Curran brian a (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2002. book People, London. 2002. Hard cover. Book Condition : Very good to near fine, appears little read. Superb photographs throughout Jacket has mild shelf wear. Heavy book may incur extra postage. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #BY014967. N/A (illustrator). N/A.…

Burndy Library, Cambridge, MA, 2009. First edition. In-8, 383 pages. Original softcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Architecture and techniques, Sculpture, Painting, Music & Art. …

Zustand: New. pp. 408 Illus.

Zustand: As New.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 383 pp. Fine. Nearly every empire worthy of the name - from ancient Rome to the United States - has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks - giant standing stones, invented in ancient Egypt as sacred objects - serve no practical purpose. For most of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well - the Washington Monument being a notable example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries - what they meant to Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years. …

Zustand: New. Editor(s): Minor, Vernon Hyde (University of Colorado at Boulder); Curran, Brian A. Series: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1043. . 2010. 2009 ed. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: New. The latest memoirs from the American Academy in Rome Editor(s): Curran, Brian. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: ACG; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 930. . 2015. 2013 ed. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: New. The Memoirs series presents a selection of articles on topics including - but not limited to - Roman archaeology and topography, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history. Editor(s): Curran, Brian A. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 203 x 25. . . 2016. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Publisher's original illustrated boards with yellow titles to the upper board and spine. With 30 black and white illustrations throughout by Jeremy Zerfoss, Mike Dubisch, Yves Tourigny, Nick Gucker, Justine Jones, Sishir Bommakanti, Luke Spooner, Michael Bukowski, and Dave Felton. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Signed by the editors and with an original signed hand-drawn illustration in black ink by the cover artist Nick Gucker on the title page. A collection of 29 illustrated short stories of a Cthulhu-Mythos-meets-space-opera nature. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s). …

First edition first impression 2009. 384 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Near fine. Spine uncreased. The many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries, from Ancient Egypt (which invented them) to twentieth-century America (which put them in Hollywood epics). Nearly every empire worthy of the name-from ancient Rome to the United States-has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks-giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects-serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well-the Washington Monument being a noted example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries-what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years. In each culture obelisks have taken on new meanings and associations. To the Egyptians, the obelisk was the symbol of a pharaoh's right to rule and connection to the divine. In ancient Rome, obelisks were the embodiment of Rome's coming of age as an empire. To nineteenth-century New Yorkers, the obelisk in Central Park stood for their country's rejection of the trappings of empire just as it was itself beginning to acquire imperial power. And to a twentieth-century reader of Freud, the obelisk had anatomical and psychological connotations. The history of obelisks is a story of technical achievement, imperial conquest, Christian piety and triumphalism, egotism, scholarly brilliance, political hubris, bigoted nationalism, democratic self-assurance, Modernist austerity, and Hollywood kitsch-in short, the story of Western civilization.…