Realisme magique et le roman francais apres 1900 - Evagrina Dirtu

Raphael

 This overview traces the life's work of this Renaissance master who achieved the height of greatness in only two decades of creation and whose influential

In a Glass Darkly

Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince'

Living in Greece

Go island hopping with the Stoelties and discover the best of Greece's hidden treats, such as the hilltop vacation house of Robert Browning, descendent of

Vermeer: The Complete Paintings

Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreamsLittle is known of Vermeer's early life and training, though we can be certain that he never knew great success

See Inside London

Colourful scenes with flaps to reveal details of life in different universes

Man Ray

Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he

Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

New introduction by Penny Boumelha describes the novel's controversial publication, the figure of Tess,class, and nature, and the female body, in an original and compelling

North and South

North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman,

Illustrated Stories from Around the World

A collection of stories ideal for young readers. Full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution his Rights of Man

Fashion: A Very Short Introduction

This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of communication. From Karl Lagerfeld's

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Speculation remains rife as to its probably conclusion evidence suggests that, fascinated

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours.

The man with three minds and other meaningful tales

The man with three minds and other meaningful tales. Romania tales retoldChildren and adults alike will discover the magical world of Romanian folk tales. They

Der Zauberer von Oz

Die kleine Dorothy wird im Traum von einem Wirbelsturm in das Land des Zauberers entfuhrt. Dank ihres Mutes, ihrer Tatkraft und Hilfsbereitschaft und mit Hilfe

Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum

The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry,

Caravaggio

Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and,

Case Study Houses

Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture American and international

Dali

Dali brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness.This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist Dali in full

de Lempicka

Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and

Chagall

Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning

Cezanne

In Paris, but above all in Provence, Cezanne quested tirelessly for a harmony parallel to Nature—discovering it in still lifes of apples, in bathers, or

M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work

Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though

Caspar David Friedrich

Now widely considered to be the most important German artist of his generation, Friedrich died in obscurity and wasn't fully appreciated until the early 20th

Dadaism

A precursor to Surrealism, the Dada movement stressed the absurd and unpredictable, the illogical and chaotic, lashing out against traditional aesthetics and upending artistic conventions.

Gauguin

The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the

Hopper

Many of Hopper's pictures represent views of streets and roads, rooftops, and abandoned houses, depicted in a brilliant light that strangely belies the melancholy mood

Horror Cinema

Depicting deep-rooted, even archetypal fears, while at the same time exploiting socially and culturally specific anxieties, cinematic horror is at once timeless and utterly of

Industrial Design A-Z

Here, you'll find the likes of Enzo Ferrari, Philippe Starck, Zanussi and Apple Computer, among many others. Exploding with color, aesthetic, and style, Industrial Design

Impressionism

The monograph also examines the Impressionist movements that emerged in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern and South-East Europe, Italy, Spain, Britain and North America.

Japanese Prints

The introductory essay, Ukiyo-e - Origins and History, by the Curator of the Riccar Art Museum, Mitsunobu Sato, familiarizes the reader with the history of

Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954: Pain and Passion

Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably

Keith Haring

Haring original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him the appreciation of both the art

Living in China

Sneaking a peek at an array of different homes, from ancient to modern, Living in China brings you to places that most will never have a chance

Living in Morocco

Digging a little deeper into the myth of Morocco, Barbara and Rene Stoeltie bring us this eclectic selection of homes that demonstrate all that is

Kandinsky

Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the Blauer Reiter in Munich. His art then freed itself more

Leonardo

Leonardo also advanced numerous artistic techniques, and implicated a complex psychology into his paintings of The Last Supper and the enigmatic La Gioconda, or Mona Lisa. Famous horseman, rival to Michelangelo,

Living in Bali

When it comes to Balinese houses, walls are not compulsory, wood is everywhere, earth tones are dominant, and thatched roofs abound. Opening onto gorgeous green

Magritte

Magritte depicts the world of reality in such unsecretive superficiality that the beholder of his pictures is forced to reflect that the mystery of it

The Male Nude

It features the pioneer homoerotic nude photographs of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, posing nude youths in classical postures at Taormina in Sicily. It includes illustrations

Michelangelo

From his earliest youth Michelangelo transformed personal torment into exquisite creativity—attempting to reconcile the apparently conflicting forces that inhabited him: his earthly passions and his fear of

Miro

From the mid-twenties onward, Miro strove to leave direct objective references behind and developed the pictograms that typify his style. The pictures of this period,

Amedeo Modigliani

His style had ancient roots that lay deep in classical antiquity or Africa. But his portraits of intellectual giants of the age, friends such as

Monet

In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny

Best Movies of the 70's

Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas, American cinema gave birth to a new phenomenon: the blockbuster. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, while the Nouvelle Vague

New Erotic Photography

The New Erotic Photography is the room, and dozens of photographers from various countries are the hosts of this intimate gathering. In this 320 page volume

O'Keeffe

Our Basic Art Series study traces the idiosyncratic of O'Keeffe's career, and numerous illustrations document the most important periods in her lengthy life in art

Munch

The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own

Best Movies of the 80's

Without a doubt, sci-fi was the most important genre of the decade, with non-human characters like E.T. winning the hearts of millions, while the slimy

Atget, Paris

Eugene Atget (1857-1927) roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century Old Paris down to the very smallest details. His skilled, wonderfully

Edward Weston

Through the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, Weston was a major force in pushing forward the art of photography. His photographs are monuments of sensual realism,

Jackson Pollock

A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912 1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting,

Pop Art

Everything is beautiful, ? raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, and the world of the media and its

Schiele

Many contemporaries found Schiele's expressive nudes and self-portraits, with their strange movements and morbid colours, to be ugly and even morally objectionable—criticism which culminated in

Renoir

I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape, he said, or pass my hand over breast or back

Jeanloup Sieff

I have been searching for time past all my life. —Jeanloup SieffIn this unique monograph, Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000) retraces in words and images the course of 40

Toulouse-Lautrec

More than any other artist, Toulouse-Lautrec captured the belle epoque's pursuit of fleeting pleasure: directly and without flattery, his paintings, lithographs, and posters offer a

Turner

But to develop such a style, William Turner (1775-1851) first had to overcome the legacy of late rococo academic teachings. He was simultaneously a romantic and