Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, Paperback - James Elkins

DescriptionArt Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to...

DescriptionAt the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers"--those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill...

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What's behind the door? What's in front of the barn? Look inside this book to find out all about location words.

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 ...

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125)....

Contributor(s): Author: Teresa CortezThe Eyes That Have Cried is a true, first-person account of survival in a land torn by war.Teresa Cortez is a ...

A friendly and inspiring introduction to art history, telling the stories of the world's greatest paintings and artists from prehistory to the mode...

Reducere. Discover the remarkable history of the Trail of Tears...In the early 1800s, the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Muscogee-C...

Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to tell the story of the nati...

DescriptionIn this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy pro...

The first truly comprehensive analysis of the history, practice, and conservation of painting on canvas. Throughout its long history in Western art,...

Discusses and describes the material nature of paintings, how they age and the main types of conservation treatment carried out on panel and canvas...

Reducere. A sweeping novel of history, war, and courage in the face of injustice, Tears of Honor tells the story of the heroic Japanese American soldiers who...

With a witty twist on the well-known story, this is the ultimate story of friendship against the odds.

In Who Built Scotland, the authors pick twenty-five buildings to tell the history of a nation. In vivid travelogues, they explore Scotland's social...

Get to know the real Rome during a compelling 24 hours in the lives of the people who lived there.

Elkins's intimate history of art demonstrates persuasively that there can never be one story of art. The story of art is the story of different cul...

Offering ex-smokers new ways to cope with the challenges of remaining smoke-free.

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During a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their com...

Have you ever wondered what it was like to live and work in Egypt, the most powerful kingdom of the ancient world? Spend a day with 24 Egyptians to...

Reducere. Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native Ame...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Zapotec CivilizationThe Zapotecs lived and thrived, and became a civilization of interest to the Conquistado...

Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contr...

Reducere. A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the...

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Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the ret...

In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond t...

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Reducere. Explore the Cruel History of the Trail of TearsOne of the darkest and cruelest chapters in the history of the United States occurred when the natio...

Examines the curious endeavor to teach the unteachable that is generally known as college-level art instruction. This book traces the development (...

DescriptionWinner of the 2015 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book PrizeSerbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of the Great War to address...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nick LloydNumber of pages: 688Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 534 x 221 x 48Cover type: Paperback / softba...

What is the world's most famous family really like when it is out of the public gaze? This is the inside story of the royal family through the eyes...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill EducationAuthor(s): Pamela SlimNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 164 x 236 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedes...