Books in category General Art

Egil's Saga

Author: Anonymous, Snorri Sturluson, Bernard Scudder, Svanhildur Oskarsdottir
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN : 9780140447705
Egilas Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a psychologically ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. This Icelandic saga recounts Egilas progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to defend his honor i

Shosha

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Noonday Pr
ISBN : 9780374524807
An international bestseller and Singer's own favorite among his novels, Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the chance at riches and a passport to America. But as he and the rest of the Writers' Club wa

The Death of Virgil

Author: Jean Starr Untermeyer, Hermann Broch
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN : 9780679755487
It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and

Sodom and Gomorrah

Author: C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Neville Jason, D. J. Enright, Marcel Proust
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780375753107
Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time, While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes's orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. Flower and plant have no conscious will, Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust's representation of sexuality. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . .

Smart Women Read Between the Lines

Author: Julie Hellwich
Publisher : Chronicle Books Llc
ISBN : 9780811856591
With this handy, totable reader's journal, keeping tabs on literary adventures is a breeze. Track and review books read and books recommended. Jot down favorite passages and authors. Keep literary lists, including books lent and borrowed, a book club selection log, and must-attend literary event dates. With inspiring quotes from outstanding smart women sprinkled throughout, plus an A to Z list of

Ghosts

Author: John Banville
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN : 9780679755128
A boat filled with travelers goes aground on an island where an eminent art historian lives with his assistant. A mysterious stranger in their midst turns out to be the murderer-antihero Freddie Montgomery, from Banville`s previous novel, THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE. In a chaotic and compelling interweaving of various narrative voices, the question becomes: are any of these encounters really accidents?

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Author: Ivan Morris, Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN : 9780679752707
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha district, he cannot esca

After the End of Art

Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Bollingen Foundation
ISBN : 9780691002996
Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale refomulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vas

Sons and Lovers

Author: Ian McKellen, David Trotter, D. H. Lawrence, Helen Baron, Carl Baron
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN : 9780375753732
With a new Introduction by Geoff DyerCommentary by Anthony Burgess, Jessie Chambers, Frieda Lawrence, V.S. Pritchett, Kate Millett, and Alfred Kazin Of all Lawrence's work, Sons and Lovers tells us most about the emotional source of his ideas, observed Diana Trilling. The famous Lawrence theme of the struggle for sexual power--and he is sure that all the struggles of civilized life have their root

Sons and Lovers

Author: Ian McKellen, David Trotter, D. H. Lawrence, Helen Baron, Carl Baron
Publisher : Bantam Classic & Loveswept
ISBN : 9780553211924
Based very closely on Lawrence`s own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an unlettered coal miner father. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of his novel is most definitely his mother`s boy who becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his mean, impover

To the Lighthouse

Author: Eudora Welty, Bernard Behrens, Mark Hussey, Guy Bannerman, Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780156907392
In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot--which Woolf claimed finally laid to rest her conflicted feelings about her parents--begins in St. Ives, where Woolf`s family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a child. (The sea is to be heard all through it, she wr

The Mission of Art

Author: Ken Wilber, Alex Grey
Publisher : Shambhala Pubns
ISBN : 9781570625459
This is an inspirational book about art's power to bring about personal catharsis and spiritual awakening. Alex Grey's reflections combine his extensive knowledge of art history and his own first-hand experiences in creating art on the boundaries of consciousness. Included are practical techniques and exercises that can be used to explore the spiritual dimension of art. Challenging and thought-pro

To The Lighthouse

Author: Eudora Welty, Bernard Behrens, Mark Hussey, Guy Bannerman, Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Inc
ISBN : 9780679405375
In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot--which Woolf claimed finally laid to rest her conflicted feelings about her parents--begins in St. Ives, where Woolf's family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a child. (The sea is to be heard all through it, she wr

Floral Art Structures

Author: patrick Sordoillet, Gil Boyard
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Ltd
ISBN : 9789058562272
Floral structures are the in-thing. They make a base for decoration and can be used over and over again. Gil Boyard and Muriel le Couls, both Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman of France), designed structures for tables, buffets and halls. Firstly they elaborately present the structure in situ. Afterwards they decorate them in three completely different ways, in order to demonstrate the co

Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

Author: Umberto Eco, Hugh Bredin
Publisher : Yale Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780300093049
In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture.

The Group of Seven And Tom Thomson

Author: David P. Silcox
Publisher : Firefly Books Ltd
ISBN : 9781554071548
This compact edition is identical to Silcox's 2003 award winning bestseller. The book is a comprehensive study of the famous Canadian art movement, its time, 400 full color artworks are organized by region and theme, each group introduced by an essay.

Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Author: Irma A. Richter, R.C. Bell, Jean Paul Richter, Leonardo Da Vinci
Publisher : Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780192838971
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Bluebeard

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Delta
ISBN : 9780385333511
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian--first introduced in Breakfast of Champions--who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn. A joyous, soaring fiction.--Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

Picturing the Bible

Author: Herbert L. Kessler, Mary Charles-murray, Robin M. Jensen, Jeffrey Spier, Johannes G. Deckers
Publisher : Yale Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780300116830
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Mastering Drawing The Human Figure

Author: Jack Faragasso
Publisher : Stargarden Pr
ISBN : 9780966711301
This book was written to foster the creative spirit of the artist and to aid in the development and the continuation of realistic representational art. It is for all who love to draw the human form. It is for those who have never drawn a line, for those who are students who can draw to a certain degree, and for those professional artists who are proficient in drawing. This book shows step by step