John Picton (201 results)

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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

2nd printing. A comprehensive survey of textiles and clothing, primarily of West Africa but also to a lesser extent of North Africa, illustrated. 208 pages. Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Dust jacket flaps are corner-clipped. Light wear to jacket. ; Softcover with dust jacket. CColor and b/w illustrations. Due to size, ships within US only and only by media rate mail. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 208 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Spine is sunned. Cover is worn, particularly along edges. Corners are folded. Cover page has previous owner's signature. Back binding glue is exposed. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Lavishly illustrated with examples of cloth in the collections of the British Museum and field photographs showing details of their manufacture and subsequent use. 208 pages With 28 color and 204 black and white illustrations. ; 8 1/2 x 11 ".

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Printing of the First Edition. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1970. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. 8.25" wide by 8.25" tall. Illustrated with 7 color and 26 black & white photographs. Catalogue of an exhibition of pottery and decorative arts by the British Museum's Keeper of Ethnology. Bound in the original full-color pictorial wraps. . First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. 48pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Gd. condition - African prints on exhibition . Reference/ Handbook (TN1840ml). Book.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Charitable organisations occupy a central place in society across much of the world, accounting for billions of pounds in revenue. As society changes, so does the law which regulates nonprofit organisations. From independent schools to foodbanks, they occupy a broad policy space. Not immune to scandals, sometimes nonprofits are in the news for all the wrong reasons and so, when they are in the public eye, regulators must respond to high profile cases. In this book, a team of internationally recognised charity law experts offers a modern take on a fast-changing policy field. Through the concept of policy debates it moves the field forward, providing an important reference point for developing scholarship in charity law and policy. Each chapter explores a policy debate, setting out the fault-lines in play, and often offering proposals for reform. Two important themes are explored in this edited collection. First, there is a policy tension in charity law between its largely conservative history and the need to keep up-to-date with social change. This pressure is felt acutely along key fault-lines, such as the extent to which a body of law which developed before the advent of legislated human rights is able to adapt to a rights-based world, and the extent to which independent schools - historically so closely linked with charity - might deserve their generous tax-breaks. The second theme explores the law from the perspective of a good-faith regulator, concerned to maximise the usefulness of charities. From the need to reform old organisations, to the need to ensure that charities enjoy the right amount of regulatory freedom in a world of payment-by-result contracts, the book critically charts the policy justifications for regulatory intervention, as well as the costs that such intervention might bring. Debates in Charity Law will be of interest to both academic researchers and students of the non-profit sector, looking to understand the links between law, social change and regulation. It will also help and guide nonprofit employees and volunteers, showing how their sector is shaped and moulded by the law.…

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Condition: Fine condition. One of the most obvious features of the material culture of Africa is cloth. Beautifully illustrated with color and black and white photos showing the textiles, illustrating the methods of creation and displaying way the people wear and use these striking fabrics. Perfect bound paperback 10-3/4" x 8-1/2" 4to. 208 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1970). 48pp. VG clean copy.

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy, with light tanning to pages and in a good readable condition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Prestel, March 1999. Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Light reading wear to corners with a curl to bottom corner. A book that clearly has been used, but remains in very nice condition. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. More than 600 photographs, nine detailed maps, bibliography, index of ethnic groups. 620 pages. 9.75 x 11.75 x 1.75 inches Heavy item (7 pounds): extra charges for expedited or international shipping. First published on the occasion of an exhibition held October 4, 1995 - January 21, 1996 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. This magnificent celebration of the world's oldest and most diverse artistic traditions is the definitive book on African art. Ranging from the oldest known human artifact, circa 1.6 million BC, to pieces made within living memory, the objects collected in this extraordinary volume reflect a continent of enormous cultural and historical scope. Arranged chronologically within seven geographical sections, it offers an astonishing array of sculptures in wood, bronze, stone, and gold, as well as mural paintings, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles culled from private and public collections around the world. Commentary by renowned scholars illuminates the cultural and historical significance of these pieces, and in-depth authoritative texts highlight critical aspects of each region. Together these words and images take readers on an artistic grand tour through a continent of unparalleled diversity, and towards the thrilling discovery of not one Africa, but many. Contents: Preface by Cornel West; Why Africa? Why Art? by Kwame Anthony Appiah; Europe, African Art, and the Uncanny by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; The African Past by Peter Garlake; Ancient Egypt and Nubia (89 objects) by Edna R. Russmann and Laslo Torok; Eastern Africa (67 objects) by John Mack; Southern Africa (48 objects) by Patricia Davison; Central Africa (140 objects) by Daniel Biebuyck and Frank Herreman; West Africa and the Guinea Coast (142 objects) by John Picton; Sahel and Savanna (60 objects) by René A. Bravmann; Northern Africa (67 objects) by Timothy A. Insoll, M. Rachel MacLean, R. J. A. Wilson, Nadia Erzini and Rachel Ward. …

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paperback. Condition: Good. British Museum [Published Date: 1970]. Soft cover, 48 pp. Catalog published in connection with the exhibtion held at the Britihs Museum in 1970. In good condition. Square pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and soiling with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Contents include: Preface by William Fagg and John Picton; Introduction / The Potter's Art in Africa : Pottery as art, the earliest pottery, the Nok Culture, Ife, Women as potters: exceptions, Techniques, The arrangement and dates of the pots in this exhibition, Ghana: sacred pottery, Ghana: terra-cotta sculpture, Chana: useful Pots, Cameroon grasslands, The Gbaya of Central Cameroon, The Western Congo, The Congo, North-east Africa, East Africa, The Luzira Head, Southern Africa, Northern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria: terra-cottas, The Yoruba, the Ibo of Nigeria, Western Ibo, Eastern Nigeria, The Ibo and Ijo, The Kabyles of Algeria [From Preface] This selection, from the point of view of art, from the African pottery held in the Department of Ethnography has been chosen fairly evenly from the resources available. It is immediately evident from a perusal of the list of exhibition cases that whereas there is a reasonably adequate coverage of many of the areas in which British people have worked during the past century or so, other areas, such as those frequented by Frenchmen during the same period, are almost totally lacking in our collections. There are some notable exceptions, such as the great Kabyle collection which we owe mainly to Mrs Eustace Smith about the turn of the century, and of course the Bakuba collections from the Congo, made by Emil Torday a few years later (and the Congo collections have been further supplemented by very numerous, though undocumented, specimens in the benefaction of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1954). Steps are now being taken wherever possible to obtain collections from other areas, beginning with the fine collection from the Gbaya of central Cameroon, perhaps the most famous of African potters, made by the University College of Wales Central Cameroon Expedition in 1969. .…