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The Art of the Shoe
Marie-Josèphe Bossan
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859958032
Abandoning a French look on the subject, Mrs. Bossan, the author, develops her study with a dichotomous vision: that of time that touches the history of mankind and that of geography and sociology, which lead to an almost ethnographic analysis. The ...
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Bosch
Virginia Pitts Rembert
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859959008
Hiëronymus Bosch was painting frightful yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often with a touch of humor. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons the ...
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Homosexuality in Art
James Smalls
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859958650
This book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art history in the prestigious University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Abandoning all classical clichés and sociological approaches, the ...
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Bikini Story
Patrik Alac
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859957950
It was in 1946 that the world fi rst came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis Réard borrowed the name and applied it to a bathing costume for women. Breaking from decades of ...
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Bauhaus
Michael Siebenbrodt
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Lutz Schöbe
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859956267
The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. Three leaders presided over ...
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American Graffiti
Margo Thompson
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845613
The first appearances of graffiti “tags” (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished. However, as the graffiti movement ...
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Utamaro
Edmond De Goncourt
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859956823
If sensuality had a name, it would be without a doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the long necks of swans, the mysterious looks, evoke in a few lines ...
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Malevich
Gerry Souter
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859956847
This study describes the artistic influences on Malevich’s style and theories, from Futurism to design and architecture, while also shedding light on his personal life. Gerry Souter skilfully not only exposes the great artist that Malevich was, but ...
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Icons
Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845583
Icon painting has reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries. This art is appealing because of its great openness to other influences – the obedience to the rules of Orthodox Christianity in its early stages, the borrowing ...
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