[center]

Gold - Nature and Culture
epub | 33.22 MB | English | Rebecca Zorach | 2016 | Reaktion Books | Page: 224

[/center]

About Gold - Nature and Culture :

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 the faces of rulers on currency. It has been the icon of value-the surest bet in times of uncertain markets-yet also of valuelessness, something King Midas learned the hard way. And, as Zorach and Phillips detail, it has been at the center of many clashes between...

[center]
Download link Here 

https://rapidgator.net/file/7888b7a03b5c69539e24e6822142a201/Gold.-.Nature.and.Culture.epub

http://nitroflare.com/view/B9963C60407035B/Gold.-.Nature.and.Culture.epub

[/center]