Museum of Stones
Author | : Dakin Hart |
Publisher | : Giles |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781907804861 |
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Explores the place of rock and stone in human culture and history.
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Author | : Dakin Hart |
Publisher | : Giles |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781907804861 |
Explores the place of rock and stone in human culture and history.
Author | : Carolyn Forché |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2010-11-09 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0062029061 |
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant. But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to give voice to the unutterable, using language to keep memory alive, relive history, and link the past with the future.
Author | : Cally Oldershaw |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2023-08-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1789148189 |
The story of our deep and multifaceted connections to geological matter—the very bedrock of our lives. From small beach pebbles to huge megaliths, stones have been revered, collected, enhanced, sculpted, or engraved for practical and artistic purposes throughout the ages. They have been used to delineate boundaries and to build homes and shelters and utilized for cooking, games, and competitions. This surprising and fascinating compendium of stone facts, myths, and stories reveals the impact and importance of stones in our history and culture. Cally Oldershaw introduces the science in an accessible way and covers the aesthetic appeal of stones, their practical uses, and metaphysical properties. With an eclectic mix of examples from the Stone Age to the present, Stones engagingly excavates the story of this essential matter.
Author | : George Perkins Merrill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Building stones |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Perkins Merrill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Building stones |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom Williamson |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1780881207 |
Written by a geologist rather than an art historian, Inigo’s Stones has a down to earth narrative which reveals Inigo Jones as a stone expert who dealt with masons to became a shrewd businessman, bringing Portland stones to London, and founding the modern Portland stone industry.Why are so many of London’s famous buildings, for example Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, the Bank of England, the government offices in Whitehall, faced with stones from the Isle of Portland, more than a hundred miles away? Until now the reasons that prompted famous architect Inigo Jones to bring blocks of this creamy limestone all the way by sea from the Royal Manor of Portland and thereby found the modern Portland stone industry had been something of a mystery.Working with archival research specialist James Derriman, geologist Tom Williamson has now reconstructed a scenario that solves the mystery. It is a complex tale that involves the marriage of Inigo’s chief Banqueting House mason Nicholas Stone to the daughter of the City Mason of booming Amsterdam, a nasty incident at the stone-loading pier at Portland and Inigo Jones’s struggles to pay stone workers from King James’s bankrupt Treasury.The new findings presented in Inigo’s Stones also see Inigo Jones studying Roman stones and marbles in Italy with Lord and Lady Arundel, initiating the first geological study of Stonehenge, searching for Portland stones big enough to replicate the Carystian marble monoliths of the Roman temple of Antoninus and Faustina in London and procuring Irish marbles to reflect imperial glory on his friend King Charles I. Inigo emerges not just as a Court propagandist and Vitruvian architect, but also as a resourceful businessman doing his best to cope at a time when the government was even shorter of cash than it is today.Reflecting on the questions raised by Inigo’s work for the Stuart kings, the author Tom Williamson extends the story to cover the whole field of how rulers have used stones and marbles to project imperial power. Focusing on the stones of three once-mighty empires, the Roman, the Mughal and the British, the book ends with a surprising twist.
Author | : Marc Waelkens |
Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789061864943 |
The meeting assembled an interdisciplinary group of nearly 50 archaeologists and art historians, geologists and geochemists from the U.S.A. and 14 European and Near Eastern countries to discuss the provenance, quarrying, transport and use of stone from prehistoric to early Christian times, both in Europe and in the Near East. The papers which reflect a merger between classicism and geotechnology, thus deal with (1) quarries from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, their technology and organization, (2) quarry prospection through satellite imaging, (3) dressing of artifacts near the quarries, (4) trade, availability and archaeological use of certain stones in antiquity, (5) determination of obsidian, flint, granite, marble, limestones, sandstones and arkoses from Europe, Asia Minor and the Near East by means of petrological and chemical analysis, trace element analysis, electron microprobe and stable isotope analysis, ESR spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence and X-ray powder diffradtometry, mercury porosimetry, cathodoluminiscence, light diffustion from laser-irradiated stones, computer assisted assessment of coloured stones or amulti-method appraoch, and (6) provenance determination applied to ancient artifacts.The volume is highly recommended for those who wish to combine a journey into classical scholarship with geochemical sciences.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yorke M. Rowan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134949715 |
Ground stone artefacts were widely used in food production in prehistory. However, the archaeological community has widely neglected the dataset of ground stone artefacts until now. 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a theoretical and methodological analysis of the archaeological data pertaining to ground stone tools. The essays draw on a range of case studies - from the Levant, Egypt, Crete, Anatolia, Mexico and North America - to examine ground stone technologies. From medieval Islamic stone cooking vessels and late Minoan stone vases, to the use of stone in ritual and as a symbol of luxury, 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a radical reassessment of the impact of ground-stone artefacts on technological change, production and exchange.
Author | : George Perkins Merrill |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780331539271 |
Excerpt from The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones in the U. S. National Museum: A Handbook and Catalogue It is interesting to note, in this connection, that during the business depression Of 1876 almost the entire product of the American quar ries was exported to England, where it sold for even less than the Welsh slates, though necessarily at very small profits. The return Of more prosperous times, however, created a local demand, and the export trade has proportionally decreased though considerable quantities are still sent to the West Indies, South America, England, Germany, and even New Zealand and Australia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.