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Title: Myanmar Style: Art, Architecture and Design of Burma by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Elizabeth Moore, Daniel Kahrs, Alfred Birnbaum, Virginia McKeen Di Crocco, Joe Cummings, John Falconer, Kim Inglis, Luca Invernizzi ISBN: 9-6259339-7-2 Publisher: Periplus Editions Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and Informative Sourcebook
Comment: I own at least a dozen books in which the second word of the Title is "Style", but this is certainly one of the best. Well organized, informative and full of beautiful photographs. Looking through this book you can learn about the Architecture and Design of Myanmar. The book is divided into sections dealing with Religious and Secular Architecture, Early and Modern Architecture and Arts and Crafts. At the end of the book there is a section of Textiles and Costumes, and another entitled the Pagoda Market which shows photographs and gives descriptions of vendors of various types of handicrafts. Thus a cross section of the different aspects of the Myanmar Style are given, without adaptations by Western Interior Decorators. Some "Style" Books are misleading because they show the adaptations, primarily in the West, of Stylistic Elements. While these books are ok, I prefer to see the Style as it actually is in Myanmar, not a Architectural Digest type of interpretation. This book is free from this. The text is concise and informative. Not overloooked should be the quality of the photographs and the paper and printing, which in this case are all excellent. Some other books of this genre are not up to high quality. No worries here however. I highly recommend this book. It will make you want to visit Myanmar, or at least think about redesigning in your home.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant sourcebook
Comment: Finally, a book on art and design in Myanmar/Burma that does justice to the living traditions as well as the colonial and pre-colonial empires. Superb photography, thoughtful text, and some quirky subjects, too, such as the chapter The Great Pagoda Alley. Enjoyable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Superb varied and colorful view of buildings and crafts
Comment: This book adds both novelty and inspiration to an otherwise dull coffee table or mind. More touristically, this is one of the special books that make you go to the place and find where the interesting buildings not in the travel guides are. The pictures are excellent, not cropping so much as to glamourise rubbish, and not putting things out of context: in short, well edited text and visuals. One note, it has nothing to do with the experience of being in a third world country, but it is for the visual pleasure only.
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Title: Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness by Alan Rabinowitz ISBN: 1559638001 Publisher: Shearwater Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Silk Road : Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia by Frances Wood ISBN: 0520237862 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: From the Land of Green Ghosts : A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe ISBN: 0060505222 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ISBN: 0671027360 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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