My Town - An Artist's Life in London (Gentleman David)(Pevná vazba)

My Town - An Artist's Life in London (Gentleman David)(Pevná vazba)

David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolours painted just a few

Life After Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career (Fara Patricia)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his

Still Life Before Still Life (Ekserdjian David)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful book that argues artists were fascinated by still life painting considerably earlier than previously thought This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion (Gray Rosemary)(Pevná vazba)

'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.'Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city of London over recent centuries, through diary entries,

Tom Thomson: An Introduction to His Life and Art (Silcox David)(Paperback)

An introduction to the life and works of Tom Thomson, one of the most important artists in Canadian

Mythical Beasts: An Artist's Field Guide to Designing Fantasy Creatures (3DTotal Publishing)(Pevná vazba)

In Mythical Beasts: An Artist's Field Guide to Designing Fantasy Creatures, thirty talented artists show you how to sketch, draw, and render thirty mythical creatures. Learn how to create some of the best-known fantasy creatures including the werewolf, unicorn, and of course the fantasy staple--the

A History of London in 50 Lives (Long David)(Pevná vazba)

'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel Johnson It is the people who make London what it is. The men and women living within its walls, with all their successes and failures, their loves and lies, their dramas and indulgences. Taking us from the sixteenth

London Stories(Pevná vazba)

and they faithfully transcribed what they saw and felt in the stories they told of London town. and all tell their stories gratifyingly well. Authors include John Evelyn, Thomas de Quincey,

An Orphan's Journey (Goodwin Rosie)(Pevná vazba)

1874. Growing up in extreme poverty in London, Pearl thinks life can get no worse. But when her parents decide to send her and her younger sister Eliza to the workhouse, they are forced into a new life of hardship and struggle. Pearl's hopes are raised when the workhouse offers the sisters a new

Colour Experiments for Future Artists (Henningham David)(Pevná vazba)

London: A History in Maps (Barber Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This beautifully illustrated book charts that growth and the city's transformation through hundreds of maps culled from the collection

An Offer from a Gentleman: Bridgerton (Quinn Julia)(Pevná vazba)

Creative Legacies: Artists' Estates and Foundations (Battista Kathy)(Pevná vazba)

Creative Legacies takes an in-depth look at how to create and maintain an artist's estate, offering practical advice illustrated by real-life

L.A. Graffiti Black Book (Brafman David)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of unique works by 151 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city's diverse artistic landscape. Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members and others whose work they admire to

Bird King: An Artist's Sketchbook (Tan Shaun)(Pevná vazba)

Bootle Boy - an untidy life in news (Hinton Les)(Pevná vazba)

The Machinery of Life (Goodsell David S.)(Pevná vazba)

Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we're dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine (unfortunately, neither is currently feasible). Think of the wonders we could witness firsthand: antibodies

Futura: The Artist's Monograph (Futura)(Pevná vazba)

The most in-depth and comprehensive survey of the life and career of one of the pioneering artists of the original graffiti generation. Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries

New In Town (Altes Marta)(Pevná vazba)

An uplifting story about moving house, making friends and finding a new

Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Brown David S.)(Pevná vazba)

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were

The Call of the Wild (London Jack)(Pevná vazba)

The classic survival story by Jack London in a beautiful hardcover edition Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and

Biographic Bowie (Flavell Liz)(Pevná vazba)

The Biographics series presents an instant impression of David Bowie's life, work and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the

National Archives: The Buildings That Made London (Long David)(Pevná vazba)

TfL: The Story of the London Underground (Long David)(Pevná vazba)