1,780円 Evelyn Waugh's first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth 'Biography, as books about the dead are capriciously catalogued, is still very much in the mode' This is a sparkling account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti'...

9,285円 In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to res...

421円 One of the most celebrated artists of Western art, the Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh created masterpieces that are now famous for their striking colour, emphatic brushwork and contoured forms. Although the artist died in obscurity, his artworks would go on to change the course of modern art...

2,388円 Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thous...

5,970円 Theodosius II (AD 408–450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenge...

11,772円 This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of circ...

1,600円 Un'opera di Piero della Francesca? Certamente un affresco affascinante e non indagato. L'Ercole, unico soggetto profano del grande maestro del primo Rinascimento, oggi conservato all'Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum di Boston, vero o falso che sia, continua a sollevare incognite, dubbi e quesiti.

1,549円 Kultur kurios: neue Einblicke in die deutsche Seele von Bestsellerautor Ernst Horst. Deutschland 1953: In Würzburg verlangt ein Regierungsschulrat, dass Medizinstudenten Anatomie nur am männlichen Körper gelehrt bekommen. Die Anatomie des weiblichen Körpers solle erst dazukommen, wenn die Student...

6,897円 By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual appro...

3,825円 For more than four centuries, Macau was the centre of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent resid...

1,989円 Bereits mit der Eröffnung seines ersten Ateliers im Alter von 16 Jahren war Anthonis van Dyck (1599-1641) eine Legende der Kunstwelt. Er hatte Rubens schon als Kind studiert, wurde sein talentiertester Schüler und als gefeierter Hofmaler in England und Spanien zu seinem Konkurrenten. Heute ist va...

248円 This piece is the artist's view of his own work with animals. Church was renowned for his often allegorical depiction of animals in his artwork.