The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists, Paperback - Peter Murray

Why exactly did Van Gogh cut off his ear? Was Warhol an original or just a copyist? This title provides answers to all this. It includes entries th...

This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn...

This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the ...

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus's "The Artist at Work" to Bernard Malamud's "Rembrandt's Hat" and Aimee B...

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, ...

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Second edition with over 7, 500 updated geological definitions.

Reducere. The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artist...

An outstanding distillation of Grimal's classic reference, this extensively cross-referenced work offers clear and concise entries that capture the...

A collection of over 6000 proverbs (and their origins).

A completely new and fully-comprehensive book aimed at anyone who has contact with the construction industry.

Worried about your maternal effect or biological clock? Need to know a rhizoid from a rhizome? Think you're going to fail your zoology or botany ex...

A dictionary of international relations that provides an overview of this complex subject. Ranging from the Arab-Israeli conflict to weapons of mas...

Many courses in literary or cultural studies include some discussion of psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-modernism, linguistics and semiotics. T...

July 1918. A band of Allied Royal Flying Corps airmen are determined to escape Germany's harshest POW camp. Their plan will become the most ambitio...

The Telegraph kicked off the 2006-07 academic year with the declaration "Nota bene: Latin is back." Arguably, it never really went away. Despite lo...

well-known poems such as Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and Auden's 'Musee de Beaux-Arts', Homer's immortal account of the forging of the Shield of...

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders wi...

Description- An engaging and accessible guide to the galleries, art museums and artists of London, past and present- Authored by Hettie Judah, cont...

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Takes in various branches of pure and applied mathematics, from algebra to mechanics and from number theory to statistics. Suitable for students at...

Reducere. This fun and easy Trace-Along art activity book allows budding artists (5 and up) to use the wooden drawing tool enclosed to trace the white outlin...

This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Esche...

A dictionary that covers all the important topics in this key subject area including chemistry, physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human ana...

Examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Terry Gross"I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air . . ." Now available in paperback--a selection of revealing interviews fr...

Art Making with MoMA, from the educators at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents 20 interactive activities that encourage kids (and adults ...

Reducere. GET STARTED WITH METAL INERT GAS (MIG) WELDINGA practical guide with step-by-step instructions and hands-on projects for newcomers to metalwork and...

Reducere. Chromatography is the study of colors and pigments; this book is designed to guide painters, artists and others to the classification and theory be...

Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance. Each c...

For every commercial work released by an artist, countless doodles and sketches remain in sketchbooks, unseen by all but a select few. It is a rare...

Reducere. Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in thr...

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio VasariTranslator: George BullIntroduction by: George BullIn his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Va...

Over 1, 900 entries provide succinct and accessible explanations of a variety of terms used in art, covering materials, techniques, styles, and per...

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing ex...

CD 1: 1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 / I. Molto allegro con fuoco - Murray Perahia / Sir Neville Marriner 2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in G ...

Contributor(s): Author: Ying YiWith: Xiaobing TangIn this lavishly illustrated study, the scholar and critic Yi Ying brings a distinctly Chinese pe...

From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives ...

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio VasariTranslator: George BullIntroduction by: George BullIn his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Va...

Reducere. What Makes Art, Art? It is one of the most rhetorical questions that every person answering the way they want. And they cannot be criticized. In th...

DescriptionGirl on Girl looks at how women are using photography, the internet and the female gaze to explore self-image and female identity in con...

'A rich harvest of harrowing adventures recounted in fascinating detail' Daily TelegraphPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Peter HopkirkIllustr...

This stunningly illustrated book examines the history of poster design and its relation to the arts and broader culture.

Journey into the history of English and discover how words have entered our language to make it what it is today.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor...