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Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts by Tang Xiaobing
azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-12-30 | Author:Tang, Xiaobing [Tang, Xiaobing]

Coda: Children and truck drivers It should not be surprising that in dramas about husbands and wives there are often children playing supplementary roles, but the involvement of a truck ...
( Category: China January 8,2015 )
Mona Lisa by Dianne Hales
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Dianne Hales [Hales, Dianne]

Biographers suggest several possibilities for where Lisa might have posed for Leonardo. The artist could have begun his original sketch in his bottega at Santissima Annunziata, where he was living ...
( Category: Italy December 29,2014 )
Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Jennifer Clement [Clement, Jennifer]

Things were really bad. We went days without speaking. I secretly started doing heroin because I couldn’t deal with coming down off five days of coke. Jean started staying out ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers December 27,2014 )
Le Temps Viendra: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Morris Sarah A
epub |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Morris, Sarah A. [Morris, Sarah A.]

Almost two weeks later, my mother and I arrived back at Hever, having spent Twelfth Night celebrations as guests of honour of Sir Henry Wyatt and his wife, Elizabeth at ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
A Northern Christmas by Rockwell Kent
epub |eng | 1998-12-26 | Author:Rockwell Kent

Christmas Eve! We’ve cleaned the house, stowed everything away upon shelves and hooks and in corners, moved even my easel aside; decorated the roof timbers with dense hemlock boughs, stowed ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
The Destruction of Art by Dario Gamboni
epub |eng | | Author:Dario Gamboni

‘St-Sulpice’ This critic implied that in most other churches open eyes were ‘offended’ – to use a phrase we have often encountered – by the sight of what surrounded them. ...
( Category: History December 25,2014 )
Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture by Christina Riggs
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Christina Riggs

The mighty Horus Egyptologists are fond of old-fashioned words, thanks in part to the 19th century roots of the organized study of ancient Egypt. To smite—that is, to strike someone ...
( Category: Egypt December 15,2014 )
The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher by M.C. Escher
epub, mobi |eng | 1958-12-31 | Author:M.C. Escher

32. Metamorphose 32. Metamorphosis, woodcut printed from 29 blocks, 1939-’40 and 1967-’68, 19.5×700cm. A long series of changing shapes. Out of the word ‘Metamorphose’ placed vertically and horizontally on the ...
( Category: Techniques December 8,2014 )
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Salvador Dali
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Salvador Dali [Dali, Salvador]

( Category: History December 2,2014 )
POPism by Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett
epub |eng | 1980-11-23 | Author:Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett

Come Blow Your Mind the Silver Dream Factory presents the first ERUPTING PLASTIC INEVITABLE WITH Andy Warhol The Velvet Underground AND Nico We had My Hustler playing uptown at the ...
( Category: History November 24,2014 )
My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War by Sinclair Anne
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Sinclair, Anne [Sinclair, Anne]

The meeting between Paul and Picasso took place that summer before the end of the First World War. The Rosenbergs had taken a villa in Biarritz, a few hundred yards ...
( Category: France November 23,2014 )
Leonardo's Brain by Shlain Leonard
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Shlain, Leonard

Nowhere in the thousands of pages that Leonardo wrote does he ever explicitly offer his personal concept of beauty. Yet, there can be no other subject that consumed Leonardo more. ...
( Category: History November 21,2014 )
South African Art Now by Sue Williamson
epub |eng | | Author:Sue Williamson

All of a Sardine 2007 Dried kapenta (Lake Tanganyika sardine), Rhodesian teak, brass plaque 33.5 x 50 x 3.8 cm Edition of 5 Image courtesy of the artist and the ...
( Category: Criticism November 17,2014 )
The Painter's Secret Geometry by Charles Bouleau
epub |eng | 2013-11-16 | Author:Charles Bouleau

Watteau: Embarkation to Cythera. The slow procession follows an extremely simple basic scheme: the armature of the rectangle. It could be one used by Claude Lorrain. But the next illustration ...
( Category: Criticism November 17,2014 )
Nothing If Not Critical by Robert Hughes
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Robert Hughes [Hughes, Robert]

Milton Avery It may be that no major American artist has a thinner dossier than Milton Avery. A New York tanner’s son, a mild, unassuming man who disliked publicity and ...
( Category: Criticism November 13,2014 )

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