History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:A.C. Ellas [Ellas, A.C.]

* * * * Exhausted, injured and pregnant, the stress of translating took its toll on Zala. She collapsed on the midnight black grass that fronted the Hall of Night. ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tony Spawforth

8. Behind Closed Doors IN THE seventeenth century, when Versailles was built, privacy mattered much less to the French upper classes than it did a hundred years later. On the ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:John Berger [Berger, John]

Very frequently also they are used tautologically so that the photograph merely repeats what is being said in words. Memory is not unilinear at all. Memory works radially, that is ...
( Category: Criticism April 30,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-02-22 | Author:Tad Crawford [Crawford, Tad]

USING NEGOTIATION SKILLS Once you have made the contact, it is time for you to employ your tactical negotiation skills. These skills can be learned by study and developed by ...
( Category: Graphic Design April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Munsterberg

Plate 66. Daruma dolls, papier-mâché, from Gumma Prefecture (left) and Fukuoka Prefecture (right). Plate 67. Girl Daruma, papier-mâché. Ehime Prefecture. Plate 68. Tiger figurine, papier-mâché. Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. Plate 69. ...
( Category: History April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Creative Action Network

Illustration by Susanne Lamb FREDERICK DOUGLASS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE Established: 1962 — Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass was born a slave on a plantation in 1818 and escaped slavery as a ...
( Category: Painting April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl [Charles, Victoria & Carl, Klaus H.]

87. Dirk Bouts, “Pearl of Brabant” Altarpiece: Adoration of the Magi (central panel), c. 1470. Oil on wood, central panel 62.5 x 62.5 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich (Germany). 88. Rogier ...
( Category: History April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Eliane Strosberg

The Jingting Mountains in the Fall, Shitao, seventeenth century In Chinese painting, the human silhouette is lost in the vast landscape. Size is often related to status rather than to ...
( Category: Criticism April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Nicholas Mirzoeff

DIVIDED CITIES During the Cold War, certain cities became separated and divided in ways that could not be ignored. If Paris was the paradigm of nineteenth-century imperial cities, Berlin was ...
( Category: History April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Lander, John

“Miles and Friend” In the pre–World War II years, naming of cars was a popular tradition, especially in Great Britain. Miles Collier christened his MG Special “Leonidis.” Leonidis began life ...
( Category: History April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Madelynn Dickerson

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)—Highly honored, English portrait painter who also painted landscapes. A rival of Reynolds, his work is infused with elegance and elements of nature. His work is sometimes considered ...
( Category: History April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Rutherford

An idealised interior, designed by Barry Parker for his brother Stanley, in Letchworth Garden City, 102 Wilbury Road. Arts and Crafts and historicist styles were strong themes, as epitomised in ...
( Category: England April 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Eric Kandel [Kandel, Eric R.]

Both Freud and Darwin recognized that human behavior can give rise to a variety of emotional responses that lie between the polar extremes of approach and avoidance. Moreover, this family ...
( Category: History April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:John Wilson

Turning Point—1933 … the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, INAUGURAL ADDRESS Roosevelt became president promising hope and a way out of the economic ...
( Category: Canada April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-05 | Author:Cheeseman-Meyer, Jason [Cheeseman-Meyer, Jason]

Using the Ground Plane as the Bottom Panel Border Some artists (including some very good ones) like to make the horizon line the ground plane and draw that line as ...
( Category: Drawing April 7,2016 )