262円 Franc-Nohain brosse dans ce charmant livre le tableau de la vie amoureuse de l'illustre fabuliste Jean de La Fontaine qui ratelait dans tous les carrés de sables. On voit défiler les duchesses, les rats d'opéra, les courtisanes, les soubrettes, tout ce qui porte jupon. Les secrets de La Fontaine ...

1,983円 In The Geography of Arrival George Sipos revisits the city of London Ontario where his family settled after immigrating to Canada from Hungary in 1957. Divided into short chapters each related to a different local landmark the book depicts the world through the eyes of a boy getting the han...

330円 One of the makers of modern India. 'MV was a genius. Perfectly honest and devoted to his work, he set new standards of efficiency. This is the story of a poor boy who became the Grand Old Man of India.

376円 Antoine Albalat (1856-1935) est un spécialiste de la langue française, un auteur de romans et un critique littéraire écouté de son temps. Ce livre, publié en 1921, peint le milieu littéraire français des années 1880 à 1921, milieu qu'il a beaucoup fréquenté. Voici les titres des chapitres : Les J...

612円 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN HIS FAMILY AND HIS TIMES. WITH ORIGINAL LETTERS AND A DISCOURSE ON ARCHITECTURE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED. 1585–1723. This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

821円 Back in late October of 2009, Michael Grace-Martin did a fine art nude photo session with semi-famous fine art nude model Sarah Ellis. Sarah has posed for many photographers–famous (including people like Renée Jacobs and Terry Richardson) and not famous. In this book, Michael features 72 ...

1,352円 The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt. Almost twenty ye...

3,183円 “A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” ーArthur Miller Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs t...

161円 Man's inclination to decorate his belongings has always been one of the earliest signs of civilisation. Art had its beginning in the lines indented in clay, perhaps, or hollowed in the wood of family utensils; after that came crude colouring and drawing. Among the first serious efforts to draw...

2,801円 Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (Th...

496円 This semi-autobiographical novel was first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. It describes the formative years of the life of ...

661円 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS THE CAREER OF RODIN RODIN AND THE BEAUX-ARTS Sojourn in Belgiumー"The Man Who Awakens to Nature"ーRealism and Plaster Casts. FLEMISH PAINTINGーJOURNEYS IN ITALY AND FRANCE. RODIN'S NOTE-BOOK I ANCIENT WORKSHOPS AND MODERN...