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Niños artesanos (Crafty Kids)
Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99The students in this book are getting ready for a craft sale. Each class will make a different item to sell. All the items will have a pattern. Beads, ribbons, and buttons are just a few of the materials they will use to make the crafts. Which pattern is your favorite? 32pp. more...
Figures of Speech
University of California Press 2010; US$ 49.95Figures of Speech addresses a key topic in Renaissance studies: the importance and pervasiveness of proverbs. For sixteenth-century Netherlanders, proverbs revealed the wisdom of the Ancients as well as the linguistic richness found in their own native language; for Pieter Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch, and other Renaissance painters, proverbs were a... more...
Water and Art
Reaktion Books 2012; US$ 39.00Restless, protean, fluid, evanescent—despite being a challenge to represent visually, water has gained a striking significance in the art of the twentieth century. This may be due to the fact that it allows for a range of metaphorical meanings, many of which are particularly appropriate to the modern age. Water is not merely a subject of contemporary... more...
Erotische Kunst aus Asien
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 5.00Mit Ingres' Türkischem Bad von 1863 ist die Frau des Ostens für viele im Westen zu einem Symbol für eine nie erreichbare, verbotene Lust geworden. Seereisende, Abenteurer und einfache Wanderer aus Europa sind über Jahrhunderte dem exotischen Reiz der asiatischen Frau verfallen; ihrer angenehmen Andersartigkeit, der sanften Blässe ihrer Haut. So kam... more...
Art and Animals
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 22.92Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde to Mark Dion's natural history displays and Marco... more...
Born to Fail?
National Children's Bureau 1973; US$ 7.50This significant 1973 NCB publication offers a longitudinal study of disadvantaged children born in the late 1950s, and the hardships that confronted them in almost every aspect of their daily lives more...
The Severed Head
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 35.99Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice,... more...
Le Christ dans l?art
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95La figure du Christ a, depuis toujours, inspiré les artistes. Déjà, dans les catacombes de l'Antiquité romaine, son portrait apparaissait sur les fresques murales. Plus tard, la vie du Christ se découpe dans les vitraux des églises gothiques ou se dessine sur les toiles des artistes de la Renaissance. Cependant, la figuration du Seigneur ne répond... more...
Encyclopædia Erotica
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Gibt es einen besseren Zeitpunkt, um ein so voluminöses Werk über die Erotik zu publizieren als die ersten Jahre in einem neuen Jahrtausend? Die ?Political Correctness? ist schließlich ein Credo und Frauenbilder sind wieder Ikonen. Während der vergangenen Jahrhunderte bewunderte man Frauen als Göttinnen oder Jungfrauen ? heute sind es die Mannequins... more...
Homosexuality in Art
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95This 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 author highlights the sensibility particular to homosexuals. This book examines the process of creation... more...









