Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning (Enriquez Mary Schneider)(Pevná vazba)

Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning (Enriquez Mary Schneider)(Pevná vazba)

A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) creates works that address

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts (Amiran Eyal)(Pevná vazba)

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction

Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning (Desnos Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair's pursuit of the siren Louise Lame: these are the essential ingredients of Liberty or Love , a masterpiece of early Surrealism written by Robert Desnos (1900-1945) and first published in 1924 to immediate acclaim

Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee (Wolfe Melissa)(Pevná vazba)

Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (1904-1983). Lee was one of the most recognized artists in America during the 1930s and 40s, and was a leading figure in the Woodstock Artist's Colony. Her oeuvre reveals a remarkable ability to merge the

The Materiality of Interaction: Notes on the Materials of Interaction Design (Wiberg Mikael)(Pevná vazba)

A new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction.Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction with

The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (Gertsman Elina)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Pevná vazba)

The Bands of Mourning (Sanderson Brandon)(Pevná vazba)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals,

Georges Rouault and Material Imagining (Johnson Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is

Flower Fairies of the Spring (Barker Cicely Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Flower Fairies of the Winter (Barker Cicely Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Flower Fairies of the Summer (Barker Cicely Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Flower Fairies of the Autumn (Barker Cicely Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Art of Doris and Anna Zinkeisen (Kelleway Philip)(Pevná vazba)

A lavishly illustrated celebration of the lives and artwork of the Zinkeisen sisters. Beginning with their births in Scotland at the turn of the twentieth century, this volume follows Doris and Anna Zinkeisen from their emergence in London among the most eminent artists of their day to their quiet

Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus (Brown Chester)(Pevná vazba)

Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning (Kennicott Philip)(Pevná vazba)

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn't seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach's music held the elements of both joy and despair, life

Unconventional Wife - the life of Julia Sorell Arnold (Hoban Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Naked Ambition - 100 Pictures of the Present Crisis (Mar Kaya)(Pevná vazba)

You Don't Live Here (Schneider Robyn)(Pevná vazba)

Robyn Schneider, author of The Beginning of Everything, delivers a witty and heartbreaking tale of first love, second beginnings, and last chances in this timely and authentic bisexual coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera.In Southern California, no one lives

Vow of Thieves (Pearson Mary E.)(Pevná vazba)

Vow of Thieves is the thrilling sequel to Dance of Thieves, set in the same world as Mary E. Pearson's New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles. Kazi and Jase have survived, stronger and more in love than ever. Their new life now lies before them--the Ballengers will be outlaws no longer,

1545: Who Sank the Mary Rose? (Marsden Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The raising of the Mary Rose in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of technical skill and imagination. She is more than a relic, however. She has a story to tell, and her sinking in the Solent in 1545, when under attack by

Flower Fairies of the Summer (Barker Cicely Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Experience the beauty and the magic of Cicely Mary Barker's famous Flower Fairies, with a new edition of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Summer. The magic and loveliness of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies is being reissued with an updated, contemporary look that is a perfect gift for

Flower Fairies of the Autumn (Barker Cicely Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Experience the beauty and the magic of Cicely Mary Barker's famous Flower Fairies, with a new edition of Flower Fairies of the Autumn. The magic and loveliness of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies, newly rejacketed and updated with a contemporary look, is a perfect gift for Flower Fairies fans

Christus Vincit: Christ's Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age (Schneider Bishop Athanasius)(Pevná vazba)