Category: Art

By Elizabeth Mann

ISBN-10: 1931414440

ISBN-13: 9781931414449

"The outstanding Mughals of India."

Shah Jahan, ruler of India, murdered 3 of his brothers in his bloody upward thrust to energy. but whilst his cherished spouse, Mumtaz Mahal, all at once died, the grief-stricken emperor equipped the world's most lovely tomb as a monument to her memory.

Shah Jahan was once the 5th emperor of the Mughal dynasty. The Mughals mixed the brute strength and fierce ambition in their mythical ancestor Genghis Khan with a fragile inventive sensitivity. Theirs was once a global the place even forts have been architectural gemstones, the place emperors had their lifestyles tales instructed in beautiful miniature work, and the place every one new ruler competed with the former one through development a grander palace, citadel, mosque and city.

The Taj Mahal tells the tale of this notable dynasty via its maximum creative success. From the hovering domes, to the marble columns inlaid with invaluable gem stones, to the large gardens, to definitely the right symmetry of its layout, the Taj Mahal expressed the ability, grandeur, glory and sweetness of the Mughal global.

By Adams Media

ISBN-10: 1440561028

ISBN-13: 9781440561023

"The artist needs to create a spark earlier than he could make a fire." --Auguste Rodin, French sculptor

Who greater to talk about the artistic strategy than the best artists in historical past? From Georgia O'Keeffe and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Pablo Picasso and Isak Dinesen, Words of Art is a party of the craft and the artists who've replaced the way in which we see the world--and encouraged how we create.

You can't ask Michelangelo how he felt whilst he first took a step again to examine the statue of David, or what Leonardo da Vinci felt while he all started portray the Mona Lisa, yet you could learn their phrases and picture for a second how those attractive works got here to be.

By Encyclop?dia Britannica, Inc.

ISBN-10: 159339506X

ISBN-13: 9781593395063

By Cornelia Dörr, Ramon Dörr, Astrid Schnieders

ISBN-10: 3645600221

ISBN-13: 9783645600224

By William Hogarth

ISBN-10: 1906981922

ISBN-13: 9781906981921

William Hogarth wrote his research of good looks in 1753, in the course of the Age of Enlightenment. via this eye-catching textual content, he has a tendency to outline the thought of good looks in portray and states that it truly is associated, in step with se, to using the serpentine traces in pictorial compositions. He calls it the road of good looks. His essay is hence devoted to the research of the composition of work, looking on the right kind use of the pictorial traces, mild, color, and the figure's attitudes. those undying strategies were utilized by means of numerous artists during the centuries. work from each interval have right here been selected to aid this demonstration. they enable us to discover a number of the manners during which good looks should be expressed in portray.

By Jp. A. Calosse

ISBN-10: 1780423209

ISBN-13: 9781780423203

Simply as there's a basic distinction within the use of the phrases "naked" and "nude", the unclothed physique can evoke a sense of pleasure or disgrace, serving as an emblem of contradictory options - attractiveness and indecency. This e-book is dedicated to representations of the nude by means of nice artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and modern artwork; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This superbly produced booklet offers a set that may entice all artwork enthusiasts.

By Leonard S. Marcus

ISBN-10: 076366720X

ISBN-13: 9780763667207

Max and Mickey; pass over Nelson; Pack, Quack, and Mrs. Mallard; Pigeon; Sylvester; John Henry; and a truly hungry caterpillar — those are only the various cherished photo publication characters mentioned in express Me a narrative. popular children’s literature authority Leonard S. Marcus speaks with their creators and others — twenty-one of the world’s such a lot celebrated authors and illustrators
— and asks approximately their youth, their concept, their selection, their mentors, their inventive offerings, and extra. Amplifying those richly exciting and thought-provoking conversations are eighty-eight full-color plates revealing each one illustrator’s creative procedure from comic strip to near
-final paintings in interesting, behind-the-scenes element. Why do young ones love and want photograph books rather a lot? Recasting and tremendously increasing on a quantity released in 2002 as methods of Telling, Leonard S. Marcus confirms that photograph books subject simply because they make a distinction in our children’s lives.

By Shawn P. McCarthy

ISBN-10: 0471415197

ISBN-13: 9780471415190

A tactical box advisor to the panorama of the e-business worldThe artwork of .Combat examines the interior workings of either the high-tech international and the web company improvement approach, delivering a blueprint for navigating the complicated terrain. common solar Tzu's The paintings of conflict for the e-business international, this guide expands to hide such things as constructing on-line logistics to win battles, getting ready long term procedure and gaining knowledge of the hot aim of frictionless commerce—leveraging the net to squeeze out inefficiencies. Required studying for everybody making their manner within the e-business global, this ebook is laced with strategies and genuine examples of approach in motion. how you can appraise a looming e-commerce go through the standards of politics, weather, terrain, commander, doctrine, and imaginative and prescient. worsen your competitors and locate their susceptible issues (Scott McNealy of sunlight Microsystems hired this tactic in his dealings with Hewlett-Packard).The writer is a smart author and enterprise advisor who attracts on his adventure at Lycos and with purchaser businesses in addition to interviews with leaders. This ebook can have complete help from his business enterprise, Lycos, Inc., together with a website at the Lycos community that includes classes from the book.Shawn P. McCarthy (New York, new york, and l. a., CA) is a Product supervisor and developer at Lycos, Inc. He additionally consults on web company improvement matters for Fortune 500 businesses. McCarthy contributes to the Washington submit and is a typical speaker at meetings comparable to MacWorld, net global, and Comdex.

By Philip J. Riley

ISBN-10: 1593934866

ISBN-13: 9781593934866

Over 2 hundred Reproductions in complete colour! inside are classic Poster artwork photos from all of the titles of the Ackerman documents, common Filmscript and Filmonster Series' ! Billboards, 6-sheets, 3-sheets, One-sheets, inserts and foyer playing cards. From the main well-known of the vintage Monster Films.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The Phantom of the Opera 1925
London After dead night 1927
The guy Who Laughs 1928
Dracula 1931
Frankenstein 1931
The Mummy 1932
Murders within the Rue Morgue 1932
The outdated darkish apartment 1932
The Invisable guy 1933
The Black Cat 1934
Bride of Frankenstein 1935
Werewolf of London 1935
The Raven 1935
Dracula's Daughter 1936
Son of Frankenstein 1939
The Mummy's Hand 1940
The Wolf guy 1941
Ghost of Frankenstein 1942
The Mummy's Tomb 1942
Son of Dracula 1942
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf guy 1943
House of Frankenstein 1944
The Mummy's Ghost 1944
The Mummy's Curse1944
House of Dracula 1945
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948
Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954
This Island Earth 1954

By Vera Gottlieb

ISBN-10: 0415344409

ISBN-13: 9780415344401

The Moscow artwork Theatre continues to be famous as having extra effect on glossy theatre than any corporation on the planet. This lavishly illustrated and fantastically produced facsimile variation of a Russian magazine from 1914 records, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's performs produced via the Moscow paintings Theatre, including:*The Seagull, *Three Sisters*Uncle Vanya*Cherry Orchard*Ivanov.Edited by means of well known theatre historian Vera Gottlieb, the amount additionally reproduces - for the 1st time in an English translation - introductions by means of Stanislavsky's collaborators Nemirovich-Danchenko and Efros. With a hundred seventy five special photos, this can be a major contribution to our figuring out of the origins of contemporary theatre.