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Gold: Nature and Culture (Earth)
by Rebecca Zorach, Michael W. Phillips Jr. (Author),
Reaktion Books (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
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