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Saxton D.: Snail Trail: In Search of a Modern Masterpiece

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A colourful snail asks you to help him look for his favourite painting. Follow his silver trail through a selection of famous modern paintings by an exciting range of modern artists including Pollock, Rothko, Mondrian, Dali, Picasso and Matisse in search of a piece of art that represents him.

Stiletto Johnny: Vintage 80s: London Street Photography

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'No other city has the variety of hairstyles male and female that parade the streets of London. The bouffant, the duck arse, the white wings of power swept over the ears, the coxcomb punk, the flat top, the social outrider's bowl cut. They're all there to make a place. In respect of the hair of the 80s, the rest of the world was dead from the neck up.' Buy a 35 mm camera at the beginning of 1980…

Dunn Opal: Number Rhymes: Tens and Teens

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: This entertaining collection of rhymes explores counting backwards, counting in twos, and counting numbers beyond 10. From 'Five Little Monkeys' and 'Ten in a Bed' to 'One, two, buckle my shoe' and 'One hundred bees round a hive', these rhymes provide a rich range of enjoyable opportunities to familiarise children with ways of manipulating numbers. An introduction, 'Cracking the Code', discusses…

Bullen J.B.: Rossetti: Painter and Poet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Dante Gabriel Rossetti is the most intriguing and flamboyant figure in nineteenth-century British art. He inspired the first Pre-Raphaelite generation of 1849 and the second generation ten years later and both brought about significant changes in British art. His poetry, too, acted as a stimulus to many writers at the end of the century, who saw in his subtle manipulation of the sonnet and the…

Dunn James: ABC UK

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Find out about all things British in this unusual alphabet picture book. A is for Arthur, B is for Beatles… this innovative new picture book delight looks at some of the things that give the UK its vibrant and unique cultural identity.

Wallace-Hadrill Andrew: Herculaneum: Past and Future

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In AD 79, the volcano Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and rock, and leaving them remarkably well preserved for centuries. While Pompeii has been extensively written about and popularized, the remains of its sister city, a smaller yet wealthier community close to the sea, are less widely known, but they have yielded spectacular archaeological evidence.…

Helena Attlee: The Gardens of Japan

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: In Japanese gardens, visitors find nature consdensed and brought to perfection: trees are trained and sculpted; the finest natural landscapes are reproduced in miniature; and the seasons are celebrated with spring blossom and the fiery leaves of autumn. In this introduction to Japanese gardens Helena Attlee captures the essence of Japanese garden style and gives an outline of its history. She…

Jencks Charles: The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Since the mid-1990s an exciting building project has been underway, new cancer caring centres that offer a fresh approach in architecture and health. Named after Maggie Keswick and co-founded with her husband, the writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, these centres aim to be at all the major British hospitals that treat cancer. Already six have been completed and six more are in the…

Isabelle Glorieux-Desouche: How to Talk to Children About World Art

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: For anyone who wants their children to understand and love the art of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, this guide has questions and answers about thirty amazing objects. Anticipating how children will react to artifacts ranging from a Congolese mask or a Sioux warrior's tunic to a Javanese puppet or an Easter Island Moai, each section begins with very simple observations — 'This face…

Lousada Sandra: Public Faces Private Places: Portraits of Artists 1956-2008

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Sandra Lousada grew up amidst a circle of actors, writers and artists living alongside the River Thames at Hammersmith. Through her grandfather, A.P. Herbert, her mother, the stage designer Jocelyn Herbert, and Jocelyn Herbert's lover, George Devine, founder of the Royal Court, she had privileged access to the worlds of literature, the arts, and the theatre. By the late 1950s she had begun to…

Souhami Jessica: Old MacDonald

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Old Macdonald's farm is full of surprises. What's that in the pram? Who's flying a plane? What's got four arms and goes beep? Lift the flaps and see for yourself.

Robert O'Byrne: Style City

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: London now ranks alongside Paris, New York and Milan as a global fashion capital, and it has produced such outstanding designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella McCartney. Style City tells, for the first time, the story of how that came about, describing how fashion developed in Britain from the early 1970s, when designer fashion scarcely existed, to the present…

May Brian: A Village Lost and Found

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Brian May's painstaking excavation of exquisite stereo photographs from the dawn of photography transports the reader back in time to the lost world of an Oxfordshire village of the 1850s. At the book's heart is a reproduction of T R Williams' 1856 series of stereo photographs Scenes In Our Village. Using the viewer supplied with this book, the reader is absorbed profoundly into a village idyll…

Delpech Sylvie: Arcimboldo: With More Than 70 Reusable Stickers!

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Part of the Sticker Art Shapes series, this book offers children a chance to get to know six of Arcimboldo’s paintings on a truly interactive level. Young readers see a finished painting on one page, and on the opposite page, they recreate it with reusable stickers. Arcimboldo’s lively portraits, made of painted fruits, vegetables, and flowers, provide children with a unique understanding of…

Meeuwissen Tony: Remarkable Animals: 1000 Amazing Amalgamations

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: What is a Treevipus? A fantastic creature with the head of a trunkfish, the body of a weevil and the tail of a platypus, of course! Here, a host of creatures presented in humorous pictures and informative captions take on new names, and a hilarious new identity when their heads, bodies and legs are swapped around as the pages are flipped. Tony Meeuwissen's witty interchangeable text and…

Billington Jill: London's Parks and Gardens

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This book takes the reader on a guided tour of London's public squares, community and allotment gardens, front gardens and window boxes – and the myriad and monumental public parks, from the grand formality of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens to the wild heathland of Hampstead and the commons. Illustrated with photographs that capture all the diversity of London's green spaces, presenting a…

Mancoff Debra N.: Van Gogh's Flowers

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Van Gogh was inspired by the beauty and colours of nature. He brought this passion to life in some of the most vibrant depictions of the natural world ever put to canvas. This book takes a look at this side of the artist's life and work. It offers insight into the artist's unique vision with the help of his most beautiful paintings and excerpts from his own writings. We see that flowers such as…

Williams Robin: Garden Designer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In this fully revised edition of a classic design and style sourcebook, Robin Williams shows you how to make beautiful gardens in which every element fits harmoniously into a whole. With a wealth of examples and plans, including three-dimensional sketches, he sets out the general principles of garden design and guides you through the process of assessing the plot, finding a style and choosing…

Pringle Lucy: Crop Circles

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Whether they are scientific enigmas, paranormal phenomena, mischievous hoaxes or inspired land art, the scale, beauty and mathematical and symbolic complexity of crop circles continues to astound. Throughout the summer months every year, in fields of oilseed rape, barley and wheat, a rash of ever more elaborate circles and designs appears. Lucy Pringle has been photographing and researching crop…

Armstrong Carole: Monet

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: This sticker book invites children to take a look at the works of art of the Impressionist painter, Claude Monet. It should encourage an interactive approach to art appreciation. The book contains 45 full-color reproductions of Monet's paintings, specially chosen to appeal to children. The 20 color stickers are reusable. Carole Armstrong is the author of All My Own Work and My Sticker Art…