Clark – Civilisation

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Clark

Personal Author:

Clark, Kenneth

Title:

Civilisation/ Kenneth Clark

Publication info:

New York:  Harper & Row Publishers, c1969

Physical description:

359p.:  illus.; photos; index (pp.349-359); 24 cm.

Summary:

Kenneth Clark’s sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. Against these historical backgrounds he sketches an extraordinary cast of characters — the men and women who gave new energy to civilisation and expanded our understanding of the world and of ourselves. He also highlights the works of genius they produced — in architecture, sculpture and painting, in philosophy, poetry and music, and in science and engineering, from Raphael’s School of Athens to the bridges of Brunel.

Subject term:

Art–Civilization

Tags:

archtecture, art, artists, Engineering, Europe, history, music, philosophers, science, sculpture

Lewis – Preacher’s Daughter

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Lewis

Personal Author:

Lewis, Beverly, 1949-

Title:

The preacher’s daughter / Beverly Lewis.

Publication info:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers, c2005.

Physical description:

349 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

(Annie’s people ; 1)

Summary: The Preacher’s Daughter begins a new series filled with heartache and homespun delight as it focuses on Amish life. Paradise, Pennsylvania, is likened to a little slice of heaven on earth…but for Annie Zook–the preacher’s eldest daughter–it seems like a dead-end street. She is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is “still deciding.” Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace.

Subject term:

Children of clergy–Fiction.

Subject term:

Women artists–Fiction.

Subject term:

Amish–Fiction.

ISBN:

0764201204 (alk. paper) : $19.99