Download or read book Encyclopaedia of British Art written by David Bindman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential companion is the only book on British Art to cover every period from the Anglo-Saxons to the present day, and every significant medium, from painting, sculpture and printmaking to medieval goldsmiths' work and stained glass.
Download or read book The Thames and Hudson Encyclopedia of British Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of British Art written by David Bindman and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of British art and discusses important artists, movements, and periods.
Download or read book The Thames and Hudson Encyclopedia of the Arts written by Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th century Music written by Paul Griffiths and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by the leading authority on the subject, this is an invaluable guide to every aspect of western classical music in the twentieth-century. The entries cover the whole range of composers, terms, and musical instruments, as well as festivals and ensembles specializing in music of the period. Lists of works and suggestions for further reading are provided and a chronological list of music since 1901 highlights the complex crosscurrents in twentieth-century composition. 1044 entries.
Download or read book British Art Since 1900 nineteen Hundred written by Frances Spalding and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Sources of Information written by P. Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.
Download or read book Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790 written by Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Milliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, watercolour, there is a record of them all. The text is both scholarly and readable and the illustrations include well known examples of British painting and others seldom or never before reproduced between the covers of a book. This is the fifth edition of this work, newly enhanced with colour illustrations.
Download or read book A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance written by John Rigby Hale and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some 750 alphabetical entries the internationally eminent Renaissance scholar John Hale and his team of thirty distinguished co-authors cover every aspect of history and culture. There is a wealth of entries dealing with general themes, from history to humor, patronage to prostitution, technology to town planning, as well as the important names in music, art, science, literature, scholarship, politics and religion, towns and states, wars and treaties. A subject-listing of all the entries -- biographies as well as general themes -- combines with intelligent, clear cross-referencing, and essential further reading is listed within entries. Relevant illustration, clear maps, family trees, tables of succession graphically displayed in a single time chart, and a glossary of Italian terms complete the supporting apparatus of this brilliant reference work. -- From publisher's description.
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Download or read book Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols written by J. C. Cooper and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1987-03-17 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strikingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J. C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200 illustrations and lively, informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceana, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and the Great Goddess, the Pre-Columbian religions of the Western Hemisphere and the Voodoo cults of Brazil and West Africa.
Download or read book Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of the Arts Edited by Herbert Read written by Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers written by Alan Livingston and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Covers everything from airbrush to Hermann Zapf.” —Communication Arts The interaction of words and images and the visual communication of ideas are an essential part of daily life, and these concepts are at the heart of graphic design. With over 200 new and updated entries, this indispensable book provides information about typographers, journals, movements and styles, organizations and schools, printers and private presses, art directors, technological advances, design studios, graphic illustrators, and poster artists from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. More than 550 illustrations, extensive cross-references, and a chronological chart outlining the relationship between movements, technology, and individual designers make this an invaluable reference for students and professionals alike.
Download or read book Painting Shakespeare written by Stuart Sillars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical history of Shakespeare painting in its richest period - 1720-1820.
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Download or read book NEW BRITISH ART IN THE SAATCHI COLLECTION written by Alistair Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portraits of Coleridge written by Morton D. Paley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent Coleridgean and Romantic scholar Morton D. Paley here examines the twenty-four portraits known to have been painted of Coleridge during his life. Illustrated with reproductions throughout.
