Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form - Marina Warner

DescriptionMarina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female fo...

Reducere. The Allegory of the Cave is a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter, in which Plato elucidates h...

Reducere. Plato's Allegory of the Cave is one of the most elegant and important metaphors in Western philosophy. It is a dialogue between Plato's brother Gla...

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition - C. S. Lewis

Reducere. Did you ever wonder if there's more out there? Did anyone ever try to lead you away from what you know into something you don't know? That's what h...

This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari's painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 1551-52 for the Bishop of Arezzo, Vasari'...

Reducere. Draw It With Me: The Dynamic Female Figure art book explores anatomical, gestural, comic / anime and fine art / life drawing studies of the human f...

Reducere. Draw It With Me: The Dynamic Female Figure art book explores anatomical, gestural, comic / anime and fine art / life drawing studies of the human f...

Reducere. The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love...

Reducere. Jackie is known throughout the world as the best female athlete ever - the winner of six Olympic medals, three of them gold; the current world-reco...

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power, the...

Reducere. 1. Happy 4: 03 2. Froot 5: 31 3. I'm A Ruin 4: 32 4. Blue 4: 14 5. Forget 4: 09 6. Gold 4: 14 7. Can't Pin Me Down [Explicit] 3: 25 8. Solitaire 4:...

This polemical exploration of art addresses the political and social in relation to the contextual and aesthetic, applying a literary perspective t...

Reducere. Draw It With Me: A Study of the Human Form art book explores the use of Anatomy, Gesture, Line, Chiaroscuro, Color and Texture in contemporary as w...

Reducere. Draw It With Me: A Study of the Human Form art book explores the use of Anatomy, Gesture, Line, Chiaroscuro, Color and Texture in contemporary as w...

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of ap...

Reducere. Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thriv...

This accessible textbook provides an ideal point of entry into the field, providing basic information on the nature of soft-sediment ecosystems, ex...

Publisher: Afterall PublishingAuthor(s): Marina WarnerIllustration(s): 32 colour platesNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 1...

Publisher: RidinghouseAuthor(s): Marina WarnerIllustration(s): 32 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 241 x 22...

Reducere. Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams rev...

With over 150 monuments, Richmond ranks among the nation's best cities in devotion to its past, its leaders and its famous citizens. But the storie...

Reducere. Allegory of the Cave - Plato - The Allegory of the Cave was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work the Republic to compare "the effec...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as 'Pu...

This book provides a new appreciation of the writing of John Donne by studying it through Walter Benjamin's concept of baroque allegory. Close read...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memo...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Stuart RankinIllustration(s): 186 illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Collection: Oakwood Library of Railway ...

Reducere. A young Jewish boy is given a star to wear. At first he is proud of the decoration, but soon finds the star overshadowing him--no one sees the boy,...

Presents a photographic and narrative survey of the major sites of the Inca empire, including the famed city of Machu Picchu, the Inca town and sun...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...