Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist (Spalding Frances)(Paperback)

Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist (Spalding Frances)(Paperback)

Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet until this authorised biography was written, she largely remained a silent and inscrutable figure. Tantalising glimpses of her life appeared mainly in her sister, Virginia Woolf's, letters, diaries and biography. Frances Spalding

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central

Portrait of the Artist Kathe Kollwitz (Egremont Max)(Paperback / softback)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

The Bloomsbury Group (Spalding Frances)(Pevná vazba)

An affordable pocket introduction to the most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the warsThe Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. The group aimed to rebel and challenge what they felt were

Gently with the Painters (Hunter Alan)(Paperback)

The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce - e-kniha

eBook:,'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce that follows the coming-of-age of Stephen Dedalus, a young Irish artist. The book charts Stephen's intellectual, moral, and spiritual development from childhood to adulthood as he struggles with his

Vanessa Bell (Milroy Sarah)(Paperback)

Published in conjunction with the Spring 2017 Dulwich Picture Gallery's exhibition, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) - the first major museum exhibit devoted to the work of the modernist painter - this stunning book beautifully showcases her oil paintings, photographs, ceramics, fabrics, decorative

Voyage Out (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY FRANCES SPALDING AND ERICA WAGNERA party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. Published in 1915, The Voyage Out was Virginia Woolf's first

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works--featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century Portrait of the

Caravaggio (Bersani Leo)(Paperback)

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the

Bella Tuscany (Mayes Frances)(Paperback / softback)

Continuing Frances Mayes's account of her love affair with Italy, Bella Tuscany presents the author now truly at home there, meeting the challenges of learning a new language and touring regions outside Tuscany, including castle towns, fishing villages, and

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog (Thomas Dylan)(Paperback / softback)

Ten marvellously evocative short stories inspired by the events of Dylan Thomas' youth. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas

Prince: A Portrait of the Artist (Sexton Paul)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated biography of the artist and his music, complete with removable facsimile memorabilia, documents, posters, concert tickets and more.Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colorful career, changing his style and even his

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY DR DIETER FUCHS AND JOSEPH O'CONNORAgainst the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion transforming from supports into

The Vanishing Sky

Inspired by the author's family history, The Vanishing Sky is a tender and deeply moving portrait of life under the Third Reich, and of the choices faced by ordinary people caught in a dangerous political regime. All these years later and nothing had changed. Young men left and they came back

Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden (Bell Quentin)(Paperback)

Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virginia Nicholson, tell the story of

The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think (Hockney John)(Paperback)

'The most charming... portrait of this ever-popular artist... so enormously appealing: good-natured, bluntly told, skimmed with Yorkshire humour... This is a story of sticky jam tarts, catching tadpoles in jars, torchlit conversations under the bedclothes, gossipy queues at the butcher's and hikes

Head-To-Toe Portrait of Suzanne (Topor Roland)(Paperback)

Working from the 1960s on, the French writer, artist and illustrator Roland Topor (1938-97) was an all-round maverick known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels (such as The Tenant, filmed by Roman Polanski), plays and short stories, all dominated by a sense of irrational,

The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt: Master Painter of the Naval World of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian (Hunt Geoff)(Paperback)

Geoff Hunt is known to millions of readers across the world as the artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, and more recently for those of Julian Stockwin's Thomas Kydd books. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the leading marine artists of his generation

Charleston: The Bloomsbury Muse (Hendra Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

Stunning artwork and illustrated essays illuminate the modernist home and studio of artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Accompanying an exhibition at Philip Mould & Company in London, this lavish catalog tells the story of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's enduring attachment to their home at

Spirit of the Western Way (Spalding Tina Louise)(Paperback)

Portrait of an Artist (Lisle Laurie)(Paperback)

'Readers will welcome what Lisle has found. The woman who emerges has extraordinary personal stature, artistic gifts, commitment to her vision.' --(Chicago Tribune) Recollections of more than one hundred of O'Keeffe's friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors--including 16 pages of