Hidden Mosaics

Author : Alexander Billinis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517287948
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Mosaics written by Alexander Billinis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Osman, a Turk, met Yiannis, a Greek, by chance, in Izmir--known to Greeks, and to history, as Smyrna--both men still believed, to a greater or lesser extent, the national mythologies of Turkey and Greece. There was, however, an issue-they looked like identical twins. Osman, the more thoughtful of the two, could not get this similarity out of his mind. It set him on a quest to peel back the plaster of Turkish and Greek national identities, to find the mosaic beneath. This is the main theme of the novel, yet given the "millennium-long delicate and deadly embrace" of Greece and Turkey, and the times in question, the mid 2010s, there are several important subtexts to the story. First, there is the economic crisis in Greece, which impacts a semi-employed divorced father like Yiannis and prompts thoughts of emigration to relatives in Australia. Second, there is the crony capitalist boom in Turkey, where a nouveau riche class of Islamists from the Anatolian interior clash with urban, urbane, secular Turks. Osman, son of a Turkish colonel, American educated and avowedly secular, with a liberal wife, feels increasingly like a fish out of water in Erdogan's Turkey. Throughout the work, on both sides of the Aegean, the open wounds of the 1920s Greek-Turkish population exchange, centuries of Greek-Turkish conflicts, the Greek Civil War, and other ethnoreligious conflicts in the Balkans, most notably Yugoslavia in the 1990s, surface constantly in the lives of both the main protagonists, their families and friends.

Author : Lilian Broca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789652295606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden and the Revealed written by Lilian Broca and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning art book, but far more. In addition to glittering reproductions, details and working drawings of the ten mammoth pieces in this award-winning series about Esther of the Bible, the book features the artist's own story, illuminating her journey from war-torn Romania to Israel to Canada, what drew her to Esther and mosaics as a medium, and how she employed ancient techniques with a contemporary sensibility. An art historian provides a chapter comparing Broca's interpretation of Esther to that of such past artists as Rembrandt and Artemisia Gentileschi. The book finishes with a provocative, lyrical prose-poem written in the imagined voice of Esther by a prominent rabbi and scholar. An appendix provides the full text of Esther in beautiful calligraphed Hebrew with an accompanying English translation.

Author : Natalia Teteriatnikov
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul written by Natalia Teteriatnikov and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liz James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108508596
Total Pages : 1748 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosaics in the Medieval World written by Liz James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of medieval mosaics.

Author : Product Concept
Publisher : Product Concept
ISBN 13 : 9780998768526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quick & Easy Mosaics Color by Number written by Product Concept and published by Product Concept. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you follow the numbers in each shape, designating a color from the common color pallet, abstract images become clear. From animals to still life images to patterns from nature, miraculous mosaics take shape.

Author : Enno Edzard Popkes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3751972021
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus as founder of a Platonic Christianity written by Enno Edzard Popkes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel of Thomas conveys central ideas of Platonism as the message of Jesus, above all the ideas of the immortality of the soul, of the transmigration of souls, of the soul becoming equal to God and of the knowledge of `true light ́. It interprets the figure of Jesus as the incarnation of the `true light ́, which, according to Plato, can only be experienced outside the present world. It is the light from which people come and into which they return. The Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas understands all human beings as carriers of this divine light, which illuminates the world when they become equal to him. For the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus is the founder of a `Platonic Christianity ́.

Author : David W. Jorgensen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110478080
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure Hidden in a Field written by David W. Jorgensen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reception history of the Gospel of Matthew utilizes theoretical frameworks and literary sources from two typically distinct disciplines, patristic studies and Valentinian (a.k.a. “Gnostic”) studies. The author shows how in the second and third centuries, the Valentinians were important contributors to a shared culture of early Christian exegesis. By examining the use of the same Matthean pericopes by both Valentinian and patristic exegetes, the author demonstrates that certain Valentinian exegetical innovations were influential upon, and ultimately adopted by, patristic authors. Chief among Valentinian contributions include the allegorical interpretation of texts that would become part of the New Testament, a sophisticated theory of the historical and theological relationship between Christians and Jews, and indeed the very conceptualization of the Gospel of Matthew as sacred scripture. This study demonstrates that what would eventually emerge from this period as the ecclesiological and theological center cannot be adequately understood without attending to some groups and individuals that have often been depicted, both by subsequent ecclesiastical leaders and modern scholars, as marginal and heretical.

Author : Colin McEwan
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822339243
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico written by Colin McEwan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine turquoise mosaics from Mexico are some the most striking pieces in the collections of the British Museum. Among the few surviving such artifacts, these exquisite objects include two masks, a shield, a knife, a helmet, a double-headed serpent, a mosaic on a human skull, a jaguar, and an animal head. They all originate from the Mixtec and Aztec civilizations first encountered by Europeans during the Spanish conquest in the early sixteenth century. The mosaics have long excited admiration for their masterful blend of technical skill and artistry and fascination regarding their association with ritual and ceremony. Only recently though, have scientific investigations undertaken by the British Museum dramatically advanced knowledge of the mosaics by characterizing, for the first time, the variety of natural materials that were used to create them. Illustrated with more than 160 color images, this book describes the recent scientific findings about the mosaics in detail, revealing them to be rich repositories of information about ancient Mexico. The materials used to construct the mosaics demonstrate their makers' deep knowledge of the natural world and its resources. The effort that would have been involved in procuring the materials testifies to the mosaics' value and significance in a society imbued with myths and religious beliefs. The British Museum's analyses have provided evidence of the way that the materials were prepared and assembled, the tools used, and the choices that were made by artisans. In addition, by drawing on historical accounts including early codices, as well as recent archaeological discoveries, specialists have learned more about the place of the mosaics in ancient Mexican culture. Filled with information about the religion, art, and natural and cultural history as well as the extraordinary ability of modern science to enable detailed insight into past eras, Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico offers an overview of the production, utilization, and eventual fate of these beautiful and mysterious objects.

Author : Hallie M. Franks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190863188
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Underfoot written by Hallie M. Franks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Greek Classical period, the symposium--the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation--was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter, symposiasts looked inward to the room's center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the spectre of Dionysos: the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. In The World Underfoot, Hallie M. Franks takes as her subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, she presents an innovative new interpretation of the mosaic imagery as an active contributor to the symposium as a metaphorical experience. Franks argues that the images on mosaic floors, combined with the ritualized circling of the wine cup and the physiological reaction to wine during the symposium, would have called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event--a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231160402
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewiring the Real written by Mark C. Taylor and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman. William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew.