An American drummer, a bass player from Newcastle and a guitarist a decade older than the other two, with little in common other than their musical brilliance and towering ambition, formed one of the most successful bands in history. Covering the years 1977–1986 and the brief reincarnation in 2007– 2008, acclaimed biographers Caroline and David ......
Explore in full 3-D the artistic world of the Victorian era and discover how photographers re-staged for the stereoscope popular paintings of the time that are now nearly forgotten, book illustrations, and even cartoons found in the satirical magazine Punch.
Gregory Milners new title, The Skill of Flower Arranging, is a clear and comprehensive guide covering all aspects of floral design. Whether readers intend to make floristry their career, are already a professional florist, or simply love to arrange flowers within their home, this book will guide them to create a variety of stunning arrangments.
This encyclopedia exhaustively covers Thornton Wilder, one of America's greatest writers. It features a biography of Wilder's life and career, followed by entries that cover the people who worked with him, friends and family members who were of great influence, and every novel, play, film script, and other literary work by Wilder.
The Women Behind Modern Art in Britain tells the stories of determined women like Helen Sutherland, Margaret Gardiner,
Myfanwy Piper and others, who helped to change the course of British art in the middle of the last century. Whether as friends,
supporters, collectors, curators or galleristes, they played a central role in determining the ......
The Atkinsons' Adventures in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe
This is the first full biography of an unjustly forgotten man: Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799 - 1861), architect, artist, traveller extraordinaire, author - and bigamist. Famous in his lifetime as `the Siberian traveller, he spent seven years travelling nearly 40,000 miles through the Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia with special authorisation from ......
This intriguing book investigates the very rare discovery of a huge, lost, Last Supper painting produced in the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. The discoloured canvas hung neglected in a parish church for 110 years until the conservator and art historian Ronald Moore removed centuries of discoloured varnish and began to appreciate ......
Emma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris and other great cities: it is a constantly shifting drama of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both ......
This book paints the story of a Western artist's discovery of authentic Mexico, encapsulating a journey away from narrow observations of the country's stereotypes- black and white films, cactus', cartels, and the jumping bean- towards a greater understanding of its significance in the social and geopolitical landscape. From the emergence of ......
