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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, a beautifully illustrated account of of Tove Jansson''s life and artThe definitive biography of one of the most unique and beloved children''s authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful and productive life, impacting significantly the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Finland. And while millions of children have grown up with Little My, Snufkin, Moomintroll and the many creatures of Moominvalley, the life of Jansson - daughter, friend and companion - is more touching still. This book weaves together the myriad qualities of a painter, author, illustrator, scriptwriter and lyricist from fraught beginnings through fame, war and heartbreak and ultimately to a peaceful end.Dr Tuula Karjalainen is a Finnish art historian and non-fiction writer who has previously worked as a director of the Helsinki Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. As the author of Tove Jansson''s biography, Karjalainen has become an expert not only on Jansson''s writing and art but also on her decades of personal correspondence and journals.

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Book SynopsisA stimulating narrative and reference resource that guides the reader through the most significant symbols from worldwide art history. Why do we reach for the red rose on Valentine's day? Where did the owl gain its reputation for wisdom? Why should you never trust a fox? In this visual tour through art history, Matthew Wilson pieces together a global visual language enshrined in art: the language of symbols. Symbols exert a strong hold in the image-saturated 21st century, and have done so for thousands of years. From national emblems to corporate logos and emojis, our day-to-day lives abound with icons with roots in the distant past. Expert art historian Matthew Wilson traces the often surprising trajectories that symbols have taken through history, from their original purposes to their modern meanings, identifying the common themes and ideas that link seemingly disparate cultures. Thus we meet the falcon as a symbol of authority from the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the medTrade Review'With an immensely stimulating amount of insight and verve, Matthew Wilson makes us appreciate just how rich in symbolic meanings the history of art turns out to be' - Richard Cork'Lavishly assembled... The signs are everywhere with this book as a guide' - Vogue'Remarkably entertaining... Wilson takes a compelling, unique approach to the subject... Excellent color reproductions of works of art...are accompanied by frequent literary quotes... Highly recommended' - ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Leaps of the Imagination 1. The Hidden Language of Power 2. The Hidden Language of Faith 3. The Hidden Language of Uncertainty 4. The Hidden Language of Hope

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Book SynopsisNew in paperback, Whitney Chadwick's groundbreaking study of women in the Surrealist movement.Trade Review'Presents a wealth of imagery and information about artists who commanded respect from their male contemporaries…as such it will be of great value both in reassessing the history of Surrealism and in illuminating the persistent marginalization of women’s art' - The Oxford Art Journal'Professor Chadwick’s book has been centrally important and has initiated a vital re-centring of the whole Surrealist enterprise' - Times Higher Education Supplement'Admirable' - Burlington Magazine'A classic' - ArtNewsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Search for a Muse 2. The Muse as Artist 3. Revolution and Sexuality 4. The Female Earth: Nature and the Imagination 5. Women Artists and the Hermetic Tradition 6. Cycles of Narrative Fantasy Notes

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Book SynopsisCities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks.So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there?Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in deepest Wales, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings.Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.

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Book SynopsisA photographic tour around the beloved Oriana from bow to stern, top to bottom

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Book SynopsisAn epic coming-to-America success story, this is the autobiography of Pakistani-born American artist Jamali who originated Mystical Expressionism and whose mission is to bring peace to the world through art.In this heavily illustrated memoir the reader is treated to an epic saga covering seven decades and three continents about an artist's dream for a more peaceful world. The eldest son of a prominent family living in the foothills of the Himalayas, Jamali experienced the horrors of war through the Indian Partition, which led him to pursue a life of peace through art on a prolific scale producing more than 40,000 original works to date. The complex surfaces and mystical imagery found in Jamali's paintings have been compared to the neo-expressionists Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz. His gestural techniques link him to Jackson Pollock and the New York School. But the pre-eminent art critic Donald Kuspit observed that Jamali's singular method required its own name--MysticaTrade Review"With the release of his long-awaited autobiography artist, Jamali brings us a formidable, life-affirming narrative that begins in the deserts of Northern Pakistan. The pursuit of this mission, to bring the world Art and Peace, led him to a solitary life and a set of 40 prophetic, life-changing dreams that defined his future path. He founded Mystical Expressionism, the 6th major style of art in history. We follow Jamali as the survives numerous brushes with death, and a literal firing squad, and ultimately finds his way to Europe and America, only to encounter new walls of racism and rejection." —ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS

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Book SynopsisThe definitive collection of W’s most iconic and boundary-pushing photographic stories, published over the magazine’s fifty-year history.Since its founding in 1972, W has worked with the world’s best photographers and writers, celebrating their most ambitious and creative work. The stories in this book offer a knowing, insider’s peek into the top echelons of the world of style over the past 50 years. Historic and boundary-breaking stories include “One for the Ages,” by Steven Klein, in which the model Amber Valletta is seen aging over the course of a century; hallucinatory photographs by Tim Walker of Tilda Swinton bringing to life eccentric historical characters; an art project by the artist Richard Prince, in which he both comments on and appropriates celebrity imagery; exclusive shoots of pop culture icons like Dolly Parton; playful series of fabulous faux advertising campaigns shattering the sacrosanct liTrade Review"Founded in 1972, W magazine has been capturing the cultural zeitgeist for 50 years. To celebrate the milestone, this volume enlists the magazine’s many friends to curate a collection of W’s most iconic moments. With gorgeous shots, thought-provoking extracts, and a whole chapter dedicated to Kate Moss, it’s a likely hit with the fashion conscious and followers of art and culture." —NEW YORK MAGAZINE"Allow us, for a moment, to toot our own horn. For the past five decades, as the fashion and publishing industries have been dramatically transformed, W has held firm on its essential mission: larger-than-life storytelling. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the magazine hasn’t evolved over time. Fifty Years Fifty Stories, a new tome published by Rizzoli, out this month, tracks key moments in the publication’s history." —W MAGAZINE"W Magazine has given cutting edge, fashion-forward photography, design, and cultural history a home in its pages and on its iconic covers since 1972. Now a glitzy new book gathers 50 favorites featuring talent radiating from both sides of the lens — from Richard Prince working out his appropriation game to Steven Meisel taking the mickey out of advertising tropes — plus zeitgeisty captures of the 70’s party scene and the supermodel canon." —LA WEEKLY

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Book SynopsisSusie Hodge (MA, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts) has written numerous books on art and art history. She has also given lectures and held practical workshops, as well as taking part in television and radio programmes on art. Her books have received many awards and the Wall Street Journal described her book How to Survive Modern Art as a 'lesson in clarity'. She has twice been named the No. 1 art writer by the Independent. Her previous titles include: The Great Artists: Vincent van Gogh, The Great Artists: Paul Klee and Just Draw! Faces in 15 Minutes (all for Arcturus) and How to Look at Art (Tate Publishing). She lives near London in the UK.

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Book SynopsisOne of the most iconic characters in children's literatureHergé's classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most recognisable characters in children's books. These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old and new. Perfect for lovers of graphic novels, mysteries and historical adventures.The world's most famous travelling reporter must handle the heat of the Sahara and the company of a new friend.Faced with a drowned sailor, counterfeit coins and a ship full of opium, Tintin sets out on another adventure. Aboard the Karaboudjan Tintin is introduced to Captain Haddock for the first time, and they are soon both facing a deathly thirst in the Sahara desert.Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter JaTrade ReviewTintin shows young readers that the world in all its complexity is theirs to bestride. (The Wall Street Journal) I became enthralled with the way Hergé told his stories. Grand, epic, global adventures about a young reporter who goes all around the world looking for stories to tell. (Steven Spielberg, 'The Adventures of Spielberg: An Interview', The New York Times, 2011) Top 100 Children’s Book – Time Out (2022) Terrific world-straddling adventures. (Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ten Essential Children’s Books, Books for Keeps, 2020) The Red Sea Sharks was named one of Young Bond author Charlie Higson’s favourite books in The Daily Express: “Tintin was a huge inspiration being a young person in an adult world.” (2015) Explorers of the Moon was named one of comedian Milton Jones’ favourite books in The Daily Express (2018) Explorers of the Moon was named one of screenwriter and best-selling crime novelist Peter May’s favourite books in The Daily Express: “A childhood favourite…it encouraged me to create my own cartoon series.” (2016) The Calculus Affair was named one of author and foreign correspondent Christian Jennings’ favourite books in The Week (2017)

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Book SynopsisTeaching writing is not for the faint of heart, but it can be a tremendous gift to teachers and students. Students often approach writing courses with trepidation because they think of writing as a mystical and opaque process. Teachers often approach these same courses with dread because of the enormous workload and the often-unpolished skills of new writers. This approachable composition textbook for beginning writers contends that writing can be a better experience for everyone when taught as an empathetic and respectful conversation. In a time in which discourse is not always civil and language is not always tended carefully, a conversation-based writing approach emphasizes intention and care. Written by a teacher with more than fifteen years of experience in the college writing classroom, Composition as Conversation explores what happens when the art of conversation meets the art of writing. Heather Hoover shows how seven virtues--including curiosity, attentiveness, relatability, open-mindedness, and generosity--inform the writing process and can help students become more effective writers. She invites writers of all skill levels to make meaningful contributions with their writing. This short, accessible, and instructive book offers a reflective method for college-level writing and will also work well in classical school, high school, and homeschool contexts. It demystifies the writing process and helps students understand why their writing matters. It will energize teachers of writing as they encourage their students to become careful readers and observers, intentional listeners, and empathetic arguers. The book also provides helpful sample assignments.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Composition as Conversation1. Be Curious2. Be Attentive3. Be Relatable4. Be on Topic5. Be Engaging6. Be Open-Minded7. Be GenerousConclusion: Stay in ConversationAppendix 1: Sample Call for PapersAppendix 2: Research Proposal TemplateAppendix 3: Annotated Bibliography GuideAppendix 4: Peer Review Interview and Peer Review GuideAppendix 5: Research Essay Guided RevisionAppendix 6: Revision Workshop TemplateAppendix 7: Conversation Extension PlanAppendix 8: Sample Conference PanelAppendix 9: Conference Response SheetAppendix 10: Ongoing Research AssignmentIndex

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Book SynopsisSmall garages and service stations are a vital but fast disappearing part of Britain's automotive landscape. Often independently owned and sited in idiosyncratic buildings, they are rightfully celebrated and sensitively documented in this essential book. You might use a local garage to change a tyre or replace your exhaust, but when was the last time you pulled over and took a good look at the building itself? In the spirit of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), photographer Philip Butler has done just that. Over six years, he's travelled the length and breadth of Britain photographing these diverse, eccentric and idiosyncratic buildings. As motoring became popular in the early 1900s, the need for mechanical expertise to service, repair, refuel, and sell vehicles soared and the garage' was born. From the Mock-Tudor fad of the 1920s via the Streamline Moderne of the 1930s, to the simple Modernist rationalism of postwar Britain, each era has produced a distinct automotive architecture. With the introduction of the Ministry of Transport (MOT) vehicle test in the 1960s, demand accelerated still further. A diverse array of structures was utilised churches, cinemas, railway arches, fire stations, shops, factories all proved versatile enough to find second lives as garages. As the era of the combustion engine draws to a close, Butler's enchanting photographs of 226 Garages and Service Stations document the charm and personality of these survivors of the petrol age.

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Book SynopsisIf you have always wanted to draw manga but weren’t sure how to begin, this fun and simple step-by-step book will help kick-start your comic-drawing journey. Learn how to draw boys, girls and creatures (ordinary and extraordinary) in the manga style. Starting with basic shapes, professional manga artist Yishan Li shows how easy it is to turn circles, rectangles, squares and ovals into teens, kids, witches, wizards, monsters, animals and much more. Professional manga art from well-known comic creator Yishan Li Over 130 step-by-step drawings Easy method with great results Trade ReviewHaving received a copy of How to Draw MANGA in Simple Steps by Yishan Li, to fully scrutinize. I thought the best way to do it was to try drawing one of the Manga style characters following the step-by-step method of doing so directly from a page from the book. Being a 2D artist who sketches and draws the figure and form of people and animals pretty accurately in a purposely naive illustrative style and being a fan of comic book art, I decided to reproduce a copy- cat image of the character shown in (FIGURE 2) digitally, using a graphic's tablet (for the first time properly), alongside Photoshop computer software with which I am more familiar. Full review and images: https://notcompulsory.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/drawing-manga-style.html * Not Compulsory *Table of ContentsIntroduction Manga Boy Manga Girls Manga Animals Manga Chibis Manga Myths & Legends

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Book SynopsisCREATE BEAUTIFUL MANGA PEOPLE AND ANIMALS IN 10 SIMPLE STEPS If you love drawing manga but don’t know where to start, this is the book for you! 10 Step Drawing: Manga will help you turn simple shapes into beautiful manga drawings in just 10 steps. Create over 30 different portraits, from cute chibi people to a multicoloured manga unicorn, by following the instructions inside. Learning to draw has never been so simple!Trade ReviewThis is a really nice book for someone who has never drawn Manga style people, and animals, before. It was a nice surprise to find the little section on animals in the back as I hadn't realised that they were there. It contains instructions for full size and chibi people. The pages are colour coded so it's quick to find the section you want. I particularly like the sections on eyes and faces as I've never been great at faces, the instructions are simple, clear and concise. My nine year old enjoyed the book as well although it was a little on the harder side for him but he had a good go and managed a decent looking bird. It's chock full of info though. Well worth the money! -- Charlotte Blakey * Amazon *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION 6 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK 7 FACIAL FEATURES Front basic eye 10, Profile basic eye 12, Cute eye 14, Cool eye 16, Front nose 18, Profile nose 19, Front mouth 20, Profile mouth 21 MANGA FACES Front female face 24, Front male face 26, Profile female face 28, Profile male face 30, Cute female face 32, Cute male face 34, Cool female face 36, Cool male face 38, More female faces 40, More male faces 42, Manga expressions 44 CHIBI STYLE Front chibi eye 48, Profile chibi eye 50, Front chibi face 52, Profile chibi face 54, Variations: chibi face 56, Facial expressions: chibi 58 MANGA BODY Female body 62, Male body 64, Chibi body 66, Open hand 68, Closed hand 70, Arm 72, Muscular arm 74, Leg 76, Muscular leg 78, Side foot 80, Front foot 81, Foot: trainers 82, Foot: heels 84, Foot: boots 85 WHOLE BODY POSES Standing female 88, Standing male 90, Standing chibi 92, Sitting female 94, Sitting male 96, Sitting chibi 98 CHARACTERS Manga mermaid 102, Manga vampire 104, Chibi princess 106, Chibi prince 108, Manga schoolkids 110, Chibi kimono girl 112, Chibi wizard 114 MANGA ANIMALS Cat 118, Dog 120, Rabbit 122, Cockatiel 124, Unicorn 126 ABOUT THE ARTIST 128 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 128

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Book Synopsis'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don’t deserve Meades, a man who apparently has never composed a dull paragraph' Steven Poole, Guardian'There are more gems in this wonderful book than I could cram into a dozen of these columns' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph'Such a useful and important critic . . . He is very much on the reader’s side, bringing his full wit to bear on every single thing he writes' Nicholas Lezard, SpectatorThis landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language and culture should have this book in their life.Thirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: ‘When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one.’Pedro and Ricky Come Again is every bit as rich and catholic as its predecessor. It is bigger, darker, funnier and just as impervious to taste and manners. It bristles with wit and pin-sharp eloquence, whether Meades is contemplating northernness in a German forest or hymning the virtues of slang.From the indefensibility of nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word ‘iconic’, to John Lennon’s shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the work assembled here demonstrates Meades's unparalleled range and erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, France, concrete, faith, politics, food, history and much, much more.Trade Review 'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times 'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don’t deserve Meades, a man who apparently has never composed a dull paragraph' Steven Poole, Guardian 'There are more gems in this wonderful book than I could cram into a dozen of these columns' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'As Meades puts it, who wants friendliness from books or from buildings? . . . Meades has sought to make a book shaped like his beloved Blenheim Palace: brutalist, arrogant; a moving finger' Frances Wilson, TLS 'Such a useful and important critic . . . There is not a sentence here that is not armoured with intelligence, and very few, if any, that are not, in their way, a delight to read' Nicholas Lezard, Spectator 'Meades has the panache and fearlessness to pull it all off' Literary Review 'The consistency in quality and style are remarkable . . . It’s writing that has a pop; essaying that puts its pint glass down with a slam, then offers you another. Positively curt and classy' Irish Times 'This vast compendium has something to inform, amuse, shock or repulse on nearly every page' Paul Finch, Architects' Journal 'Gargantuan and whip-smart . . . Meades emerges as a fiercely independent thinker and a formidable intellect. His acerbic style carries the day, and readers bored of dry criticism will relish these piquant ripostes' Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisBen Edge is a rising star of both the art world and the current folk revival. This is the first trade book of his art: an illustrated guide to the amazing and wildly popular folk customs and seasonal celebrations of the British ritual year with over 100 of his paintings and photographs.

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Book Synopsis Now in paperback: Get Your Sh*t Together is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by beloved British artist David Shrigley.Celebrating Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text, this art book is an ideal addition to any bookshelf or coffee table for those who appreciate wry, sardonic humor, and distinct, artistic brilliance by one of our most prolific and unique artists. Organized by chapters with titles such as Stupid, Nonsense, Dirt, Fear, Paranoia, Love, and Self Delusion, this collection is sure to delight die-hard Shrigley fans and new ones alike. This is the first full-color book to date on Shrigley's prolific work, curated from his abundant archive. It features over 200 original works of art and handwritten, humorous essays throughout. It also includes a custom, detachable bookmark with the quote, “IT WON’T BE LIKE THIS FOREVER.” The layouts in Get Your Sh*t Together pair distinctive individual pieces of artwork, forming quirky and unexpected relationships between each facing page. Irony, satire, playfulness, sarcasm, and even downright positivity all exist within the realm of Shrigley’s imagination and philosophy, and all are on display here. This is no ordinary monograph, but instead, it is a clever, colorful, and exuberant celebration of Shrigley’s singular sensibility and unique aesthetic that juxtaposes text and image provocatively and irresistibly.

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Book SynopsisScottish artist Caroline Walker (b.1982) is known for her accomplished paintings which offer a lens into the everyday lives of women. Bringing together work made over the past five years, exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care, this important publication reveals the evolution of Caroline Walker's highly original artistic language. Through her large canvases, intimate panels and ink sketches, Walker portrays diverse female subjects in settings that blur the boundaries between public and private worlds, and reveal the complex social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Walker's considerable skill in fusing a mastery of her medium with subjects that invite debate has ensured her standing as one of the leading painters working in Britain today. This ground-breaking publication celebrates her story so far.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing over 30 of Luke Jerram's projects, from 2019 through to 2025, providing updates on touring artworks: Museum of the Moon and Gaia, as well as brand new artworks and charitable creative projects such as Power of Light and Ascension which have been delivered via the newly created Jerram Foundation.

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Book SynopsisA beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything precious to the bibliophile a blend of quirky bookstores, authors' favourite bars, storied hotels, grand libraries, on- and off-Broadway theatres which launched major plays, New York residences and literary locations, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art described in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.For beloved bookstores there is the Argosy, dating to 1925 and the oldest in Manhattan, Three Lives & Company in West Village, The Strand in East Village, The Corner Bookstore on the Upper East Side, the Alabaster Bookshop, and, stretching across to Brooklyn, the Greenlight Bookstore.LLNYC takes in Sardi's birthplace of the Tony; the Algonquin Hotel, notorious home of the Round Table and Dorothy Parker's acidic assassins; The Odeon (restaurant) made famous by Jay McInerny's Bright Lights Big City; Pete's Tavern with O. Henry's writing seat, and the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas's last night out in the Big Apple and a pub frequented by Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, Anais Nin, Frank McCourt and Bob Zimmerman.New York is blessed with There are the grand public libraries such as the Beaux-Arts New York Public Library, the Morgan Library and across the East River, the magnificent Art Deco Brooklyn Public Library.When it comes to hotels, The Plaza appears in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, but it is the Chelsea Hotel that has the most literary resonance. Mark Twain stayed there, Arthur Miller wrote there, as did Arthur C. Clarke and Simone de Beauvoir.Literary locations abound for New York from Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote to Washington Square by Henry James. Stuart Little (E.B. White) sailed his boat on the lake in Central Park while the Bethesda Fountain was central to Tony Kushner's Angels in America.The book takes a short trip up Long Island to visit Walt Whitman's birthplace and while nothing but plaques remain of the New York homes that Herman Melville knew, we visit the literary giants buried alongside Melville in Woodlawn Cemetery including Damon Runyan and Joseph Pullitzer.All these chapters are interspersed with telling quotes about the city that never sleeps.Every man seems to feel that he has got the duties of two lifetimes to accomplish in one, and so he rushes, rushes, rushes, and never has time to be companionable never has any time at his disposal to fool away on matters which do not involve dollars and duty and business.Mark Twain, 1867

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Book SynopsisLong anticipated and hugely welcome, Paul Holberton's A History of Arcadia is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature and drama in ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German and English, and of a wide range of visual imagery, ending just before 1800. The book analyses the development of pastoral as a means of representing human happiness on this earth in the requited wooing of girl and boy, to whose feelings early modern pastoral gives voice.This tremendous book is an iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter, with an important chapter on the 18th century, both in the visual arts, where pastoral is very poorly understood, and in words and performance, about which many false preconceptions prevail.The study begins with Virgil's use of Theocritus and an analysis of what basis Virgil provided for Renaissance pastoral and what, by contrast, stemmed from the medieval pastourelle. Pastoral developed notably in the Venetian High Renaissance. Its texts incorporated Petrarchist and Neoplatonic ideas of love, of which this book charts the development and evolution with unprecedented precision, considering also the female nude in art. There is a novel and polemical discussion of the development of landscape subjects in art, from Giorgione to Claude. The contributions of the most influential or representative authors - Petrarch, Sannazaro, Montemayor, Tasso, Guarino, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Honoré d’Urfé, Cornelis de Hooft, Shakespeare and lastly Salomon Gessner - are considered beside many interesting more minor ones - Arsocchi, Bernardim Ribeiro, Clément Marot, Cieco d’Adria, John Fletcher, Fontenelle - and the verses of madrigals.There is a chapter on 'Being Rural' - what we can say about the reality of life in the country in the early modern period. There is a chapter on 'Et in Arcadia Ego' that introduces new evidence for the dating of Poussin’s famous work by reference to a neglected work by Sébastien Bourdon in Yale; another on a pastoral composition by Rubens that has not been considered as such. There is an important and bold discussion of self-projection (‘metachronic’ representation) by monarchs and courtiers across Europe in the 17th century, both within pastoral and without, which illuminates profound differences between Protestant and Catholic culture. Coming from the study of earlier periods, the author is able to throw new light on the Rococo - figures such as John Gay, Watteau, Gessner and Gainsborough - and to explain the termination of pastoral writing and art with the embrace of modernity in form and means of expression.All texts are given in the original language and all translated into English, while the visuals are beautifully reproduced: the book is also an anthology.Trade ReviewRemarkable … This is a substantial publication in every sense: two volumes [available separately] amounting to almost a thousand pages, with lavish colour illustrations throughout … [It has] exceptional range ... so much to praise. * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisIn this fascinating Art of book, Colorado-born artist Ashleigh Izienicki reveals the process behind how she combines dark, macabre themes with a cute and feminine touch to create incredibly popular art. Ashleigh has accumulated a massive following online under her brand, Miss Upacey. She has over 603K followers on Instagram, a popular Patreon, and a successful online shop selling products such as pins, phone cases, stickers, and stationery. She now resides in California and works in traditional and digital mediums. Her book features tutorials in both, giving fans and art-lovers a glimpse behind the curtain into her process, studio set-up, and inspiration. She also talks about the challenges and joys that come with running an art business, and gives her invaluable advice to aspiring creatives. Miss Upacey: The Art of Ashleigh Izienicki has the unmatched production values that 3dtotal Publishing is known for - high-quality paper and a beautiful hardback cover with special cover finishes. This is a keepsake for Miss Upacey fans, and art fans in general, to display on their bookshelf for many years to come.

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Book SynopsisPhotographer Toby Mitchell returns with his Weekender, this time taking readers on a visual journey through the heart of Scandinavia-specifically, the vibrant and captivating city of Copenhagen. In this beautifully curated volume, Mitchell offers a blend of iconic landmarks, charming streets, hidden gems, and lesser-known locales.

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles Zunar’s fight through cartoons from 2009 to 2018. Peppered within the pages of this book are some of Zunar’s timeless philosophies on cartooning, which have kept him going despite the odds stacked against him – arrests, court charges, banning of books, travel ban. In this book, Zunar also sheds light on the methodological approach he utilises in his cartoons to effectively deliver his messages. From the conception of a cartoon right down to inking it, Zunar bares what goes on his mind when he draws these cartoons. From being labelled controversial to becoming an award winning cartoonist, this is Zunar’s fight through cartoons in his own words.

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