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Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí eccentrically presents his ideas of painting, judging good or bad the prominent figures in the history of art, and expounding on 50 "secrets" that cover topics like the movements of types of brushes, blending, objects needed in a painter's space, the characteristics of colors, sleep, spiders, and sea urchins.

Somewhere within the iconic images, carefully made personae, star-studded milieu, million-dollar price tags and famous quotes lies the real Andy Warhol. But who was he? With Andy Warhol, Robert Shore unfolds the multi-dimensional Warhol, dissecting his existence as undisputed art-world hotshot, recreating the amazing circle that surrounded him, and tracing his path to stardom back through his early career and his awkward and unusual youth.

Rodrigo Alvarez conta a história do Cristo Redentor, o monumento mais conhecido do Brasil, que completa 90 anos em 2021. Em Redentor, o jornalista Rodrigo Alvarez, autor dos best-sellers Aparecida e Maria, traz uma deliciosa narrativa baseada em pesquisa inédita sobre a história do famoso Cristo que está de “braços abertos sobre a Guanabara” e que foi escolhido como uma das 7 maravilhas do mundo moderno.

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.' 'But there is also another...

In the fall of 1984, in a darkened lecture hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, two professors offered competing arguments about why beauty matters. The art historian said beauty connects. The film scholar said beauty instructs. Both were right, and both were incomplete. The question that has taken forty years to formulate is the question this book attempts to answer: if beauty connects and instructs, who controls the connection, and who writes the lesson plan? The Human Universal Beautiful proposes a new framework for understanding how beauty operates as a historical force.

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely.  

'Sitting down at the wheel and grasping a ball of clay, I can travel back in time. I'm compelled to slow down to the pace of my ancestors.' Firing Earth is Pottery Throwdown judge Keith Brymer Jones's very personal journey through the history of ceramics. From wine jars to ink pots, Keith...

A sweeping and cinematic narrative history that follows Renoir’s La Petite Irène, tracing its theft from one of Paris’s wealthiest Jewish families during WWII and the fate of the girl it immortalized. “A vivid and deeply reported portrait of looted art, memory, and one family’s struggle...

At the age of sixteen, Catherine Tylney Long became the wealthiest heiress in England, and the public found their 'angel.' Witty, wealthy and beautiful, Catherine married for love. Her choice of husband was the charming but feckless dandy William Wellesley Pole, nephew of the Duke of Wellington...

Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. 

பண்டைய இந்தியாவின் மிகச்சிறந்த வியூகவாதியின் காலத்தால் அழியாத ஞானத்தை அறிந்திடுங்கள். சாணக்கிய நீதி என்பது...

பண்டைய இந்தியாவின் மிகச்சிறந்த வியூகவாதியின் காலத்தால் அழியாத ஞானத்தை அறிந்திடுங்கள். சாணக்கிய நீதி என்பது...

Salvador Dalí, born in Figueres, Spain, was one of the twentieth century’s most important painters. He showed artistic talent from an early age, and his parents were determined to nurture that gift. Enrolled in three different art schools, Dalí proved himself a brilliant and technically precise painter as well as an impossible student. He was expelled twice and made a point of telling his examiners they were incompetent to judge him. He was, in other words, exactly the kind of brash artist the modern world was waiting for.

பண்டைய இந்தியாவின் மிகச்சிறந்த வியூகவாதியின் காலத்தால் அழியாத ஞானத்தை அறிந்திடுங்கள். சாணக்கிய நீதி என்பது...

பண்டைய இந்தியாவின் மிகச்சிறந்த வியூகவாதியின் காலத்தால் அழியாத ஞானத்தை அறிந்திடுங்கள். சாணக்கிய நீதி என்பது...

பண்டைய இந்தியாவின் மிகச்சிறந்த வியூகவாதியின் காலத்தால் அழியாத ஞானத்தை அறிந்திடுங்கள். சாணக்கிய நீதி என்பது...

Step into the charged summer of 1776 as young Elias Carter, along with Mara Whitcombe and Jacob Turner, is drawn into the dangerous work of carrying the newly printed Declaration of Independence through the streets of Philadelphia. Set against the heat, secrecy, and uncertainty of the American...

A ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time. So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initial audience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great. This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep? And how do they wake up? We love to...

For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke’s restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud’s private...

பண்டைய இந்தியாவின் மிகச்சிறந்த வியூகவாதியின் காலத்தால் அழியாத ஞானத்தை அறிந்திடுங்கள். சாணக்கிய நீதி என்பது...