The Majesty of Mississippi

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Mississippi is a treasure trove of historically and architecturally significant structures, and "The Majesty of Mississippi" celebrates examples from across the state. Stunning color photographs capture highlights from the beautifully preserved town of Natchez, whose Southern charm attracts thousands of tourists annually, to the plantation mansions rising from the Delta's rich alluvial soil, to the coastal landmarks bearing diverse influences from that area's Spanish, French, and British rule. Mississippi's numerous historic homes offer an unforgettable glimpse of the lost South. Many of these treasures, including Stanton Hall in Natchez, considered one of the finest house museums in the country, to Jefferson Davis's last home at Beauvoir in Biloxi, are open to the public.

The Majesty of Natchez (Majesty Architecture)

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The Majesty of Natchez (Majesty Architecture)
Steven Brooke , and Reid Smith
Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
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ASIN: 1565541588

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History beautifully brought to life
As much a travel account as an architectural

Majesty of the Mississippi Delta
Jim Fraiser
Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
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Vanished Mississippi Gulf Coast

ASIN: 1565548698

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History beautifully brought to life.......2003-07-07

If your love of beauty and history extends to architecture but your travel budget is limited, consider obtaining a copy of THE MAJESTY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA.

Author Jim Fraiser and photographer West Freeman traveled the 200-mile length of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, the heart of of the realm of King Cotton, to assemble the text and illustrations for this handsome, informative little book. The result is replete with fascinating anecdotes about times long past and splendid pictures of the extraordinarily beautiful homes, churches and public buildings that stand as a monument to an era.

Beginning at Port Gibson, the "Gateway to the Delta," and the classic simplicity of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Messers Fraiser and Freeman trace the history of this diverse and scenic region in both the lives of its founders and the exquisite constructs they created. The text is filled with gossipy tidbits as well as less-familiar history, like the chandelier from the famous steamboat Robert E. Lee that hangs in Port Gibson's First Presbyterian Church and the tale of the ghost of owner John Bobb, murdered by Union soldiers, that purportedly still roams the flying-wing stairway and double-tiered galleries of McRaven in Vicksburg.

This book is for those whose hunger for beauty extends to that crafted by the hands of man. If it has a flaw, it is that the taste of these magnificent structures it provides leaves the reader hungry to sample them first-hand. Should one be fortunate enough to do that, they could do worse than to tuck their copy of THE MAJESTY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA into their tote as a reference.

As much a travel account as an architectural.......2002-08-06

Majesty Of The Mississippi Delta is as much a travel account as an architectural and art history of the homes, churches, and stores on the Mississippi Delta. Color photos of both interiors and exteriors are accompanied by quotes from historical documents and descriptions of each building. A rich history for those who enjoy architectural history in general and the Mississippi area in particular.

The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast

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The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast
Rick Guy
Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
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ASIN: 158980158X

The journal of Andrew Ellicott,: Late commissioner on behalf of the United States ... for determining the boundary between the United States and the possessions ... of His Catholic Majesty (Americana classics)

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The journal of Andrew Ellicott,: Late commissioner on behalf of the United States ... for determining the boundary between the United States and the possessions ... of His Catholic Majesty (Americana classics)
Andrew Ellicott
Manufacturer: Quadrangle Books
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ASIN: B0007DN89U

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Majesty of Spain
Mississippi Commissi
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ASIN: B000VVXZV4

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Mississippi Commissi
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ASIN: B000TXI5QY

MAJESTY OF SPAIN, THE, Royal Collections from the Museo Del Prado and the Patrimonio Nacional, March 1 - September 3, 2001, Jackson, Mississippi

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MAJESTY OF SPAIN, THE, Royal Collections from the Museo Del Prado and the Patrimonio Nacional, March 1 - September 3, 2001, Jackson, Mississippi
Inc, Presented By Mississippi Commission for International Cultural Exchange
Manufacturer: Mississippi Commision for International Cultural Exchange
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VJYS0S

A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6;: Performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship ... Series C: The Trans-Mississippi west)

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A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6;: Performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship ... Series C: The Trans-Mississippi west)
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Manufacturer: Printed for J. Booth [etc.]
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ASIN: B00086KNJY

Fraiser explores Delta's majesty in latest book. (book review): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal

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Fraiser explores Delta's majesty in latest book. (book review): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal
Julie Whitehead
Manufacturer: Venture Publications
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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on February 4, 2002. The length of the article is 597 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fraiser explores Delta's majesty in latest book. (book review)
Author: Julie Whitehead
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 4, 2002
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 24 Issue: 5 Page: 30(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Artwork by Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Robert Gober, Ann Hamilton, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Fred Wilson. Edited by Lynn Herbert. Contributions by Rick Lowe, Dana Friis-Hansen. Text by Paola Morsiani, Marti Mayo.

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Without Boundary
Homi Bhabha , Orhan Pamuk , Ghada Amer , Mike Kelley , Shirin Neshat , and Bill Viola
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0870700855
Release Date: 2006-02-01

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The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining term in the consideration of works by artists such as Mona Hatoum and Shirin Neshat. Resisting any homogenizing impulse, Without Boundary recognizes a need to ask if this art is marked by an Islamic difference. Author and curator Fereshteh Daftari considers issues ranging from the aesthetic legacy of Islamic art to contemporary ideas of identity and faith. Essays by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry, whose own academic and curatorial background involves traditional Islamic arts; Homi Bhabha, the preeminent theorist and scholar of the postcolonial condition; and the Turkish writer and novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the German Book Peace Prize and author of My Name Is Read and Snow. Artists include Jananne-Al-Ani, Ghada Amer, Kutlug Ataman, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Mona Hatoum, Shirazeh Houshiary, Emily Jacir, Y.Z. Kami, Mike Kelley, Rachid Koraichi, Shirin Neshat, Marjane Satrapi, Shirana Shahbazi, Raqib Shaw, Shahzia Sikander and Bill Viola.

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Shirin Neshat: The Last Word
Hamid Dabashi , and Shirin Neshat
Manufacturer: Charta/MUSAC
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ASIN: 8881585510
Release Date: 2006-01-01

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The first monograph to thoroughly document Shirin Neshat's video production, The Last Word provides both a beautiful reminder of her work's color and intensity and a crucial tool for her increasing number of fans and scholars. Neshat, who studied in the United States and has lived in New York for many years, found international success following the explosive release of her images of Muslim women wrapped in chadors with verses by rebel Persian poetesses traced on their faces, hands and feet. She became renowned when her short film Turbulent was awarded the Leone d'Oro at the 1999 Venice Biennale. With her camera persistently focused on the veiled women of the Muslim world, Neshat has continued to make striking and courageous work of rare beauty and intensity, and has presented it to continuing acclaim. She goes fearlessly into the widening gulf between conformism and revolt, submission and compliance, that characterizes the women of the Muslim world, seeking out images from the far sides of the divide that will both narrow the distance and help viewers sound its depths. The Last Word is a necessity for those who would approach, informed, the poetic works and the fierce commitment of an extraordinary artist.

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damage of the book.......2007-09-12

The book was in a poor condition. The frame of the book was damaged seriously. I have to send it to someone who can repair this.
If you want I can send a picture of the damage.
regards Jan van Duyn

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Shirin Neshat: Two Installations
Bill Horrigan , and Shirin Neshat
Manufacturer: Wexner Center for the Arts
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1881390268
Release Date: 2000-12-02

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One of the most exciting and important young artists of the past decade, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat has addressed issues of nation, colonialism, and gender in a variety of media, always challenging our preconceptions about art and society. She is particularly renowned for her film installations, which have been featured at several Whitney Biennials--and this new catalogue accompanies Raptureand Fervor, the second and third films in a trilogy exploring the social, political and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies. The emphasis here is on the interplay between the explicit text and the implicit subtext in Islamic ritual, and how the emotions stirred up by these rituals can take on mercurial and contradictory forms.

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Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat
Manufacturer: Steidl
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ASIN: 3865212298
Release Date: 2006-04-01

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When the novella Women without Men was published in Tehran in 1989, it was promptly banned and its author, Shahrnush Parsipur, imprisoned. Fifteen years later, Shirin Neshat has begun to make a film based on ParsipurIs work, which will become her first feature-length work. The first installments, documented here, introduce the lives of five women who find themselves in a deceptively paradisiacal garden after a difficult journey. NeshatIs subversively dual filmic language, orientated towards both Iranian and western modes of cinematography, brings viewers and readers the open-endedness of her perspective on authenticity in both ethnicity and art, and brings to the fore her complex identity and the complex identity of her artistic practice--historically Western art for a largely Western audience centered on Iranian topics. This new book offers a provocative allegory of life in Iran today, and this sneak peek at NeshatIs earliest work on it offers an invaluable glimpse of her working methods.

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Imagining Prometheus
Dario Del Corno , Salvatore Natali , Moni Ovadia , Catherine PerlEs , Wole Soyinka , Vittorio Storaro , Tadashi Suzuki , Fabrizio Plessi , Shirin Neshat , and Robert Wilson
Manufacturer: Charta
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ASIN: 8881584395
Release Date: 2004-02-02

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In Greek mythology, Prometheus is the Titan who dared steal fire from the gods. The spark he snuck from the sun gave man the ability to produce fire and create light, and thus began his capacity to develop the arts. Imagining Prometheus unfolds a meditation on the phenomenology of light by a philosopher, an archeologist, and a Greek scholar, as well as by artists from five continents, including Shirin Neshat and Robert Wilson.

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Interviews by Gerald Matt
Gerald Matt
Manufacturer: Walther Konig
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 386560188X
Release Date: 2007-07-01

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During his long and illustrious career as a curator, Gerald Matt, the current Director of Kunsthalle Vienna, had many insightful conversations with the top artists of the day. Gathered here are 40 interviews with contemporary artists including Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Candice Breitz, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, Raymond Pettibon, Santiago Sierra, Francesco Vezzoli and Yang Fudong, among others, accompanied by numerous color illustrations of each artist's work. According to Matt, "The interviews gathered together in this volume attempt to provide a panoramic overview of contemporary artistic production modes without demystifying the aesthetic puzzle with hasty answers. The point here is not to exhibit shut and dried views of the world but to sketch open systems that admit some space for continuing discourse. Allow yourself to be carried forward by the flow of words without expecting exhaustive help for your life. Entirely in keeping with the motto that Raymond Pettibon wrote on one of his drawings: 'Whatever you are looking for, you won't find it here.'"

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Monument To Now
Takashi Murakami , Wolfgang Tillmans , Alison Gingeras , Chris Ofili , Gillian Wearing , Janine Antoni , Matthew Barney , Vanessa Beecroft , Olafur Eliasson , Robert Gober , Andreas Gursky , Mike Kelley , Jeff Koons , Paul McCarthy , Shirin Neshat , Kiki Smith , Chen Zhen , and Ashley Bickerton
Manufacturer: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
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ASIN: 0964853086
Release Date: 2004-07-02

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"Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. Eighty-five of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan, and Paris have contributed essays and selected the included artists. Designed by acclaimed graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister, the hardcover edition features a three-dimensional monument affixed to the front cover; the paperback retains some trace of the monument, perhaps a footprint of the monument on the front cover, a pop-up monument inside, or some other invention. The follow-up to Everything That's Interesting Is New, an earlier book on the Joannou collection, Monument to Now strictly includes work dating from 1985 and later, with a focus on the artists who are most relevant now. Among many new acquisitions featured are works by Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Mariko Mori, Chris Ofili, Tom Sachs, Fred Tomaselli, and Kara Walker. Other included artists are Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, Rineke Dijkstra, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Peter Halley, Mike Kelley, Toba Khedoori, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Cady Noland, Gabriel Orozco, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Christopher Wool, and Chen Zhen."

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Neshat Shirin
Ruth Noack , Matt Gerald , and Gerald Matt
Manufacturer: Art Data
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ASIN: 3852470250

Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane and Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art

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Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane and Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art
John B. Ravenal
Manufacturer: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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ASIN: 0917046617

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Borrowing from the title of Andy Warhol's 1965 double-screen film, Outer and Inner Space, this book explores how video art addresses the interplay between external reality and internal states of mind. Three recent video installations -- by Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Seshat, and Jane and Louise Wilson -- are placed in the context of forty influential early works from the late 1960s to mid-1980s. These pairings underscore both the change and the continuity in video art, from its rough-edged experimental origins to works that use sophisticated technology to create environments of image and sound.

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