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• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 10 June 1996

A detailed study of the twenty-two sculptures created by Remington, contrasting authentic lifetime castings with fraudulent examples.

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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• Release Date : 30 June 2008

The American West is rich in lore, cultural roots, and iconic images. The subject of countless movies, books, and songs, in many ways it embodies the American spirit. This lively

• Publisher : Liturgical Press
• File Size : 30,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 September 2016

Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 10 June 2024

"Icons and the Liturgy, East and West: History, Theology, and Culture is a collection of nine essays developed from papers presented at the 2013 Huffington Ecumenical Institute's symposium "Icons and Images,"

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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• Release Date : 22 December 2009

What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty

• Publisher : Reaktion Books
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• Release Date : 03 January 2004

Icon and Devotion offers the first extensive presentation in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of forms of

• Publisher : Penn State Press
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 10 June 2024

"A collection of essays by eleven scholars of Russian history, art, literature, cinema, philosophy, and theology that track key shifts in the production, circulation, and consumption of the Russian icon

• Publisher : Penn State Press
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 10 June 2024

"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art,

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 01 January 2002

Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong.

• Publisher : Greenwood
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• Release Date : 29 January 2013

This book explores how the heroes and villains of popular comic books--and the creators of these icons of our culture--reflect the American experience out of which they sprang, and how