Arts & Photography
mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Attenborough, David & Fuller, Errol [Attenborough, David]

Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit from G. D. Elliot’s Monograph of the Paradiseidae (1873). Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by William Hart ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Berger, John [Berger, John]

55 Picasso. Bull, Horse, and Female Matador. 1934 56 Picasso. Sitting Girl and Sleeping Minotaur. 1933 The Minotaur represents the animal in the captivity of an almost human form; it ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Andy Warhol

Tuesday, June 2, 1981 Got up early. Chris was picking me up to go to the Whitney show of that artist who we’ve known for a while, the one influenced ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-10 | Author:Noah Charney

The letter slips between “I” and “we,” likely indicating the author’s fatigue. The ransomer also shifts blame completely away from himself and onto the bishop. The repeated focus on the ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Dorothy Hoobler & Thomas Hoobler

It was not long before Apollinaire visited Picasso’s studio, and he later recalled that it was “cluttered with canvases representing mystical harlequins and drawings on which people walked and which ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler

It was not long before Apollinaire visited Picasso’s studio, and he later recalled that it was “cluttered with canvases representing mystical harlequins and drawings on which people walked and which ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Victoria Charles

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( Category: Themes March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:Andrew Bridgeford

13 The Tanner's Grandsons The Bayeux Tapestry gives us only a snapshot of the colourful life of Bishop Odo of Bayeux.1 It is a mere cross-section of a long career, ...
( Category: Historiography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoff Dyer

Mourning for all mankind? Beyond that it is difficult to say what feelings the memorial evokes. Not pity, not pride, not sadness even. Henry Williamson acknowledged this uncertainty while remaining ...
( Category: Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Edmund de Waal

20. heil wien! heil berlin! The century is fourteen years old, and so is Elisabeth, a serious young girl who is allowed to sit at dinner with the grown-ups. These ...
( Category: Ceramics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Edward Dolnick

ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1937, Boon sent Bredius a one-sentence letter. He had arrived in Paris with the precious “lamb”—Christ at Emmaus—and had stored it in a vault at the Crédit ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1979-01-02 | Author:Robin Boyd

A recognition of the split between creative architecture and honest machine-building, and the elimination of in-betweens, has many side effects. The prospect is not attractive to a workaday designer who ...
( Category: Architecture March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Denis Dutton

CHAPTER 7 Art and Human Self-Domestication I The argument of this book has focused so far on the ways in which natural selection throws light on our understanding of natural ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Adrian Levy

Paul Enke's book on the search for the Amber Room, published in 1986 'Stolz' throws the book on to the bed and turns back to look down on Kurfurstendamm. Bernsteinzimmer ...
( Category: Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Kathleen Krull

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )