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Art and Identity in the Roman World by Eve D'Ambra
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
In this reappraisal of the art and architecture of ancient Rome, Eve D'Ambra focuses on the personal, social and cultural identity of its subjects. The acquisition of art, whether the purchase of copies of Greek statuary, the construction of a sumptuous villa or the commissioning of a portrait head, pla ...Show more
Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century - The Political Image in the Age of Mass Culture by Toby Clark
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This volume focuses on the uses and abuses of art as propaganda in the 20th century, but starts by setting the scene using precedents from the past. It then explores protest art to 1939, including Social Realism and its links with communism and the left wing, Dada, artists' reactions to the Spanish Civi ...Show more
Art of Today by Brandon Taylor
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This is an international survey of contemporary art, taking a critical look at the work of established artists and exploring broad international trends and movements. The book takes the impact of feminist, structuralist and postmodern theories on the visual arts as a central theme. The dominance of New ...Show more
Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts - Virtue and Magnificence by Alison Cole
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This series looks at artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman Library
Take a first BITE out of gothic classics with this "charming, age-appropriate" (Foreword) little book--perfect for little hands! When a mysterious client invites Jonathan Harker to Transylvania, the young realtor doesn't hesitate to travel to Count Dracula's spooky, crumbly castle. But the count has st ...Show more
Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Library
First translated by Constance Garnett in 1895 Fathers and Children was published in 1862 in The Russian Messenger and provoked immediate controversy for its portrayal of the rise of the nihilist movement. With its themes of love and redemption Fathers and Children (or Fathers and Sons as it was also kno ...Show more
Impressionism - Beneath the Surface by Paul Smith
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Category: No Category | Series: The\Everyman Library
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Japanese Art of the Edo Period by Christine Guth
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
The Edo period saw the growth of an urban culture of extraordinary richness, sophistication and cultural diversity, and an unprecendented flowering of the arts, in painting, woodblock prints, ceramics, laquer and textiles. This text offers an overview of the arts of the Edo period as they developed in K ...Show more
Painting in Spain - El Greco to Goya, 1561-1828 by Janis A. Tomlinson
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
Pre-Columbian Art by Esther Pasztory
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
When the Spanish conquered Mexico and Peru, they discovered in the Aztecs and Incas the latest in a long line of highly civilized peoples to have inhabited Mesoamerica and the Andes. This book describes the very different cultural traditions of these two groups, placing them in their historical and soci ...Show more
Romanesque Art by Andreas Petzold
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This series considers artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at ...Show more