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The golden section : nature's greatest secret / by Olsen, Scott Anthony.(CARDINAL)552530;
Introduction -- The mystery of phi -- Ration, means & proportion -- Plato's divided line -- Phi on the plane -- The Fibonacci Sequence -- Phyllotaxis patterns -- Order behind diversity -- Lucas number magic -- All creatures -- Phi in the human body -- Growth & diminution -- Exponentials and spirals -- Golden symmetry -- Phi in human culture -- Ancient of days -- My cup runneth over -- A sacred tradition -- Phi in painting -- Melody & harmony -- All that glisters -- The golden chalice -- Golden polyhedra -- Phi in the sky -- Resonance & consciousness -- The philosopher's stone -- Appendix. Phi equations ; Fibonacci & Lucas formulae ; The indefinite dyad ; Designer's rectangles ; Golden physics ; More Lucas magic ; Phyllotaxis angles.A concise and useful handbook on the Golden Section--also known as the Golden Ratio and Golden Mean. The Golden Section is a line segment divided into two parts, such that the ratio of the short portion to the longer portion is equal to the ratio of the longer portion to the whole. It is one of the most elegant and beautiful ratios of the mathematical universe because of its combination of elegance and simplicity--hence the divine nature of its name. Drawing on art, architecture, philosophy, nature, mathematics, geometry, and music--and beautifully illustrated in the Wooden Books fashion with all manner of images--The Golden Section will tell the story of this remarkable construct and its wide ranging impact on civilization and the natural world.
Subjects: Golden section.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rose windows / by Cowen, Painton.(CARDINAL)136795; Purce, Jill.(CARDINAL)154428;
Bibliography: page 142.Light into darkness. A present from the past ; A symbol of truth ; Queen of cathedrals -- The making. From wheels to roses and to flames ; The rose in the cathedral ; The glass in the rose -- The meaning. Purification: wisdom (The universe: turning to one ; From time to eternity: wheel and rose ; A key to nature ; Numbers and geometry of creation) ; Illumination: knowledge (The star ; Jewelled light) ; Union: love (The enlightening rose ; The rose and the grail ; The kingdom of the Spirit) -- Divine geometry. Geometrical schemes ; Creation ; Roses for the Queen of Heaven ; Revelation.Photographs and accompanying text describe the history and architectural achievements of various cathedral rose windows in Europe and the United States.
Subjects: Cathedrals.; Rose windows.; Christian art and symbolism.; Glass painting and staining, Medieval.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Maya to Aztec [videorecording] : ancient Mesoamerica revealed / by Barnhart, Edwin Lawrence,teacher.; Teaching Company,production company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-343) in course guidebook.Lecturer: Professor Edwin Barnhart, Maya Exploration Center.Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed immerses you in the epic story of the Mexico's history with 48 exhilarating half-hour lectures that cover the full scope of Mesoamerican history and culture. Your guide is Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center and a noted archaeologist, explorer, and teacher, whose exploits include the discovery of a lost Maya city.DVD.Title from disc surface.
Subjects: Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Educational films.; Video recordings.; Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America; Mayas; Incas;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Home by design : transforming your house into home / by Susanka, Sarah.(CARDINAL)270680;
Subjects: Architectural drawings.; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture; Architecture;
Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 27
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Gee's Bend : the architecture of the quilt / by Arnett, William.(CARDINAL)225097; Arnett, Paul.(CARDINAL)207193; Cubbs, Joanne.(CARDINAL)279913; Metcalf, E. W.(CARDINAL)193882; Indianapolis Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)142595; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.(CARDINAL)155416; Orlando Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)196381; Tinwood Alliance.(CARDINAL)689172;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Gee's Bend: the architecture of the quilt / William Arnett -- A history of the work-clothes quilt / Joanne Cubbs -- "Avocado leaf" corduroy, remnant of the seventies / Lauren Whitley -- Bending geometry / Maggi McCormick Gordon -- A dirt road in Rehoboth / Dilys Blum -- The living legacy of Dinah the slave / Amei Wallach -- Dinah, Sally, Tank, mother, and me / Loretta P. Bennett -- Mama's song / Mary Lee Bendolph -- A new generation of "housetops" / Louisiana P. Bendolph -- Architectural definitions / Bernard L. HermanExamines the quilting culture of Gee's Bend, a small African-American community in Alabama, presenting photos of many quilts along with several essays by scholars and Gee's Bend quilt artists on such topics as the community's quiltmaking aesthetic, the role of family in the art, and the quiltmaking heritage of five generations of women descended from slave Dinah Miller.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Tinwood Alliance; African American quilts; African American quiltmakers; Quilts; African American women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Home by design : inspiration for transforming house into home / by Susanka, Sarah.(CARDINAL)270680; Crawford, Grey.(CARDINAL)668206;
MARCIVE 03/06/09
Subjects: Architectural drawings.; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture; Architecture;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Shapes in math, science and nature : squares, triangles and circles / by Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.(CARDINAL)186234; Slavin, Bill,illustrator.(CARDINAL)359552; Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.Squares.; Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.Triangles.; Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.Circles.;
The three books in the popular Shapes in Math, Science and Nature series, Squares, Triangles and Circles, are now available in one amazing compilation. The design has been refreshed, and the text by Catherine Sheldrick Ross has been lightly updated. What makes the compilation so unique and just plain interesting is how many topics it manages to cover for each of these three most basic shapes. For example, squares are explored not just in terms of what they are, how they are drawn and their geometry equations, which are all described in-depth, but also through ancient legends that feature squares, language expressions that use the word square ("back to square one"), illusions done with squares, city grids designed with squares and famous city centers that are squares (think Red Square in Moscow). There are also numerous ideas for hands-on-learning activities ?projects, puzzles, experiments -- that relate the text to everyday life. The imaginative artwork by award-winning illustrator Bill Slavin manages to clearly convey the sometimes difficult concepts in the text, while keeping the visuals fun and humorous enough to hold the interest of young readers. It's easy to see why the books in this compilation have been perennial favorites with educators. It includes engaging, well-written, interactive content that helps make geometry and measurement concepts graspable and even enjoyable, while also offering opportunities for lessons on a range of subjects from science, technology and engineering to social studies, art, and architecture. There is an extensive table of contents, glossary, and index for reference.970L
Subjects: Shapes; Circle; Triangle; Square; Geometry; Geometry in nature;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 8
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The annotated Mona Lisa : a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern / by Strickland, Carol.(CARDINAL)371838; Boswell, John,1945-author; Andrews and McMeel,publisher.;
Art nouveau -- Birth of photography -- Impressionism : let there be color and light -- Rodin : first modern sculptor -- Post-impressionism -- Early expressionism -- Symbolism -- The birth of modern architecture -- The twentieth century : modern art. Fauvism : exploding color -- Twentieth-century sculpture : a new look -- Twin titans of the twentieth century : Matisse and Picasso -- Cubism -- Modernism outside of France -- Futurism -- Constructivism -- Precisionism -- Expressionism -- Mondrian : harmony of opposites -- Modernist architecture : geometry to live in -- Dada and surrealism : art between the wars.Photography comes of age -- American art : 1908-40 -- Abstract expressionism -- Figural expressionism : not just a pretty face -- Post-war sculpture -- Color field -- The twentieth century and beyond : contemporary art. Hard edge -- Pre-pop art -- Pop art -- Minimalism : the cool school -- Conceptual art : invisible visual art -- Contemporary architecture -- Photography : what's new -- Photo-realism -- Neo-expressionism -- The new breed : post-modern art.The birth of art : prehistoric through medieval. Prehistoric art : the beginning -- Mesopotamia : the architects -- Egypt : the art of imortality -- Greece : they invented a lot more than the Olympics -- Rome : the organizers -- Pre-Columbian art of the Americas : new world art when it was still an old world -- African art : the first cubists -- The middle ages : the reign of religion -- Golden age of byzantine art -- Romanesque art : stories in stone -- Gothic art : height and light -- The rebirth of art : renaissance and baroque -- The renaissance : the beginning of modern painting -- The Italian renaissance -- The northern renaissance.The renaissance in the low countries -- The German renaissance -- Mannerism and the late renaissance -- The Spanish renaissance -- Baroque : the ornate age. -- Italian baroque -- Flemish baroque -- Dutch baroque -- English baroque -- Spanish baroque -- French baroque -- Rococo -- The nineteenth century : birth of the "isms." Neoclassicism : roman fever -- French neoclassicism -- American neoclassicism -- Goya : man with an "ism" -- Romanticism : the power of passion -- French romanticism -- English romanticism -- American romanticism and genre painting -- Realism. French realism -- American realism -- Architecture for the industrial age.The Annotated Mona Lisa takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks to a world of dynamic design, succinct page-length essays, and instructive sidebars. These graphic device heighten the reader's ability to retain an impressive amount of information, even through a cursory reading. A brief run-through of the book's captions and sidebars provides a mini crash course in art history. Incorportating more than 300 illustrations drawing on the very elements of art-composition, movment, balance, color, and design-to achieve a visual and textual approach to the subject that no ordinary book could aproximate.
Subjects: Outlines and syllabi.; Art; Art;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Sacred sites / by Hundley, Jessica,EditorAuthor(DLC)n 2003036402; Albuquerque, Lita,Writer of forewordauthor of introduction, etc.(DLC)n 81011068;
Includes bibliographical references (page 514).Taking us on a journey through the history of sacred art and architecture, Sacred Sites explores the myriads of ways in which we imbue our environments with profound and enduring meaning. From our early designation of nature and the body as temple to our futuristic embrace of imaginary realms, we travel the vast and mystical landscapes of myth, religion, and imagination. Through gathering, we ignite our spaces with spirit, we circle the bonfire, bow down at the forest altar, give praise at the temple to our chosen divinities. Through pilgrimage, we carve indelible pathways, making our meditative way across continents, generations of footsteps treading, again and again, upon sacred grounds. And through our creative offerings to spirit - we envision new worlds, wildly imaginative odes to what we deem as holy; golden temples hewn of rock, enormous spirals sculpted from sand and soil, silent sanctuaries hidden among wooded groves. We paint the ancient cave walls, carve petroglyphs to mark the way, place roses in veneration at the candlelit shrine. Slowly, stone-by-stone, we build monuments to our gods, a cosmic geometry held within our sacred architecture of worship. These hidden patterns can be found in the mysterious, towering pyramids found across the globe and throughout an astounding diversity of cultures, in the marble sanctuaries built to house the Greek and Roman goddesses, and in the windblown mountain monasteries of ancient Asia and the indigenous cliff-dwellings of the American Southwest. Nature, art, beauty, these are the common elements found both within the places made sacred by our ancestors and in the multitude of environments where we strive to connect to source, and to ourselves. Tracing a hallowed route from rugged stone temples to transcendent works of modern architecture, the fifth volume in The Library of Esoterica celebrates the collective history of spaces made sacrosanct through human worship.
Subjects: Sacred space.; Religious architecture; Architecture and religion;
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The secret of the temple : earth energies, sacred geometry, and the lost keys of freemasonry / by Greer, John Michael,author.(CARDINAL)635869;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.Discover the secrets of the ancient temples, the sacred geometry that gave rise to the world's most awe-inspiring cathedrals and the cryptic ceremonies of the modern-day Freemasons. Thousands of years ago, people began to notice that certain structures had beneficial effects on the crops that sustained their lives. A body of traditional lore evolved, guiding the priests and priestesses of ancient tribes in the use of architecture and ceremonies that made use of wholly natural magical effects. The Temple of Solomon was only one of many ancient structures that drew on the temple tradition, and its secrets and traditions have been passed along from the Knights Templar to the Freemasons. Join John Michael Greer as he rebuilds a body of lost knowledge that's been used to accumulate and direct energy throughout history and can be used again today.
Subjects: Freemasons.; Geomancy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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