Here is the complete story of the vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the early first millenium AD, through the incredible period of raiding, trading, and settling known as the Viking Age and the huge impact that the vikings had on the course of European history, to the last surviving viking settlements in 15th century Greenland. The book explores viking life and culture in detail, from their costumes and appearance to their longhouses and towns, including warfare, targets, and tactics are analyzed, as are their weapons, crafts, and other artifacts-including their stunning pattern-welded swords, their helmets, and their hoards. The ship, the linchpin of the viking world, is described and illustrated with numerous examples, among them Oseberg and Nydam.

Language: English
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 149 Color Illustrations. 183 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 8”
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
Edition:
Weight: 3
ISBN: 9.7805E+12
ISSN:
Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bibl. Bios. Index.


Code: 5926
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: Latest

Price: $34.95

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The Norse Greenlanders suddenly and enigmatically disappeared from South-Western Greenland where they had lived for almost 500 years until c.1450. Fortunately, the Greenlandic soil has preserved a unique cultural heritage from the Norse settlers. Here is a complete catalogue of Norse textile finds from the 28 sites excavated by Danish archaeologists in the past 200 years. The book tells the exciting story of one of the 20th century’s most spectacular archaeological finds: the excavation of the Herjolfsnæs graveyard in 1921 where, because wood has always been extremely scarce in Greenland, bodies had been buried in multiple layers of cast-off clothing instead of coffins. The occasional thaws had permitted crowberry and dwarf willows to establish themselves in the top layers of soil. Their roots grew through clothing and corpses alike, binding them together in a vast network of fibres - as if the finds had literally been woven into the earth.

Language: English
Pages: 296
Illustrations: 165 Color Illustrations. 76 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 13”x 8 1/2”
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
Edition:
Weight: 3
ISBN: 8772889357
ISSN:
Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bibl. Index.


Code: 5473
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $75.00

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This is a catalogue of chinese painter, Zhang Xiaotao, featuring a compilation of essays written on his artistic development in the period 1998-2004. Interviews with the artist, artist biography and artist statement are included. On one hand he makes use of vulgar and popular images, both ancient and modern and on the other hand, he tries to make them free from the “plane” narrative logic so as to help those images into a contradictory and dramatic state and bring about a new socialized meaning. The artist says, “Sometimes I feel like a grain of sand, an ant, a dead rat, decaying stinking garbage. In my paintings those small parts of human existence I want to show: the angst, the insignificance, the composition, the stress.”

Language: English/ Chinese
Pages: 128
Illustrations: 7 Color Illustrations. 154 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8 1/2”x 11”
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: None
Edition:
Weight: 2
ISBN: 9889808609
ISSN:
Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bio. Cat. of exh.


Code: 5548
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $45.00

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“Young Glass” is a major international competition established to award and promote innovation and excellence in contemporary glass within the younger generation. This competition is the 3rd competition thus far. This wonderful book highlights each competitor with a brief biography and explaination of the intentions they had in creating their work.

Language: Danish / English
Pages: 152
Illustrations: 73 Color Illustrations. 69 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8”sq
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: Glass Survey
Edition: Exh. Cat.: Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, 2007
Weight: 2
ISBN: 9.78879E+12
ISSN:
Location of Exhibition: Bios. Cat. of exh.
Miscellaneous:


Code: 6104
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: Latest

Price: $75.00

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