Amedeo Modigliani Jahresplaner 2020 (Jahresplaner 2020, #16)
by Sandro Ink
Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art (Routledge Research in Gender and Art)
by Ersy Contogouris
This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton appears, her performances, and writings by her contemporaries to establish her impact on this pivotal moment in European history and art. This pioneering volume shows that Hamilton did not attempt to p...
Artists throughout history have produced works capturing the innocence and hope children represent. This volume presents 42 such paintings - from artists including Holbein, van Dyck, Renoir and Mary Cassatt - portraits of children with parents, siblings, playmates, pets and toys. Each picture is accompanied by a poem written for or about children, including favourites from Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Sugar Skull Coloring Book For Adults - Life and Death, two stages of existence
From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women-some with wings, others with clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses-reveal both fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of flying women as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, expressed in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She covers a wide rang...
Sugar Skull Coloring Book For Adults - Life and Death, two stages of existence
With centuries of artistic wisdom, The Portrait Sketchbook offers everything you need to train your eye, hand, and mind. Explore and experience the creative processes of iconic draughtsmen to realize your own original style; quickly sketch passersby with da Vinci; create a ghostlike form with Seurat; master Ingres' evocation of the most kissable lips; and adopt Freud's liberating directness.Featuring 20 works and a host of helpful prompts from leading artists, critics, and art historians-as well...
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Arcturus Silhouette Classics) (The royal collection)
by T. S. Eliot
A Penguin ClassicWhile recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the Fisher King, and ancient fertility cults, “The Waste Land” is both a poetic diagnosis of an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal. Through pastiche and collage Eliot unfolds a night...
Shortlisted for the 2018 Apollo Book of the Year award Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic settings. These artists grappled with creating complex multi-figured compositions and intricate narratives, filling their paintings with representations of socially, nationally, and temporally precise...