7102 results for '"DRAWING"'

This book, now available in paperback, concerns the everyday private and public lives of the citizens of ancient Rome. Drawing on a broad selection of contemporary sources, the author examines the...

This comprehensive volume reproduces in loving detail all of Delvoye's preliminary drawings for his infamous Cloaca project--in which a giant machine replicates the human digestive system by "eating"...

The National Book Award-winning author of Samuel Beckett draws on unprecedented access to unpublished archives and journals to provide an incisive portrait of the controversial author, her literary...

The construction of a building is fascinating to watch, as the symbiosis between man and machine turns what seem to be scattered piles of material into architecture. But before the tools of...

Drawing on thousands of pages of correspondence, a biographer brings to life not only one of the most perplexing figures in Western history, but the lives of the two women who ultimately dedicated...

Following an initiative undertaken by the Mus, e du Louvre, in 2006-7 seven great French museums hosted exhibitions that revealed to the public the great wealth of Italian drawings of the seventeenth...

This study consists of a critical analysis of each stage of Kneller's career, concerned primarily with style, and with Kneller's achievements in traditional and new portrait forms. This is followed...

The catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 3 - October 21, 1986. Three sections covering Architecture, Design, and Painting & Drawing. Includes a Chronology and...

The Penny Whistle Children's Party Planner is a total package that provides parents with everything they need to organize and give a children's party, from the first year through the next twelve...

In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them! Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical...

Pp. xvi, 352; 100+ black-and-white photos, line-drawings, forest profiles and maps. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. With a chapter by C. P...

Drawing on the experiences of generations of Japanese immigrants--revealed in diaries, letters, interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, and personal reflections--a book filled with photographs...

The adventures of a beautiful little locomotive who decided to run away from her humdrum duties. "Told in rhythmic prose, with many sound effects. Illustrated with amusing, vigorous drawings in black...

An examination of self-representation in US culture. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, it focuses on the processes of...

Francis Pryor maintains that early farming in Britain has been misunderstood because British archaeology is essentially an urban activity, studied by people who have lost contact with the countryside...

A journey through the beloved graphic cosmos of artist Max Beckmann, filled with surprising new discoveries about him. Around eighty works from each of the artist's creative phases reveal Max...

A delightfully witty and original graphic biography of Kafka, published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s deathThis bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas...

Drawing on the latest New Testament scholarship, this book explores, in accessible terms, the relation between the earliest texts of Christianity and the historical life of Jesus. He notes the...

Macnamara (British Museum) traces the rise and fall of the Etruscans and describes their language, religion, government, economy, dress, and leisure activities. The book is illustrated with...

Drawing on hitherto unreleased confidential files, this definitive study traces the development of Stalin's persecution of Soviet Jews, his anti-Semitic strategies, and the trumped-up prosecution of...