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The perfect introduction to the life and work of this pioneering artist The work of Andy Warhol (1928-1987) reflected and commented on contemporary...

This companion text to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings addresses some of the questions most commonly asked about modern art, covering ke...

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Suitable for undergraduate and graduate physics students, this unique textbook provides an ideal entry point into particle, nuclear, and astroparti...

Evidence that Neanderthals caught birds and used their feathers for decoration, along with recent discoveries of Neanderthal cave art, are challeng...

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Richard R. Brettell's innovative and beautifully-illustrated account explores the works of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali--as we...

China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presenc...

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A witty, irreverent guide to the birth, development, and state-of-the-art of one of the most important theories in Earth Science. The book explains...

From Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today's art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on displa...

From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the arc...

Contributor(s): Author: Partha MitterThis concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5, 000 years of Indian art and architecture. A ri...

John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote ...

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In thi...

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DescriptionThere is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly de...

The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The ...

This exciting investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the c...

War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honored as the ...

Reducere. This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into ...

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Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivati...

In over 1, 000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidanc...

From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership,...

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Minerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems that...

Reducere. Arthur Mayger Hind (1880–1957) was a leading historian of engraving, one of the most highly respected art historians of modern times. Keeper of Pri...

DescriptionFor over a hundred years, the idea of the "avant-garde" has been perhaps the most important and influential force in modern culture, rul...

From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations....

Reducere. The Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society call...

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'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essa...

Reducere. The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand ye...

DescriptionWho were the ancient Phoenicians--and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Roma...

DescriptionIn The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to help musicians cultivate artist...

Reducere. Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental, " Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained th...

Hit England's can't-miss art, sights, and bites in two weeks or less with Rick Steves Best of England Rick's expert advice on what's worth your tim...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

Played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War, Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two ...

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origin...

Rilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the great twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 19...

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DescriptionEgypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and ...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and co...

Reducere. Keyboard artists in the time of J.S. Bach were simultaneously performers, composers, and improvisers. By the twentieth century, however, the art of...

Reducere. Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate our understanding of the ancient world, including the many contributi...

Reducere. In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian conc...

DescriptionRanging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in ...

Description"My brother officers. Are they human?" Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxf...

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death,...