In This, The Only Uptodate Critical Work On Still Life Painting In Any Language, Norman Bryson Analyzes The Origins, History And Logic Of Still Life,...
Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally considered as the greatest philosopher since Immanuel Kant, and his personal life, work, and his historical moment intertwined in a fascinating,...
From Victor Frankenstein to Dr. Moreau to Doc Brown in Back to the Future, the scientist has been a puzzling, fascinating, and threatening presence in...
This is the first comprehensive book on the work of the controversial artist Malcolm Morley. It covers his entire career to date, from his beginnings...
Qatar is a country of spectacular contrasts: from pearl fishing, its main industry until the 1930s, to gas and oil, which generate immense wealth today;...
Looking at Andy Warhols legacy as maker and muse, this book offers a critical examination of the coalescence of commerce and style.Merchants of Style explores...
With Michel Foucault, Reaktion Books introduces an exciting new series that brings the work of major intellectual figures to general readers, illuminating their groundbreaking ideas...
This Book Deals With The History Of Mining And Smelting From The Renaissance To The Present. Martin Lynch Opens With The Invention, Sometime Before 1453,...
This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453,...
Monarchies 1000 2000 surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on ageold custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in...
Monarchies 1000 2000 surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on ageold custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in...
Towards the end of the 1950s biologists, investigating the question of how art originated, came up with the idea of getting monkeys to paint pictures....
Known as the meat of the vegetable world, mushrooms have their ardent supporters as well as their fierce detractors. Hobbits go crazy over them, while...
Featuring a wealth of illustrations, a fungifilled tour of the importance of mushrooms, from the enchanted forests of folklore to their role in sustaining life...
This Elegantly Written Book Describes The Changes In The Perception And Experience Of The Night In Three Great European Cities: Paris, Berlin And London. The...
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Icon and Devotion offers the first extensive presentation in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of iconmaking is set into...
What do they all mean the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, potbellied heads, harpplaying asses, arsekissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the...
Isaac Newton Is One Of The Greatest Scientists In History, Yet The Spectrum Of His Interests Was Much Broader Than That Of Most Contemporary Scientists....
The surviving work of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 13951441) consists of a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most explanations...
The surviving work of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 13951441) consists of a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most explanations...
In the past 40 years, sculptor and installation artist Jannis Kounellis has established himself as a unique presence in the world of contemporary art. His...
Looking at the work of European artists including Moritz Daniel Oppenheim and Maurycy Gottlieb, Camille Pissarro and Marc Chagall, to those in the United States,...
With a career in literature and art spanning more than sixty years, John Berger is characterized by an independent and antiinstitutional approach to creativity. Working...
John Ruskin (18191900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially...
Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly...
Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous...
The eccentric, manic, often moving collaborative explorations of London's hidden streets, cemeteries, parks and canals by photographer Marc Atkins and writer Iain Sinclair were first...
We Live In An Electronic World, Saturated With Electronic Sounds. Yet, Electronic Sounds Arent A New Phenomenon; They Have Long Permeated Our Sonic Landscape. What...