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Cornucopia (magazine)
''Cornucopia'' is a magazine about Turkish culture, art and history, published jointly in the United Kingdom and Turkey. Content ''Cornucopia'' was founded by John Scott and Berrin Torolsan in 1992. It is an English language magazine that concerns Turkish culture. The magazine has a broad scope that covers Turkey's heritage (prehistoric, Byzantine, Ottoman and Republican and that of the Turkic peoples. The magazine also documents recent auctions and exhibitions of Turkish Art and Islamic art around the world. It has a large books section with reviews by prominent contributors. ''Cornucopia'' also carries regular features on food, restaurants and life in Turkey by Berrin Torolsan, Andrew Finkel and Azize Ethem respectively. Heritage Notably, ''Cornucopia'' has brought publicity to some of Turkey's threatened heritage. * At the end of 1993 it documented the Mocan Yali in the historic area of Kuzguncuk, in ‘The Pink House’ by Andrew Finkel. The wooden building has since be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). Primitive Culture. Vol 1. New York: J.P. Putnam's Son Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a typica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Art
Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslim populations. Referring to characteristic traditions across a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, Islamic art is a concept used first by Western art historians since the late 19th century. Public Islamic art is traditionally non- representational, except for the widespread use of plant forms, usually in varieties of the spiralling arabesque. These are often combined with Islamic calligraphy, geometric patterns in styles that are typically found in a wide variety of media, from small objects in ceramic or metalwork to large decorative schemes in tiling on the outside and inside of large buildings, including mosques. Other forms of Islamic art include Islamic miniature painting, artefacts like Islamic glass or pottery, and textile arts, such as carpets and embroidery. The early developments of Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Brûlé
Jayson Tyler Brûlé (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian journalist, entrepreneur, and magazine publisher. He is the editorial director of ''Monocle''. Early years Jayson Tyler Brûlé is the only child of Canadian football player Paul Brule,Brûlé's father does not appear to have used any diacritical marks or accents on the family surname. and Virge Brule, an Estonian artist. Brûlé moved to Toronto to attend Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, but did not graduate. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1989 and trained as a journalist with the BBC. During this time, he subsequently wrote for numerous British press, including ''The Guardian'', ''Stern'', ''The Sunday Times'' and '' Vanity Fair''. Magazine ventures and design work In 1996, Brûlé took out a small business loan and launched ''Wallpaper'', a style and fashion magazine which was one of the most influential launches of the 1990s. Time Inc bought it for £1m in 1997, and kept Brûlé on as editorial director. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph & Courier''. Considered a newspaper of record over ''The Times'' in the UK in the years up to 1997, ''The Telegraph'' generally has a reputation for high-quality journalism, and has been described as being "one of the world's great titles". The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since 19 April 1858. The paper had a circulation of 363,183 in December 2018, descending further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation audits in 2019, having declined almost 80%, from 1.4 million in 1980.United Newspapers PLC and Fleet Holdings PLC', Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1985), pp. 5–16. Its si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Brown (satirist)
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born 23 May 1957) is an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in '' Private Eye''. Life and career Brown was educated at Eton and the University of Bristol and then became a freelance journalist in London, contributing to ''Harper's & Queen'' (collaborating with Lesley Cunliffe on articles, some of which resulting in books), ''Tatler'', ''The Spectator'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''Literary Review'', the ''Evening Standard'' (as a regular columnist), ''The Times'' (notably as parliamentary sketchwriter; these columns were compiled into a book called ''A Life Inside'') and ''The Sunday Times'' (as TV and restaurant critic). He later continued his restaurant column in ''The Sunday Telegraph'' and has contributed a weekly book review to ''The Mail on Sunday''. He created the characters of "Bel Littlejohn", an ultra-trendy New Labour type, in ''The Guardian'', and "Wallace Arnold", an extremely reactionary conservative, in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Freely
Maureen Deidre Freely Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (born July 1952) is an American journalist, novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme since 1996. Biography Born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, Neptune, New Jersey, she is the daughter of author John Freely, and has a brother, Brendan. Maureen Freely grew up in Turkey. She graduated from Harvard College. She now lives in England. She is the mother of four children and two step-children. She was married to Paul Spike, with whom she had a son and a daughter. Freely is an atheist. Work Freely lectures at the University of Warwick and is an occasional contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Independent'' newspapers. She is the current president of English PEN, the founding centre of PEN International. Among her novels is ''The Life of the Party'', set in Turkey. She has also written ''The Other Rebecca'', a contemporary version of Daphne du Maurier's classic 1938 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük (; also ''Çatal Höyük'' and ''Çatal Hüyük''; from Turkish ''çatal'' "fork" + ''höyük'' "tumulus") is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Çatalhöyük is located overlooking the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey, approximately 140 km (87 mi) from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan. The eastern settlement forms a mound that would have risen about 20 m (66 ft) above the plain at the time of the latest Neolithic occupation. There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric mound settlements were abandoned before the Bronze Age. A channel of the Çarşamba River once flowed between the two mounds, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mellaart
James Mellaart FBA (14 November 1925 – 29 July 2012) was an English archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market. He was also involved in a string of controversies, including the so-called mother goddess controversy in Anatolia, which eventually led to his being banned from excavations in Turkey in the 1960s. After his death it was discovered that he had forged many of his "finds", including murals and inscriptions used to discover the Çatalhöyük site. Biography Mellaart was born in 1925 in London. He lectured at the University of Istanbul and was an assistant director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (BIAA). In 1951 Mellaart began to direct excavations on the sites in Turkey with the assistance of his Turkish-born wife Arlette, who was the secretary of BIAA. He helped to identify the "cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edirne
Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1369 to 1453, before Constantinople became its capital. The city is a commercial centre for woven textiles, silks, carpets and agricultural products and has a growing tourism industry. In 2019 its estimated population was 185,408. Edirne has an attractive location on the rivers Meriç and Tunca and has managed to withstand some of the unattractive development that mars the outskirts of many Turkish cities. The town is famous in Turkey for its liver. ''Ciğer tava'' (breaded and deep-fried liver) is often served with a side of cacık, a dish of diluted strained yogurt with chopped cucumber. Names and etymology The city was founded and named after the Roman emperor Hadr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muradiye Mosque, Edirne
The Muradiye Mosque ( tr, Muradiye Camii) is a 15th-century Ottoman Empire, Ottoman mosque in Edirne, Turkey. The building is noted for the tiles that decorate the ''mihrab'' and the walls of the prayer hall. Construction and architecture The small mosque was commissioned by Murad II and completed in 1435-6. It originally formed part of a Mevlevi Order, Mevlevi dervish complex but was later converted into a mosque. The complex included a soup kitchen (''imaret'') and an elementary school (''mekteb'') but these buildings have not survived. The mosque has a T-shaped plan with a five bay portico and an entrance hall with a domed room on either side. The prayer hall is separated from the entrance hall by a solid arch. The building has been heavily repaired after suffering earthquake damage. The single stone minaret has been rebuilt several times; the present structure dates from 1957. Tiles Frieze The prayer hall has a tiled frieze around three walls and a large tiled ''mihrab'' set b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carswell (art Historian)
John Carswell may refer to: *Séon Carsuel (c. 1522 – 1572), Protestant reformer * J. P. Carswell (John Patrick Carswell, 1918–1997), English civil servant and author * John Carswell (bowls) (1887–?), Scottish international lawn bowler * John Caswell (1654 or 1655 – 1712), sometimes John Carswell, English mathematician *Douglas Carswell John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 May 1971) is a British former politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2017, co-founded Vote Leave and currently serves as president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. ... (John Douglas Wilson Carswell, born 1971), British Member of Parliament See also * Carswell, a surname {{hndis, Carswell, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
