A contemporary gothic debut with a feminist edge, for fans of Naomi Alderman and Madeline Miller'The simmering menace and mystery kept me absolutely gripped' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne'Rebecca meets The Secret History.
An often surprising and always sure-footed survey of the magic of yoga and Calcutta's role in bringing it to the world' JOHN ZUBRZYCKI'Interweaving historical facts with Armstrong's own experiences .
'Beautifully written, sumptuously illustrated, constantly fascinating' - The TimesOn 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king.
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - TelegraphIn this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a vivid and politically-engaged case for the importance of art - especially in the turbulent weather of the twenty-first century.
Dans les hauteurs sacrées de l'Himalaya, là où le monde visible frôle l'invisible, les anciens maîtres tibétains ont développé un art divinatoire d'une profondeur inégalée.
This richly illustrated catalogue brings together over 70 works created by Sean Scully between 1981 and 2024, focusing on the artist's transformative encounter with the natural landscape of Montauk, Long Island.
The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old.
Anyone who had read "The Greatest Thing in the World" could not help but desire to see and hear its author; and, when Professor Drummond visited Boston in the spring of 1893, the capacity of lecture halls was taxed to the utmost.
First Things Book of the Year Award"e;This book is filled with contemplative insights, soul-searching questions, and generous footnotes for further reading.
Das Buch beinhaltet zum ersten Mal einen ausführlichen biografischen Entwurf über die ersten 30 Lebensjahre der Schriftstellerin, Theater-Schauspielerin, Drehbuchautorin und Regisseurin Thea von Harbou.
Many fishermen will acknowledge that the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are the world's most intriguing, beautiful and noble fish.
A thorough history of the weapons and tools our prehistoric ancestors used to survive, this book reveals a world that will fascinate anyone interested in outdoor skills, ancient weapons, or anthropology.
Designed for how people learnmakes drawing manga easyThe ideal manga drawing book for beginnerseyes, hands, feet, body shapes, and moreIncludes ideas for how to draw your own graphic novel Have you spent years admiring manga drawing and wondering how to draw cool stuff, but you havent known how to draw it on your own?
Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton's colourful and critically acclaimed book, The Sale of the Late King's Goods, explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I's art collection.
For fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife, Whitney Scharer's The Age of Light is the riveting, vivid and powerful story of the photographer Lee Miller and her lover, Man Ray.
The Sistine Chapel is one of the world s most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance.
We have long accepted the face as the most natural and self-evident thing, believing that in it we could read, as if on a screen, our emotions and our doubts, our anger and joy.
Revel in the enduring legacy of Mexican artist Frida Kahlofrom the self-portraits, to the flower crown, to her iconic eyebrowswith this fun and commemorative book!
A richly illustrated history of self-taught artists and how they changed American artArtists without formal training, who learned from family, community, and personal journeys, have long been a presence in American art.
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment, formidable infrastructure, a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family, a shared written script of characters, a cuisine founded on rice and millet, a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk and jade, and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living.
This book contains everything you need to know about modern history of dress design, from the corset-free styles of 1920s flappers to the conceptual constructions of modern artists.
When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum's staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world.
For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet.
