The sights, smells and sounds of India draw legions of travellers every year in awe of the changing terrain and countryside, but to truly experience the range and diversity of this huge country one needs to gaze into...
The artist Maria Sibylla Mcrian, daughter of the celebrated Swiss engraver Matthaus Merian the Elder, is regarded as the founder of German entomology, the scientific study of insects. Natural science is indebted to...
Stilt houses to minimalist villas: breathtaking interiors from India to Malaysia Zen. Soothing. Mystical. Meditative. All the most serene words in the world couldn`t begin to describe the effect of Asia`s most...
The art which arose from the 7th century in the Islamic empires reached from Spain and Morocco to the borders of China. It bore the stamp above all of Arabs, Persians and Turks, but outstanding contributions also came...
Italian Renessance Paintings. A Book of Postcards
The thirty postcards in Italian Renaissance Paintings were selected from the heralded collections of The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, which are housed in lavish quarters in the historic heart of the city....
Italy enjoys a reputation earned by centuries of devotion to aesthetics. As well as the ancient monuments and fantastic Renaissance period buildings, Italian culture includes key figures who have contributed to the...
Italian Splendor: Great Castles, Palaces, and Villas
The magnificent private residences built by the noble families of Italy are unsurpassed in their architectural richness and artistic grandeur. "Italian Splendor" takes the reader on a fascinating photographic tour of...
"It`s a Great Wall!" exclaimed President Nixon to his hosts on the obligatory visit to a restored section of China`s most famous monument. The rest has crumbled away - a fate that has overtaken other handsome or...
I`ll Be Watching You: Inside the Police 1980-83
In the early 1980s, The Police went on tour accompanied by a photographer who documented the band behind the scenes in a series of candid and striking black and white photos. This talented photographer also happened...
How do we even describe the alienated beauty of Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Ichabod Crane in "Sleepy Hollow", Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, Captain Jack Sparrow and Sweeney Todd, apart from the prodigious gift of...
A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up...
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Exploring the work of the greatest Japanese filmmakers. Beyond Kurosawa: exploring the work of the greatest Japanese filmmakers. Until very recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very...
This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world`s largest...
"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again". Jean Renoir Jean Renoir was, like his father Auguste, a virtuoso in his field. From early films such as La Fille de...
