The Arts: treatments and subjects

Der blaue Planet müsste eigentlich 'Wasser' heißen und nicht 'Erde', ist er doch zu zwei Dritteln von diesem Element bedeckt.

It has often been claimed that "e;monsters"e;--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times.

For many book Lovers, there is no more pleasing start to a book than a well-chosen epigraph.

FREUD ON GIRLS: 'They go through an early age in which they envy their brothers their signs of masculinity and feel at a disadvantage and humiliated because of the lack of it.

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve s story that fascinates us?

Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited faces .

Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories.

Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill.

Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century.

Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models.

Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.

The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory - when its trading empire reached as far afield as China, Syria and West Africa - to the beginning of its long and fascinating decline.

An art historical epic for dangerous timesWhat do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience?

Marie s job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation.

As seen on Kirstie Allsopp's Vintage Home.

Near the end of his life, the great Romantic artist Eug-ne Delacroix (1798-1863) painted one of the most enigmatic episodes from the Bible: Jacob wrestling with the angel.

In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail but ran aground off the desolate West African coast.

One of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Hans Holbein the Younger was also a complex and fascinating man who knew Erasmus, Thomas More, Henry VIII and many of the sixteenth century's wielders of power and influence.

Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c.

Si alguna vez te has embarcado en un proceso creativo, muy probablemente te hayas topado con dudas, miedo ante la página en blanco, sensación de fracaso, el peso de las convenciones… Se trata de factores tremendamente bloqueantes, forjados y anclados en nuestra mente, que no hacen más que entorpecer nuestro fluir creativo.

Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.

The Keys of the Kingdom is the unforgettable story of the Reverend Francis Chisholm and his fight against the snares of the world he has given up .

A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary Magdalen and her significance in religious and cultural thought.

The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements.

For many the daily grind can feel like a trap - work, gym, drinks, shops, home, bed, work.

WITH A FOREWORD BY GRAYSON PERRY Carola Hicks sets out to solve the mystery of one of art history s greatest paintings, The Arnolfini Portrait The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck in 1434 hangs in the National Gallery in London and remains a mystery to this day.

'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction.

In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief:a new religion.

A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values.

By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance.

Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice.

Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance.

Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life.

A chance encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber at a summer party sent Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her own family's past.

At seventy, Henri Matisse is a trim, clean old gentleman with a passion for naked women.

Alfred Wallis was born in 1855 and died in a workhouse in Cornwall in 1942.

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today.

An exploration of the challenged state of masculinity in our post-feminist society of gender equality.

Raphael's St George and the Dragon is the work of a genius - an exquisitely rendered vision of heroism and innocence by one of the greatest painters of all time.

Why are adolescent girls prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts than ever before?

'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLO ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHINGMeet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history.

Street Pastors is an international organisation bringing about change, town by town, to the face of the UK.

This is the black and white paperback edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.

In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media.

In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media.

Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture.

Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture.

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics.

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics.