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Gold: Nature and Culture
Rebecca Zorach
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Description for Gold: Nature and Culture
Paperback. A lively, critical account of this 'noblest' of metals, examining the scientific and cultural history of gold. Series: Earth. Num Pages: 224 pages, 100 illustrations, 70 in colour. BIC Classification: RBGL; WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Gleaming and perfect, gold has beguiled humankind for many millennia, attracting treasure hunters, adorning the living and the dead, and symbolizing wealth, power, divinity and eternity. This book offers a lively, critical look at the cultural history of this most regal metal, from its use in religious ceremonies to colonial expeditions to modern science, examining its importance across many cultures and time periods and the many places where it has played a central role.Gold reveals this metal as a substance of paradoxes. Its softness makes it at once useless for the making of tools and highly suited for the exploration ... Read more
Gleaming and perfect, gold has beguiled humankind for many millennia, attracting treasure hunters, adorning the living and the dead, and symbolizing wealth, power, divinity and eternity. This book offers a lively, critical look at the cultural history of this most regal metal, from its use in religious ceremonies to colonial expeditions to modern science, examining its importance across many cultures and time periods and the many places where it has played a central role.Gold reveals this metal as a substance of paradoxes. Its softness makes it at once useless for the making of tools and highly suited for the exploration ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Earth
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780235776
SKU
V9781780235776
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About Rebecca Zorach
Rebecca Zorach is Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Her previous books include The Passionate Triangle (2011) and Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance (2005). Michael W. Phillips Jr is an independent film-maker, film critic and film programmer.
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