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Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Gods and Kings written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Farris Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black gods and kings written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dana Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101617950
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gods and Kings written by Dana Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs. They turned out landmark collections in mesmerizing, theatrical shows that retailers and critics still gush about and designers continue to reference. Their approach to fashion was wildly different—Galliano began as an illustrator, McQueen as a Savile Row tailor. Galliano led the way with his sensual bias-cut gowns and his voluptuous hourglass tailoring, which he presented in romantic storybook-like settings. McQueen, though nearly ten years younger than Galliano, was a brilliant technician and a visionary artist who brought a new reality to fashion, as well as an otherworldly beauty. For his first official collection at the tender age of twenty-three, McQueen did what few in fashion ever achieve: he invented a new silhouette, the Bumster. They had similar backgrounds: sensitive, shy gay men raised in tough London neighborhoods, their love of fashion nurtured by their doting mothers. Both struggled to get their businesses off the ground, despite early critical success. But by 1997, each had landed a job as creative director for couture houses owned by French tycoon Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH. Galliano’s and McQueen’s work for Dior and Givenchy and beyond not only influenced fashion; their distinct styles were also reflected across the media landscape. With their help, luxury fashion evolved from a clutch of small, family-owned businesses into a $280 billion-a-year global corporate industry. Executives pushed the designers to meet increasingly rapid deadlines. For both Galliano and McQueen, the pace was unsustainable. In 2010, McQueen took his own life three weeks before his womens' wear show. The same week that Galliano was fired, Forbes named Arnault the fourth richest man in the world. Two months later, Kate Middleton wore a McQueen wedding gown, instantly making the house the world’s most famous fashion brand, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a wildly successful McQueen retrospective, cosponsored by the corporate owners of the McQueen brand. The corporations had won and the artists had lost. In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing, she reveals the revolution in high fashion in the last two decades—and the price it demanded of the very ones who saved it.
Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Face of the Gods written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thompson examines the altar traditions in cultures from the Atlantic coast region of Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Author : Dr. Supreme Understanding
Publisher : Supreme Design Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Black God written by Dr. Supreme Understanding and published by Supreme Design Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307874338
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flash of the Spirit written by Robert Farris Thompson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.
Author : Jean Laude
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520023581
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Arts of Black Africa written by Jean Laude and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973-04-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kings, Gods & Spirits from African Mythology written by Jan Knappert and published by Peter Bedrick Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book features 35 stories from the Zulu, Swahili, Bantu, Ashanti and other African cultures, passed down from generation to generation that are still told today. Filled with magnificent, full-color illustrations, an index, map and a guide to symbols in the mythology.
Author : Arthur Huff Fauset
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812210018
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Gods of the Metropolis written by Arthur Huff Fauset and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested itself in the civil rights movement. The American black church, according to Fauset and other contemporary researchers, provided the one place where blacks could experiment without hindrance in activities such as business, politics, social reform, and social expression. With detailed primary accounts of these early spiritual movements and their beliefs and practices, Black Gods of the Metropolis reveals the fascinating origins of such significant modern African American religious groups as the Nation of Islam as well as the role of lesser known and even forgotten churches in the history of the black community. In her new foreword, historian Barbara Dianne Savage discusses the relationship between black intellectuals and black religion, in particular the relationship between black social scientists and black religious practices during Fauset's time. She then explores the complexities of that relationship and its impact on the intellectual and political history of African American religion in general.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809464005
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Age of God-kings written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1987 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers ancient history of the world between 3000 and 1500 BC.
