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“robin brooks”

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  • The Portland Vase

    The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure

    by Robin Brooks ...
    For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.Made before the birth of Christ, the Portland Vase, as it is called, is renowned for both its beauty and its mystery.In The Portland Vase, Robin Brooks takes us on a vivid journey across Europe and through the centuries, as this delicate piece of glass, less than ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Class Interruptions

    Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction

    by Robin Brooks ...
    As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women’s cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this innovative book employs ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives

    A BBC Radio 4 drama collection

    by Mary Cooper, Jonathan Tafler, Anna Linstrum, Alistair McGowan, Elizabeth Lewis, Robin Brooks, Lucy Caldwell1, Sarah Wooley2, Stephen Wakelam4, Frances Bingham6, David Pownall8, Katie Hims0, Ian Billings2, Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre3, Judith Adam4 ...
    Narrated by Andrew Scott, Alistair McGowan, Glenda Jackson, Toby Jones, Haydn Gwynne0, Ian McDiarmid3, Richard Dormer5, Full Cast7, Paul Ritter9, Tom Goodman-Hill1 ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 33 min

    18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writersThese surprising, revealing dramas take a behind-the-scenes look at some of our best-loved authors, mingling fact and fantasy to explore their extraordinary hidden lives. From love affairs, friendships and family relationships to traumas, tragedies and journeys of self-discovery, we glimpse the unwritten worlds that shaped ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Gaudí

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (18521926) was an important and influential figure in the history of modern Spanish art. The use of colour, wide-ranging materials and introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art: The colours used in architecture have to be intense, ... Read more

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  • Chagall

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was ... Read more

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  • Art and Religion in Eighteenth Century Europe

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    Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed monumental upheavals in both the Catholic and Protestant faiths and the repercussions rippled down to the churches' religious art forms. In this major new study, Nigel Aston chronicles the intertwining of cultural and institutional turmoil during this pivotal century.The sustained production and popularity of religious art in the face of competition from ... Read more

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  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    by Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Read more

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  • Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum

    Exchanging Views of Empire

    by Kathleen Davidson ...
    Series series Science and the Arts since 1750
    The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship ... Read more

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  • 1000 Portraits of Genius

    by Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl ...
    According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. However, this gallery of 1000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed throughout history, and has proven itself to be much more complex than a simple imitation of reality. Beyond exhibiting the skill of the artist, the portrait must surpass the task of ... Read more

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  • Romanesque Art

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    In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art ... Read more

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  • Nature and the Nation in Fin-de-Siècle France

    The Art of Emile Gallé and the Ecole de Nancy

    by Jessica M. Dandona ...
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    By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emile Gallé (1846–1904), whose works they described as the essence of French design. Many even went so far as to argue that the artist’s creations could reinvigorate France’s fading arts industries and help restore its economic prosperity by defining a ... Read more

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