Includes::* Museums, Galleries, Churches, Palaces & Monuments* 335 coloured pictures, including restored works of
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Includes:: The Valley of the Kings & the Queens, the Theban Necropolis ; Karnak,
- The Temple of Amon ; The Tombs

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Includes: 280 detailed colour illustrations ; The towns, the archaeological sites, & the countryside ; Messina, Palermo,
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A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly misunderstood. Features of the colored & gilded map that baffle modern expectations are typically dismissed as the product of careless execution. Kupfer argues that they should rightly be seen as part of the map`s encoded commentary on the nature of vision itself. Optical conceits & perspectival games formed part of the map`s language of vision, were central to its commission, & shaped its display, formal design, & allegorical fabric. These discoveries compel a sweeping revision of the artwork`s intellectual & art-historical genealogy, as well as its function & aesthetic significance, shedding new light on the impact of scientific discourses in late medieval art. ...

” Art & Photography” surveys a rich & important history, from the 1960s to the 21st century. Arranged thematically, it presents works by the most significant international artists who have explored & extended the boundaries of photography. This influential body of work by over 160 artists over four decades is contextualised in the ” Documents” section by original artist`s statements & interviews, as well as lucid reflections on photography by major thinkers of our era such as Roland Barthes & Jean Baudrillard. Today photography is art`s pre-eminent medium. Photography pervades our visual culture. It has become what painting was in previous centuries: a universal language. Today`s photographers are internationally admired as ”the painters of modern life”. Yet it took the whole of the 20th century for photography to reach this status. On its invention, the photograph was derided as a purely mechanical, ”artless” medium which could never be considered among the fine arts. As the 20th century unfolded, Modernist movements experimented with the photograph & expanded its limits, yet still the art establishment held out. Only recently have the majority of art museums begun acquiring works of photography. In 1976, when the Museum of Modern Art, New York
- one of the first institutions to collect photographs
- staged a retrospective of the American colour photographer William Eggleston, this was a groundbreaking event: it was the first time colour photography had been exhibited, as art, in a major museum. This moment in the 1970s marked a dramatic sea change, but the tides had begun to turn in the early 1960s, when artists such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha & Gerhard Richter used the everyday, mass-produced quality of the snapshot as a basis for their work. From this early adoption of photography for its ”artless” qualities, artists have explored photography extensively ever since, ranging from Richard Prince & Cindy Sherman`s reflections on the visual messages of film & advertising, to the richly layered, `painterly` genres of portraiture, landscape & still life in the work of Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall & others who have brought photography full circle, to the roles that painting fulfilled in past centuries.

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There is widespread agreement that art is `very important`
- but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy
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Today the art world is more of a world in every sense, with a larger population, a wider territory & a greater number of nationalities. Its prevailing conversation, however, has yet to catch up. Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes uncovers twelve distinct avant-gardes that have emerged around the world in recent decades. The format is simple
- twelve curators each selected eight artists to represent the avant-garde of twelve specific cities. Exploring the artistic heritage, cultural climate & contemporary milieu of these emerging cities, this ground-breaking book features a variety of media including photography, painting, sculpture, installation, video, performance & new media works, by a new generation of artists gaining prominence on the international art circuit. Cities highlighted in the book include: Beirut, Bogota, Cluj, Delhi, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, San Juan, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore & Vancouver. Lively, thought-provoking, comprehensive, & packed with more than 500 images, this book is sure to widen the historical narrative, allowing us to imagine a future of diverse aesthetics & shared concerns in the common language of contemporary art.
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Published in association with The National Gallery, London, this book features some of the best-known works from their world-famous collection of paintings. By interacting with each work of art
- adding stickers or colouring in
- children can gain a deeper understanding of, & appreciation for, art.

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PEPIN (R) Giant Artists` Colouring Books contain 24 sheets (2 x 12 designs) of superior-quality acid-free drawing paper in A3 size. The designs are precise representations of masterpieces of art & design
- very intricate & challenging & suitable for serious colourists & art students. Each design is included twice, so that you can either create variations or use one for testing & the other as the final artwork.
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Pepin Letter Writing Sets come in carefully designed luxury boxes. Each box contains 10 sheets of 4 different designs (printed ...