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  Denise Patry Leidy How to read Chinese ceramics

  "Among the most revered and beloved artworks in China are ceramics-sculptures and vessels that have been utilized to embellish tombs, homes, and studies, to drink tea and wine, and to convey social and cultural meanings such as good wishes and religious beliefs. Since the eighth century, Chinese ceramics, particularly porcelain, have played an influential role around the world as trade introduced their beauty and surpassing craft to countless artists in Europe, America, and elsewhere. Spanning five...

  Engels | 144 pagina's | The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York | 2015

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• Roland Allen The notebook

  a history of thinking on paper

  "The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso, thinkers from Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, writers from Chaucer to Henry all created work forged in their notebooks. In The A History of Thinking...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 416 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2023

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  Batik

  traditional textiles of Indonesia; from the Rudolf Smed & Donald Harper Collections

  Engels | 176 pagina's | Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo | 2015

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