Portraits in Lace: Breton Women (Frger Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Portraits in Lace: Breton Women (Frger Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Although these headdresses were once worn daily, today they are part of a costume tradition upheld by women throughout Brittany in rites of passage, in Celtic circles, and at summer festivals, keenly attended by young and old.Some fifty headdresses are identified and described in a separate

Atlas of Beauty - Women of the World in 500 Portraits (Noroc Mihaela)(Pevná vazba)

Daughters of Darkness (Saffer Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

Daughters of Darkness is a collection of fine art portraits of women in corpse paint. A nod to black metal and doom album cover art, Daughters of Darkness was photographed over 10+ years, with more than 400 models from all over the world, almost all of which did their own corpse paint and are fans

Women in the Peninsular War (Esdaile Charles J.)(Pevná vazba)

In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented-both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible-a

Therigatha: Selected Poems of the First Buddhist Women (Hallisey Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Avedon at Work: In the American West (Wilson Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers--but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portraits of Women (Mancoff Debra)(Pevná vazba)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), best known and admired for his striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists whose work is inspired by the art of the early Italian Renaissance. Rossetti's powerful and

Great British Women (Charles Roy)(Pevná vazba)

Great British Women presents the lives of remarkable British women who made a mark on their country, and beyond. From the defiant warrior Boudicca to contemporary women found in every field, the reader will meet some of the most remarkable women in British history from Roman times to modern

Tintin: Tintin En Amerika (Breton) (Herge)(Pevná vazba)

Gauguin: Portraits (Homburg Cornelia)(Pevná vazba)

The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this

Arafat and Abbas - Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed (Klein Menachem)(Pevná vazba)

Rembrandt by Rembrandt: The Self-Portraits (Bonafoux Pascal)(Pevná vazba)

Rembrandt's revealing self-portraits in an appealing, affordable format Celebrated as the supreme painter of the human condition, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) famously turned the intense spotlight of his empathetic vision on himself. In the course of 60 years, he produced more than

Robert Lenkiewicz - Self-portraits(Pevná vazba)

One Day Young (Lewis Jenny)(Pevná vazba)

-Moving portraits of women and their newborn babies - all taken within 24 hours of birth Photographer Jenny Lewis spent five years taking portraits of mothers within the first 24-hours of giving birth. The images, taken in the mothers' homes, offer a rare glimpse at the extraordinary bond between

Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante (Williams Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Berenice Abbott: Paris Portraits 1925-1930 (Abbott Berenice)(Pevná vazba)

The photographs that launched Abbott's career: portraits of artists and writers in prewar Paris, from Jean Cocteau to James JoyceThis is one in a series of books to be published by Steidl that will explore Berenice Abbott's oeuvre. Abbott began her photographic career in Paris in 1925, taking

Painting Portraits in Oils: Capturing Character from Life (Wareing Rob)(Pevná vazba)

An inspiring, direct guide to painting beautiful portraits alla prima. Rob Wareing has built a formidable international reputation as a portrait artist. This is his first book, and here he draws on over forty years' experience to provide a complete guide to painting portraits in oils. In Rob's

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits (Sugimoto Hiroshi)(Pevná vazba)

Beasts on the Battlefield - Animals in Combat (Hofer Charles C.)(Pevná vazba)

Trees in Art (Watkins Charles)(Pevná vazba)

In this lavishly illustrated book, Charles Watkins celebrates the myth and magic of arboreal art. Open its pages and enter the greeny groves of the classical world, from Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel tree to the gardens of Pompeii. Shade yourself beneath the tree in sacred art, as

The Women (Taylor Alice)(Pevná vazba)

'We walk in the footprints of great women, women who lived through hard times on farms, in villages, towns and cities. The lives of these women are an untold story. This book is a celebration of the often forgotten 'ordinary' women who gave so much to our society.'Alice TaylorIn her eagerly-awaited

Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three (Plante David)(Paperback)

David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult

Zoo Portraits (Partal Yago)(Pevná vazba)

This photobook presents animals in anthropomorphised form, wearing clothing and accessories that echo the animal's temperament and preferred

Once Upon a Time in Birmingham - Women who dared to dream(Pevná vazba)