al-Ani, Stephen Dupont, Jennifer Karady,... Aftermath: The Fallout of War America and the Middle East captures the response of artists to the impact of war on people and their environment...
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175,25 zł |
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