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Eulogy's Secret (The Huntley Trilogy) by Elliot Grace
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Elliot, Grace [Elliot, Grace]

Briefly, she lost consciousness and when she came too, her lungs burnt with gasping pain. She heard groaning and realized it was her. “Lie still.” Eulogy felt disinclined to argue. ...
( Category: History November 30,2015 )
Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
epub |eng | 2015-07-08 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Five The Knights The knight is the last piece to place on the chessboard, for knights, as we think of them, in shining armor, were unknown in the North in ...
( Category: Scotland November 23,2015 )
Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg
epub |eng, eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Daniel Rosenberg

[11] * * * J. Pearson’s Historical and Astronomical Diagram from 1846 is marked out at regular one-year intervals from 31 BCE to 37 CE. Pearson strives to correct William ...
( Category: Historic November 9,2015 )
A Strange Business by James Hamilton
epub |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:James Hamilton

After fifty-seven years in Somerset House, the Royal Academy moved in 1837 to the eastern half of the National Gallery building in Trafalgar Square. Twenty years later the Royal Society ...
( Category: History October 28,2015 )
Cultural Capital by Robert Hewison
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Robert Hewison

The debate about the value of culture was part of a wider debate about how to express the value of government itself. After more than twenty years of neoliberalism and ...
( Category: Cultural Policy October 24,2015 )
Frida Kahlo: An Open Life by Raquel Tibol
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-04-14 | Author:Raquel Tibol [Tibol, Raquel]

In 1928 Frida painted her sister Cristina, who died on 7 February 1964. Cristina was also Diego's favorite model; her figure inspired two of the monumental nudes adorning the hall ...
( Category: History October 23,2015 )
In Montmartre by Sue Roe
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Sue Roe

3. Motion Pictures In Paris, by autumn 1907 everyone was going to the movies. During the previous six or seven years, technological advances had been rapid. Cinema audiences could now ...
( Category: History October 13,2015 )
Strange Tools by Alva Noë
epub |eng | | Author:Alva Noë

13 Using Models We don’t get far trying to understand pictures by treating them as stimuli-generating images or pictures in the head. These proposals fail to explain the curious and ...
( Category: Aesthetics October 13,2015 )
The Forger's Apprentice: Life with the World's Most Notorious Artist by Forgy Mark
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Forgy, Mark [Forgy, Mark]

La Falaise My first exposure to modern architecture in any meaningful way was my introduction to Elmyr’s villa, La Falaise, French for the cliff. It sat atop a saddleback hillside ...
( Category: History October 11,2015 )
Augustus John by Michael Holroyd
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Holroyd [Holroyd, Michael]

4 CHRONIC POTENTIAL ‘People were getting too silly’. Augustus John to Gwen John (24 October 1914) ‘All are well at home,’ John reported philosophically, ‘ – the baby-girl a god-send. ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers October 11,2015 )
A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice by Nicolas Lampert
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Nicolas Lampert [Lampert, Nicolas]

Visual Testimony Okubo was rewarded for her decision not to agitate those who controlled her freedom. She, along with all the other internees who answered “yes” to the key questions ...
( Category: History October 10,2015 )
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists by Gregory Curtis
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Gregory Curtis [Curtis, Gregory]

CHAPTER 7 The Trident-Shaped Cave; Pairing, Not Coupling A nnette Laming-Emperaire's thesis adviser, the person who loomed behind La signification from start to finish, was a man named Andre Leroi-Gourhan, ...
( Category: History October 9,2015 )
Patron Saints by Nicholas Fox Weber
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Nicholas Fox Weber [Weber, Nicholas Fox]

This was not their sole objection, but the local paper could hardly be expected to say that the Russians had found Hartford to be a hostile environment and that they ...
( Category: History October 8,2015 )
The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss by Shone Richard & Stonard John-Paul
epub |eng | 2013-04-05 | Author:Shone, Richard & Stonard, John-Paul [Shone, Richard]

Interior spread showing drawings by Pisanello and after Leonardo da Vinci. From Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, ...
( Category: Criticism September 4,2015 )
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-04-06 | Author:Charles Nicholl [Nicholl, Charles]

Pacioli’s description is interesting because of his close connection with Leonardo at this time: it contains, perhaps, a refraction of Leonardo’s own statements – on the quality of ‘attentiveness’ and ...
( Category: History August 25,2015 )

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