The first titles in this series of invaluable individual guides, Antiques: Furniture, Antiques: Collectables and Antiques: Under [pound]500, are the perfect companion for your antiques hunts, as well as an excellent reference source for identifying and valuing your own antiques and collectables. Written ...
With more than 100 photographs of pigs playing, being dressed up, relaxing and socializing, and some facts about them too, this book helps you get to know these charming, smart, loveable and cute animals as they really are - from snout to tail. It is suitable for those who recognize the intelligence and warmth of these fascinating creatures.
Oda Jaune was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She studied in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Jörg Im- mendorff, who she later married. Her art focuses on the biomorphic, the collaged, the abnormal, which ensure that her work continually evades the viewers grasp. Her work plays with the themes ...
Oda Jaune was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She studied in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Jörg Im- mendorff, who she later married. Her art focuses on the biomorphic, the collaged, the abnormal, which ensure that her work continually evades the viewers grasp. Her work plays with the themes ...
The 'icon' Ernest Hemingway analyzed under all his aspects, or better as the mythical 'Papa': the hunter and fisherman, the bullfight fan, the special correspondent, the globe-trotter, the drinker, the brave soldier, the volunteer, the lover.
With more than 600 full-color images, this book celebrates the art organizations that have promoted Mexican American art and served as art education centers for their communities. Their efforts have produced a significant body of collectible works that inspire through their artistry. Vividly showcasing ...
A resource for the digital photographer, aimed at various levels of expertise, providing an overview of the equipment, software and techniques used. It looks at image creation from both a photographic and artistic viewpoint. It describes different techniques with easy-to-follow text and illustrated with step-by-step colour photography.
Book dedicated to Oskar Kokoschka's activity as a collector, and more particularly to the pieces kept in his workshop in Villeneuve in Switzerland: antiquities, curiosities acquired by the artist during his many travels or offered by friends.
Presents a new way of thinking about French painting in the 1820s and beyond. Fresh insights into the life and work of a hugely important and popular artist.
The extraordinary hoards of treasure found by archaeologists in tombs and burial chambers, shrines and temples do much to evoke past civilizations and ways of life. This text describes discoveries from around the world and the stories behind them.
The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people within it, from their working conditions and earnings to their training, services and relationships with customers. ...
The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the making of Chinese fashion. In Fashion in Multiple Chinas, expert authors explore how a multitude of Chinese fashions operate across ...
Post-Traumatic Art in the City comprises an original analysis of the nexus of war, art and urban society in two specific contexts: late 20th-century Beirut and Sarajevo. With an emphasis on conceptions of the 'post-traumatic', De le Court explores how cities and art are mutually formative in war and ...
Wonderlands is a glorious celebration of Robert Ingpen's work as an illustrator and storyteller, told through his own illustrator's notes, original sketches and abundant illustrations from his award-winning publications-and revealing the places, stories and people that inspired him along the way.
Sarah Kennedy, Emma Baxter-Wright, Kate Mulvey, Karen Clarkson
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Presenting a visual journey through the fashion of the decades, this book enables the reader to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century. It offers an overview of the designers of the time and their key influences.