Power of Art, Paperback - Simon, CBE Schama

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art.

Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable st...

A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to surv...

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behin...

Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

"First published in French as Le Pouvoir de l'art (c) Editions Saint-Simon, 2018"--T.p. verso.

Aceasta carte face parte din colectia Anansi Mentor. Arta este o minciuna care te face sa intelegi adevarul. - Pablo Picasso Arta extraordinara are...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home...

Reducere. In this New York Timesbestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magn...

Puterea artei - Simon Schama

This introduction to the work of the 16th-century master portraitist Hans Holbein reveals the impressive and surprising scope of his career.Publish...

Discover the life and work of Frida Kahlo in this introduction to the iconic Mexican artist.Illustrations: 55 Illustrations, color

Celebrate the life and work of Peter Paul Rubens with this informative introduction to the Flemish artist.Illustrations: 55 Illustrations, color

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Turner makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Leonardo da Vinci makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of apprecia...

Discover the dramatic life and work of Amedeo Modigliani, a pioneer of modern figurative painting.Illustrations: 55 Illustrations, color

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Rembrandt makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso.

An elegant introduction to Egon Schiele's career, this book untangles the mysteries and misunderstandings behind his genius.

Work of art My feelings for you are a breathless moment in time. This tingly sensation I get, since the first time we met. These feelings I have ye...

Reducere. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to re...

Get a glimpse into the life and work of painter, sculptor, and printmaker Edgar Degas, who is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism.Publ...

Learn about Henri Matisse, one of 20th century's most beloved artists, and his artistic legacy.Publisher: PrestelAuthor(s): Eckhard HollmannIllustr...

``With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beautiful w...

Reducere. Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by "postart, " a term invented by Alan K...

Get to know the master figurative painter Lucian Freud who depicted humanity with a poet's gaze and a perfectionist's eye for detail. Lucian Freud ...

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...

Explore the vibrant work of the artist Marc Chagall in this lively introduction and discover how his unique narrative style embraced Jewish culture...

This new history of over 5, 000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that ha...

An updated edition of a classic volume in the World of Art series.

A Brief Illustrated History of Art charts the history of art all the way from Prehistoric art through Classical art, through the Renaissance, to Cu...

The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will subst...

This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous so...

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 ...

Reducere. At the end of the 1970s, Keith Haring decorates the walls of the subway tunnels in New York with simple, two-dimensional characters. His tag is "Th...

Dada was a protest by a group of European artists against World War I, bourgeois society, and the conservativism of traditional thought. This title...

Reducere. This book, the first comprehensive study in English of Heidegger's philosophy of art, starts in the mid-1930s with Heidegger's discussion of the Gr...

This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth...

A chronicle of rock 'n' roll history as seen through the lens of master photographer Terry O'Neill (CBE).Publisher: ACC Art BooksAuthor(s): Terry, ...

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Paul C zanne makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation....

Reducere. Suzi Gablik's last book, "Has Modernism Failed?", won readers with its passionate, scathing critique of an enervated contemporary art scene. Now "T...

'Toward a Geography of Art' offers essays that examine the intricacies of accounting for the geographical dimension of art history during the early...

'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 88 colour illusNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 29Cover type:...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigIllustration(s): 54 b/wNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 208 x 36Cover ty...

Examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrence's major works through a literary device that the author coins ""the constitutive symbol""....