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Book Summary
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, examining its importance across many
cultures and time periods and the many places where it has been central, from
religious ceremonies to colonial expeditions to modern science.
Rebecca Zorach and Michael W. Phillips Jr. cast gold as a substance of
paradoxes. Its softness at once makes it useless for most building projects yet
highly suited for the exploration of form and the transmission—importantly—of
images, such as
- ISBN-13
- 9781780235776
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Publishing Date
- 2016-05-15
- Total Pages
- 224
Gold: Nature and Culture (Earth)
by Rebecca Zorach, Michael W. Phillips Jr. (Author),
Reaktion Books (Publisher)
fictionfantasyyoung adultaward winning
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Book Summary
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, examining its importance across many
cultures and time periods and the many places where it has been central, from
religious ceremonies to colonial expeditions to modern science.
Rebecca Zorach and Michael W. Phillips Jr. cast gold as a substance of
paradoxes. Its softness at once makes it useless for most building projects yet
highly suited for the exploration of form and the transmission—importantly—of
images, such as
Book Specifications
- ISBN-13
- 9781780235776
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Publishing Date
- 2016-05-15
- Total Pages
- 224