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English | Elizabeth Ingles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Expressionist painter, whom many identify as the pioneer of expressionism in modern painting. He quickly earned a reputation for belonging to a new artistic era in Germany and in central Europe, he is known for his works and his importance all around the world. His most well-known works date from the 1890s, notably The Scream. In his works, he explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.
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English | Victoria Charles, Emile Michel | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
The Brueghels, Pieter the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Younger ("Hell Brueghel"), and Jan Brueghel the Elder ("Velvet Brueghel"), embody one of the largest dynasties of Flemish painting. Beyond their history, their masterworks bear witness to the priceless contribution of this family in the evolution of northern European painting.
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English | Professor Hans-Jürgen Döpp | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Since The Turkish Bath (1863) by the French painter Ingres, the Far Eastern woman has, to many, been a symbol of out of reach or forbidden pleasures. Seafaring explorers, military adventurers, and simple travellers from Europe over the centuries have all been enthralled by the exotic nature of the Asian woman, her foreignness accentuated by the gentle pallor of her skin. Thus arose the myth that she, of all women, was in possession of the knowledge of certain refined pleasures. Historically, in the traditions of both China and Japan, women have been required to respond at least acquiescently to men's desires. It was part of their upbringing, quite different from the moral taboos decreed on the subject by our Western civilisation. This book-richly illustrated with colourful Chinese and Japanese prints and ivory carvings, some of considerable antiquity - thus figuratively comprises an Oriental hymn to carnal pleasures and to the Game of Love. In a lively and comprehensive text, Professor Hans-Jürgen Döpp reveals the ancient rules that govern relationships between men and women in the Far East - while not ignoring the importance of love.
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English | Sergei Daniel | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), the greatest landscape painter of his time, is also known as Claude Gelée or simply as Claude. He was called Lorrain merely because he was born in the province of Lorraine, in France. He lived in Rome as a young man, and apart from a brief spell in Nancy, in Northeast France, he remained in Italy for the rest of his life. It is therfore not surprising that the romantic landscapes for which Lorrain was famous owe far more to the Italian than to the French tradition. The subtle lighting effects and feathery foliage, offset against ruins of Greco-Roman architecture, inspired many later painters, including Turner and even the french Impressionists. This book reproduces many of the Lorrain paintings and includes magnifications of details of these intricate works of art. There are also preparatory sketches and drawings for them. There is an informative text explaining the background to the paintings, supplemented by an essay by Natalia Serebriannaya, entitled "Claude Lorrain: the Artist's evolution". The book ends with a detailed biography and a list of principal exhibition catalogues and inventories.
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English | Félix Witting, M.L. Patrizi | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
It was not until the middle of the 20th century that Caravaggio (1571-1610), an Italian painter long considered controversial, was rediscovered. An advocate of Realism, this artist of the Counter-Reformation challenged the establishment and returned a sense of humanity to the images of the saints. The sensuality he gave the saints went beyond veneration to create an ambiguous eroticism, which incurred the wrath of the Church. Paradoxical and violent, this painter of shadows illustrated his debauched lifestyle and dissolute morals with solemnity. With his invention of chiaroscuro, Caravaggio made his blood-soaked impression on the history of art. Bringing together the different writing styles of Félix Witting (Professor of Art History) and M. L. Patrizi (Doctor of Psychology), this text sheds new light on the work of Caravaggio, who could not be better served than by these great specialists.
Mega Square-Beauty of the Beast
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English | John Bascom | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
For all time, artists have maintained a close relationship with the animal world, which has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration. First, they received inspiration directly from their environment. Next, animals were used in art for their status as domestic friends, symbols of an intimate and familial life, as well as starting points for a fantastic imagination, particularly held in high-esteem during the Renaissance. Later in Orientalism, animal art followed the discovery of exotic fauna which appealed to contemporary artists. The animal and its wild beauty are comprehended here through works of art from Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Brueghel, Leonardo da Vinci, Katasushika Hokuasi, Henri Rousseau, and Paul Klee.
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English | Camille Flammarion | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
The final book of the Bible, called both Revelation and Apocalypse, prophesises what will happen at the end of time. During the Middle Ages, in a society which deeply believed in God and was mainly ruled by religious authorities, this theme has often been used in art. Its symbolic content allowed for many different interpretations, using various types of support (tapestries, illuminations, sculpture, painting). This book pools the most famous pieces of art inspired by this theme, such as the Apocalypse drapery from Angers Cathedral, the carved tympanum of the Autun Cathedral, and the fresco in Albi Cathedral. The theme of the Apocalypse was a means to impress minds while also allowing artists to develop their imaginations.
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English | Palani Mohan | ASIA ONE BOOKS
主題：城市 | 其他
分類：藝術
Vivid Hong Kong is an intensely colourful and kinetic look at daily life in Hong Kong, as captured on an iPhone camera. To create this pioneering collection, photographer Palani Mohan roamed the streets in all weathers and seasons to compile a serendipitous take on the city. By forgoing traditional photographic equipment in favour of an iPhone, Mohan was able to wend his way through the crowds unobtrusively, seizing the everyday, fleeting moments that define the soul of Hong Kong in their purest state – and their most evocative and dream-like form.
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English | Donald Wigal | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
"At the beginning, the canvas is white, void; then the cautious start, then the running of the paint from the pot onto the white of the surface..." Hans Namuth. Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era which began to replace the fading nineteenth century. Just like in a novel, Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project, he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the "icebreaker." For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate for the status of the Master of the American School. During the many upheavals in his life in New York in the 1950s and 60s, Pollock lost his bearings - success had simply come too fast and too easily. It was during this period that he turned to alcohol and destroyed his marriage to Lee Krasner. Eventually, he achieved truly legendary status, ending his life like that other great star of the period, James Dean, killing himself after a night of drinking, behind the wheel of his Oldsmobile. This book throws light on a new era in art and on the personality of Pollock through the work which made him the undisputed master of Abstract American Impressionism.
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English | Léon Rosenthal | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Romanticism was a reaction against the Neo- Classicism that invaded the nineteenth century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake. In sculpture, François Rude indicated the direction this new artistic freedom would take, endowing his work with a movement and expression never previously seen. By retracing the different stages of its evolution, this book offers a study of the different aspects of the Romantic movement. Thanks to a thorough and in-depth analysis, the reader can understand in its entirety this movement which revolutionised the era.
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English | Robert de la Sizeranne | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, close to William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, in opposition to the academicism of the time, favoured realism and biblical themes over the affected canons of the nineteenth century. This work, with its captivating text and rich illustrations, describes with enthusiasm this singular movement which notably inspired the followers of Art Nouveau and Symbolism.
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English | Ashley Bassie | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, art historian Ashley Bassie, explains how Expressionist art led the way to a new, intense, evocative treatment of psychological, emotional and social themes in the early twentieth century. The book examines the developments of Expressionism and its key works, highlighting the often intensely subjective imagery and the aspirations and conflicts from which it emerged while focusing precisely on the artists of the movement
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English | Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
The term Roman art distinguishes, in art history, the period between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools which were all specific in their own way. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Roman art is marked by its raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work rediscovers this art from the middle ages often despised today in comparison to Gothic art which succeeded thereafter.
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English | Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe for more than 200 years. Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using flying buttresses and pointed arches to open cathedrals to the daylight. A period of great economic and social change, the gothic era also saw the development of a new iconography celebrating the Holy Mary, in contrast to the fearful themes of dark Roman times. Full of rich changes in all the different arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.), Gothic art gave way to the Italian Renaissance and International Gothic.
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English | Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
A symbol of the approaching revolution, the Viennese Secession represented the rebellion of twenty artists against the conservative artistic academy’s oppressive influence over the city, the age, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by the Art Nouveau movement, the Secession, created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll and Josef Hoffmann, was not an anonymous artistic revolution among so many others. Defining itself as a “total art”, without any political or commercial constraint, this movement represented the ideological turmoil which affected the craftsmen, architects, graphic artists and designers. Turning away from the established art and immersing themselves in the generous and decorative shapes of the organic, the artists opened themselves to an evocative, erotic aesthetic which could only serve to offend the bourgeoisie of the time. Painting, sculpture, and architecture are confronted by the author of this book, to highlight the diversity and the richness of a movement whose motto, “For each time its art, for each art it liberty” illustrates its innovation and originality.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：時尚潮流 | 其他
分類：藝術
Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon d'Automne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by change, artists like Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck searched for a new chromatic language by using colour out of its habitual context. Freed from the strict technique advocated by the École des Beaux-Arts, they used colour as their main resource, their only standard seen in flat tints, saturating their stunning paintings. The author invites us to experience this vivid artistic evolution that, although encompassing a short amount of time, left its mark on the path to modernity.
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English | Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Anna Jameson | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists no longer painted frescoes on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The visages of the figures were painted to shock the spectator in order to emphasise the divinity of the character being represented. The bright gold leafed backgrounds were used to highlight the godliness of the subject. The elegance of both line and colour were combined to reinforce specific symbolic choices. Ultimately the Early Italian artists wished to make the invisible -- visible. In this magnificent book, the authors emphasise the importance that the rivalry between the Sienese and Florentine schools played in the evolution of art history. The reader, in the course of these forgotten masterworks, will discover how the sacred began to take a more human form, opening a discrete but definitive door through the use of anthropomorphism, a technique that would be cherished by the Renaissance.
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English | Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term Rococo. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the offhandedness of the aristocracy of the time. In many aspects, this art was linked to its Baroque predecessor, and is thus also referred to as late Baroque style. While artists such as Tiepolo, Boucher and Reynolds carried the style to its apogee, the movement was often condemned for its superficiality. In the second half of the 18th century, Rococo began its decline. At the end of the century, facing the advent of Neoclassicism, it was plunged into obscurity. It had to wait nearly a century before art historians could restore it to the radiance of its olden age, which is rediscovered in this work by Klaus H. Carl and Victoria
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
While Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his epoch, relying on the new chromatic studies of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Georges Seurat transcribed the chemist's theory of colours into tiny points that created an entire image. With his heavy strokes, Van Gogh illustrated the midday sun, while Cézanne renounced perspective. Rich in its variety and in the singularity of its artists, Post-Impressionism was a passage taken by all the well-known figures of 20th century painting - it is here presented, for the great pleasure of the reader, by Nathalia Brodskaïa.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Impressionism has always been one of the public's favourite styles of art and Impressionist works continue to enchant beholders with their amazing play of colours and forms. This book offers a well-chosen selection of the most impressive works of artists such as Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley.
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English | Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert, Anatoli Podoksik | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, led by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world that was in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the suprematism of Malevich to the constructivism of Tatlin. Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr. Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity's crucial moment, and permits the reader to rediscover, through their biographies, the principal representatives of the movement.
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English | Albert Kostenevich | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves "the Nabis," based on the Hebrew word for "prophet". Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery and Japanese woodblock printing, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton and Denis (to name the most prominent) revolutionised the spirit of decorative technique during one of the richest periods in French painting. Although the increasing individualism of their works often threatened to weaken their unity, the Nabis were above all a group of close friends. The artwork presented in this book - varying between Bonnard's guilelessness, Vuillard's ornamental and mysterious works, Denis's soft languor and Vallotton's almost-bitter roughness - plunges us into the deep source of their creative gifts.
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English | Charles Bayet | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 A.D. until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that we are only beginning to rediscover. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern and Christian cultures, Byzantine artists developed an architectural and pictorial tradition, marked by symbolism, whose influence extended far beyond the borders of the Empire. Today, Italy, Northern Africa, and the Near East preserve the vestiges of this sophisticated artistic tradition, with all of its mystical and luminous beauty. The magnificence of the palaces, churches, paintings, enamels, ceramics and mosaics from this civilisation guarantees Byzantine art's powerful influence and timelessness.
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English | Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：時尚潮流 | 其他
分類：藝術
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe: the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Peter Paul Rubens of the Northern School alone show the importance of this artistic period. Rich in images encompassing the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, this work offers a complete insight into this passionate period in the history of art.
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English | Oscar Lovell Triggs | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. In the middle of the "soulless" Industrial Era, when objects were standardised, the Arts & Crafts movement proposed a return to the aesthetic at the core of production. The work of artisans and meticulous design thus became the heart of this new ideology, which influenced styles throughout the world, translating the essential ideas of Arts & Crafts into design, architecture and painting.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Art of Century is a collection of thirty titles which glide through the most significant cultural movements from the Antiquity to the twenty-first century. Through its first fives titles, Naive Art, the Renaissance, the Russian Avant-Garde, Symbolism and Art Nouveau, this series offers a new didactic approach to the main currents and major artists who moulded our comprehension of the twenty-first century aesthetics.
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English | Evgueny Kovtun | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Art of Century is a collection of thirty titles which glide through the most significant cultural movements from the Antiquity to the twenty-first century. Through its first fives titles, Naive Art, the Renaissance, the Russian Avant-Garde, Symbolism and Art Nouveau, this series offers a new didactic approach to the main currents and major artists who moulded our comprehension of the twenty-first century aesthetics.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Art of Century is a collection of thirty titles which glide through the most significant cultural movements from the Antiquity to the twenty-first century. Through its first fives titles, Naive Art, the Renaissance, the Russian Avant-Garde, Symbolism and Art Nouveau, this series offers a new didactic approach to the main currents and major artists who moulded our comprehension of the twenty-first century aesthetics.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Until the end of the 19th century Naïve Art, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Naïve painting is often distinguished by its clarity of line, vivacity and joyful colours, as well as by its rather clean-cut, simple shapes, as represented by French artists such as Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant and Camille Bombois. However, this movement has also found adherents elsewhere, including Joan Miró (who was influenced by some of its qualities), Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and Ivan Generalic.
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English | Jean Lahor | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
The term refers to Art Nouveau decorative and architectural style developed in the West in 1880 and 1890. Born as a reaction to the industrial revolution and creative vacuum left behind, Art Nouveau was the core of a "renaissance" of the decorative arts. The main objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetics of nature through a return to the study of natural subjects. To achieve this, artists like Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Antoni Gaudi, Jan Toorop and William Morris favored innovation in technology and new forms. After his triumph at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900, the trend has continued to inspire many artists since. The Art Deco, Art Nouveau successor, emerged after World War II.
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English | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Edward Hopper poetically expresses the loneliness of the human face of this American way of life that develops in the 1920s. Inspired by the film shoot or attitudes of the characters, and denounce his paintings reflect the alienation of mass culture. With his paintings with cool colors, peopled with anonymous, the Work of Hopper also symbolizes the reflection of the Great Depression. Through a variety of reproductions, the author, by analyzing both artistic and biographical, we shed new light on the enigmatic and tortured this major painter.
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English | Virginia Pitts Rembert | Parkstone
主題：時尚潮流 | 其他
分類：藝術
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was born into a poor family who settled in the Netherlands two centuries earlier. His grandfather Jan van Aken and his father Anthonis van Aken also worked as a painter. Marrying in 1480 a daughter of wealthy aristocrat, he is greeted as "significant member" by the Guild of Our Lady, religious association dedicated to the worship of the Virgin, which he naturally becomes the official painter. It is in his readings and the atmosphere of heresy and mysticism then prevailing, that Bosch draws new inspiration that makes him abandon the traditional iconography of his debut, to move towards? Works "sacrilegious" where the religious confronts the sin and damnation. Hell in Paradise mingles, and satirical morality. The obsession of sin is illustrated in The Seven Deadly Sins (1475-1480, Prado Museum, Madrid), The Ship of Fools (1490-1500, Louvre, Paris), the triptych Garden of Earthly Delights, circa 1503 -1504 (Prado Museum, Madrid), fantastic allegory complex composition of human and animal hybrids with many references to alchemy.
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English | Dmitri V. Sarabianov | Parkstone
主題：時尚潮流 | 其他
分類：藝術
The Moscow artists who began to move toward Impressionism around 1880 admired the works of young Serov, its bucolic landscape that revealed so clearly the lyricism of the small events of daily life. Having benefited from the instruction of his teachers Repin and Chistyakov, he became the best Russian portraitist of his generation. His talent is evident in some of his finest paintings, such as Peach Girl or Ulysses and Nausicaa. The experience and the creative work of Serov enabled Russian painting to be a part of the pictorial art of the twentieth century.
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English | Anna Barskaya | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Featuring a collection of both iconic and less well-known works by this influential artist, the book highlights Gauguin's famously erotic, primitive style and use of vivid colours. For a fan of the artist or someone who has yet to discover Gauguin's work.
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English | Eugène Müntz | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
The legend of Michelangelo (1475-1564) has endured, undiminished, for 500 years. Scholars like Chateaubriand, Manzoni, and Rilke have seen in him a master of the renewal of Western art. Indeed, endowed with an almost superhuman creative genius, Michelangelo incarnates for us the „universal man‰ of the Italian Renaissance, and the quality and scope of his oeuvre is uncontested, not even by Leonardo da Vinci - works like his Pietà, David, and the Sistine Chapel frescoes are the proof. How was he able, in so few years, to develop the methods behind a body of work worthy of his Greek predecessors? No one has better examined the complexities of the man, the artist, and the age in which he lived than Eugène Müntz. His text, written in clear and pure style, is a literary work in itself, and it is accompanied here by illustrations of an exceptional quality.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa, Edgar Degas | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French painter and sculptor. Degas created many portraits, besides, he concentrated on a few themes that he varied again and again: the ballet, jockeys and horses, the Parisian night life and women with personal hygiene. In addition to oil painting and graphic techniques, he devoted himself to painting, pastel, in which he brought it to an exceptional championship. Although he took part regularly in group exhibitions of the Impressionists, but fell from the outset his own way. The harmonic sense of reality of his fellow painters, he set out his exciting images of social life. He exposed the fragility of the bourgeois world and its human relations, and went to the fringes of society, especially where the female characters are attracted to his artistic view of the press inside and milliners, dancers and prostitutes. Characteristic of Degas' paintings are often decentralized compositions that put the actual events on the screen. Often characters are seemingly arbitrary working or cut, which gives the paintings the appearance of snapshots, a stylistic device that he developed from his work as a photographer out.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
The life and work of Van Gogh are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to see his paintings without seeing them reflected in the story of his life: a life of which they talked so much that has already become legendary. Van Gogh is the embodiment of suffering, a misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider.
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English | Jeanette Zwingenberger, Esther Selsdon | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is an essential artist of Expressionism. Influenced by Klimt and the Vienna Secession, he breaks with very young Austrian official art. Nervous, numerous self-portraits and nudes remain faithful to the image of this major artist: erotic, sensual and tortured. With its text and? Works which illustrate, this book provides us all the talent of this artist who died suddenly in 1918.
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English | Rainer Maria Rilke | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
This book explores the artistic creativity of one of the greatest sculptors of the story using a text by the writer Rainer Maria Rilke, and a host of impressive pictures. It contains the famous Rodin's masterpieces, this bronze and marble-genius who immortalized his revolutionary artistic approach to sculpture and the human body in a form that seems to breathe life into the characters.
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English | Grigori Sternin, Jelena Kirillina | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Ilya Repin was a leading Russian painter and sculptor who is most famous for his involvement with the Russian Itinerant movement. These avantgarde artists rebelled against the formalism and tradition of the official Academy of Fine Arts and championed the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. Repin's most powerful works expressed great psychological depth (Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581) and exposed tensions within the social order (Barge Haulers on the Volga) of his time. This book invites you to discover the wonderful artworks of this progressive realist painter, whose work would eventually come to define and influence social artistic movements of the future.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa, Nina Kalitina | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
For Monet creativity has always been a painful struggle, and his desire to express emotions and lighting effects to convey the nature, was more intense than any of his contemporaries. In his words: The skill comes and goes, but art is always the same: an implementation of nature, which will require as much sensitivity as ... I toil and struggle against the sun ... Actually, I should paint with gold and precious stones. "Monet's quick brushstrokes with which he painted landscapes and scenes of everyday life, reflects his fascination with light and color.
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English | Patrick Bade, Jane Rogoyska | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) painter of the late nineteenth century, founded the Vienna Secession. This movement expressed its opposition to any official art, marked by inaction and the refusal of a certain vision of Modernism. Klimt's inspiration is part of the slow but inexorable disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the multitude of cultures that comprise it. Artist of eroticism and sensuality, Klimt was a master of Expressionism with Kokoschka and Schiele. This book brings together the finest paintings of Klimt with a text that highlights the versatility of the artist.
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English | Félix Witting, M.L. Patrizi | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
It was not until the middle of the 20th century that Caravaggio (1571-1610), an Italian painter long considered controversial, was rediscovered. An advocate of Realism, this artist of the Counter-Reformation challenged the establishment and returned a sense of humanity to images of the saints. The sensuality he gave them went beyond veneration to create an ambiguous eroticism, which incurred the wrath of the Church. Paradoxical and violent, this painter of shadows illustrated with solemnity his debauched lifestyle and dissolute morals. With his invention of chiaroscuro, he made his blood-soaked impression on the history of art.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Life and Practice of Van Gogh are so closely linked that it is virtually impossible to distinguish one from another. By observing his paintings, one discovers an overview of the history of his life - a life now considered legendary. Van Gogh has become the embodiment of suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art: the model of the unclassifiable artist.
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English | Mikhail Guerman, Sylvie Forestier | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Chagall's work and life has an international dimension that endows it with universal appeal. Throughout his life, this Jewish artist imbued his painting with passion and poetry, and left his mark across the world, from the Metropolitan Opera House of New York to the Opera Garnier of Paris.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
John Constable (1776--1837) is arguably the best-loved of English artists; his fame and popularity are rivalled only by those of his great contemporary, J M W Turner. But like Turner, his reputation rests on a handful of very well-known paintings, normally Suffolk scenes such as Flatford Mill or Hay-Wain. Many of the magisterial productions of his last years, including Hadleigh Castle and The Opening of the Waterloo Bridge are a far cry from the Suffolk scenes, whilst his accomplishments within the difficult and competitive genre of marine painting have been consistently undervalued.
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English | Eric Shanes | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
As one of the foremost painters of the 20 th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed painting towards its modern incarnation. As irrational as he was Surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who, above all, understood the force of marketing and publicity, Dali disorients the viewer in order to draw him or her into his world. Images and colours crash together to express and mock certain ideas, creating a subversive eroticism that taps into the subconscious of the avid voyeurs that we are.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky on 27 August 1890 in Philadelphia, died on 18 November 1976 in Paris, was perhaps one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Painter, photographer and film producer, he was involved in the Dada movement in New York, then the Surrealist movement in Paris, where he lived for most of his life. Whilst he is mostly celebrated for his avant-garde photography, he considered himself to be a painter first and foremost.
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English | Eugène Müntz | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
The name Michelangelo instantly conjures up the Sistine Chapel, the David, the Pieta and countless other great works. In his History of Italian Painting, the French writer Stendhal remarked that, "between Greek antiquity and Michelangelo nothing exists, except more or less skilled forgeries". The work of Michelangelo has, indisputably, stood the test of time. How is it possible that in just a few years Michelangelo was able to uncover the secrets of a creative source worthy of his Greek predecessors? Often referred to as a creative genius and a superman, Michelangelo was an incomparable artist of the Italian Renaissance and is often ranked alongside Leonardo da Vinci for his influence and achievement.
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English | Virginia Pitts Rembert | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Long before computer games were invented, Hiëronymus Bosch was painting terrifying, yet strangely likable, monsters, often with a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental dangers that befalls those who abandon the teachings of Christ. With a life that spanned 1450 to 1516, Bosch was born at the height of the Renaissance and witnessed its religious wars. Medieval traditions and values were crumbling, paving the way for a new universe where faith had lost its power and much of its magic. Bosch set out to warn doubters of the perils awaiting all and any who lost their faith in God. Believing that everyone had to make their own moral choices, he focused on themes of hell, heaven and lust, brilliantly exploiting the symbolism of a wide range of fruits and plants which lent his imagery strong sexual overtones.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Paul Cézanne, a contemporary of the Impressionists, to whose influence he submitted at the beginning of his career, very quickly turned towards a more personal research which made him the "father of modern painting". Most notably, he was a great influence on Braque and Picasso. Little recognised during his lifetime, derided by critics, Cézanne would nevertheless establish a new vision of nature based on the study of colours and space which he created with large, fluid strokes of the brush. These canvases allow us to appreciate Cézanne's stylistic evolution, as well as the diversity of his themes: landscapes (The Banks of the Marne, Mont Saint-Victoire), genre scenes (Girl at the Piano 'Overture to Tannhäuser'), still lifes (Fruit), portraits (The Smoker) and self-portraits.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Chagall's work and life has an international dimension that endows it with universal appeal. Throughout his life, this Jewish artist imbued his painting with passion and poetry, and left his mark across the world, from the Metropolitan Opera House of New York to the Opera Garnier of Paris.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia in 1898 and died in 1976 of a heart attack in New York, where he had gone to open a retrospective of his work. Son of two artists, and himself a trained engineer, Calder mostly created mobiles, assembled from pieces that would move with the currents of the air, stabiles or stationary statues made from cut sheet metal, and paintings. His art is poetic, merry and popular, "the sublimation of a tree in the wind" according to Marcel Duchamp. He went on to develop a fascination with the theme of the circus, which reached its zenith with his Calder Circus, created in Paris in 1926. He moved to France in 1927, where he met artists of the Parisian avant-garde movement, such as Joan Miró, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, and Piet Mondrian in 1930, who would influence his art profoundly. Calder henceforth abandoned figurative wire-sculptures, on which he had concentrated since 1926, to adopt an entirely abstract sculptural language. In 1931, he joins the group "Abstraction-Creation", which devoted itself to non-figuration. He also starts to create sculptures made with independent mobile elements, turned by an electric motor or cranked by hand. In 1932, he exhibits 30 sculptures, classed as "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp, marking the beginning of his career. In 1958, he creates a mobile for the Parisian seat of UNESCO. Alexander Calder was the most French of American sculptors, and his genius is shown by the way he could transform sheet metal into a work of art, and a tin can into a bird. He was the link between surrealism and abstract art.
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English | Eric Shanes | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
As well as one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker, whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. He used images, objects and their means of production to draw parallels with cultural processes. By means of a variety of techniques, but principally through choice of images, repetition, isolation and use of colour, Warhol makes us aware of contemporary materialism, political manipulation, economic exploitation, conspicuous consumption, media hero-worship and the creation of artificially induced needs and aspirations. Through manipulating images and the public persona of the artist, Warhol also confronts us with the contradictions and superficialities of contemporary culture and the art it has engendered, whilst incorporating in his paintings and sculptures the very techniques of mass production that are central to the modern world, and emphasizing to the point of absurdity the complete detachment from social and artistic commitment that he saw around him. Despite the unevenness and shallowness of much of his later work, Andy Warhol was one of the most brilliant, challenging and intentionally infuriating artists of the last half of the 20th century.
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English | Janet Souter | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great figures in the history of the emancipation of modern art from its American essence. At a time when women were primarily wives and mothers, O'Keefe defied convention when she became first the companion, then the wife, of the famous photographer and father of American modern art, Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe is known above all for her complex visual descriptions of nature: the delicacy of an autumn leaf, the subtle nuances of a flower petal, or the symmetry of an animal's head. Today, we associate her name with bright colours and the austere beauty of the New Mexico desert, where she lived until her death at the age of 98. This book explores the personal journey of O'Keeffe, her creative process and the legacy she left to the art world.
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English | Elizabeth Ingles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Expressionist painter, whom many identify as the pioneer of expressionism in modern painting. He quickly earned a reputation for belonging to a new artistic era in Germany and in central Europe, he is known for his works and his importance all around the world. His most well-known works date from the 1890s, notably The Scream. In his works, he explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
At the end of the 19th century, Alphonse Mucha created a sensation in the streets of Paris with his posters representing the French actress Sarah Bernhardt. His work announced the new artistic style Art Nouveau, and won its creator fame and artistic renown. However, Mucha's talent was never confined to lithography. Shading the world with a colourful sensuality, Mucha's art also expresses itself in the monumental decorative panels of a living room and in small, delicate China pieces.
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English | Susan Hitchoch | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Joan Miró, born on 20 April 1893 in Barcelona and died on 25 December 1983 in Palma, Mallorca, was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist. He was part of the surrealist movement, and his work has been described as « a sandbox for the subconscious mind ». He fought against the concept of art as a plaything of the rich, and broke with many of the established and accepted rules of painting. His works also demonstrate his pride in his native Catalonia.
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Beyond the sunflowers, irises and portrait of Doctor Gachet, there is the man Van Gogh, signified by his fragility and talent. From his birth in 1853 to his death in 1890, the Post-Impressionist Van Gogh shaped 19th-century concepts of painting over the course of several years with his creativity and technique. He became a forerunner of the Expressionists, the Fauves and modern art. Today, however, Van Gogh remains the symbol of a painter tortured by illness, by others and, especially, by himself. Come explore Post-Impressionism with a beautiful collection of paintings from this creative genius. The vibrant colours and whimsical brushstrokes within the paintings provide insight into the volatile nature of Van Gogh's state of mind.
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English | Klaus H. Carl | Parkstone
主題：時尚潮流 | 其他
分類：藝術
A painting by Rembrandt is a living entity that exists according to its own laws, which reflects the multiplicity of the thoughts and emotions in the painter's mind. Men and their mental condition: that is the fundamental issue the artist tries to solve throughout his life. Tormented by family problems, he took shelter in painting, which became even better as things got worse, as if depicted by a visionary. Hiding his anxiety in the optimism of his themes and in the strength of dark colors, he was ultimately victorious.
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Pablo Picasso is among the most famous figures in 20th-century art, whose works testify to the parallelism of his life and art and underline the impact of important encounters and events.
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English | Nina Kalitina | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
For Monet, the act of creation was always a painful struggle. His obsession to express emotions and to transmit light effects over nature was much more intense than his contemporaries. In his words: “Skills come and go… Art is always the same: a transposition of Nature that requests as much will as sensitivity. I strive and struggle against the sun… should as well paint with gold and precious stones.”
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
This book invites the reader to follow the visionary painter Paul Gauguin from France to exotic Tahiti, guided by his colourful masterpieces. Featuring a collection of both iconic and less well-known works by this influential artist, the book highlights Gauguin's famously erotic, primitive style and use of vivid colours. For a fan of the artist or someone who has yet to discover Gauguin's work,
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English | Rainer Maria Rilke | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
With text by the great Bohemian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and a wealth of beautiful images, this book explores the creative power of one of history's greatest sculptors. Perfect Square Rodin features the best-known masterpieces of this genius of bronze and marble, who immortalised his revolutionary approach to sculptural subjects and the human body in figures that seem ready to come to life.
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Piet Mondrian (7 March 1872 -- 1 February 1944) was a Dutch painter inspired by the Cubism of Picasso. His art evolved into an abstract geometric style termed "Neo-Plasticism", painting mostly abstract checkerboards in primary colours; he painted around 250 of these. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) painter of the late nineteenth century, founded the Vienna Secession. This movement expresses its opposition to official art, marked by inaction and the refusal of a certain vision of Modernism. The inspiration of Klimt is part of the slow but inexorable disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the multitude of cultures that comprise it. Artist of the erotic and sensual, Klimt was a master of Expressionism with Kokoschka and Schiele. This book brings together the most beautiful paintings of Klimt with a text that highlights the versatility of the artist.
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (10 July 1834 -- 17 July 1903) was an American-born painter, who spent most of his life in Great Britain. He was a great advocate of the art for art's sake philosophy and he was one of the leaders of the Aesthetic Movement. Many influences can be found in Whistler's work, including Rembrandt, Velázquez, Japanese art and Ancient Greek sculpture. Despite creating over 500 paintings, he was equally talented in using many other media. His most famous piece is Whistler's Mother, painted in 1871. "
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, (24 November 1864 -- 9 September 1901) was a French, post-impressionist painter, famous for his paintings and prints of actors, dancers and prostitutes in the Montmartre area of Paris. Despite his noble origins, he painted scenes which shocked the "polite society" in Paris. In his short career, he had an impressive output, creating around 1,000 paintings, more than 350 posters and over 5,000 drawings.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Upon his return to Germany in 1921, Kandinsky developed his theory of the Science of Art in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art in Weimar. The Bauhaus Period is the time of Kandinsky's most intense production when his genius would become better known to the world. This book allows us to discern the richness of Kandinsky's work through numerous canvases that have contributed to his international prestige as a painter.
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English | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Behind Frida Kahlo's portraits, lies the story of her life -- a body of work drawn from cries of anger and fury, blended into a potent, and artistically exceptional, combination. At six years of age, she suffered a bout of polio, and she was just 18 when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. Frida Kahlo managed to forge a place for herself in the macho society of Mexico, despite the double handicap of her crushed body and her sex. Frida Kahlo's work plays an important part in the artistic heritage of Mexico, her native country, with both its novelty and its multi-cultural values. The story and the paintings that Frida created provide a rare and courageous account of a woman on a voyage of constant self-discovery.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Sir Edward Coley Burne Jones (1833--1898) was a master of drawing, painted glass and ceramic art. Initially impressed to the quick by Botticelli, Mantegna and Michelangelo, he later turned to Gabriel Rossetti and the early Pre- Raphaelites. Little concerned with the details of daily reality, he probed medieval literature for new themes and produced works that idolize Victorian values and the Englishwoman. These ancient legends gave him a freedom of expression elsewhere denied in a society dominated by Queen Victoria, famous if not notorious for always dressing in black. Burne-Jones was the epitome of politically correct licentiousness, as a recent London exhibition made delightfully plain to all.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
By the end of the nineteenth century, Naïve Art, created by untrained artists and characterized by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition by professional artists and art critics. Naive paintings stand out for their clean lines, bright colors and vividness, as well as your dash and have simple shapes, features the work of French artists such as Henri Rousseau, Seraphine de Senlis, Andrew and Camille Bauchant Bombois. However, this movement also had adherents of other nationalities, including Joan Miró (who was influenced by some characteristics of the movement), Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and the General Ivan.
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words "naked" and "nude", the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts -- beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and contemporary art; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This beautifully produced book provides a collection that will appeal to all art lovers.
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English | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great figures in the history of the emancipation of modern art from its American essence. At a time when women were primarily wives and mothers, O'Keefe defied convention when she became first the companion, then the wife, of the famous photographer and father of American modern art, Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe is known above all for her complex visual descriptions of nature: the delicacy of an autumn leaf, the subtle nuances of a flower petal, or the symmetry of an animal's head. Today, we associate her name with bright colours and the austere beauty of the New Mexico desert, where she lived until her death at the age of 98. This book explores the personal journey of O'Keeffe, her creative process and the legacy she left to the art world.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Pablo Picasso is among the most famous figures in 20th-century art, whose works testify to the parallelism of his life and art and underline the impact of important encounters and events. This Mega Square book assembles a selection of his most extraordinary works, accompanied by insightful texts. Its convenient format makes it the ideal gift for art enthusiasts.
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English | Donald Wigal | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Born in Florence to American parents, John Singer Sargent led his life travelling constantly between Europe and the United States. His immense opus includes unique watercolour paintings and portraits of American presidents, as well as of figures such as John D. Rockefeller, Auguste Rodin and Henry James. This Mega Square edition embraces Sargent's most impressive works.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Cézanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: "He painted these things as human beings because he was endowed with the gift of divining the inner life in everything." In addition to those of Cézanne, this book is devoted to still-life paintings by artists such as Van Gogh, Matisse, Chardin and Picasso. Its practical format makes it the perfect gift.
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English | Eric Shanes | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
JMW Turner was a prolific master born to a barber in Covent Garden, London, in 1775. When he died in 1851, he left over 19,000 artworks. Selecting which to include in this book was a major feat in itself. Turner was a Romantic when it came to landscapes, with an inimitable flair for seascapes, and was a pioneer of new techniques for creating tone and hue, deeply impressed by Goethe's theory of colours. It took the great art critic John Ruskin to interpret his works in full. Turner was also a successful art gallery owner, professor of the Royal Academy and tireless traveller, who invariably returned home to England laden with outstanding artworks from abroad, especially Venice. With a keen eye for dramatic angle, he also documented on canvas the Battle of Waterloo, the fire that devoured Parliament and other major historical events of his time. Today, his works figure in the collections of the most famous museums in London, Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC.
Great Master - James McNeíll WHISTLER
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English | Patrick Chaleyssin | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Artist unpredictable and eccentric American painter Whistler is a real character in a novel, highly admired and discussed. Modernist before his time, his work is divided into four periods. In an initial research period, the artist is influenced by the realism of Courbet and Japan. Then Whistler is its originality with "Nocturnes" and the series "Cremorne Gardens" by opposing the academic who wants a work of art tells a story. When he painted the portrait of his mother, the Whistler entitled "Arrangement in Grey and Black", which is indicative of his aesthetic theories. This is a real discovery of this extraordinary person we invite Patrick Chaleyssin, art critic and author of numerous writings on modern art.
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English | Eric Shanes | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
As well as one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker, whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. He used images, objects and their means of production to draw parallels with cultural processes. By means of a variety of techniques, but principally through choice of images, repetition, isolation and use of colour, Warhol makes us aware of contemporary materialism, political manipulation, economic exploitation, conspicuous consumption, media hero-worship and the creation of artificially induced needs and aspirations. Through manipulating images and the public persona of the artist, Warhol also confronts us with the contradictions and superficialities of contemporary culture and the art it has engendered, whilst incorporating in his paintings and sculptures the very techniques of mass production that are central to the modern world, and emphasizing to the point of absurdity the complete detachment from social and artistic commitment that he saw around him. Despite the unevenness and shallowness of much of his later work, Andy Warhol was one of the most brilliant, challenging and intentionally infuriating artists of the last half of the 20th century. This book is a great way to discover the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, in which the author is a leading expert.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
The career of the seventeenth century Flemish painter, Van Dyck, was as short as dazzling. He was a pupil of Rubens and quickly became the favorite painter of princes and kings and was the portrait of the English and Italian families of the nobility. With its rigorous compositions, Van Dyck endowed his models of dignity, grandeur and spirituality. Proud ladies, gentlemen frolicking with their horses: Van Dyck knew how to render irrelevant the elegance and the tedium of a refined society. It was a Baroque painter glittering style, played with a light palette and nuanced, and reproduced the most virtuous clothing: velvet, satin and silk. Van Dyck is considered the founder of the English school of portrait painting. Significant influence on Lely, Dobson, Kneller, and especially Reynolds and Gainsborough, as well as on eighteenth-century French painters.
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English | Jeanette Zwingenberger, Esther Selsdon | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is an essential artist of Expressionism. Influenced by Klimt and the Vienna Secession, he broke with the very young Austrian official art. Nervous, numerous self-portraits and nudes remain faithful to the image of this major artist: erotic, sensual and tortured. With its text and? Works which illustrate, this book provides us all the talent of this artist who died suddenly in 1918.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
This book presents a large number of Art Works of Pablo Picasso produced between 1881 and 1914. The first way the artist is marked by the influence of El Greco, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec that he discovered in Barcelona. Strongly interested in the psychological expression, he expresses in his time "blue" (1901 - 1904) moral misery: genre scenes, still lifes and portraits are full of melancholy. Then he developed a passion for figures of acrobats; period "pink". From 1904, when he settled in Paris, his aesthetic is changing dramatically. The influence of Cezanne and Iberian sculpture led him to Cubism, characterized by the multiplication of perspectives on space-map table. In addition to the first Art Works by Picasso, this book of drawings, sculptures and photographs.
Great Masters - Georgia O'keeffe
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English | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great figures in the history of the emancipation of modern art from its American essence. At a time when women were primarily wives and mothers, O'Keefe defied convention when she became first the companion, then the wife, of the famous photographer and father of American modern art, Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe is known above all for her complex visual descriptions of nature: the delicacy of an autumn leaf, the subtle nuances of a flower petal, or the symmetry of an animal's head. Today, we associate her name with bright colours and the austere beauty of the New Mexico desert, where she lived until her death at the age of 98. This book explores the personal journey of O'Keeffe, her creative process and the legacy she left to the art world.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
For Monet, the act of creation was always a painful struggle. His obsession with capturing light effects in nature was much more intense than that of his contemporaries. In his words: "Skills come and go... Art is always the same: a transposition of nature that requests as much will as sensitivity. I strive and struggle against the sun... should as well paint with gold and precious stones." A beautiful display of Impressionist work, Great Masters Monet explores the extraordinary paintings of one of the masters of the 19th century. Monet's rapid brushstroke style in landscapes and scenes from everyday life illustrates his overall fascination with light and colour.
Great Masters - Leonardo da vinci
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English | Eugène Müntz | Parkstone
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Painter, sculptor, architect, mathematician, scientist, inventor -- Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and scholar, the quintessential Renaissance man. From the Mona Lisa to flying machines, from anatomy to cartography, the paintings and sketches of da Vinci are gathered together in this convenient portable book that will excite the imagination of any art lover.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) painter of the late nineteenth century, founded the Vienna Secession. This movement expresses its opposition to official art, marked by inaction and the refusal of a certain vision of Modernism. The inspiration of Klimt is part of the slow but inexorable disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the multitude of cultures that comprise it. Artist of the erotic and sensual, Klimt was a master of Expressionism with Kokoschka and Schiele. This book brings together the most beautiful paintings of Klimt with a text that highlights the versatility of the artist.
Great Masters - Vasily Kandinsky
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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Asu return to Germany in 1921, Kandinsky developed his theory of "Science and Art" in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art in Weimar. The Bauhaus period is the time intensive production of Kandinsky, when his genius would be better known in the world. This book allows us to discern the richness of the works of Kandinsky through numerous paintings that have contributed to its international reputation as a painter.
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English | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Hidden behind the portraits of Frida Kahlo is the remarkable story of the artist's life. It is precisely this combination that attracts the spectator. Frida's work is a testimony of her life. It is not often that one can understand an artist simply by looking within the frame of their paintings. Frida Kahlo is without any doubt Mexico's gift to art history. She was just eighteen when a terrible accident changed her life forever, leaving her disabled and in constant pain. But her explosive temper, her unwavering determination and her eagerness gave her the strength to develop her artistic talent. At her side there was always the great Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera. His compulsive womanizing did not prevent Frida from captivating him with her charms, her talent and her intelligence. She quickly learnt to take the most of Diego's success to discover the world, creating by the way her own legacy and being surrounded by a very close group of careful friends. Her personal life was stormy: several times she left Diego in order to have relationships with people of both sexes. Nonetheless, Frida and Diego were able to save their deteriorating romance. The history and the paintings that Frida left us reveal the story of a brave woman in constant search of her identity.
Great Masters - Francisco Goya
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English | Sarah Carr-Gohm | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) was recognized at an early age as the main artist deEspaña and was upgraded to become the official portrait of the Court. His fame was based on the quality and speed with which they executed their drawings, and etchings have a delicadezaextraordinaria. The use of chiaroscuro in his black paintings influenced many artists, including Manet.Esta monograph presents the fundamental works of the artist, considered today the father of modern art.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906) formed a new approach to art that was crucial to the aesthetic development of many 20th century movements. From the moment he arrived in Paris, Cézanne was an outspoken critic of the artistic conventions of his time. He was not interested, as so many of the academic artists were, in merely recreating visual reproductions of the external world. Nor was he interested, as so many impressionist painters were, in recording the fleeting effects of nature. Cézanne believed that the natural world possessed enduring forms and colors, and the beauty lies within the relationship between them.
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English | Patrick Bade, Jane Rogoyska | Parkstone
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Gustav Klimt was born in Austria in 1862. In his early career he received a public commission to paint a series of frescoes. He received the “Gold Cross for Artistic Merit” for his Burgtheater murals. However it is to the Viennese Secession that Klimt’s name will most enduringly be linked. This revolutionary movement separated itself definitively from public, academic art. The artistic chaos which reigned in Vienna at the time made it an extraordinary place to live. The atmosphere of Klimt’s Nuda Veritas could be likened to the slow languor of Strauss’ operas or to the theatre productions of Schnitzler. His paintings and the few of his drawings which were not destroyed by fire demonstrate a sensuality of rare delicacy. For Klimt “All art is erotic”, whether expressed through the extravagant Byzantine deco-ration of his Judith I, or through pure nudity. This book brings together Klimt’s finest paintings, along with a text that demonstrates the extraordinary eclecticism of this great artist.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, Tiffany succeeded in elevating the decorative to the rank of fine art. Glass was the field of expertise of Tiffany’s workshops. There they developed groundbreaking techniques of treatment which produced beautiful effects on glass. Following the examples of Gallé or Daum, Tiffany made the most of this material: playing with colors, opaqueness and transparency… However, his most famous success is his lamps in mosaic of glass, similar to the cathedral’s stained glass window. Diving into this prism of colors, the author makes us dream again of the birth of this enduring company.
Mega Square - Natural Curiosities
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Reflecting their owner’s taste and serving as an impressive exhibition room for their visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th and 17th centuries. These cabinets, consisting of rare species of both plants in addition to fossils were dedicated to the preservation of science and knowledge. By collecting the most uncommon and beautiful things nature ever produced, rich noblemen were able to build a microcosm expressing the diversity of God’s creation.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
At the end of the 19th century Alphonse Mucha created a sensation throughout the streets of Paris with his posters representing the French actress Sarah Bernhardt. It was an overnight sensation and announced the new artistic style and its creator to the citizens of Paris, Art Nouveau. This brought fame and reputation to the poster artist. However, Mucha’s talent was never confined to lithography. Shading the world with a colorful sensuality, Mucha’s art expresses itself as much on the monumental decorative panels of a living room as on small delicate China pieces. The author enables us to discover all the richness and variety of this fin-de-siècle artist.
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors, even architects drew their inspiration from it and illustrated it. Ever new, it has lead artists to the masterworks of their life. From Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love to Brancusi’s Kiss, love changes along with time and style, but stays, in the end an everlasting universal language. Love in all its strength and variety are illustrated by this book.
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English | Donald Wigal | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Paul Klee is one of those artists you can hardly classify in one movement of art history. Close to Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, he was an important member of Der Blaue Reiter, an expressionist group of painters. Later he went on to be involved in the Bauhaus and even gave painting lessons in Dessau’s school. According to him, art had nothing to do with production, but was all about making things clearly visible. In his paintings, Klee’s subtlety combined the tendencies of the beginning of the 20th century. To German Expressionism, he injected elements of Cubism and Orphism, sprinkling his works with a surrealistic and melancholic poetry. The author leads us through the marvels of Klee’s world where each brush stroke echoes the power of colors.
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English | Vincent van Gogh | Parkstone
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Come explore Post-Impressionism with a beautiful collection of paintings from the creative genius,Vincent van Gogh. The vibrant colours and whimsical brushstrokes within the paintings provide insight into the volatile nature of Van Gogh’s state of mind. The convenient size of MS remarkable painter.
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English | Rainer Maria Rilke | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
With text by the great Bohemian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and a wealth of beautiful images, this book explores the creative power of one of history’s greatest sculptors. Mega Square Rodin features the best-known masterpieces of this genius of bronze and marble, who immortalised his revolutionary approach to sculptural subjects and the human body in figures that seem ready to come to life. This gift-sized book about a popular, brilliant sculptor is sure to entice any reader.
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English | Eugène Müntz | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Discover the Renaissance through the lens of one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. Mega Square Raphael offers a wonderful introduction to the breadth of this artist’s work, providing an array of his paintings, drawings and frescos for the reader’s enjoyment.The portable size of this book makes it a perfect gift for art enthusiasts everywhere.
Mega Square - Persian Miniatures
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Encounter one of history’s greatest civilisations through miniatures. In Persian Miniatures, the story of the magnificent Persian Empire is told by way of an artistic tradition on a small but vibrant scale. This unique collection of colourful miniatures from Persia in a convenient portable size will make the perfect gift.
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English | Eugène Müntz | Parkstone
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An aesthetic journey into Renaissance Italy, Mega Square Michelangelo explores a myriad of works from one of the most prevalent artists of all time. A master of sculpture, architecture, frescoes and paintings, Michelangelo’s contribution to Western Civilisation is immense.This gift-sized book is a wonderful way to celebrate and explore the astounding artistry of this genius.
Mega Square - Leonardo da Vinci
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English | Eugène Müntz | Parkstone
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Painter, sculptor, architect, mathematician, scientist, inventor – Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and scholar, the quintessential Renaissance man. In Mega Square Leonardo da Vinci, the variety and scope of his genius are beautifully illustrated. From the Mona Lisa to flying machines, from anatomy to cartography, the paintings and sketches of Da Vinci are gathered together in a convenient portable book that will excite the imagination of any art lover.
Mega Square - In Prasie of the Backside
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English | Hans-Jürgen Döpp | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
This book features over 100 works of art dedicated to that most womanly of curves. Roughly the first half come from classical art: Roman mosaic, paintings by Gaugin and Rubens, sculpture from Rodin and from classical Greece, drawings from Klimt, Rafael, and lots more. The second half devotes itself to vintage photos and "French postcards." Although never hard-core, the images form a continuum from the traditional views of beauty in Western art through the decidedly titillating or naughty - showing just how vague the distinction can be. A lengthy essay winds through the artwork, never directly referring to the depictions. It starts with a rambling history of the esthetic of the body, bottom in particular. Somewhere along the line, the essay morphs into a discussion of the rear as any entrypoint for erotic play. Plenty of historical references showing how attitudes toward such play have changed over time, from an ideal, to a crime, to the fragmented views held today. On the whole, I found the essay missable, but the artwork delightfully easy to enjoy.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Impressionism has always been one of the public’s favourite topics and it is always guaranteed to be a best-selling title. The Mega Square Impressionism will be the ideal gift – presenting the “greatest hits” of a popular subject in a small and practical format.
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English | Klaus H. Carl | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
The Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. The Mega Square will be the ideal gift, treating an interesting and different subject in a small and practical format.
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English | Jp. A. Calosse | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Mega Square’s Gauguin invites the reader to follow the visionary painter Paul Gauguin from France to exotic Tahiti, guided by his colourful masterpieces. Featuring a collection of both iconic and less well-known works by this influential artist, this book highlights Gauguin’s famously erotic, primitive style and use of vivid colours. For a fan of the artist or someone who has yet to discover Gauguin’s work, this conveniently compact book would make an ideal gift.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
A beautiful display of Impressionist work, Mega Square Monet explores the extraordinary paintings of one of the masters of 19th century. Monet’s rapid brushstroke style in landscapes and scenes from everyday life illustrates his overall fascination with light and colour. The size of this book makes it an ideal gift for those interested in learning about the Impressionist movement.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
The Mega Square Gaudí focuses on the biography and works of the famous Spanish artist – offering intelligent insight into Gaudí’s major themes. The Mega Square will be the ideal gift, presenting an interesting and different artist in a small and practical format.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
The Mega Square Dali offers a brand new perspective on the self-proclaimed geniuss work thanks to the close-ups on specific details. Victoria Charles, Parkstones most prolific author, once more delivers a great text about this Surrealist painter. The Mega Square's small and practical format is bound to make a perfect gift.
Mega Square - Chinese Porcelain
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
First appearing in the 7th century, porcelain art in China quickly became enormously important as a symbol of royalty or high status. The masterpieces of the genre, featured in this book, range from simple tea bowls to fantastic vases, hair ornaments, figurines and snuff boxes with intricate, multi-coloured designs. The delicate material attracted and continues to attract the attention of art lovers throughout the world, making Mega Square Chinese Porcelain an ideal gift
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Discover the work of Paul Cézanne, whose exploration of technique and form defined the Post-Impressionism movement in painting and set the artistic stage for the advent of Cubism. His bold use of strong colours influenced artists for generations to come and continues to surprise and delight us today. In Mega Square Cézanne, the great works of this important French painter are collected in a compact volume – the perfect gift for any art enthusiast.
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English | Klaus H. Carl | Parkstone
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Angels, those mystical, winged figures of religion and myth, have inspired writers and artists for centuries. Included in this book are pictures of angels by the greatest classical and contemporary artists, depicting an array of delicate, whimsical cupids and majestic, powerful archangels. The beautiful images of these mysterious creatures, along with the convenient, portable size, make Angels the ideal gift.
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English | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
As well as one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker, whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. He used images, objects and their means of production to draw parallels with cultural processes. By means of a variety of techniques, but principally through choice of images, repetition, isolation and use of colour, Warhol makes us aware of contemporary materialism, political manipulation, economic exploitation, conspicuous consumption, media hero-worship and the creation of artificially induced needs and aspirations. Through manipulating images and the public persona of the artist, Warhol also confronts us with the contradictions and superficialities of contemporary culture and the art it has engendered, whilst incorporating in his paintings and sculptures the very techniques of mass production that are central to the modern world, and emphasizing to the point of absurdity the complete detachment from social and artistic commitment that he saw around him. Despite the unevenness and shallowness of much of his later work, Andy Warhol was one of the most brilliant, challenging and intentionally infuriating artists of the last half of the 20th century.
Mega Square - Virgin Portraits
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English | Klaus H. Carl | Parkstone
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During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas. However, the contemporary representations of the Mother of the Christ tended to remain unchanged. With the passing of time, Mary gradually lost some of her spiritual characteristics and became more humane, more accessible to human sentiments.
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English | Klaus H. Carl | Parkstone
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Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which holds the greatest shoe collection in the world, with 12,000 specimens.
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English | Victoria Charles | Parkstone
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Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle. It illuminates the wide variety of materials used and the evolution of styles over centuries, as well as the peculiarities of the most important sculptors.
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English | Jeanette Zwingenberger | Parkstone
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Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.
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English | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
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The Mega Square Diego Rivera provides a complete overview of this famous artists work and life.
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
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Renoir was one of the leading members of the Impressionist group and the founder of a great family of artists. The Mega Square Renoir enables the public to discover or re-discover one of its favorite artists, finding all of their preferred paintings and many new ones!
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English | Klaus H. Carl | Parkstone
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What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society? Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, since antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. This Mega Square book contains pictures of lingerie from the 17th to the 21st century.
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English | Lamairesse, Vatsayana | Parkstone
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The Mega Square Kama Sutra is a homage to the magic of love and a universal educational manual. Thanks to the rafinement of the frescos and delicate prints, this edition is tastefully illustrated. The Mega Squares small and practical format is bound to make the perfect gift.
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English | Michail Uspensk | Parkstone
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The Mega Square Hiroshige contains 120 prints of Edo commented. Thanks to this didactic stucture, it is one of the best ways to become acquainted with this artist.
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English | Various artists | Parkstone
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Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to O'Keeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Gogh's sunflowers, Monet's water lilies and Matisse's bouquets are, of course, unforgotten. Most of the works contained in Flowers are true masterpieces, which have often marked whole epochs and styles. Combined with Mega Square's small and practical format, this title is designed to make a perfect gift.
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English | Various artists | Parkstone
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Chagall's work and life has an international dimension that endows it with universal appeal. Throughout his life, this Jewish artist imbued his painting with passion and poetry, and left his mark across the world, from the Metropolitan Opera House of New York to the Opera Garnier of Paris.
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English | John James Audubon | Parkstone
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John James Audubon was an ornithologist and a painter and he studied and painted over 400 types of birds. In the Mega Square Audubon's Birds, 120 types of birds are presented with a description for each type.
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English | Jean Lahor | Parkstone
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After its triumph at the Paris Universal Exposition, Art Nouveau lasted and inspired many artists ever since. The Mega Square Art Nouveau spans through all forms of expressions of Art Nouveau, design, painting and architecture.
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English | Elisabeth Ingles | Parkstone
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Beginning his artistic career as a painter and illustrator for magazines, Leon Bakst is best known for his unique work as a scene and costume designer. During decisive decades of Russian history, Bakst designed colourful and exotic costumes for the famous Ballets Russes. This book offers a wide selection of the artist's most impressive works and, with its compact format, makes the perfect gift.
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English | Various artists | Parkstone
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A collection of paintings featuring great artists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries presented in a convenient square format. Paintings of 16 artists are presented in this series that include most of their famous paintings.
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English | Virginia Pitts Rembert | Parkstone
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Hiëronymus Bosch was painting terrifying yet strangely likable monsters, often with a touch of humour, long before computer games were invented. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons the teachings of Christ. With a life that spanned 1450 to 1516, Bosch was born at the height of the Renaissance and witnessed its religious wars. Medieval traditions and values were crumbling, paving the way to thrust man into a new universe where faith had lost its power and much of its magic. Bosch set out to warn doubters of the perils awaiting all and any who lost their faith in God. His favorite allegories were hell, heaven and lust. He held that everyone had to choose between one of two options: either heaven or hell. Bosch brilliantly exploited the symbolism of a wide range of fruits and plants to lend sexual overtones to his themes, which author Virginia Pitts Rembert meticulously deciphers to provide readers with new insight into this fascinating artist and his works.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
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Courbet was one of the most complex painters of the 19 th century. In his rejection of tradition, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the truth by liberating painting from conventional rules, becoming the leader of pictorial realism. This book presents a wide selection of the Courbet ’s most impressive works, making it the ideal gift for all art lovers.
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English | Various artists | Parkstone
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Albrecht Dürer’s (1471–1528) work stands out as one of the most innovative of the Northern Renaissance, revolutionising landscape and portraiture techniques in both religious and secular painting. This book offers a wide selection of Dürer’s works.
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English | Various artists | Parkstone
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From Michelangelo to Rubens, Degas and Picasso, erotic art has attracted many great masters, who created works that captivate the beholder like few others. In spite of, or maybe even because of, this attraction, erotic art has never failed to evoke controversy, and regularly had to defend itself from charges of pornography. This book guides readers from early portrayals of erotic scenes produced in the 16th and 17th centuries, to contemporary highlights such as Picasso’s sketchbook drawings, encompassing a large variety of styles and techniques.
Mega Square - Erotic Photography
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English | Alexandre Dupouy | Parkstone
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Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. Like much painting, sculpture and engraving, since its beginning photography has also been at the service of eroticism. This collection presents erotic photographs from the beginning of photography until the years just before World War II. It explores the evolution of the genre and its origins in France, and its journey from public distrust to the large audience it enjoys today.
Mega Square - Illuminated Manuscripts
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English | Tamara Woronowa, Andrej Sterligow | Parkstone
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Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a volatile commercial product. The Mega Square Illuminated Manuscripts puts the reader in touch with amazing medieval illustrations and unique adornments, which document the imaginative power of their creators.
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繁體中文 | Gerry Souter | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Frida Kahlo is a mexican painter, her work is a testimony of her life. It is not often that one can understand an artist simply by looking within the frame of their paintings. Frida Kahlo is without any doubt Mexico’s gift to art history. She was just eighteen when a terrible accident changed her life forever, leaving her disabled and in constant pain. But her explosive temper, her unwavering determination and her eagerness gave her the strength to develop her artistic talent.
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English | Various artists | Parkstone
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分類：藝術
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) is one of the undisputed masters of 18th-century Spanish painting. He is also often called "The first of the Moderns" because of his bold technique and belief that artistic vision is more important than tradition. Presenting a wide selection of his works, Mega Square Goya will entice all art lovers.
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English | Various artists | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Kirchner’s art and life stand as a showcase of German Expressionism. His work contains a wide but typically Expressionist range of subjects, such as nudes, landscapes, city views and the world of the theatre. The compact size of this valuable selection of Kirchner’s works makes it a perfect gift for all art enthusiasts.
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English | Patrick Bade | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
Metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka Art Deco and contain the spirit of the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic lifestyle of the rich and privileged Parisian lite in the period between the wars . Combining a technique very classical elements borrowed from Cubism, and seeking inspiration in the masters of the portrait .
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
A collection of paintings featuring great artists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries presented in a convenient square format. Paintings of 16 artists are presented in this series that include most of their famous paintings
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English | Nathalia Brodskaïa | Parkstone
主題：其他
分類：藝術
Mary Stevenson Cassatt ( May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter. She stands out among the mainly French male artists of Impressionism for being both female and American. Her paintings often portray women in everyday situations and convey exceptional tenderness. This book offers a selection of her most striking works.
US$5.99
繁體中文 | 周婉群 | 紅出版
主題：表演藝術 | 其他
分類：藝術
寫生本來就不是畫家的專利。「物色之動，心亦搖焉」，憑敏銳的觀察力，揮一揮筆桿，就可將剎那的心動化作永恆。寫生可讓我們突破對事物的框架，重新建構身邊的事物。本畫冊希望能引領讀者由內至外感受身邊的人與物，先由家中出發，再步入社區，細味香港各處的味道。 《寫生‧活的印象》集了編者在全港寫生的作品，既有黑白素描，也有塗色作品。畫作次序按編者的心路歷程而編排，由現居的沙田排起，以小時長大的荃灣作結。畫作旁輔有文字，詳述編者身處某地某時某刻作畫的心境，讀起來會感到編者熱愛寫生，熱愛沙田，熱愛荃灣，也熱愛香港。 此書獲香港寫生畫會會長鍾志仁寫序。
US$7.99
繁體中文 | 羅展鳳 | 三聯書店
主題：表演藝術 | 城市 | 大眾傳媒 | 其他
分類：藝術
把電影作為視覺藝術的人，往往忽略了電影中的音樂。然而，不少影片卻往往以內中的配樂而流傳後世。不管是重新演繹古典音樂及現成音樂，還是從零開始的原創音樂，電影配樂不但可以烘托人物及渲染場景，更可以把戲中的哲理層面勾刻出來。 熱愛電影和音樂的作者羅展鳳將她對電影音樂的研究和體會在 《映畫X音樂》一書向大家分享。書中談及王家衛、奇斯洛夫斯基、寇比力克、哥普拉、艾慕杜華、小津安二郎，以至李志毅、陳沖等數十部令人印象深刻的電影配樂。 作者在書中引用了大批中英文資料，她的「文字感性，卻能情理兼備」，「能娓娓道出電影與音樂的關係與背後的種種，豐富而不艱澀……」（黃愛玲語）而最令人不可思議的是，電影音樂居然可以通過文字的交代而使人如身歷其境。
US$1.99
繁體中文 | 盧偉力 | 文化網絡
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
本書內容乃由作者之博士論文(英語)改寫而成。其中對中國悲劇結構的創見很有參考價值。作者博覽元朝雜劇之餘，更參考古今中外各戲劇家的理論，證據確鑿地辯證了中國悲劇的獨特性，分析出四個悲情向度，執簡馭繁深入淺出。誠為不可錯過之戲劇理論讀物。
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繁體中文 | 麥梓薇 | 香港浸會大學
主題：城市 | 大眾傳媒
分類：藝術
電視劇雖然看似只是為人類提供娛樂資訊的產品，但其實與大眾的日常生活息息相關，甚至影響我們對社會的認知，構成刻板印象，故此對電視劇這股暗藏的「魔力」實不容忽視。而鑑於在眾多電視劇題材中，以警匪故事最能突出兩地媒介對現今兩性關係的刻劃及描寫。茲先從港日兩劇中「情」的角度出發，探討電視劇中所表現的兩性關係。
US$5.99
繁體中文 | 洛楓 | 三聯書店
主題：表演藝術
分類：藝術
明星的粉絲有很多種，有的會去偶像住處的門外徘徊，有的會為他寫一部驚人的深度專著。當然，不是所有明星都配得上這麼一本書，除非他是張國榮。「哥哥」走了這麼多年，香港演藝界發生了這麼多的風風雨雨，直到這一刻，我才明白，我們到底失去了甚麼。而那一切失去的，就衹好用這本書把它全部保留下來了。
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繁體中文 | 潘耀燊 | 香港浸會大學
主題：本土文化 | 城市
分類：藝術
每個時代有其特色及標準，本文將以七十年代色情暴力漫畫為主題，透視當時的社會及其相關的文化問題，特別是七十年代中期香港意識的興起。又以八十年代港式題材漫畫轉變，從文化及政治角度審視這種現象，勾劃較完整的圖畫作結，揭示香港在這二十年間的轉變。
