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The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-10
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This is Bourdieu's long-awaited study of Flaubert and the formation of the modern literary field, it is an important contribution to the study of the social and historical conditions of literary works.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-03-07
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There's no great secret to drawing. Anybody can draw. If you can write your name, you have enough touch to learn to draw. Let ILYA inspire you to pick up your pencil and create a magical masterpiece. His positive approach secures quick, accurate results and ever-growing...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2018-03-01
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The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-27
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This book provides insight into the significant area of public art and memorials in Berlin. Through diverse selected examples, grouped according to their basic character and significance, the most important art projects produced in the period since World War II are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-02-21
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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Struggling to tame thick and unruly curls? Tired of having limp, lifeless tresses? Hair can be a temperamental thing, but with 100 Awesome Hair Days as your guide you can learn styles that work with your hair, not against it. Whether your hair is fine, flat or frizzy,...
Editeur :
Mitchell Beazley
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Whether you're heading to work, a party or out with friends, 5-Minute Hair has fifty looks that are perfect for busy women everywhere.Hairstylist Jenny Strebe compiles the best classic and modern styles - from a retro bouffant ponytail to a hip stacked side plait - all...
Editeur :
Mitchell Beazley
Parution :
2018-02-15
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'Awesome. Everything you've ever wanted to know about big-screen sci-fi' - James King, film critic'Don't leave Planet Earth without it' - Dan Jolin, film critic'A wonderfully accessible, fascinating, flat-out treasure chest of science fiction cinema, from an author...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Terracotta Warriors provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated with a wealth of original photographs, this is the first book available for the general reader. In one of the most astounding...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-02-08
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Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams. Each of these approaches is justified by the nature of the image in question as well as the way viewers engage...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
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Bis vor kurzem stand das westliche Gesellschaftsmodell für die beste Art des Zusammenlebens, die den Meisten einen guten Lebensstandard, Sicherheit und Frieden beschert. Inzwischen wird jedoch die Globalisierung nicht mehr nur von den Kirchen und wenigen Intellektuellen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-14
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In a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-05
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This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: “the suspended now”. Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and cinema; the book argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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Artist Brittany Wright was stuck in a job she didn't love and needed a new creative project to stay happy -- so she learned to cook. Inspired by the effortless beauty of her ingredients -- fresh fruits, vegetables, and more -- she created the hugely popular Instagram...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2017-11-28
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What happens when one of Germany’s most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice and lamentation, love and wonder, the irrational and the unfathomable,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-22
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A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art. Presents a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Art History
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This book explores the notable roles that contemporary British artists of African descent have played in the multicultural context of postwar Britain. In four key case studies— Magdalene Odundo, Veronica Ryan, Mary Evans, and Maria Amidu—Monique Kerman charts their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-27
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This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas behind their master sketches will put you on the path to making your own great drawings. The entries also feature exercises with...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2017-10-09
Collection :
Read This
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Covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day, this best-selling and authoritative dictionary is more wide-ranging than any comparable reference work. It contains over 2,500 clear and concise entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-27
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