Egypt Visual Sourcebook

Author : Jim Hewitt
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972290
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt Visual Sourcebook written by Jim Hewitt and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reference to Egypt's architectural heritage. This unique visual reference guide will be an invaluable resource to professional designers-from architects to illustrators, production designers, art directors, decorators, film concept artists, sculptors, and painters. It utilizes color photographs to illustrate a wide range of locations and styles of architecture throughout Egypt, particularly highlighting universal architectural elements that may be incorporated into a variety of designs and styles including arches, doorways, windows, balconies, wall finishes, and more. Photographic plates of modern and ancient Egypt, showing markets, buildings, temples, tombs, and daily life are cross-referenced with enlarged details and grouped for functional comparisons to cater to the various approaches a designer may take from conception to completion. With some 1,000 color illustrations, thorough referencing, and detailed observation, this book will serve a very specific need while also appealing to a wider audience as a visual celebration of many aspects of Egypt, familiar and unfamiliar.

Author : Jim Hewitt
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972290
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt Visual Sourcebook written by Jim Hewitt and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reference to Egypt's architectural heritage. This unique visual reference guide will be an invaluable resource to professional designers-from architects to illustrators, production designers, art directors, decorators, film concept artists, sculptors, and painters. It utilizes color photographs to illustrate a wide range of locations and styles of architecture throughout Egypt, particularly highlighting universal architectural elements that may be incorporated into a variety of designs and styles including arches, doorways, windows, balconies, wall finishes, and more. Photographic plates of modern and ancient Egypt, showing markets, buildings, temples, tombs, and daily life are cross-referenced with enlarged details and grouped for functional comparisons to cater to the various approaches a designer may take from conception to completion. With some 1,000 color illustrations, thorough referencing, and detailed observation, this book will serve a very specific need while also appealing to a wider audience as a visual celebration of many aspects of Egypt, familiar and unfamiliar.

Author : Scala Publishers
Publisher : Scala Group
ISBN 13 : 9781566499705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt written by Scala Publishers and published by Scala Group. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No civilization has left such imposing and fascinating vestiges as that of Egypt, and yet so little trace of the "human." In ancient Egypt art was not an expression of the human world but a living and active representation of the act of creation. The extreme and forceful nature of the Nile Valley--where the fertile plain runs without a break into the desert, and the annual flooding erases the landscape in a relentless cycle as it brings new life--has shaped Egyptian art. It is in the first place a direct emanation of the divine, and as such proposes the order established by the gods with mathematical rigor and in strictly codified canons. Religion was everything and everything was religion in ancient Egypt. Art had no aesthetic value in this world. Art was a symbol of nature; it has to capture its essence rather than imitate it, and left no freedom or independence of expression to the individual. The works that adorn temples, palaces, and tombs always have a magical function: They are intended to protect. Thus they are not an imitation of nature. On the contrary, they are alive and potent. The magical and religious conception that inspired these artist-creators can still be perceived today, even when their works have been transported to lands faraway from the blazing sun of the African desert. Even inside the showcases of museums they still speak of a natural world inhabited by human beings, but one that has been created by a divinity that pervades it through and through--a world where humanity and its art represent the pinnacle of divine creation.

Author : Dominic Rathbone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilizations of the Ancient World written by Dominic Rathbone and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: that hold a particular fascination for modern readers, alongside a broader, contextual panorama of the global cultures that shaped the ancient world. The book has over 1,000 colour and black-and-white illustrations." --Book Jacket.

Author : David Miano
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781621315117
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Sourcebook written by David Miano and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Jasinski
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761905042
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sourcebook on Rhetoric written by James Jasinski and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please update SAGE UK and SAGE INDIA addresses on imprint page.

Author : Irmgard Woldering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Egypt written by Irmgard Woldering and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art of the world, non-Eurpoean cultures; the historial, sociological and religious backgrounds.

Author : Jean Capart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429869126
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Art written by Jean Capart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1923, this book provides an exploration of Egyptian art. Drawing on environmental factors of the Egyptian region, architecture, history and Egyptian society, Capart also provides an insight into the psyche of the Egyptian artist.

Author : Ronald Mellor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195222202
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World in Ancient Times written by Ronald Mellor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together 76 additional documents from all the regions covered in [The World in Ancient Times] series. -- from back cover.

Author : Anna Boghiguian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774247248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna's Egypt : An Artist's Journey written by Anna Boghiguian and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anna Boghiguian, one of Egypt's foremost contemporary artists, has traveled the globe and recorded her artistic reaction to each new place in drawings and paintings in the notebooks she carries everywhere. But her roads through India or Cambodia, Canada or France always come back to the land of her birth, Egypt. Her drawings of Egypt reflect her instinctive and emotional responses to the country's many layers of history and myth, and to the people, ancient and modern, grand and everyday, who populate those histories and myths with such entrancing spirit. In this very personal presentation of Egypt, Anna Boghiguian shares both her visual and her verbal thoughts, as she leads us on a tour of this incredible land of fact and fiction, across space and in and out of time, through her words that paint pictures and her drawings that tell stories. This truly unique book is as much about the artist as it is about the land, and a treasure on both counts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved