Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, Paperback - James Hall

A new history of self-portraiture, and the artworks that offer the deepest insights into an artist's personal, psychological and creative world. No...

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This book offers a historically rich and nuanced introduction to the concept of sustainability that could not be of more pressing importance for th...

A cultural history of the Scottish HighlandsPublisher: Signal Books LtdAuthor(s): Andrew BeattieNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2014Dimension...

Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of arist...

Reducere. "The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine. . . . From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamer...

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DescriptionPerched above the confluence of two great rivers, the Sava and Danube, Belgrade has been home to many civilizations: Celts, Romans, Byza...

Ugly as sin, the ugly duckling--or maybe you fell out of the ugly tree? Let's face it, we've all used the word "ugly" to describe someone we've see...

Reducere. Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exp...

Reducere. Essayist and biographer Alan Jacobs introduces us to the world of original sin, which he describes as not only a profound idea but a necessary one....

Reducere. DescriptionThere is no more compelling nor more spiritual city than New Orleans. The city's Roman Catholic roots and its blended French, Spanish, C...

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Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Andrew SmithNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 232 x 162 x 12Cover type: Paperb...

A history of the twentieth century through those British and American people who experienced the fears of their time - by Wolfson History Prize-win...

Reducere. The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and...

Reducere. Although Illinois saw no dramatic witch trials, witchcraft has been a part of Illinois history and culture from French exploration to the present d...

Reducere. DescriptionFrance's performance in the 2002 World Cup brought back painful memories of a time when France was a weak contender in world and Europea...

Polish Electronic Music 1970-2020 offers a cultural history of popular Polish electronic music, from its beginning in the late 1960/early 1970s til...

A fresh look at American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman and the story of the apple. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the mean...

First full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Thijs PorckIllustr...

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DescriptionNow in paperback, this is a new cultural history of the ghost--one of the most popular and pervasive subjects worldwide. Spanning from t...

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An intimate memoir through words and images, in which the British painter Celia Paul is set to invite comparison to the literary, artistic and pers...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Celia PaulNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softb...

DescriptionWhether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the ven...

Reducere. "From that day on the surface was never enough." Environmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a t...

These poems stitch loss to memory, to colours and smells, to tastes of past and present, canvas and ink.Publisher: BiblioasisAuthor(s): Jessica Hie...

Reducere. It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising f...

Reducere. A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-...

Reducere. "By writing honestly about the difficulties of self-representation, Rader represents himself as a writer who cares deeply about his audience and hi...

Patricia Clark's poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. There's hard-won intelligence ...

A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, "Blue Self-Portrait" unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mi...

Reducere. At age eighteen, Yvonne set out to build a home from trees on eighty acres she bought on an Oregon mountainside. In 1975, log by log she creates a ...

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Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysteriou...

A book of poems by the world's celebrated poet.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdAuthor(s): John AshberyNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2007Dimensi...

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees, to be published in Arc's flagship translation series 'Visible Poets', combines the poet's unerring instinct for...

After six centuries, self-portraiture shows no sign of losing its ability to capture the public imagination. Self-portraits have the power to illum...