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The Mirror

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Author : Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03

The Mirror written by Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with History categories.

This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying.

The Mirror A History

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Author : Sabine Melchior-Bonnet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

The Mirror A History written by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Mirrors in art categories.

Mirror Mirror

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Author : Mark Pendergrast
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2009-04-28

Mirror Mirror written by Mark Pendergrast and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-28 with Science categories.

Of all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the one most closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology for contemplation of the self, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel. Mirror Mirror is the fascinating story of the mirror's invention, refinement, and use in an astonishing range of human activities -- from the fantastic mirrored rooms that wealthy Romans created for their orgies to the mirror's key role in the use and understanding of light. Pendergrast spins tales of the 2,500year mystery of whether Archimedes and his "burning mirror" really set faraway Roman ships on fire; the medieval Venetian glassmakers, who perfected the technique of making large, flat mirrors from clear glass and for whom any attempt to leave their cloistered island was punishable by death; Isaac Newton, whose experiments with sunlight on mirrors once left him blinded for three days; the artist David Hockney, who holds controversial ideas about Renaissance artists and their use of optical devices; and George Ellery Hale, the manic-depressive astronomer and telescope enthusiast who inspired (and gave his name to) the twentieth century's largest ground-based telescope. Like mirrors themselves, Mirror Mirror is a book of endless wonder and fascination.

Mirror Of History

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Author : Mubarak Ali Khan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

Mirror Of History written by Mubarak Ali Khan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Historiography categories.

The Mirror Of Herodotus

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Author : François Hartog
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2009-07

The Mirror Of Herodotus written by François Hartog and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with History categories.

"The best book to come out on Herodotus in years."—G. E. R. Lloyd, King's College Cambridge

In The Mirror Of The Past

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Author : Tomasz Ratajczak
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26

In The Mirror Of The Past written by Tomasz Ratajczak and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Fiction categories.

These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture. The authors of these essays pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. The essays in this collection deal with the presence of mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functions in popular literature and extra-literary reality. The authors show how mythopoeic fiction becomes a (genetically) modified mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions, or just a reality superior to the ordinary one. In the Mirror of the Past: Of Fantasy and History is a collection of seven essays by American and Polish authors, including Brian Attebery, Terri Doughty, and Marek Oziewicz, with Mircea Eliade’s concept of “return from history to History” as their underlying theme.

Mirror Of The World

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Author : Julian Bell
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2010-05-25

Mirror Of The World written by Julian Bell and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Art categories.

“Exuberant, astute, and splendidly illustrated history of world art . . . draws fascinating parallels between artistic developments in Western and non-Western art.”—Publishers Weekly In this beautifully written story of art, Julian Bell tells a vivid and compelling history of human artistic achievements, from prehistoric stone carvings to the latest video installations. Bell, himself a painter, uses a variety of objects to reveal how art is a product of our shared experience and how, like a mirror, it can reflect the human condition. With hundreds of illustrations and a uniquely global perspective, Bell juxtaposes examples that challenge and enlighten the reader: dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings, and jewel-like Persian manuscripts are discussed side by side. With an insider’s knowledge and an unerring touch, Bell weaves these diverse strands into an invaluable introduction to the wider history of world art.

The Mirror Makers

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Author : Stephen R. Fox
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1984

The Mirror Makers written by Stephen R. Fox and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Advertising categories.

Stephen Fox explores the consistently cyclical nature of advertising from its beginning. A substantial new introduction updates this lively, anecdotal history of advertising into the mid-1990s. --Publisher.

The Victorian Mirror Of History

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Author : Arthur Dwight Culler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

The Victorian Mirror Of History written by Arthur Dwight Culler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.

It was a pervasive belief among Victorian writers that their era was transitional in character, that they were moving from an outworn past into an unknown future and therefore needed to look to history for guidance. History was a mirror reflecting the present. On the basis of analogies and contrasts with earlier ages and cultures, the great Victorians tried to gain a sense of their own place in the continuum. In this insightful and elegantly written book, A. Dwight culler explores the Victorians' uses of history, surveying the major authors and the intellectual and cultural currents of the era. Culler begins with an introductory chapter on the Augustan Age, which was the immediately preceding example of the use of history as a mirror to reflect the present. He then charts the rise of the new attitude toward history in Scott and Macaulay and traces its use by individuals and groups who were concerned either with a particular phase of the past or with a current problem in relation to the past. Among those treated are Carlyle, Mill, and the Saint-Simonians, Thomas Arnold and the Liberal Anglican historians, Newman and the anti-Tractarians, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin and the Victorian medievalists, Browning, the Pre-Raphaelites, Pater, and others preoccupied with the idea of a "Victorian Renaissance." Throughout, Culler vividly demonstrates that the Victorian debates about science, religion, art, and culture always had a historical dimension, always were concerned with the relation of the present to the past.

Fashion The Mirror Of History

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Author : Michael Batterberry
language : en
Publisher: Crescent
Release Date : 1982

Fashion The Mirror Of History written by Michael Batterberry and has been published by Crescent this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Clothing and dress categories.

History of fashion