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Publisher
Future Publishing Ltd
Language
English
Description
ImagineFX Presents: Fantasy Art Essentials is packed full of 288 pages of the biggest names in fantasy art including interviews, advice, workshops and new art from Wayne Barlowe, Chris Foss, Charles Vess, Dave Gibbons, HR Giger, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell and many more! It contains a mix of traditional art advice from people such as James Gurney, Brian Froud and Rodney Matthews as well as digital techniques from Adam Hughes, Marta Dahlig and Andrew
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The visual arts enrich our lives in many ways: bringing innovative ideas and the pleasures of beauty and emotion, but they can also confound. How To Understand Art sets out to enhance the viewer's experience by breaking down the elements of art and sculpture to provide a firm basis for simple enjoyment as well as further investigation. 0With 100 visual examples drawn from across the globe, the stress is on how to assess art objectively - a key skill...
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Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Iconography, the study of symbols - be they animals, artefacts, plants, shapes or gestures - is an essential element of art history. 0 This guide unravels over fifty of the most common and intriguing visual symbols from across the globe from 2300 BCE to the present day. While symbols cross dialects and national boundaries, their meanings can vary and are often culturally specific. The snake, an object of fascination and mysticism in Aztec culture,...
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by women, as well as an appreciation of its most outstanding figures. Traditionally women have been among art's favoured objects of representation, while their contributions...
5) Photography
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Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a brand-new approach, this book presents photography in all its principal forms of experience, to portray the unique characteristics of this accessible and universally appealing medium. Arranged chronologically, legendary photographs are discussed alongside photobooks that represent a significant contribution towards photography, as well as important exhibitions that marked a shift in outlook, values and approach. In art history, particular works...
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Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Art historian Suzanne Blier surveys over 150,000 years of African art, set against the changing history of the continent, customs and religions, postcolonial debates and the challenges of the present. Core themes in African visual and cultural expression are examined in detail, including trade, empire expansion, gender, the body and representations of power, across meaningful chapters spanning ancient art, the Middle Ages, Early Modern, the colonial...
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Key Moments in Art' describes fifty pivotal moments - some famous, others unfamiliar - from the Renaissance to the present day. Vivid, colourful vignettes capture the excitement of their times: when Michelangelo's David or Marcel Duchamp's Fountain were unveiled for the first time; when chance meetings have spurred artists to create compelling new styles, such as Impressionism or Pop Art; or when exhibitions have caused a public sensation. Lee Cheshire's...
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Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For more than 2,000 years the art of Greece and Rome has lain at the heart of western civilization. This book recaptures the excitement of the artists who first created it. It traces the daring innovations of those who, defying traditional wisdom, explored new ideas; it describes the valiant struggles of sculptors and painters to portray - for the first time - both the complexities of the human form and the richness of human emotions. So much has...
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English
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First published posthumously in 1779, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" is Scottish philosopher David Hume's classic work of religious philosophy. This detailed and exhaustive examination of the nature and existence of God was begun by Hume in 1750, but not completed until shortly before his death in 1776. Hume was an important and influential English Empiricist, along with other English philosophers such as Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Thomas...
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English
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Love was not part of the plan when this marriage was arranged…Rhys Bettencourt, Baron Trevelaine, had every intention of avoiding his family's curse. An arranged marriage to a plain bluestocking of fortune should have ensured the provision of at least one heir. After all, it was beloved Bettencourt wives who always died in childbirth. But practical Catherine undermined her husband's scheme by stealing his heart. The only way for Rhys to protect...
11) Ikiru
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
日本語
Description
An aging city official, dying of cancer, finds meaning in his life as he builds a playground for children during his final days.
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Language
Français
Description
Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
13) Jules and Jim
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Publisher
Critierion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
Between world wars, two men, one French and one Austrian, both love the same woman.
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
16) Mayerling
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story, Archduke Rudolf and his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera romance themselves to tragic end in ninenteenth-century Austria.
17) Le jour se lève
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Français
Description
A dying man looks back on the events that led from his falling in love with seemingly innocent girl to committing murder.