A narrative history of how Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa came to be the most famous in the world – and one of the most powerful cultural icons of our time.
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"Master of stillness: Balthus, the most enigmatic painter of our time, in a large retrospective.In his multifaceted, multilayered oeuvre Balthus (1908–2001), one of the last ...więcej »
That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper's magical oeuvre occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life. Where did he live and work? What were his most important influences while he...więcej »
In Searching for Harry Chapin's America, journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin's most renowned songs. Fenton...więcej »
A Higher Reality, by John Chandler tells the story of England’s largest and (arguably) most important nunnery, and of the town that grew up alongside it. King Alfred established Shaftesbur...więcej »
We are pleased to publish the Proceedings Book for the 8th International Conference on "Healthy Buildings: The Role of Earthen Materials on Providing Healthy and Sustainable Indoor Environment" ...więcej »
Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse through historical narrations. Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case st...więcej »
The English poet T. E. Hulme said that the root of Romanticism is man's "infinite reservoir of possibilities." Between the French Revolution and the two World Wars, that reservoir burst forth in...więcej »
The New Comedy Bible is a step-by-step, no excuses manual for writing, performing, and launching your career as a stand-up comic. Written by Judy Carter, the author of The Comedy Bible...więcej »
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...There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmo...więcej »
Self-acceptance is the ability to unconditionally value all parts of yourself. This means that you value the good parts as well as the parts that you t...więcej »
Art as Life - Life as ArtThe story of the vivid adventures of one driven to create, from formative and impressionable years forward. Of love and trust. Of life on the road and ...więcej »
"After a long century-thanks to the careful translation by Taylor Genovese-we finally have Alexander Bogdanov's classic work available in English. A provocative and combative tract written ...więcej »