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“david federman”

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  • Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones

    by David Federman ...
    Since early 1989, a gem dealer I've known for years has been calling me every few weeks to brief me on mounting mayhem in Colombia's lucrative emerald market. The troubling gist of these calls is always this: There is a full-fledged turf war going on between that South American country's bustling drug and gem trades for control of its emerald ex port business. According to this dealer and several ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • The Art Spirit

    by Robert Henri ...
    A classic collection of writing from a great American painter and teacher on modern art theory, technique, and appreciation.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Robert Henri pioneered a more visceral approach to painting, finding his subjects in everyday urban experiences. From his studio in Philadelphia, he inspired fellow painters to capture the dismal aspects of city life, ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture

    by R. Malamud ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a highly engaging style, this book challenges the field, dealing with some highly controversial aspects of animal exploitation and boldly examines material that is seldom discussed within animal studies. ... Read more

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  • Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

    by David W. Galenson ...
    From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators – from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst – ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Appraising

    Antique, Period, and Modern

    Edited by Anna M. Miller ...
    There is more to appraising jewelry than just being parable sales and a value determination. Then, all this able to put a dollar value on an item. The title of ap information, with clear jewelry descriptions, must be praiser distinguishes the individual who is able to iden succinctly put together with photographs and deliv tify, witness, estimate status, excellence, or potential ered to the client ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Hero’s Many Faces

    Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments

    by T. Schult ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Gems and Jewelry Appraising

    Techniques of Professional Practice

    by Anna M. Miller ...
    Only a few years ago, if you needed an appraisal of The revolution in the personal property appraisals gems and jewelry for any reason, you asked your local field (of which jewelry is a part) is a little more than a jeweler, who hastily scribbled a one-line handwritten decade old. There now exist uniform standards and note. He or she usually performed the appraisal for procedures for personal ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Contemporary American Jewelry Design

    by Ettagale Blauer ...
    The Phenomenon of Studio Goldsmithing When the history of art in the 1980s is written, much of it will be etched in gold. This is the time of the contemporary goldsmith, an artist who chooses to work in precious metals rather than oils or marble. The contemporary jeweler-as-artist has only recently become a re cognized force. With rare exceptions, the whole field is little more than thirty years ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • “Voi Altri Pochi”

    Ezra Pound and his Audience, 1908–1925

    by Mark Kyburz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Critical tradition has established a certain way of reading Ezra Pound, one that places the meanings of the words on the page at the centre of interest and neglects poetic communication. The present study contributes to the recent challenge to this critical orthodoxy, which has led to his canonization as a "difficult" poet, by investigating the pragmatic dimension of Pound's work. In its effort to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Poetics of Waste

    Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith

    by C. Schmidt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. ... Read more

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  • A Fractured Landscape of Modernity

    Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck

    by J. Wilkes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash. ... Read more

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  • Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education

    Edited by Jessica Hoffmann Davis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This accessible and compelling collection of faculty reflections examines the tensions between the arts and academics and offers interdisciplinary alternatives for higher education. With an eye to teacher training, these artist scholars share insights, models, and personal experience that will engage and inspire educators in a range of post-secondary settings. The authors represent a variety of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD